[aur-general] Question about bad applications

[Nathan O]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Nathan O <ndowens.aur at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:36 AM, PyroPeter <abi1789 at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> On 08/31/2010 08:17 AM, Nathan O wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Loui Chang<louipc.ist at gmail.com>
>>>  wrote:
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>>>  On Tue 31 Aug 2010 00:48 -0500, Nathan O wrote:
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>>>>> What should I do about software that won't work, not due to the fact
>>>>>
>>>> about
>>>>
>>>>> how it is packaged, but badly coded? I am finding some packages of mine
>>>>>
>>>> that
>>>>
>>>>> won't compile or run and the author(programmer) doesn't seem to be
>>>>> active
>>>>> anymore
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Patch them if you want, orphan them if you don't.
>>>>
>>>> Some applications I can patch or use sed, but there are some packages
>>>> that,
>>>>
>>> in my opinion, would require somebody that knows programming in order to
>>> fix
>>> the issues.
>>>
>> Hi Nathan,
>>
>> If it's a useful software someone will fork and fix it properly.
>> Are you speaking about a particular software?
>>
>> Greetz, Peter Lustig
>> --
>> freenode/pyropeter                          "12:50 - Ich drücke Return."
>>
> Currently I can't remember which ones. I will go through once I finish
> cleaning my current packages. Once I see the package name, I will remember
> which ones.
>
> Thanks
>

Ok the current packages that gives me the problems, are:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11337
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10611
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14896 (contacted author)
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7119
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11336
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31159