On 11/1/24 7:14 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Arch and Aur Folks,I updated https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mongodb44 to build with the last 4.4.29 source and patched for boost 1.86. The package builds fine now against current Arch.I wanted to pass along the results of those efforts and update the Aur package, but didn't want to take on the maintainer role. Is there a way to provide an update for the package and bring in back into date without becoming the maintainer? I have a signed source package I'm happy to pass along if that is something the admins can do.There is about 8 hours of effort to that went to find and fix all the issues, I'd like to make that available to whoever may need the 4.4 version of mongodb. I didn't think I'd ever need it, but it is the last version that wasn't built requiring avx - so it is useful if you need it for those cases or need it in a VM, etc..(note: some parts of a 3rd party package included along with the source will need a significant 'type' change to suppress the char8_t - Wc++20-compat type warning, but that's just something for the future, and there is one more -Wredundant-move I need to fix in src/mongo/db/ matcher/expression_array.h that somehow got missed in the hundreds of thousands of lines of output)I've tried posting to aur-general, but my posts do not ever make it to the list. I don't mind picking up the maintainer role, but am hesitant to get caught be another large boost deprecation/removal during a busy week and not have time to devote to it. Is a one-shot update something that can be done for this package without becoming the maintainer?
Hi,You can't update a package without being a maintainer / co-maintainer for it. However, since the package is currently orphaned, you can become the maintainer for it and push the update.
If you don't feel like maintaining the package on the long run, you can simply disown it right after you pushed the update. The package will just be orphaned again, leaving the place for someone else to step up as the maintainer if desired.
-- Regards, Robin Candau / Antiz
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