[arch-dev-public] bitlbee maintainer

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Tue, 18 May 2010 11:23:01 -0500
Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Dieter Plaetinck
> <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > $ sudo pacman -Sy >/dev/null
> > $ pacman -Si bitlbee | grep Packager
> > Packager       : Andrea Scarpino <andrea at archlinux.org>
> >
> > but http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=bitlbee says this package
> > is an orphan?
> >
> > what explains the difference between my -Si and the packages
> > webinterface?
> 
> Packager != Maintainer all the time. The packager is set by makepkg
> when someone builds something. Andrea could have rebuilt bitlbee for a
> library change, or something of the sort

I see.  I thought it might had something to do with the accidental
orphanages we had a while ago.

So, anyone who wants to maintain bitlbee? surely there must be a
developer/packager using it, because it rocks :)

Dieter