[aur-general] Disown requests

Jonathan Steel mail at jsteel.org
Sun Jan 20 03:46:49 EST 2013


On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 09:50:09AM +0800, Daniel YC Lin wrote:
> I've post an updated PKGBUILD on fossil & fossil-fossil.
> If you insist it should be rename to fossil-git, let me know, I'll upload a
> new PKGBUILD.

Yes, please upload it with the right name; git packages should end with -git.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_CVS_%26_SVN_PKGBUILD_guidelines

Please also do not top-post.

> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Jonathan Steel <mail at jsteel.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 01:47:00PM +0000, Jonathan Steel wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 01:47:23PM +0800, Daniel YC Lin wrote:
> > > > Could anyone help me to get the permission to adopt 'fossil'.
> > > > I've created a 'fossil-fossil' PKGBUILD.
> > >
> > > You should not do this. Instead post a link to the updated PKGBUILD in
> > > the comments. I will delete this duplicate.
> >
> > On further inspection, your package should be fossil-git. Please upload
> > with this new name and I will merge it. fossil should follow the stable
> > version.
> >
> > > > But, I want to adopt the 'fossil' too.
> > > > I've reported the out-date and e-mailed the current maintainer, but no
> > > > reply for at least one or two weeks.
> > >
> > > Check your sent items and reply once it has been two weeks with no
> > > response.
> > >
> > > > (Check the outdate time, it is more than one month).
> > >
> > > There may be good reasons why a package has not been updated, so an email
> > > to the maintainer is what we go on.

-- 
Jonathan Steel
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