[aur-general] Can we force the maintainer to change package name?

Karol Blazewicz karol.blazewicz at gmail.com
Fri Dec 20 09:41:58 EST 2013


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Lukas Jirkovsky <l.jirkovsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Rashif Ray Rahman <schiv at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> Since there was no 'rstudio' at the time that user uploaded this one,
>> there is no infringement of any rule or guideline per se. Just tell
>> them to upload an 'r-studio' to mitigate the confusion that resulted
>> from it. I don't think there is any need to merge unless there were
>> relevant comments. It is up to the maintainer to update the PKGBUILD
>> with the suggested changes.
>
> The question is whether the maintainer is still active at all. Hist
> last action is 2012-08-27 and he has only two packages, both over the
> year old with one being flagged out of date since February.
>
> Lukas

e-mail sent.
If he doesn't respond in two weeks, maybe a TU can reupload and disown
it, or remove it from the AUR altogether, whichever is deemed the
correct action.


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