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farvardin

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[REQUEST] Some outdated AUR package

Those packages are really outdated and don't seem to be any longer maintained:

songwrite http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=1537
frobtads http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7409
qtads http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7413

They should be orphaned so other people could take care of them.

abcm2ps-devel is orphaned but should be bring back to AUR:
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra … 2ps-devel/

bender02

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Registered: 2007-02-04

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Re: [REQUEST] Some outdated AUR package

Shouldn't these requests be rather sent to aur-general mailing list?

farvardin

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Re: [REQUEST] Some outdated AUR package

I don't use mailing-list at all because I don't want to be the target of spams.

Isn't this forum good enough to alert trusted users? A dedicated page on the wiki could be even better...

Stefan Husmann

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Registered: 2007-08-07

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Re: [REQUEST] Some outdated AUR package

I orphaned the three packages mentioned in the initial post, but the correct way would be
* to contact the author via mail
* if he does not answer or the mail adress is broken, contact aur-general.

I this case the maintanence seems to be layed down for months now, so I think we can make an exception.

farvardin

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Re: [REQUEST] Some outdated AUR package

thank you. I tried to contact the author of frobtads and qtads 3 weeks ago, and didn't get any reply so far.
I've also commented a long time ago, in case of a new comment the author get an automatic email.

About songwrite, the package seems to be outdated for a long time too.

creslin

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Re: [REQUEST] Some outdated AUR package

I don't use songwrite, but it seems like there's songwrite and songwrite2.  Perhaps it would be better to submit a new package for songwrite2 and keep the original songwrite for version 1's 0.14?

Last edited by creslin (2008-11-30 23:31:35)

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farvardin

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Re: [REQUEST] Some outdated AUR package

yes, it's true. I had already replaced songwrite with the version 2.02, so I've created a new package with this new version instead (called songwrite2), and modified songwrite so it can run the old 0.14 version as well.