[arch-general] autofs orphaned

[Allan McRae]

JM wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been using autofs with my local and remote filesystems for some
> time. With an update to version 5.0 numerous bugs were introduced
> forcing many users, including me, to downgrade. On May 2nd, Andrea
> Scrapino who was the autofs maintainer at the time, orphaned the
> package and asked on arch-dev-public if some other dev would be
> interested in maintaining the package.
>
> Three months later autofs is still orphaned and autofs bugs assigned
> to BaSH haunt the bugtracker [1]. Will autofs be deprecated? If so,
> what compatible alternatives are there?
>
> Kind regards,
> JM
>
> [1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=autofs&project=1
>   

Not answering your question, but I notice that none of those bugs have 
attached a fixed PKGBUILD.  It is always helpful if users who use the 
package regularly try and fix the issues and post updated build files.

Allan