On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Dude. Against the Arch way... you are harsh. There is NO patch[1]. Only configure options (provided by upstream). > Also, the one in [community] has explicit flags that actually reduce > security (for what reason, I wonder?). Please open a bug report[2] and explain where I made a mistake. I'll be pleased to fix it. > 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. You can find me on the TU page[3] and details about opensmtpd in the package page[4] (hint: Maintainer field). > 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). Be delighted with this move. You will not have to maintain it yourself anymore. No need to thanks TUs and Developers for their work. It's free as beer. > 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? I'm sorry, I doesn't took your package. I was not "inspired" by what you do and I started a new one from scratch. No offense! > 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?" Transpart? You can participate by suggesting new behaviour / stuff into our bug report system[2]. By offering your help to upstream developper. Or if you want helps Archlinux on more than one package, you can start walk the path to become a TU. Cheers, [1] https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/opensmtpd [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/ [3] https://www.archlinux.org/trustedusers/ [4] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/opensmtpd/ -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://www.seblu.net GPG: 0x2072D77A