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In the official repositories, there are some orphan packages.
Maintainer: None
Is there a way to bring attention to these packages?
Bug report? I think it isn't the right way.
Flag out-of-date? There are orphan packages (example: "wicd") which are flagged out-of-date from months (February). If an orphan package come flagged out-of-date, is the notification received by anybody?
Thank you.
EDIT: Maybe this thread was better suited in the "Arch Discussion" section, I clicked on the wrong hyperlink
Last edited by ekerazha (2008-07-20 20:21:40)
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In the official repositories, there are some orphan packages.
Maintainer: None
Is there a way to bring attention to these packages?
Bug report? I think it isn't the right way.
Heh. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10964
NO dont file bug reports on all those. I will close them. Although feel free to turn the above bug into a megabug for packages without a maintaner.
Flag out-of-date? There are orphan packages (example: "wicd") which are flagged out-of-date from months (February). If an orphan package come flagged out-of-date, is the notification received by anybody?
Thank you.
Yes the notification isnt received by anybody.
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Heh. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10964
NO dont file bug reports on all those. I will close them. Although feel free to turn the above bug into a megabug for packages without a maintaner.
That's ok, can you rename the title of that bug report to something more generic?
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dolby wrote:Heh. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10964
NO dont file bug reports on all those. I will close them. Although feel free to turn the above bug into a megabug for packages without a maintaner.That's ok, can you rename the title of that bug report to something more generic?
If you start contributing to it, sure.
I would wait to hear from a developer first though. If they have such a list in their todo lists keeping this bug is meaningless.
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If you start contributing to it, sure.
I would wait to hear from a developer first though. If they have such a list in their todo lists keeping this bug is meaningless.
Too late I've already "contributed".
Last edited by ekerazha (2008-07-20 20:32:23)
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After talking with with Snowman i closed that bug report. The developers have a list for packages not listing a maintainer on the website.
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After talking with with Snowman i closed that bug report. The developers have a list for packages not listing a maintainer on the website.
Ok.
However... if a package can't be maintained, it should be moved back to unsupported, so other people can actively maintain the package.
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I believe unsurported might be phased out at some point in the near future. IIRC some talk of that a few weeks back on the dev public ML.
flack 2.0.6: menu-driven BASH script to easily tag FLAC files (AUR)
knock-once 1.2: BASH script to easily create/send one-time sequences for knockd (forum/AUR)
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I think you are confusing the [unstable] repo with unsupported (AUR)...
Anyway, a dolby pointed out, we devs can see exactly what is orphaned and which of those is outdated. Also, quite a few packages got accidentally orphaned for i686 recently so check you may want to check who is assigned as maintainer on both arches (hint: e.g. wicd...)
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And even though they appeared orphaned on the web interface, many of us still maintain them anyway.
The web ui doesn't have any practical connection to maintaining them. I can modify any package I like, regardless of the maintainer on the UI.
So if it's blank there, take a look in the PKGBUILD, as most maintainers will have put #Maintainer: at the start.
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I think you are confusing the [unstable] repo with unsupported (AUR)...
Oops right you are
flack 2.0.6: menu-driven BASH script to easily tag FLAC files (AUR)
knock-once 1.2: BASH script to easily create/send one-time sequences for knockd (forum/AUR)
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So if it's blank there, take a look in the PKGBUILD, as most maintainers will have put #Maintainer: at the start.
Yeah... talking about "wicd", I did look at the PKGBUILD and I've found
# Maintainer: Varun Acharya <...@...>
But somebody told me he isn't an Arch dev anymore.
Last edited by ekerazha (2008-07-21 10:54:36)
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Oh, for that one, I adopted it a little while ago when he finished up I havn't had a chance to familiarise myself with it and update it, and as I havn't updated it, i havn't changed that yet
James
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Oh, for that one, I adopted it a little while ago when he finished up I havn't had a chance to familiarise myself with it and update it, and as I havn't updated it, i havn't changed that yet
James
There's a new "major" version of wicd available (1.5.1), any news?
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