I'll update openfoam today and verify it works with this new package. Thanks for keeping me in the loop.
-Andrew On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Muflone <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi again > > >> Maybe I missed (and I cannot find in the archives) the aur-general > >> discussion where the maintainers would abandon their packages in favour > >> of yours, agreeing to the merge, so please send us a link where I can > >> see the whole discussion. > > > > > https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2015-February/030300.html > > > https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2015-February/030301.html > > > https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2015-February/030303.html > > > https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2015-February/030309.html > > > https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2015-February/030310.html > > Real names don't help too much to understand the packages ownerships but > actually on that thread apart those of yours the only messages were from > Gordian Edenhofer and Michele Mocciola and both of them don't seem to me > neither Andrew Fischer nor jedbrown. > > Forgive me but there's no point in that thread that let us think that > any of the packagers agree with the merge. > > > There were two more replies though, which (due to reasons that are > > beyond my understanding) were not archived. Either their authors or > > other recipients can confirm: > > > > ==================================== > > > > 1) Andrew Fischer: > > I'm not a scotch packager so Ill let others comment on the gory > > details. But from the openfoam standpoint this sounds like a great > > idea. I would definitely be onboard. > > @Andrew Fischer > If you want to ease the merge, please update your openfoam package to > use the scotch package, obviously after checking that scotch really > provides the proper dependencies. > > > 2) Jed Brown: > >> You are right :-) ( i hadn't yet discovered the real power of > "provides") > > > > Seems you got a little overzealous because your package is providing > > both ptscotch-mpich2 (a package that doesn't exist) and > > ptscotch-openmpi. > > @Jed Brown > do you agree in merging (in other words, to delete) the package > ptscotch-openmpi into the scotch package? > > @George Eleftheriou > I don't know how scotch works (and please, as maintainer, don't force us > to understand the internal dependencies between packages) but I must > repeat what I wrote you before: settle with the maintainers this merge > and after that file a new merge request > > 1) Ask to jedbrown to let us know that he will not maintain anymore the > ptscotch-openmpi package (or better adopt it yourself) > > 2) Ask to kragacles to update his package to depend on scotch package > (or whatever else you want) instead of ptscotch-openmpi (which will be > deleted after this merge). > > Regards > > > -- > Fabio Castelli aka Muflone > -- Andrew Fischer, PhD Apastron, LLC 903 1st ST N Hopkins, MN 952-373-1024
