On 07/20/2018 04:23 AM, WorMzy Tykashi via arch-general wrote:

On 20 July 2018 at 08:38, Jelle van der Waa wrote:

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On 07/20/18 at 09:05am, Jelle van der Waa wrote:

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On 07/19/18 at 07:23pm, Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public wrote:

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On Wed 18.07.18 - 15:28, Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public wrote:

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I would like to add this to [community], but I'm unsure what people think about this; specifically, whether this might come too close to "supporting the AUR via [community] packages". Note that this is *not* an AUR helper and is strictly a tool for package *maintainers* to use during the process of uploading.

Uploaders are fine by me and I think we had one in previously.

From what I can recall, we had one in, some discussion and it was gone again. I'll try to find the post in the archives.

Gotcha, it was cower. [1]

[1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2010- December/012763.html

-- Jelle van der Waa

(apologies for crosslist posting)

For uploaders, there was 'burp' in [extra] which which was added without any serious opposition, and remained in the repos until shortly after AUR4 was launched (which made it redundant). See https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2012-April/022787.html and https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46210

Cheers,

WorMzy

So yeah, it seems like at least in the past there's been a distinction made between uploaders (burp, aurpublish) and downloaders (cower). Anyway if no one has a serious objection by the end of the week I guess I will add it. :) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User