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

[Thomas S Hatch]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Luciano A. Ferrer <laferrer at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Thomas S Hatch <thatch45 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
>
> The problem is that I have no more time to do it, and I started it
> because I needed to run liquidsoap (it was a little netradio), but
> then that project ended (as my free time)
>
> And I know that anyone else will do a way better job! :)
>
> here a list of the disowned packages
>
> liquidsoap
> ocaml-alsa
> ocaml-cry
> ocaml-dtools
> ocaml-duppy
> ocaml-lame
> ocaml-mad
> ocaml-magic
> ocaml-ogg
> ocaml-shout
> ocaml-soundtouch
> ocaml-taglib
> ocaml-vorbis
>
> Best regards
> luciano
>

Thanks luciano, I will take care of them!

-Tom