Hi, All of a sudden, this morning, after running pacman -Syu, I found myself incapable of sending emails from several of my machines. I had noticed not warnings, or errors, and, after tracking the issue for a while, it turns out the problem was the new opensmtpd package in [community], which had replaced my own one (present in AUR). I've been maintaining an opensmtpd package in AUR for a long time now (it was recently renamed to "opensmtpd", but I had maintaing it under the previous name since it's early development, which I follow very closely). One of the problems with the new package in [community], is that it's build configuration differs SO MUCH from the defaults (and my own package), that their settings are incompatible. I belive this goes against the Arch way, which is to stay as close as possible to upstream. Also, the one in [community] has explicit flags that actually reduce security (for what reason, I wonder?). At first, I though I'd contact the author, but I couldn't find out how. The PKGBUILD does not include the maintainer's email, and he's not listed as a TU or Dev. Finally, I'm a bit surprised as to how this happened. I planned to propose to move my own package from AUR to [community] at some point, but not yet, since it only has 7 votes (way less than what the wiki describes neccesary). Secondly, I'm confused as to how this is done. If there's a package in AUR, isn't that moved into [community] instead of writing a brand new one? Please don't take this as a rant of "You broke my email setup!", but rather as a "Hey, this isn't very transpart to the community; how do these thing happen? How do I contact the maintainer? What was the procedure to get this package into [community]? Is there any way I can participate in it's maintenence?" Thanks, -- Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
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