[aur-general] About BURG packages

Ng Oon-Ee ngoonee at gmail.com
Wed Nov 24 07:47:43 CET 2010


On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 23:04 +0200, H.Gökhan SARI wrote:
> Hello,
> There is a variety of burg-* packages on AUR:
> 
> burg-bzr
> 
> burg-bzr-fixed
> 
> burg-emu-fixed
> 
> burg-themes
> 
> burg-themes-extras
> 
> burg-themes-fixed
> 
> 
> the packages with *-fixed postfix are the working ones (There is a thread
> going on https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=100130). And the other
> packages (the packages other than burg-themes-extras, I didn't test it) are
> orphaned or not working -BTW, most of them aren't updated for a while-. I
> suggest removing burg-bzr, burg-themes and renaming fixed packages as
> deleted ones.
> 
> And also, I'll test burg-themes-extras and let you know if it works.
> 
> Thanks,

If the packages without the -fixed postfix are orphaned why not just
adopt them (or ask whoever maintaines *-fixed to adopt them. Any naming
scheme with -fixed at the end doesn't make sense in the long run.



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