Hi,
please remove AUR packages
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xorriso/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xorriso-tcltk/
Both are outdated, overlapping with Archlinux package
libisoburn, and already have been orphaned more than
a month ago.
Andreas Radke reports in
Hi,
The proposal to augment package libisoburn is in the
bug tracker since a month.
(See https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36931 )
I am thankful towards the package maintainer of libisoburn
for keeping it up to date. So i refrain from bothering him
more.
Now what to do about the two outdated and
Hi,
six weeks ago, i asked for advise how to deal with the
outdated AUR package of my program xorriso, which overwrites
the executables of the properly maintained package
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=libisoburn
On advise of this list, i later posted comments to
Hi,
Martti Kühne wrote:
Technically, 2 weeks after writing the email you could have come here
to ask for orphaning.
I wanted (and still want) to create a good relationship
between the package maintainer and me as upstream.
But vacation time is over now. So i assume she/he is
busy with other
Hi,
Disowned both of them. They're all yours.
I found
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Maintaining_packages
If you maintain a package and want to update the PKGBUILD for your
package just resubmit it.
But
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Creating_Packages
Hi,
Lukas Fleischer wrote:
Why don't we simply drop xorriso and xorriso-tcltk from the AUR
I suspect that the AUR package was requested by some user
of GRUB. If xorriso gets removed, then it might be
requested again, and some friendly unaware person might
re-introduce it.
and add
Hi,
Lukas Fleischer wrote:
The provides directive makes sure that people can put something like
depends=('xorriso')
in their PKGBUILDs and it will automatically use libisoburn instead --
Will this also help users who look for xorriso and do
not expect to find it in a library package ?
Hi,
i now filed task 36931 [1] on the bug tracker.
If you see opportunities to improve it, then please do.
Many thanks for now to Lukas and Martti.
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
[1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36931
Hi,
i am the developer of xorriso, and first want to thank you
for including it and its frontend script xorriso-tcltk
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xorriso/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xorriso-tcltk/
Is there a mail address by which i could reach the maintainer
of those two
