On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 17:06, Ghost1227 <[email protected]> wrote: > Daenyth Blank wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 16:45, Sven-Hendrik Haase <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Currently, there are two packages for xampp that do the same thing: >>> xampp-linux, which was there two years earlier and just xampp. >>> The xampp PKGBUILD is pretty much the xampp-linux PKGBUILD with >>> added stuff for taking care of x86_64 because the regular xampp-linux >>> package >>> will not work properly with x86_64. >>> >>> Therefore, this situation is a little complicated. I propose the >>> deletion of the xampp package >>> and notification of the xampp-linux package maintainer in order to make >>> the package >>> x86_64 compatible. >>> >>> >> >> Which is the proper name though? If the xampp PKGBUILD is better, and >> that's how it should be named, we should keep that one, perhaps orphan >> it so the original maintainer can take care of it >> >> > > xampp is the proper name... the addition of -linux to the end of the name is > redundant (especially on a linux system). I concur with Daenyth's > recommendation, the properly named/more updated package should be orphaned > so that the original maintainer can take over, assuming that he or she > wishes to. > > -- > Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) > [email protected] > http://ghost1227.com > > +1
I'm CC'ing this to both maintainers so that we can get their input on this before we switch anything around.
