Re: [arch-general] definition of "orphan"

2021-03-10 Thread Matthias Bodenbinder via arch-general
Am Donnerstag, dem 11.03.2021 um 08:09 +0100 schrieb Reto: > It's not the same context... > > A "fork" is an eating utensil that you use to shove food into your > mouth. > However, a "fork" is also a software project that is based of some > prior work. > It's also a point where a road diverges int

Re: [arch-general] Orphaned community package

2021-03-10 Thread Antonio Rojas via arch-general
El jueves, 11 de marzo de 2021 3:42:39 (CET), Simon Perry via arch-general escribió: Hi gang, I was wondering what the best avenue would be to request an update to a community package which no longer has a maintainer? The one you used. The package in question is: https://archlinux.org/pack

Re: [arch-general] definition of "orphan"

2021-03-10 Thread Reto via arch-general
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 07:43:30AM +0100, Matthias Bodenbinder via arch-general wrote: > in the arch world I see two different definition of an "orphan". >[...] > This is confusing. Would it make sense to change the wording so that it > is not ambiguous anymore. It's not the same context... A "f

[arch-general] definition of "orphan"

2021-03-10 Thread Matthias Bodenbinder via arch-general
Hi, in the arch world I see two different definition of an "orphan". The pacman manpage says: orphans - packages that were installed as dependencies  but are no longer required by any installed package. For the AUR the definition of an "orphan" is  If all maintainers of a

[arch-general] Orphaned community package

2021-03-10 Thread Simon Perry via arch-general
Hi gang, I was wondering what the best avenue would be to request an update to a community package which no longer has a maintainer? The package in question is: https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/libsidplayfp/ Cheers. -- Simon Perry