Re: [aur-general] Rage-git package exists but pkg web page 404 + seems unmaintained

2017-12-30 Thread Carsten Haitzler 
On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 09:36:16 -0600 Doug Newgard  said:

> On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 14:33:41 +0900
> Carsten Haitzler  wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 23:28:19 -0600 Doug Newgard via aur-general
> >  said:
> > 
> > > A whole lot of orphans with no votes got deleted. When a package is
> > > deleted from the AUR, the git repo remains which is what you're seeing.  
> > 
> > oh - it was a lack of votes?
> 
> Lack of votes plus being an orphan and broken. All of which are strong
> indicators of lack of interest.

well. fixed and builds now. pushed fixes.

> > > As for restoring it, pushing a new commit to the repo would work. It can
> > > also be done over ssh, but you're going to need to fix it up anyway.  
> > 
> > ok. i assume this is an ok to take over maintenance?
> > 
> 
> It appears this had no maintenance since I dropped it. You're definitely safe
> taking it over.
> 


-- 
- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" --
Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: [aur-general] Rage-git package exists but pkg web page 404 + seems unmaintained

2017-12-30 Thread Doug Newgard via aur-general 
On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 14:33:41 +0900
Carsten Haitzler  wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 23:28:19 -0600 Doug Newgard via aur-general
>  said:
> 
> > A whole lot of orphans with no votes got deleted. When a package is deleted
> > from the AUR, the git repo remains which is what you're seeing.  
> 
> oh - it was a lack of votes?

Lack of votes plus being an orphan and broken. All of which are strong
indicators of lack of interest.

> 
> > As for restoring it, pushing a new commit to the repo would work. It can 
> > also
> > be done over ssh, but you're going to need to fix it up anyway.  
> 
> ok. i assume this is an ok to take over maintenance?
> 

It appears this had no maintenance since I dropped it. You're definitely safe
taking it over.

Re: [aur-general] Rage-git package exists but pkg web page 404 + seems unmaintained

2017-12-29 Thread Carsten Haitzler 
On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 23:28:19 -0600 Doug Newgard via aur-general
 said:

> On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 12:40:29 +0900
> Carsten Haitzler  wrote:
> 
> > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rage-git
> > 
> > Is gone but repo is alive:
> >   git clone ssh://a...@aur.archlinux.org/rage-git.git
> > 
> > Works. As does:
> >   git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/rage-git.git
> > 
> > And I see no removal request on aur-requests:
> >   https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/
> > 
> > (downloaded full mbox archive):
> >   $ grep rage-git aur-requests.mbox
> >   sickrage-git [3]:
> >   [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/sickrage-git/
> > 
> > No rage-git.
> > 
> > What happened? It's unmaintained because it doesn't build (since July 20
> > when I removed the autotools based build upstream and moved to meson as the
> > build system). I put in a comment on the pkg page that the AUR pkg build
> > was broken ages ago and offered to take over maintenance in the package
> > comments but got no reply and now the package page at least has disappeared.
> > 
> > How about restoring it? I can also take over maintenance as I have kept a
> > git clone of rage-git and moved it to meson locally (have not pushed). I
> > also now maintain efl-git and enlightenment-git too (rage-git depends on
> > efl).
> > 
> 
> A whole lot of orphans with no votes got deleted. When a package is deleted
> from the AUR, the git repo remains which is what you're seeing.

oh - it was a lack of votes?

> As for restoring it, pushing a new commit to the repo would work. It can also
> be done over ssh, but you're going to need to fix it up anyway.

ok. i assume this is an ok to take over maintenance?

-- 
- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" --
Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com

Re: [aur-general] Rage-git package exists but pkg web page 404 + seems unmaintained

2017-12-29 Thread Doug Newgard via aur-general 
On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 12:40:29 +0900
Carsten Haitzler  wrote:

> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rage-git
> 
> Is gone but repo is alive:
>   git clone ssh://a...@aur.archlinux.org/rage-git.git
> 
> Works. As does:
>   git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/rage-git.git
> 
> And I see no removal request on aur-requests:
>   https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/
> 
> (downloaded full mbox archive):
>   $ grep rage-git aur-requests.mbox
>   sickrage-git [3]:
>   [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/sickrage-git/
> 
> No rage-git.
> 
> What happened? It's unmaintained because it doesn't build (since July 20 when 
> I
> removed the autotools based build upstream and moved to meson as the build
> system). I put in a comment on the pkg page that the AUR pkg build was broken
> ages ago and offered to take over maintenance in the package comments but got
> no reply and now the package page at least has disappeared.
> 
> How about restoring it? I can also take over maintenance as I have kept a git
> clone of rage-git and moved it to meson locally (have not pushed). I also now
> maintain efl-git and enlightenment-git too (rage-git depends on efl).
> 

A whole lot of orphans with no votes got deleted. When a package is deleted
from the AUR, the git repo remains which is what you're seeing.

As for restoring it, pushing a new commit to the repo would work. It can also
be done over ssh, but you're going to need to fix it up anyway.

Doug (Scimmia)