[aur-general] TUs adopting packages from the AUR

[Thomas Dziedzic]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Stijn Segers <gotleenucks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Guys,
>
> When I saw this discussion about sage-mathematics I was just wondering what
> is customary when a TU
> wants to adopt packages that are not his and are maintained by someone in
> the AUR.
>
> I had a couple of those (remmina-plugins and freerdp) and from one day to
> another my packages were
> 'gone' from AUR. Only after that some TU sent me a message that he had
> taken my packages. There was
> nothing in the AUR ML about moving it.
>
> Is this how this is usually done? I know developers aren't great
> communicators, but it sure struck
> me as impolite, rude even.
>
> Thanks
>
> B
>
> On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 04:17:36 -0400
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> >    1. Re: Delete request (Laurent Carlier)
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> >    3. Re: Proposal to move sage-mathematics into [community]. (Xyne)
> >    4. Re: Proposal to move sage-mathematics into      [community].
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> > Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:57:49 +0200
> > From: Laurent Carlier <lordheavym at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [aur-general] Delete request
> > To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository \(AUR\)"
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> > Le samedi 14 ao?t 2010 00:50:06, Simon Stoakley a ?crit :
> > > Hi, can you please delete firefox-tabcandy as it's now landed on trunk
> > > so can be got with the FF-nightly pkg
> > > Thanks
> > > Simon
> > >
> > >   [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39196
> >
> > Done :-)
> >
> >
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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:16:30 -0300
> > From: Angel Vel?squez <angvp at archlinux.com.ve>
> > Subject: Re: [aur-general] python packages in [community-testing]
> > To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)"
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> > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > python-configobj - put in testing for arch=any conversion back in
> March...
> > >
> >
> > Moved
> >
> > > python-scipy - this is screwy... ?the version in [community-testing]
> has the
> > > same pkgrel-pkgver as that in [community] but they are different
> packages.
> >
> > Fixed and moved
> > >
> > > Can these be moved/fixed.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Allan
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>

I agree that TUs should be more verbal about moving packages to community,
not only for other people's packages.
That said, there should be some automated way of doing this to make it
easier for the TUs.