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Moonbase59

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Extended ices0 v0.4.7: Find an AUR maintainer?

Hi everyone,

I’ve enhanced the "old" ices0 a lot (adding ReplayGain, UTF-8, and lots of other stuff), see https://github.com/Moonbase59/ices0.

I’d like Arch and Arch-based Linux users to easily access this using the AUR, so I wonder how to proceed in this case?

I already tried to flag the existing ices 0.4-1 package as outdated but there was no response.

Would anyone care to maintain this, because I wouldn’t know how?

Thanks for any help!

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Moonbase: The Problem Solver. Developer of loudgain (>0.1), StudioDisplay, ices0 (0.4.4+).

schard

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Re: Extended ices0 v0.4.7: Find an AUR maintainer?

I’ve enhanced the "old" ices0 a lot (adding ReplayGain, UTF-8, and lots of other stuff), see https://github.com/Moonbase59/ices0.

Then it's not (the original) ices0, but some fork. Give it a new name, like eices0 or xices0 (or whatever).
It's also unlikely that somebody else will want to maintain a software, that already exists from a fork with vaguely specified modifications.

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Moonbase59

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Re: Extended ices0 v0.4.7: Find an AUR maintainer?

Thanks for the input, would it be necessary to rename the GitHub repo plus the actual software?

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Moonbase: The Problem Solver. Developer of loudgain (>0.1), StudioDisplay, ices0 (0.4.4+).

schard

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Re: Extended ices0 v0.4.7: Find an AUR maintainer?

Imho no. But the package's name should clarify that it's a fork, that the user is installing.

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loqs

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Re: Extended ices0 v0.4.7: Find an AUR maintainer?

Slightly off topic but https://github.com/Moonbase59/ices0 only starts at v0.4.6 rather than importing v0.4.0 from the xiph svn
then applying ices-cc v0.4.1,  v0.4.2 and v0.4.3 as commits from https://centova.com/en/icescc tarballs as I could not find a VCS for those releases
then your own commits on top of that without tracking generated files such as Makefile.in.

Moonbase59

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Re: Extended ices0 v0.4.7: Find an AUR maintainer?

Helpful feedback, @schard & @loqs, thanks! I see there’s still a lot to do … if only I had more time …

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Moonbase: The Problem Solver. Developer of loudgain (>0.1), StudioDisplay, ices0 (0.4.4+).