[aur-general] Re : utorrent-server deletion request

[Stefan Husmann]

Am 06.01.2011 22:52, schrieb Pierre-Antoine Vanpe:
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> De :Stefan Husmann <stefan-husmann at t-online.de>
> À :Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR) <aur-general at archlinux.org>
> Envoyé le : Jeu 6 janvier 2011, 18h 48min 09s
> Objet : Re: [aur-general] utorrent-server deletion request
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> Am 06.01.2011 18:32, schrieb Cédric Girard:
>> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Stefan Husmann
>> <stefan-husmann at t-online.de>wrote:
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>>> Am 06.01.2011 17:42, schrieb Cédric Girard:
>>>> [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40600
>>>>>> [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40602
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>>> Sent mail to the maintainer of utserver.
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>> I've received a mail from the maintainer of utorrent-server. Here are its
>> (justified) motivations to create a new package :
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>> First of all, I added the PKGBUILD for a few reasons:
>>> 1. Chris-Kan from utserver did not maintain it, it has been flagged out ouf
>>> date for a while
>>> 2. Did not want support 64bits systems even thought not compatible
>>> 3. For the name, it's actually because uTorrent team changed the name
>>> 4. His PKGBUILD does not work:
>>> Comment by: laasonen on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:23:08 +0000
>>> "/tmp/packerbuild-0/utserver/utserver/PKGBUILD: line 25: cd:
>>> /tmp/packerbuild-0/utserver/utserver/src/bittorrent-server-v3_0: No such
>>> file or directory"
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>>> It should be:
>>> "cd $srcdir/utorrent-server-v3_0"
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>>> You should also add support for x86_64.
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>> Regards,
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> Thank you. These are valid and good reasons. Nevertheless it would have 
> been a better way to do a orphaning request on this list than to upload 
> a duplicate.
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> Anyway, Jelle already wrote a comment on AUR comment page for utserver. 
> So the problem will be solved in short.
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> BTW, thank you for notifying the duplicate.
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> Regards Stefan
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> Sorry for uploading a dublicate package, I come from Gentoo and was not used to 
> AUR yet, like I said, utserver was not maintained anymore, and I did not 
> oficially asked for this package, but as told to Cédric, I did not want to take 
> over chris-kan's package, but just maintained it while he did not answer...... 
> Btw, my PKGBUILD is based on his, and I will be very happy to get his help on 
> it!
> I promise that I will my best to maintain utorrent-server (which is by the way 
> in Alpha and has a big bug known upstream to crash.... We are working on this at 
> this moment) 
> And as a "new" PKGBUILD maintainer, I am open to any suggestions or help by 
> anyone, and of course I would love, chris-kan's advice on my PKGBUILD as mine is 
> based on his!!
> Again, sorry to not have followed all the rules.....
> Beretta92
> Pierre-Antoine Vanpé
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Hello Pierre-Antoine, 

no big problem. The bigger problems are maintainers who do not answer to AUR 
comments or mails.

Keep contributing!