Re: [aur-general] Is it okay to mark broken packages out-of-date on AUR?

2011-01-16 Thread Magnus Therning
On 16/01/11 17:35, Peter Simons wrote: > Hi Sven-Hendrik, > >>> Some maintainers seem to see that differently. They want a comment _and_ >>> the out-of-date button to be pressed, if the package is broken. Do not >>> know why. To me this is annoying. >> >> That way, they show up in your overview whi

Re: [aur-general] Is it okay to mark broken packages out-of-date on AUR?

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Sven-Hendrik, >> Some maintainers seem to see that differently. They want a comment >> _and_ the out-of-date button to be pressed, if the package is >> broken. Do not know why. To me this is annoying. > > That way, they show up in your overview which is handy if you get rid > of the comme

Re: [aur-general] Is it okay to mark broken packages out-of-date on AUR?

2011-01-14 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 14.01.2011 20:10, Stefan Husmann wrote: > Am 14.01.2011 10:45, schrieb Peter Simons: >> Hi guys, >> >> the AUR user palmfron has recently flagged the package "haskell-haskcore" >> out-of-date, because the PKGBUILD is broken. It cannot be compiled, >> because it depends on other packages that no

Re: [aur-general] Is it okay to mark broken packages out-of-date on AUR?

2011-01-14 Thread Stefan Husmann
Am 14.01.2011 10:45, schrieb Peter Simons: > Hi guys, > > the AUR user palmfron has recently flagged the package "haskell-haskcore" > out-of-date, because the PKGBUILD is broken. It cannot be compiled, > because it depends on other packages that no longer exist: > > http://aur.archlinux.org/pac

Re: [aur-general] Is it okay to mark broken packages out-of-date on AUR?

2011-01-14 Thread Magnus Therning
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:56, Allan McRae wrote: > On 14/01/11 19:45, Peter Simons wrote: >> >> Is there some sort of consensus among AUR maintainers how to deal with >> that kind of situation? If an AUR package is current, so to speak, but it >> doesn't compile, then what should be done with it?

Re: [aur-general] Is it okay to mark broken packages out-of-date on AUR?

2011-01-14 Thread Allan McRae
On 14/01/11 19:45, Peter Simons wrote: Is there some sort of consensus among AUR maintainers how to deal with that kind of situation? If an AUR package is current, so to speak, but it doesn't compile, then what should be done with it? I'd say that is what the comment section is for. Allan

[aur-general] Is it okay to mark broken packages out-of-date on AUR?

2011-01-14 Thread Peter Simons
Hi guys, the AUR user palmfron has recently flagged the package "haskell-haskcore" out-of-date, because the PKGBUILD is broken. It cannot be compiled, because it depends on other packages that no longer exist: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20383 Now, there is disagreement among the