[aur-general] Out of date: clasp, gringo

[Dave Reisner]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:12:41PM -0400, Zack Buhman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:00:46AM -0400, Dave Reisner wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:48:19AM -0400, Zack Buhman wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 09:52:17AM -0400, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Vincent B. <vb at luminar.eu.org> wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I am the packager of aspcud and aspcud-svn, an important dependency
> > > > > solver for the OPAM OCaml package manager.
> > > > >
> > > > > Two dependencies, clasp and gringo, have been already packaged in AUR,
> > > >
> > > > Disowned. Adopt and keep improving it!
> > >
> > > This is what package-hijacking looks like.
> >
> > Is it? The previous maintainer has never voted, and their last action on
> > the AUR, as far as I can tell, was June of last year. The only remaining
> > package they have is out of date as of a month ago, in addition to clasp
> > and gringo. I don't think there's any unwarranted "hijacking" happening
> > here.
> 
> Unless I'm completely insane, you're talking about the submitter, not
> the previous maintainer (me, though again I could be delusional)--as
> far as I can tell, there is no (public) mechanism that reveals
> intermediate {orphan,adopt} history.

No, you're not insane. I shouldn't try to sleuth around these things
before I've had coffee. Regardless, Vincent provided evidence that he
contacted the current maintainer (thank you!) some time ago.