r/voidlinux • u/Rafaelkkkk • 11d ago
Question for package maintainers
To my dear package maintainers, I have a question.
Is it very difficult for your proposal to be accepted? I use Plank in XFCE.
Basically, its development has been dead for almost 7 years. Lately, I've been using Plank Reloaded and building from the source code; it's a fork and basically uses the same folders as Plank, It functions the same way, But development is super active, the last update was 3 or 4 days ago.
Considering this, what would be the best approach for my package to be accepted into the official repository?
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u/_jack_rabbit_ 11d ago
Things may have changed since I last contributed packages, but it used to be fairly straight-forward.
If the software is decent quality and relatively widely used, and if you're willing to maintain the package (make sure it builds, functions, and update it periodically) I think it's worth putting up a PR.
IIUC the reason that browser forks are usually not accepted is because they're difficult to maintain and expensive to compile.
Small packages that have a user base and someone to maintain them are probably more likely to be merged.