Hi there!
Few days ago I’ve installed Archlinux on my laptop again. One of the
first changes I’ve noticed in my *.archlinux.org accounts was loosing
all packages I was maintaining in AUR.
It’s completely understandable because I was the one to say in one of
my comments that I hope to never use A
On Jun 1, 2012 10:03 PM, "Marcin 'sirmacik' Karpezo" <
mar...@karpezo.pl> wrote:
>
> Hi there!
>
> Few days ago I’ve installed Archlinux on my laptop again. One of the
> first changes I’ve noticed in my *.archlinux.org accounts was loosing
> all packages I was maintaining in AUR.
>
> It’s completel
Such tracking is usually done within the MAKEPKG file, e.g. [1]. It is
indeed better practice but not mandatory. As long as we can contact the
current maintainer, why the need of previous maintainer?
Second it doesn't really matter who owns the package. We all contribute to
Arch together and benef
Dnia 2012-06-01, o godz. 12:11:06
Alex Belanger napisał(a):
> Such tracking is usually done within the MAKEPKG file, e.g. [1]. It is
> indeed better practice but not mandatory. As long as we can contact
> the current maintainer, why the need of previous maintainer?
>
> Second it doesn't really m
Am Fri, 1 Jun 2012 20:20:14 +0200
schrieb Marcin 'sirmacik' Karpezo :
> I think you misunderstood me. It's not about taking packages back if
> they are maintained. It's about giving orphaned packages back to the
> previous maintainer if they are still orphaned and he has logged in
> again and push
Heiko Baums wrote:
> Am Fri, 1 Jun 2012 20:20:14 +0200
> schrieb Marcin 'sirmacik' Karpezo :
>
> > I think you misunderstood me. It's not about taking packages back if
> > they are maintained. It's about giving orphaned packages back to the
> > previous maintainer if they are still orphaned and h
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Xyne wrote:
> Now that the request is clear, I will say that I don't think this should be
> done on the AUR itself. As already mentioned, there are not many users who
> drop everything in the AUR and then come back (even if "they always come
> back").
>
I don't t
Am Fri, 1 Jun 2012 20:42:47 +
schrieb Xyne :
> Um, I don't think you understood his idea,
I think I did understand his idea.
> but at least it didn't
> stop you from replying with your usual abrasive tone.
Am I not allowed to answer, particularly if I think the idea is
pointless? And, no, i
2012/6/2 Heiko Baums
> >I already understood this. This doesn't change anything. Still no reason
> >for an automation. In those very rare cases I guess the previous
> >maintainer still knows which packages he had maintained, and wants to
> >continue maintaining. So he already can easily search fo
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Heiko Baums wrote:
> Btw., I read at least one comment in the AUR in which the old
> maintainer asked to be removed from the #Contributor flag in the
> PKGBUILD. So I think that not everybody would be happy with such a
> previous maintainer field in the AUR.
>
See
Zaterdag 2 Juni 2012 om 01:04 (CEST +0200) schreef Heiko Baums:
Am I not allowed to answer, particularly if I think the idea is
pointless? And, no, it is not an abrasive tone. Those are just facts.
And I had the impression that Marcin didn't think about the reasons why
a package is usually (in m
Am Sat, 2 Jun 2012 01:23:30 +0200
schrieb Cédric Girard :
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Heiko Baums
> wrote:
>
> > Btw., I read at least one comment in the AUR in which the old
> > maintainer asked to be removed from the #Contributor flag in the
> > PKGBUILD. So I think that not everybody wo
Am Sat, 02 Jun 2012 01:23:46 +0200
schrieb Christian Stadegaart :
> You were not sharing an opinion, you were sharing facts, right? I
> advise you to be careful with the words you choose.
Why? Answer my questions, and you will see that it's true. In the most
cases you will come to the same conclu
On 2012-06-01 17:42, Xyne wrote:
> Heiko Baums wrote:
>
>> Am Fri, 1 Jun 2012 20:20:14 +0200
>> schrieb Marcin 'sirmacik' Karpezo :
>>
> Um, I don't think you understood his idea, but at least it didn't stop you
> from
> replying with your usual abrasive tone.
>
> Simplified version:
> User F
On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 23:59:44 +0200
Cédric Girard wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Xyne wrote:
>
> > Now that the request is clear, I will say that I don't think this
> > should be done on the AUR itself. As already mentioned, there are
> > not many users who drop everything in the AUR a
Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote:
> I think a list of "packages I've contributed to" (similar to "my
> packages", but also includes packages you've orphaned) in AUR would
> solve this, and be helpful for other stuff.
>
> If a user leaves Arch for some reason, and comes back, IF he's
> intereseted in re
On 2012-06-02 11:55, Xyne wrote:
> Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote:
>
>> I think a list of "packages I've contributed to" (similar to "my
>> packages", but also includes packages you've orphaned) in AUR would
>> solve this, and be helpful for other stuff.
>>
>> If a user leaves Arch for some reason, an
Sorry for top-posting and such a long response time, but I had pretty
rough time and I needed few hours of sleep to get operational again. [;
Thanks for this awesome feedback. I'm really impressed and thankful for
what the original idea turned out to be here.
Such list of packages "I've maintaine
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