Re: [aur-general] Package disown request for haskell-platform

2010-06-01 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Ionut, do you want to became a TU and maintain correctly in community? yes, you are right, that is probably the best approach. What do I have to do to get started? Take care, Peter

Re: [aur-general] Package disown request for haskell-platform

2010-06-01 Thread Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227)
On 06/01/10 at 06:54pm, Peter Simons wrote: Hi Ionut, do you want to became a TU and maintain correctly in community? yes, you are right, that is probably the best approach. What do I have to do to get started? Take care, Peter Ask someone to sponsor you, make sure the packages you

Re: [aur-general] Package disown request for haskell-platform

2010-05-28 Thread Alexander Rødseth
Hi, Thanks for a well-written post, Peter. 2010/5/27 Ionut Biru biru.io...@gmail.com: do you want to became a TU and maintain correctly in community? They way things are done in AUR, where packages are orhpaned and then maintained by volunteers, is a system that seems to work. The quality of

Re: [aur-general] Package disown request for haskell-platform

2010-05-28 Thread Ionut Biru
On 05/28/2010 05:11 PM, Alexander Rødseth wrote: Hi, Thanks for a well-written post, Peter. 2010/5/27 Ionut Birubiru.io...@gmail.com: do you want to became a TU and maintain correctly in community? They way things are done in AUR, where packages are orhpaned and then maintained by

Re: [aur-general] Package disown request for haskell-platform

2010-05-28 Thread Hilton Medeiros
On Fri, 28 May 2010 16:11:29 +0200 Alexander Rødseth rods...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Thanks for a well-written post, Peter. 2010/5/27 Ionut Biru biru.io...@gmail.com: do you want to became a TU and maintain correctly in community? They way things are done in AUR, where packages are

Re: [aur-general] Package disown request for haskell-platform

2010-05-27 Thread Alexander Rødseth
Hello, It's been almost a year since haskell-platform was updated (31st of July 2009). Over two months ago, I sent a package disown request. Usually, this is pure routine and is carried through. This time, the reply was that the package is maintained by the Arch Haskell Team using automated

Re: [aur-general] Package disown request for haskell-platform

2010-05-27 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Alexander, It's been almost a year since haskell-platform was updated (31st of July 2009). Over two months ago, I sent a package disown request. Usually, this is pure routine and is carried through. This time, the reply was that the package is maintained by the Arch Haskell Team

Re: [aur-general] Package disown request for haskell-platform

2010-05-27 Thread Ionut Biru
On 05/27/2010 08:25 PM, Peter Simons wrote: As far as I can tell, Haskell support in ArchLinux has been deteriorating rapidly in the last few months. The current state is such that some people stand up and try do something about it. Unfortunately, we can't, because the AUR maintainers seem to

Re: [aur-general] Package disown request for haskell-platform

2010-03-31 Thread Alexander Rødseth
I contacted dons on #arch-haskell about two weeks ago and he said it is not unmaintained. The haskell-platform package on AUR was last updated 31st of July 2009. Currently it's not working. Is this package special, so that it's left alone even when it would have been orphaned if it was any other

[aur-general] Package disown request for haskell-platform

2010-03-11 Thread Alexander Rødseth
Hi, haskell-platform hasn't been updated (submitted) since 31 Jul 2009. I e-mailed the maintainer almost two weeks ago and have not got any reply. A working PKGBUILD is posted among the comments. Thanks, Alexander Rødseth