On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 19:44:27 -0400 Marshall Conover <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all, > > the drawterm package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/drawterm/) is > currently out-of date, and its name does not reflect the fact that it pulls > from a mercurial repository. I emailed the owner a little more than two > weeks ago, and they have not responded. > > I have commented on the package's page with a working pkgbuild that I > believe fits the guidelines for AUR pkgbuilds. So, > > - Would some be able to rename the package drawterm-hg? > - Would I be able to be made maintainer of it? > > Thank you, > > Marshall Conover Just pull a new drawterm-hg package into the AUR [1] About the drawterm package - Upstream releases source tarballs versioned by date (latest version is 20130702), that may be used for stable releases. - Orphaning is the right procedure, btw I just pinged 9souldier.org and the server seems to be down, so the user mail provided in his profile [3] is probably out of order. - You can get an alternative mail address (and the name) of the current maintainer in the first line of this PKGBUILD [4] in order to contact him, but you can rely on IRC too since his nickname is also listed here [3]. So, I suggest you trying to get in touch with the current maintainer using the alternative mail and IRC and wait for another week: if you will not get any response, I'll orphan drawterm so you can update it. Cheers [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Submitting_packages [2] http://swtch.com/cgi-bin/info.cgi?file=/drawterm/drawterm.tgz [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/9souldier [4] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/li/libatomic/PKGBUILD - speps -
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