[aur-general] Metadata from aur3

Mark Weiman mark.weiman at markzz.com
Sat Nov 28 20:55:19 UTC 2015


On Sat, 2015-11-28 at 20:50 +0100, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
> On 28/11, Mark Weiman wrote:
> > On Sat, 2015-11-28 at 15:16 +0100, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
> > > They had 2 months to migrate their packages, and they were told
> > > about
> > > it, and the fact that it would be happening has been talked about
> > > on
> > > this ML since December last year, and was emailed about it before
> > > the
> > > 2
> > > months started. In what way is that not plenty of time and ample
> > > warning?
> > > 
> > 
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I also think I remember something
> > about a
> > period of time if the maintainer didn't migrate it, it became fair
> > game. If that was the case, if a package didn't make it to the aur4
> > during that time, there was not much interest in it.
> > 
> > If my memory isn't failing me, it was two months total, the first
> > was
> > only maintainers from aur3, and the second was anyone who wanted to
> > move some over.
> 
> You're not wrong, but how is this relevant?
> 
> 

Just further saying that there was plenty of opportunity that someone
could have moved a package to the new version.

Mark Weiman


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