On Thu 11 Mar 2010 11:50 -0600, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Xavier Chantry > <chantry.xavier@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > 2010/3/11 David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > I just posted the new PKGBUILD files as 'comments' to the AUR > > > package and sent Chris (the maintainer) an email telling him what > > > I'd done. Hopefully he can move cut and paste the new package > > > versions and md5sums into the official PKGBUILD files and remove > > > the out-of-date flag. > > > > You should probably have done the opposite : > > - in AUR comments, just quickly state what needs to be changed / fixed > > - in the email , include the proper attachments > > > > Pasting a pkgbuild in aur comments is ugly, takes a lot of space and > > usually screws up the formatting enough to make it unusable in a very > > confusing way. > > Sometimes pasting the pkgbuild in comments is the only solution, especially > with lazy maintainers. :/ I've used a share posted that way, and a copy and > paste seemed to work fine. Not that it will always work though, I still > agree its bad practice, but short of another solution it is necessary at > times. Use a pastebin or something instead.
