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From: Sergey Fukanchik <fukanchik@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2023 07:32:57 -0400
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Subject: Re: Maintainers needed
Cc: Alpine development <~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org>
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What about the packages which had no upstream updates for a long time?
Do contributors still have to "bump" pkgrel to confirm that the
package still has a maintainer in the distro?

On Fri, 4 Aug 2023 at 17:51, Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 06:34:39PM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> > Natanael Copa wrote in
> >  <20230804161420.00010509@ncopa-desktop.lan>:
> >  |We have got a lot of orphaned packages recently. I checked a few days
> >  ...
> >  |community/s-nail
> >
> > That is not orphan, i develop and maintain it.
> >
>
> Just to be clear, this is about alpine packages that don't have a
> maintainer listed, not about upstream projects.
>
> You dropped maintainership of the package in [0]. If you wish to
> continue to maintain it, feel free to make a merge request to do so.
>
> >  |testing/dma
> >  |testing/jsmn
> >
> > Well, i long track the git repo of those, though i only update
> > ~once a month.  (I also track FreeBSD commits so dma problems etc
> > do show up in time.)  How they integrate into Alpine i never
> > looked.  (No problem for the second of course.  Most projects
> > simply include it in their own sources instead of a dependency
> > anyway.)
> >
> > 'Currently not running X under Alpine so xfig, xaw etc, not.
> >
> > --steffen
> > |
> > |Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
> > |der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
> > |einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
> > |(By Robert Gernhardt)
>
> [0]:https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/commit/9fc57cb605f790d93dc7a5712ba2352d96cabecd



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Sergey