[aur-general] Accidentally overwrote package...

[郑文辉(Techlive Zheng)]

2012/2/19 Alireza Savand <alireza.savand at gmail.com>:
> Can i access to PKGBUILD git repo  directly?
>
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Julien Nicoulaud <
> julien.nicoulaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> >
>>

This automatically adopting should be considered more seriously, at
least, a warning page should be confirmed before accturally do
uploading if there is a package existed with same name.