On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 03:47:48PM +0000, Angel Velásquez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Paride Legovini > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was willing to maintain a package in aur for Gnash, the GNU SWF > > player. I published it today, but it has been removed without any > > warning. Can I have en explanation for this? > > > > I know the same package is already in extra/, but it's orphan and > > outdated. > > Technically is prohibited duplicate packages, *even if yours is > updated than one existent on repos*
Thank you for the explanation, I thought that orphan packages could be an exception to this rule. > Unfortunately, you should wait for a while until a Dev decides to > adopt and update it, I guess you can ask on this list if some dev can > drop this package from extra and move it to unsupported, then you will > be able to maintain it.. (but eventually this doesn't happen, being > frankly) Then I do it now :) I'm willing to maintain it, I hope I can help. > Aditionally you can add the PKGBUILD and maybe, some dev can update > the package and maybe he will use your PKGBUILD or part of them.. I'm attaching the PKGBUILD. It's different from the PKGBUILD of the package in extra/ (simpler, uses ffmpeg instead of gstreamer, ...). > So, the TU or Dev who deleted your package should (just for being > nice) sent you an e-mail giving you details about why your your > package was removed. I hope so. Thank you, pl
