If nothing has been done since June, what is the urge? You can write an email and wait one more week.
I also agree with the fact that not everyone do read the forum. I personally don't. -- Cedric Girard Sent from my phone, sorry for the top-posting. Le 24 nov. 2010 18:20, "Stefan Husmann" <[email protected]> a écrit : > Am 24.11.2010 13:55, schrieb Lukas Fleischer: >> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 02:37:52PM +0200, H.Gökhan SARI wrote: >>> Main burg package (which is burg-bzr, >>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33382) is not orphaned and not >>> updated since July 16, although package is flagged as out-of-date and a >>> better PKGBUILD is suggested in comments. And I think it's nonsense adopting >>> burg-themes (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38066) due to it's >>> containing themes only not working without main burg package. >> >> If an AUR package is broken, you should always adhere to following >> procedure: >> >> * Tell the maintainer to fix the package using AUR comments or just send >> him a mail. I prefer AUR comments since they can be reviewed and >> discussed by others easily. You might also nopaste a patch and/or >> fixed PKGBUILD. >> >> * Wait for the maintainer to fix the package. >> >> * If he doesn't reply/react for some time, send him a mail asking him to >> update the package or orphan it if he doesn't want to maintain it >> anymore. >> >> * If he doesn't reply to that mail for another week, send a mail to >> aur-general asking the TUs to disown the package. >> >> * Never create duplicate packages with "-fixed", "-working", "-better" >> suffixes. >> >> I think we should delete the "-fixed" packages and disown burg-bzr if >> the maintainer doesn't want to maintain it anymore, so someone can adopt >> and fix the packages with correct namings. I'll send x-demon a mail. >> > > Hello, > > basically Lukas is right with this procedure. But in this case there is a > forum thread since June in which the author of burg-bzr did not take part. > For me that is reason enough to think that he or she is gone. So I orphaned > burg-bzr. The others were already orphaned. The packageges named -fixed > will be deleted soon. I made some AUR comments and a forum post telling so. > > Regards Stefan
