[aur-general] Misuse of AUR (yaourt) comments

William Di Luigi williamdiluigi at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 13:48:05 UTC 2016


Hi Rafael,

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Rafael Fontenelle
<rffontenelle at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2016-02-12 9:05 GMT-02:00 William Di Luigi <williamdiluigi at gmail.com>:
>
>>
>> (...) However, consider that if a package is *really*
>> out-of-date, then it's expected to get flagged. If a maintainer can't
>> or doesn't want to keep up with updating it, he/she can just click the
>> "Disown Package" button.
>>
>
> You are correct about this. But, just to wipe out any doubt, yaourt is not
> out-of-date, even though it was flagged.

Of course. But I wasn't talking about yaourt there, I was talking
about what Dave Blair wrote regarding harassment.

> People tends to (incorreclty) flag
> out-of-date when package fails to build or fails to work, which in a famous
> package like yaourt it might happen repeatedly.

Yes but, as I said, the flag stayed there for 9 days, so it's not like
it was being flagged repeatedly.

-- 
William


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