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

[Eric Waller]

No problem.  You definitely started first and went well beyond what I did.
Thanks.

I'm curious -- do you know if I can capture and use the 50g ROM? If you
know, could you send me a PM?

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 2:23 AM, René Herman <rene.herman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 08/28/2010 03:55 AM, Eric Waller wrote:
>
>  I was angling for that one :-P
>>
>
> I see. Had done this one already a month ago but was up to now still
> waiting for a possible maintainer-reply.
>
>
>  Note that I had crated a patch to the newer of the packages and it is
>> attached as a comment.  How does your patch compare to mine?
>>
>
> It's fairly different. I saw the posted patch for x48-emulator just after I
> sent the message to the AUR mailing list but I believe that one only upped
> the version to 0.6.3 and added x86-64.
>
> The old x48-emulator PKGBUILD (and the patched one, then) had a problem
> with missing dependencies and as described in the message, with a hard-coded
> "non-archlinux compliant" /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults directory.
>
> I also install the ROMDump program from the sources for those of us that
> want to grab their own ROMs.
>
>
>  I sent an email to the maintainer (clamy) earlier this week and have heard
>> nothing back as yet.
>>
>
> Contacted him a month ago as well and also silence. Same for the original
> x48 maintainer.
>
>
>  I was going to adopt it, but if you would like it, that is okay by me.
>>
>
> For now, I've adopted it. I'll be fairly busy again with other things the
> coming period but was planning on at least looking into giving X48 a
> somewhat less obsolete configuration mechanism than the X defaults stuff
> (ie, just an /etc/x48.conf or some such). If you do more extensive "upstream
> work" than we can always switch maintainership of the package again. I'm
> normally at least fairly responsive to email...
>
> New x48 is up on the AUR!
>
> Regards,
> Rene
>