[aur-general] Please remove 100% duplicate

Matej Ľach matej.lach at gmail.com
Thu Aug 25 21:52:15 EDT 2011


On 26/08/11 02:43, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Andrea Scarpino<andrea at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>> On 26 August 2011 00:17, Dan Vratil<dan at progdan.cz>  wrote:
>>> On Friday, August 26, 2011 01:00:51 Jesse Jaara wrote:
>>>> So someone uploaded a copy of my PKGBUILD
>>>> for [1]libpng12 with the only changes being
>>>> a name change (to get it into AUR) and
>>>> marked himself as maintainer and made me
>>>> a contributor. Then he tells people to
>>>> try his 100% copy PKGBUILD on the comments
>>>> O_o. Please kill [2]libpng12-working
>>>>
>>>> [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33795
>>>> [2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=51855
>>>
>>> I believe the other package of his is the same case. He uploaded google-
>>> musicmanager-current [1] as a duplicate of google-musicmanager [2], only fixed
>>> md5 sums. Also the versioning is incorrect.
>> Thanks. Both removed.
>>
> Sorry to butt in, but should the user be informed to at least read the
> AUR wiki page? I immediately thought of doing that, but since the
> packages are deleted...
I uploaded these packages and dixed sums, yes.
It is true that I was not familiar with how to send fixes for AUR 
packages, so I uploaded new ones [but I never claimed that I am an 
original creator of any of these PKGBUILDS or anything like that].  My 
bad, I hope that the problem was solved and will not be bringed up again.


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