[aur-general] Accidentally overwrote package...

Julien Nicoulaud julien.nicoulaud at gmail.com
Sat Feb 18 14:42:09 EST 2012


Thanks, I reverted the "stan" package and orphaned it again. Hopefully no
user of this package has upgraded in the meanwhile, sorry for the mess...

Not sure FS#22992 was a good idea :)

2012/2/18 Lukas Fleischer <archlinux at cryptocrack.de>

> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 08:11:22PM +0100, Julien Nicoulaud wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I created a package and uploaded it to the AUR, but it seems there was
> > already one with the same name since it has votes and the name of another
> > contributor appears... I guess it was orphaned and I automatically
> adopted
> > it by uploading a new version ? Is there some history to check it
> referred
> > at least to the same software ? It think it would be better if
> maintainers
> > had to explicitly click "Adopt" before being allowed to upload new
> versions
> > of packages.
>
> There's a Git mirror of all AUR packages [1]. And having to explicitly
> adopt a package before submitting an update was how the AUR behaved
> before 1.8.1 was released [2] :)
>
> >
> > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10774
> >
> > Regards
>
> [1] http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/
> [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22992
>


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