Simpler sounds nice, but I'm not so sure about the "uses ffmpeg instead" bit -- perhaps there should be two packages if such a choice has to be made?
-Andrei "Garoth" Thorp On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Paride Legovini <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 outdated.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 > >
