[aur-general] package removal/orphaning request: rubberband

[hollunder at gmx.at]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:41:08 +1000
Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:

> hollunder at gmx.at wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:20:36 +0100
> > <hollunder at gmx.at> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Please orphan or remove this package, I'd be willing to take over
> >> but the author of the PKGBUILD can have it back if he wants to.
> >>
> >> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15349
> >>
> >> For the following reasons:
> >>
> >> -Wrong homepage link
> >> -some minor things inside the PKGBUILD
> >> -out of date since a few weeks
> >>
> >> and most importantly:
> >>
> >> -source isn't downloaded from the authors website and the
> >> downloaded tarball is significantly larger than the original one:
> >>
> >> rubberband-1.2.tar.bz		298627
> >> rubberband-1.2-arch.tar.bz2	2739510
> >>
> >> I won't attempt to see what the difference is, either way it's just
> >> wrong to download a modified tarball from a third party website,
> >> especially with an active project.
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >> Philipp
> >>     
> >
> >
> > So there's a package with indications for malicious code and no-one
> > even cares to comment?
> >   
> 
> Orphaned - even if just temporarily...
> 
> Allan


Thanks Allan.
I updated, fixed and orphaned it again so the author can adopt it again
if he wants to.
If it's still orphaned when the next version is out I'll adopt it.

Philipp