Thomas S Hatch wrote: > Ok, I have a bit of a problem with a pair of packages, puppet and facter. > > As it stands the puppet package in the aur is broken, it builds but it does > not run properly. The puppet package in the AUR is configured to run on ruby > 1.9, puppet does not run properly on ruby 1.9 yet, and the pacman plugin for > puppet that is supplied with the package no longer works properly. The > package has also been out of date for a few weeks. > > I have contacted the maintainer and I was promised that my fixes would be > applied, but they were not, so I made a duplicate, puppet-ruby1.8 and > facter-ruby1.8, I am using these packages in production and they work very > well. > > I even open up a github account, forked Miah's puppet package, applied the > changes and requested a pull as requested. > > But the package remains out of date and broken, so my question is this, does > this constitute grounds for having a TU orphan the packages so I can update > them, make them work, and get rid of my duplicates? Or should I continue > more diplomatically? > > -Tom Hatch
According to the comments on the page, you first brought up the merger about a month and a half ago, so even if the maintainer is busy irl as mentioned in his|her last post, there has been plenty of time to fix the package. I've orphaned puppet for now. Facter is neither flagged as out-of-date nor are there any comments regarding the issue on the page. Is there anything wrong with the facter package? Regards, Xyne p.s. Please provide links next time.