-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 15:26, Erik Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > What is the policy with regard to projects that appear to have been > abandoned? For instance, no matter what distribution I run, I find > myself compiling spellutils for its excellent "newsbody" program, which > I use in mutt to feed aspell only the body of the message instead of the > full message (including quoted replies, headers, etc). However, for some > time now the homepage of this project has been defunct, and the > developer has been unreachable. The project does not have a > sourceforge/github/etc location from which the source code can be > retrieved, I was only able to find the source code myself thanks to a > couple different source code archives, which I am not sure if I can rely > on 100% to keep the source available. > > What can I do to get this project into the AUR? I have no problem > writing a PKGBUILD, I just need to find an acceptable way of making the > source available, and I'm not sure if there's a protocol for this > that AUR package maintainers typically follow. > > > Many thanks, > > -- > > -Erik > > "For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to > persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." --Carl Sagan
Personally, I would say that for an AUR package, a < 100% reliable source is fine. However, what I've done for high-demand packages (like my bin32-wine when [extra] does not update quickly), is to talk to people and find someone who would be kind enough to host. Actually though, I think www.omploader.org works for PKGBUILDs. If it does, it is both fast and reliable. -- Ranguvar [Devin Cofer] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJLVN0dAAoJEHdXKOHe3MUTHfgQAIU3Zf9A4VtdEHeIq7V96+dd xH+dlYn5xcFdJI2ejec9QMFtUmo2SjZfYHGkMQNjgqhbS8OmrhbleiK25z8FwEHr 1HvS2cOZ5/2wyDKhgO0v2FKTuCUIRldErkcTtHJ4sW/QwDJpJTHImHenxZ6v0gDk DUqu2A2DwSmWNNV6OzfsyemHeQK3AwwkQhyjSkLL9QXpdjq1kz9eueObsb84CnGC KVeQ5GCqDNgpjzuf+a8NzhjDKpuUHqkkMlHexIeZ0gpK6xHHjxreVh24jYCJ9pZh 1MNlsDj3S1N1w1ixLR8WambepSPlGh2uH4Y/G2+1KshetVJHGlYrR0rMS16GC9UQ qnGJyXp6+R22ZL15B2XzCee9lSLRwNcJaGmuxYtBCDP5Gla3NLFoJUDyOCoKh7GY gncob4TJUuyvYfeHPJKEzUWkfTjG/jngnHiCVmGQMGsvj2qZCb4Fhhn8IkFyEdy5 yGSQn8PCsvoqwPMwHHdAOC3o5tirJyVTuVBb+q3yT7ScfbWubxxPNw0MsutQCdlj kE/Fj5JO9nJqmqZKkZCQggltvnK8P+ACVQEmPgWWTMNOEJ5moc+/ET4rseDAeQ8M IBZk8YLyt4BEMfpK0rdLRUHBw7i30CRA2hhs6xUoATm74ryIgE1ycx161cuGr4zp eBGEKYD79jPhU4pxRoyN =XGpl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
