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

[Rashif Ray Rahman]

On 12 January 2014 23:42, Karol Blazewicz <karol.blazewicz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 year old with one being flagged out of date since February.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.

Did your e-mail actually get through to that address? It's being
returned here, and if we'd known this before we could've just gone
ahead and done what we wanted. An non-existent e-mail address is close
to meaning a non-existent user.


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