* Simon Brulhart <si...@brulhart.me> [2015-06-09 11:36:09 +0200]: > There are a lot of orphan packages that haven't been updated for months > or years, but still work fine and could be considered useful. I > understand that these packages will still be available even if nobody > port them. However I don't know if the current AUR helpers will be able > to see them or if they will be updated for this purpose. > If not, I would be happy to adopt some of these packages to do the > transition, even if I may disown most of them shortly after. > > I suppose that adapting the tooling (if needed) would be a better > approach, but if they don't consider to do it I would find it sad to let > all these packages sink into oblivion.
I agree! It'd be helpful to see the archived old-AUR packages somewhere in AUR helpers, marked accordingly, so one can easily discover and adopt them even after the AUR transition is done. For yaourt[*], I opened an issue here yesterday: https://github.com/archlinuxfr/yaourt/issues/115 I don't think just porting and then disowning packages is the right thing to do - then the new AUR will be cluttered with things nobody cares about again. If you care enough to want a package ported (e.g. because you use it and it's currently orphaned), you should care enough to adopt it, IMHO. :) Florian [*] Just to preempt this: I hope it won't be necessary to mention this, but I use yaourt since I use Arch (>5 years), I'm still happy with it, and yes - I know how to use makepkg manually. If you really feel like discussing about yaourt instead of the rest of the mail, please do so with a personal reply, not to the ML. Thanks! -- http://www.the-compiler.org | m...@the-compiler.org (Mail/XMPP) GPG: 916E B0C8 FD55 A072 | http://the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc I love long mails! | http://email.is-not-s.ms/
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