On 01-07-2019 21:20, Danila Kiver via arch-general wrote:
Hi all, please help me in handling the following situation. The bash-bats package ( https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/bash-bats ) uses the upstream repository ( https://github.com/sstephenson/bats ), which is no longer maintained by its owner ( https://github.com/sstephenson/bats/issues/150 ). Looks like the project moved to a community-maintained fork ( https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core ), which already reached version 1.1.0 and includes crucial fixes, while the original project stays untouched for a long while. What would be the correct approach here: ask the maintainer of bash-bats package to switch to the active fork, or leave this deprecated package as it is and create an AUR package for the fork? Regards, Danila Kiver.
Open an issue on the Arch bug tracker with the suggestion to switch to the fork. Sounds like a switch makes sense, the maintainer will probably agree. If not, you can always add an AUR package anyway.
-- Maarten
