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The official package of aerc for alpine linux is maintained by Drew DeVault [1] and pulls in its APKBUILD from rjarrys fork [2].

I agree that an announcement on the mailing list or official site would be better but it does look like it's almost official.

[1] https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=aerc&branch=edge [2] https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/community/aerc/APKBUILD

Here's a quote from the official mailing list of aerc.

The basic idea is to give you a space in which you can develop the fork and earn the community's trust without having to necessarily provide a stranger with the legitimacy of being the official fork until they've earned that trust.

This was posted 48 days ago. As of today there is no indication on the aerc website or the ~sircmpwn/aerc sourcehut page of the rjarry fork being in any capacity official. https://aerc-mail.org/ still points to the official repo.

I will of course move the PKGBUILD to a fork if it is blessed as official on the website or the repository of the official repo. The current aerc repo still has code that works, and for an ancient protocol like email that doesn't require too much change, the last commit on the official repo is not too old.

I am sure in the future the situation will become more clear and there will be an obvious repo that should be moved to. But at this point in time I don't feel comfortable giving my email credentials to a repo who is very fresh. Give it time, this is not a web browser that needs the latest patches without any regard to where they come from. Who knows, there might be a more active fork later.

There is ongoing discussion in the "official" mailing list[0][1][2] about the fork - Drew DeVault seems to have no further interest in maintaining aerc, so don't expect to see new commits in https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc

Robin Jarrys fork is the only actively maintained i'm aware of - do you know any other?

The official Arch package has already switched to the fork: https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/aerc/

So it's kinda ridiculos to use the old/unmaintained repo in this package.

• 0: https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc/%3CCFBVJ3G1Y4YB.ZI6C02D0MS0S%40diabtop%3E
• 1: https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc/%3CCFQP8QBAYQ56.3T35QHOMRCV6X%40taiga%3E
• 2: https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc/%3CCABi1rJs-HE5tKpvKhSvwDyrs-o7QwrQAyEsOYH%2BhGK9jFvJ0gg%40mail.gmail.com%3E

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aerc-rjarry-git/

Done, here's the new package.

Yes, I agree with what you say @gkbrk. Let's have it separately until the new fork becomes more official.

https://aerc-mail.org/ still points to https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc/ and the readme on that repo doesn't mention the main repo changing. The last commit to the aerc repo was three months ago, which is a far cry from the project being "dead".

Feel free to make an "aerc-rjarry-git" package until that one is declared official.

https://paste.sr.ht/~ph14nix/f8e42443f75ac44667dab8f27b292c98a7d87cf4

Please, apply this patch to the package.

I agree with @kkga that this package should reference the active fork which hopefully will end up as the official version pretty soon.

If you are interested you can add me as a co-maintainer.

Aerc development moved over to a new fork, which seems to be quite active: https://sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc/

Please consider adding --all to the git describe call in pkgver(), otherwise only annotated tags are used as source for the packages version and the last three releases of aerc were tagged without annotation.

@bins: no, see my comment here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aerc-git/?O=10&PP=10#comment-711669