[aur-general] Question about bad applications

[Nathan O]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Nathan O <ndowens.aur at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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
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>>>>>> won't compile or run and the author(programmer) doesn't seem to be
>>>>>> active
>>>>>> anymore
>>>>>>
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>>>>> 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,
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>>>> in my opinion, would require somebody that knows programming in order to
>>>> fix
>>>> the issues.
>>>>
>>> Hi Nathan,
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>>> 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
>>
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> Ok the current packages that gives me the problems, are:
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> 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
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I contacted more authors than I noted above. The ones I contacted, I put it
in a comments.