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[vEX]

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-11-23

Posts: 450

Updating orphaned package but not wishing to keep it

A few weeks ago I needed to use Sun's WTK (Wireless Toolkit) and the available AUR package is for 2.2 while the latest version is 2.5. I modified the PKGBUILD locally and it worked just fine. I also posted it as a comment for the package on AUR incase anyone else wanted it. Now I was thinking, to make it easier I could just adopt the package and upload the files. However, since I'm not going to use WTK anymore I don't want to keep it so I would just disown it right away.

So my question is, is there any policy that says I shouldn't just adopt, update and disown it?

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Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Updating orphaned package but not wishing to keep it

No, there's no policy for that. Feel free to update it and disown it afterward.

[vEX]

Member

From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-11-23

Posts: 450

Re: Updating orphaned package but not wishing to keep it

Thanks, just updated and disowned it.

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PC: Antec P182B | Asus P8Z77-V PRO | Intel i5 3570k | 16GB DDR3 | GeForce 450GTS | 4TB HDD | Pioneer BDR-207D | Asus Xonar DX | Altec Lansing CS21 | Eizo EV2736W-BK | Arch Linux x86_64
HTPC: Antec NSK2480 | ASUS M3A78-EM (AMD 780G) | AMD Athlon X3 425 | 8GB DDR2 | GeForce G210 | 2TB HDD | Arch Linux x86_64
Server: Raspberry Pi (model B) | 512MB RAM | 750GB HDD | Arch Linux ARM