[aur-general] Orphaning request - chromium-beta and clamav-devel

Brad Fanella bradfanella at archlinux.us
Thu Sep 23 18:38:27 EDT 2010


On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:
> Am Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:24:12 -0500
> schrieb Brad Fanella <bradfanella at archlinux.us>:
>
>> > Btw., it also happens every now and then that it takes some weeks
>> > until a package in [core] and [extra] is updated even if it's
>> > flagged as out-of-date. And there's no problem with that.
>>
>> Sorry, that was my fail attempt at a joke. :-P
>
> In fact I understood the joke. Now I have to say that this wasn't
> directed at you (personally). I knew, I'd better had kept my original
> allusion to Det. ;-)
>
>
> Heiko
>

Not a problem. :-)

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Ray Rashif <schiv at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 24 September 2010 05:34, Brad Fanella <bradfanella at archlinux.us> wrote:
>> I don't think what I'm saying here is being clearly understood. :-(
>
> Sorry, I missed the whole Det business. All in all, that kind of
> contribution (what Det appears to be doing) is not encouraged, but it
> _is_ somewhat of a contribution. From the way I see it, he's just a
> concerned party, preemptive about the fate of a particular package.
>
>

It's fine.  :-) I just wanted someone to confirm my sanity!

Note to readers: This is not implying that help on the AUR is not
appriciated; rather, if you are going to update a package multiple
times, please adopt it to make life easier. And use orphan requests as
a last resort!

Thanks,
Brad


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