[aur-requests] [PRQ#2407] Request Rejected

[Andrew Fischer]

I'll update openfoam today and verify it works with this new package.
Thanks for keeping me in the loop.

-Andrew


On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Muflone <webreg at vbsimple.net> wrote:

> Hi again
>
> >> Maybe I missed (and I cannot find in the archives) the aur-general
> >> discussion where the maintainers would abandon their packages in favour
> >> of yours, agreeing to the merge, so please send us a link where I can
> >> see the whole discussion.
> >
> >
> https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2015-February/030300.html
> >
> https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2015-February/030301.html
> >
> https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2015-February/030303.html
> >
> https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2015-February/030309.html
> >
> https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2015-February/030310.html
>
> Real names don't help too much to understand the packages ownerships but
> actually on that thread apart those of yours the only messages were from
> Gordian Edenhofer and Michele Mocciola and both of them don't seem to me
> neither Andrew Fischer nor jedbrown.
>
> Forgive me but there's no point in that thread that let us think that
> any of the packagers agree with the merge.
>
> > There were two more replies though, which (due to reasons that are
> > beyond my understanding) were not archived. Either their authors or
> > other recipients can confirm:
> >
> > ====================================
> >
> > 1) Andrew Fischer:
> > I'm not a scotch packager so Ill let others comment on the gory
> > details. But from the openfoam standpoint this sounds like a great
> > idea. I would definitely be onboard.
>
> @Andrew Fischer
> If you want to ease the merge, please update your openfoam package to
> use the scotch package, obviously after checking that scotch really
> provides the proper dependencies.
>
> > 2) Jed Brown:
> >> You are right :-) ( i hadn't yet discovered the real power of
> "provides")
> >
> > Seems you got a little overzealous because your package is providing
> > both ptscotch-mpich2 (a package that doesn't exist) and
> > ptscotch-openmpi.
>
> @Jed Brown
> do you agree in merging (in other words, to delete) the package
> ptscotch-openmpi into the scotch package?
>
> @George Eleftheriou
> I don't know how scotch works (and please, as maintainer, don't force us
> to understand the internal dependencies between packages) but I must
> repeat what I wrote you before: settle with the maintainers this merge
> and after that file a new merge request
>
> 1) Ask to jedbrown to let us know that he will not maintain anymore the
> ptscotch-openmpi package (or better adopt it yourself)
>
> 2) Ask to kragacles to update his package to depend on scotch package
> (or whatever else you want) instead of ptscotch-openmpi (which will be
> deleted after this merge).
>
> Regards
>
>
> --
> Fabio Castelli aka Muflone
>



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