[aur-general] Duplicate Package Removal and Disown Request

Maxime GAUDUIN alucryd at gmail.com
Sun Apr 7 17:15:50 EDT 2013


On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Sam Stuewe <halosghost at archlinux.info>wrote:

> On 2013-04-07 16:57, Sam Stuewe wrote:
>
>> hashcat-bin [1] is very out-of-date and no longer serves a purpose as
>> far as I can tell. Upstream packages the GUI separately, so the
>> default package is the binary only anyway. Thus, the naming of the
>> package is redundant, it doesn't follow the naming convention upstream
>> and the sources it uses no longer exist.
>>
>> It should be removed in favor of hashcat [2]. However, the maintainer
>> of hashcat appears to not be active (last update in AUR: 2012-09-28,
>> last update upstream: 2013-03-22). I would be more than happy to take
>> over the package's maintainence if it would first be disowned.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> -Sam
>>
>> 1. https://aur.archlinux.org/**packages/hashcat-bin/<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hashcat-bin/>
>> 2. https://aur.archlinux.org/**packages/hashcat/<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hashcat/>
>>
>
> Correction: hashcat-bin's sources do exist, but they probably shouldn't be
> distributed over the AUR anyway, and the PKGBUILD fails to note the correct
> makedepends.
>
> All the best,
>
> -Sam
>

Deleted hashcat-bin, thx.

-- 
Maxime


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