[aur-general] Move pigeonhole to [community]?

Peter Lewis plewis at aur.archlinux.org
Sun Nov 21 01:16:50 CET 2010


On Saturday 20 November 2010 23:37:55 Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 17:27 +0000, Peter Lewis wrote:
> > On Saturday 20 November 2010 17:22:34 Florian Pritz wrote:
> > > On 20.11.2010 17:56, Peter Lewis wrote:
> > > > So, the idea would be to keep dovecot in [community]
> > > 
> > > dovecot is in extra.
> > 
> > Yeah, dovecot is in extra, maintained by Andreas. Personally, I'd be even
> > happier for pigeonhole to go in there too and for the two to be built
> > together each version bump, but I don't have that power :-)
> 
> Just a user comment, it can get a bit frustrating when direct
> dependencies like these are in community/extra (different maintainers).
> vlc-pulse-plugin for example (though that's not a good example, its
> normally updated within 12 hours).
> 
> Maintaining together is a win, from my perspective =)

I agree, and if Andy wants to take on pigeonhole in extra, then that's fine 
with me :-)

I think having pigeonhole in community like this is at least better than 
having it in the AUR, since people were losing mails if they didn't notice a 
dovecot upgrade and hence didn't recompile pigeonhole.

Pete.


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