On Sun May 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM PDT, notify wrote: > zmr233 [1] filed an orphan request for yesplaymusic [2]: > > Dear AUR Trusted Users and the current package maintainer, > > I originally created and maintained the AUR package “yesplaymusic- > plus” to provide updated features and security fixes for YesPlayMusic. > At that time, I was not fully familiar with the AUR merge and > maintenance rules, which led to my work being submitted as a separate > “yesplaymusic-plus” package rather than updating the existing > “yesplaymusic” package directly. > > As a result, the “yesplaymusic” package on AUR remains at version > 0.4.8-2 (last updated 2024-08-12) and contains known bugs and security > vulnerabilities that have since been addressed upstream. Meanwhile, > attempts to contact the current maintainer (Qingxu) via AUR comments > and email have gone unanswered for over two weeks.
Yeah, sorry I as a possible helpful user didn't get to reply to your request before it was instantly accepted by the system. Or any of the AUR moderators, for that matter. I would have told you that you filed the merge direction backwards, except if you also intended to orphan and take over the target package. I hope this gets resolved usefully. > > I am prepared to take over maintenance of the “yesplaymusic” package, > merge in the improvements from yesplaymusic-plus, and ensure that new > releases and patches are promptly packaged. Therefore, I respectfully > request that “yesplaymusic” be marked Orphaned so that I can adopt it > and continue active maintenance. > > Thank you for your consideration. > > Sincerely, > > zmr233 > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/zmr233/ > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/yesplaymusic/
