[aur-general] Leaving Arch

Daniel J Griffiths ghost1227 at archlinux.us
Sat Jun 13 08:07:13 EDT 2009


hollunder at gmx.at wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:15:22 +0200
> Christoph Zeiler <rabyte at moonblade.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> This is to 
>>
>> a) inform the TUs that I've switched distros and won't be able to
>> maintain my packages in the AUR anymore. Feel free to orphan all 358
>> of them. 
>>
>> b) say "Thank you!" to everybody who notified me of outdated packages,
>> sent suggestions and/or patches or helped otherwise.
>>
>> c) give reasons for leaving: My mind is on things other than
>> bleeding-edge and system-tinkering. Over time I also became
>> dissatisfied with the official way of handling source packages. IMO
>> Arch could be great at  both source and binary, but the source part
>> doesn't get enough love. Why not add source support for pacman? Oh,
>> and why not compress packages with LZMA?
>>
>> d) wish every Arch user all the best and lots of fun with his/her/its
>> distro of choice!
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Christoph Zeiler aka rabyte aka Moonborn
>>     
>
>
> Have fun there.
>
> I'd be interested in maintaining some of your packages:
>
> glista: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19388
> swami: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11642
> klick: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20840
> gtklick: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20841
> pianobooster: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24276
>
> Best regards,
> Philipp
>
>   
The requested packages have been disowned. Feel free to adopt them!

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Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227)
griffithsdj at archlinux.us
http://ghost1227.com



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