On 14.01.2011 20:10, Stefan Husmann wrote: > Am 14.01.2011 10:45, schrieb Peter Simons: >> Hi guys, >> >> the AUR user palmfron has recently flagged the package "haskell-haskcore" >> out-of-date, because the PKGBUILD is broken. It cannot be compiled, >> because it depends on other packages that no longer exist: >> >> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20383 >> >> Now, there is disagreement among the members of the ArchHaskell team about >> whether it's okay to flag that package out-of-date. Some argue that the >> package is *not* out-of-date, because the published version 0.1.0.4 is the >> latest one available, so the package cannot be updated to a newer version. >> These people argue that flagging a package out-of-date just because it's >> broken is not alright. >> >> Others say that it's perfectly alright to flag that package out-of-date, >> because it's *broken*, so clearly the PKGBUILD does need updating to be >> useful. >> >> Is there some sort of consensus among AUR maintainers how to deal with >> that kind of situation? If an AUR package is current, so to speak, but it >> doesn't compile, then what should be done with it? >> >> This issue is of some importance for us, because the 'arch-haskell' user >> has published an approximated 500 packages on AUR that are broken, i.e. >> these packages cannot be built because of unsatisfiable dependencies: >> >> https://github.com/archhaskell/habs/issues#issue/4 >> >> I'd appreciate any advice that you could offer. >> >> Take care, >> Peter >> > Hello, > > IMHO a package that is broken deserves other kind s of love than just an > out-of-date flag. There should be a comment with at least some hints what > may cause the problem. > > Out-of-date-flags are, what the name suggests, hints that there is a newer > version. > > But some maintainers seem to see that differently. They want a comment > _and_ the out-ofdate-button to be pressed, if the package is broken. Do not > know why. To me this is annoying. > > Regards Stefan That way, they show up in your overview which is handy if you get rid of the comment mails for some reason.
-- Sven-Hendrik
