On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:02:26PM +0100, Baptiste wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 08:44:29AM +0100, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: > > On 12/23/2011 04:21 AM, oliver wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > I created a package for OCaml-PCRE, > > > and have not seen that it already exists on AUR > > > (but in a slightly older version). > > > > > > There is this one: > > > > > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52452 > > > > > > > > > And my new one: > > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=55215 > > > > > > > > > Now there are two packages for the same stuff... > > > > > > Any idea how to handle it? > > > > > > > > > Ciao, > > > Oliver > > > > Send message to maintainer with updated PKGBUILD (and/or orphan > > request), post it also in comments. If after 2 weeks you won't get any > > answer, send to aur-general orphan request. > > For now, I'm deleting your package. > > "ocaml-pcre" [1] has been updated to the latest version (bobry, you're > an awesome maintainer ;) ) [...]
I did marked it as out-dated after I sent the mail here to the list. The maintainer then has updated his package. So he reacted fast. > > Bartłomiej, I think you can indeed delete "pcre-ocaml" [2]. Don't be > afraid of the packages that depend on it, they are mostly old and > unmaintained (the pcre package had been renamed from "pcre-ocaml" to > "ocaml-pcre" a while ago in order to match Arch's OCaml guidelines) [...] Yes, the depending packages were also something which I had in mind, why the new package might make sense. A naming scheme for that is a good idea. Ciao, Oliver
