[aur-general] Submitting a new package (sunjdk)

[Loui Chang]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 03:01:46AM +0200, M Rawash wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 19:57 +1930, Angel Velásquez wrote:
> > > it's *not* a duplicate, i just cited the lack of updates as one of the
> > > reasons i forked the package, you can review sunjdk here:
> > > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25303
> > >
> > > regards
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > IMO this is a duplicate effort, because this package provided the same
> > as existent packages (jre,jdk) in repos, and btw you can't use the
> > "Maintainer tag" since this isn't a binary package and you aren't a
> > TU/Dev
> > 
> > Thanks for your effort, anyway
> 
> frankly, i'm not really sure if the Maintainer/Contributor tags signify
> anything other than 'current maintainer'/'former contributor', i didn't
> even know there was a debate about it..

It's an issue for some people because namcap has some odd quirks about
it.