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serrano

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Registered: 2007-11-11

Posts: 10

How to propose an upgrade for a core, extra, or community package

Hello there,

excuse this silly question, I have not been able to find the answser yet in the ARCH documentation.

How should I proceed for proposing an up to date version of a package?

I'm the developper of the Bigloo Scheme compiler. The ARCH package (in the extra repositoy) for that compiler is pretty old. I would like  to contribute with a new version of that package. I have contacted the maintainer of the package but he does answered my mails. How should I proceed now?

Thanks in advance for any advice,

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Manuel

nesrecar

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Registered: 2004-06-06

Posts: 79

Re: How to propose an upgrade for a core, extra, or community package

Hello there,

excuse this silly question, I have not been able to find the answser yet in the ARCH documentation.

How should I proceed for proposing an up to date version of a package?

I'm the developper of the Bigloo Scheme compiler. The ARCH package (in the extra repositoy) for that compiler is pretty old. I would like  to contribute with a new version of that package. I have contacted the maintainer of the package but he does answered my mails. How should I proceed now?

Thanks in advance for any advice,

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Manuel

I think you mean he didn't answer. Best steps would be these:

1) Wait a bit for an answer
2) Create your up to date package
3) Contact a trusted user (mailing list) to get the ownership of the package if the owner does not maintain it anymore.

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Re: How to propose an upgrade for a core, extra, or community package

For core and extra, flag the package out of date in the web interface...
If you don't get a reply or see any action after a reasonable amount of time, then send an email to the arch-public mailing list inquiring about the status of the package, and possibly offering any patches/modifications to bring it up to date.

for community packages, mephisto outlined the appropriate course of action (trusted users are for the community repository)

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serrano

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Registered: 2007-11-11

Posts: 10

Re: How to propose an upgrade for a core, extra, or community package

Thank you both for your answers. I will proceed as suggested.

Cheers,

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Manuel