[aur-general] Orphan (adoption) request for x48 and delete request for x48-emulator

Stefan Husmann stefan-husmann at t-online.de
Fri Aug 27 17:04:13 EDT 2010


Am 27.08.2010 16:27, schrieb René Herman:
> Good day.
> 
> [this same message has been hanging in the non-subscriber moderation queue for a few days now]
> 
> I'm a recent arch user (but longtime linux user) and would like to adopt the x48 package, an emulator for the HP-48 scientific calculator.
> 
> There are two versions of the package on the AUR, x48 and x48-emulator but both are out of date and unfortunately neither listed maintainer (also CCed) has responded to email.
> 
> I've created a new PKGBUILD updated to the current 0.6.3 and have also patched x48 itself to have it use the normal archlinux X11 app-defaults directory (/usr/share/X11/app-defaults) instead of a previously hard-coded /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults. The new PKGBUILD furthermore installs the "ROMDump" program so people can use it to grab the ROM from their own HP-48s. Might also like to do more serious work on the emulator in the future.
> 
> I suppose the x48-emulator package will have been created only because back then the x48 maintainer also didn't respond -- if I can adopt the x48 package, the x48-emulator package could be deleted I suppose.
> 
> I'm not a subscriber to the list; if I look through the archives I believe it's not usual to attach src archives but if anyone want to see my version, it's at:
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> http://members.home.nl/rene.herman/arch/x48-0.6.3-1.src.tar.gz
> 
> I'm "rene" on the AUR (with only the "ufiformat" package as of now).
> 
> Regards,
> Rene
> 

Hello, 
I orphaned x48 and deleted the other one. Feel free to adopt.
Thank you



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