On 9/23/10, Heiko Baums <li...@baums-on-web.de> wrote: > I didn't say that you're asking everybody adopting it And I didn't say you did.
> but you ask to orphaning it if someone else already has adopted it >because it was orphaned. No, I only asked a maintainer who wasn't so fast with updating the package as I was. > And "bumping" the package is the maintainer's job. So if you orphan it > you tell the people: "Please take it if you want." If someone else > takes it he usually wants to maintain it and does it. And if he doesn't > update it fast enough in your opinion then you should have kept the > package and should have maintained it by yourself. That's the point. And it's a good point except for the part where this is the first time this thing happened. Of course, I'm not going to maintain the package as an actual _maintainer_ - so that doesn't really matter. > And the maintainer sometimes could have to do something else than just > updating the package every second day, just because you are too > impatient. Sure, but not with all maintainers. Some do have the time but still won't update their packages. I hope this is not one of those cases. > Otherwise I would suggest you to download the package to /var/abs/local > and maintain it by yourself locally on your system. Then you can update > it as often as possible. Actually I don't even use the package. I just like to update it to others. > And why did you orphan this package if you want to maintain it by > yourself after all? I do and I don't :). > Regularly updating a package is that which is called maintaining a > package. You have orphaned the package, so you don't want to maintain > it, so you don't want to regularly update the package, so live with it. > You had the chance to maintain it, because you didn't need to orphan > the package. It was your choice. Actually, in AUR I did a 4 months stretch of doing exactly this with my packages. Why? So that anybody could update my package when I would was unable to. It never meant I would not want to maintain my packages. That wasn't exactly what I was doing with this package but still, when _I_ just bump a package it does _not_ necessarily mean I don't want to regularly update it since I disowned as soon as I did it. Good thing, if the users don't care about having the latest versions all the time. They are the ones who need to "live with" it. > It means both. It says clearly to either using Pastebin or to send it > to the maintainer by e-mail. Which doesn't mean only e-mail and Pastebin can be used. They don't need to list and think of every possible option to upload the PKGBUILD. It's enough when people get the main idea. > I wouldn't download and review such a package if someone would > send me such a link in my comments. Are _you_ the maintainer of this package :)? > And you shouldn't always upload a new, updated package somewhere and > put the link to it to the AUR comments. You can assume that the > maintainer knows how to update his package. Sure. I just like making things easy. > You really should decide whether you want to maintain a package or not. Not in the sense you are thinking of. Something we both agree on :). > And you should only send an orphan request if you really want to > maintain a package and keep maintaining it. That's a little ambiguous but generally speaking you are right. So to wrap this all up, I would just like to have an active maintainer for that package but it's not something I really "need" since I don't even use the package. Thanks for your time, Det