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

Karol Blazewicz karol.blazewicz at gmail.com
Sun Jan 12 10:42:06 EST 2014


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Karol Blazewicz
<karol.blazewicz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 year old with one being flagged out of date since February.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.

The maintainer has taken no action and didn't respond to my e-mail.


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