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

Karol Blazewicz karol.blazewicz at gmail.com
Thu Jan 16 02:36:37 EST 2014


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Rashif Ray Rahman <schiv at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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 year old with one being flagged out of date since February.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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It wasn't returned. I e-mailed him and got no response, neither
automated nor personal, no error, nothing.


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