[aur-general] help requested

[Evangelos Foutras]

Nathan McBride wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I went to submit my first package, tigervnc-1.0.0-1 and that went well.
> Then I realized that I forgot to add my name to the top of the PKGBUILD 
> file...  Yea I know...  So I tried to update the package and couldn't get that 
> to work. (Later finding out that it was because I had the tar.gz file included 
> in my upload and I guess my connection was timing out on a 2.7MB file.  
> Anywho, so I abandoned it thinking if the uploader abandoned it it would 
> delete it, which is not the case.  Now when I tried to upload my updated 
> package, it said I no longer have permission to update this package because it 
> is an orphan.  
>   

Packages are not deleted when you disown them. They are left in the AUR 
as orphans for other pick up.

> My aur name is nmcbride, could someone give me a hand getting the package back 
> so I can upload my update? :D
>
> Thanks,
> Nate
>   

Go to the package's page and click the "Adopt Packages" button just 
above the comment box.