[aur-general] I can not maintain my packages anymore, liquidsoap & some ocaml dependencies

[Thomas S Hatch]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Luciano A. Ferrer <laferrer at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi guys, gals!
>
> Unfortunately I can not maintain my packages anymore, it is
> liquidsoap[1] and some ocaml dependencies of it (in fact, I am not
> using them anymore...)
> You can see the list here:
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=luuuciano
>
> Maybe some of you want to own them, or a few of them?
>
> No idea what it is the best way to do it, I will just Disown them now?
>
>
> In the other hand, Thomas S Hatch sent an email to ocaml packagers[2]
>
>
> Best regards and wishes!
> luciano
>
> [1] http://savonet.sourceforge.net/
> [2] Hello, I am the new ocaml findlib maintainer and I just letting
> the maintainers of ocaml packages know that I have changed some of the
> behavior of findlib to fix some issues.
>
> These changes should not break your packages, but I am asking that the
> ocaml package developers change their packages to reflect these
> changes, and I just want them to be aware of them since it changes a
> lot of PKGBUILDs in the long run.
>
> Thanks for your packages!
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OCaml_Package_Guidelines
>

Luciano, I am sorry to hear that, if there was any way we could keep you on
I would be thrilled, you have some good packages! But if you are not going
to maintain them I will be happy to take care of these packages!

We appreciate your work for Arch and I appreciate your work on ocaml.

If you want to let them go just disown them and I will pick them up!

Also, if there is anything I have said of done to upset anyone with the
ocaml changes please let me know, that is of course never my intention!

-Tom