Re: [nongnu] main 74116339a8 2/3: * elpa-packages (anzu): New package

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Ergus <spacibba@aol.com> writes:

>>
>>I think it would be beneficial to think of ways to encourage people to
>>consider sending patches to Emacs or packages instead of writing up yet
>>another package.  This could be in the form of posts on Reddit, IRC,
>>blogs, etc.
>>
>
>
> To not reinvent the wheel maybe look at the AUR repository page for Arch Linux.
>
> AUR repository just have a button on every package's page where the
> users can report obsolete outdated packages. And where the package
> maintainer can adopt or abandon (orphan) the package.

I don't think that "obsolete" or "outdated" means the same thing here.
While the AUR is a collection of build-scripts that might fall behind an
upstream source, I was thinking more of packages that have been
"obsoleted" by upstream changes, or by other packages (think of Avy
vs. ace-jump, where I think the consensus is that Avy has superseded
ace-jump).

> When there are issues usually the same users can reply and propose solutions or workarounds to the others or some patches.
>
> Then when a user updates or install those packages a warning is printed if the package is outdated or orphan. 

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	Philip Kaludercic