On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 08:52:52 +0000 (UTC) [email protected] wrote: > Varakh [1] filed a request to merge onedrive [2] into onedrive- > abraunegg [3]: > > The onedrive package itself is working fine but upstream has not > committed anything for a very long time and is actively NOT responding > to issues. > > There's a fork available (packaged into onedrive-abraunegg) which is > actively developed and contains tons of bug fixes required for daily > production. > > As the current maintainer of the onedrive package is not willing to > hand over it, adapt the package to the fork, I'd propose to force move > the package or force delete it so that the current maintainer of e.g. > onedrive-abraunegg can take over. I think we, as an Arch community, > should not confuse new users and prefer working forks (and therefore > rename it). > > There's also a discussion going on in the comment sections of each AUR > package. > > Cheers > Varakh > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Varakh/ > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/onedrive/ > [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/onedrive-abraunegg/
The original upstream IS sporadically active, and instead of making a proper fork, abraunegg has just declared himself the new upstream of the project. If people have a problem with the naming, they should take it up with abraunegg to do things correctly.
