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XZS

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[AUR4] What happens to Co-Maintainers when I disown a package?

In AUR4, packages can have Co-Maintainers, essentially a list of people who can also commit to the package repository. What happens to them when the package owner changes? Will they stay as they are until a new maintainer cares to modify them or will they be reset to nobody?

WorMzy

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Re: [AUR4] What happens to Co-Maintainers when I disown a package?

I imagine that they remain as co-maintainers until someone adopts the package and removes them.

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Scimmia

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Re: [AUR4] What happens to Co-Maintainers when I disown a package?

I believe the first co-maintainer in the list becomes the new maintainer.

mauritiusdadd

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Re: [AUR4] What happens to Co-Maintainers when I disown a package?

Scimmia is right: https://projects.archlinux.org/aurweb.g … wn.php#n29

		<?php if (count($comaintainers) > 0 && !has_credential(CRED_PKGBASE_DISOWN)): ?>
		<?= __('By selecting the checkbox, you confirm that you want to disown the package and transfer ownership to %s%s%s.',
			'<strong>', $comaintainers[0], '</strong>'); ?>
		<?php else: ?>
		<?= __('By selecting the checkbox, you confirm that you want to disown the package.') ?>
		<?php endif; ?>

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XZS

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Registered: 2011-05-11

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Re: [AUR4] What happens to Co-Maintainers when I disown a package?

So this is a nice implicit way to transfer ownership. Perhaps users should be told of this feature somewhere earlier on than when disowning the package. Well, now they can at least read about it here.

Thanks for the quick answer.