[arch-dev-public] agetpkg in [extra]
Sébastien, is there any reason why agetpkg landed directly in [extra]? Your mirror isn't hosted as an official Arch project so far, despite our previous discussions on IRC. I don't mind its presence in [community], but [extra] is definitely too much for now. Bartłomiej
On Sat, 2015-10-17 at 13:08 +0200, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
Sébastien,
is there any reason why agetpkg landed directly in [extra]? Your mirror isn't hosted as an official Arch project so far, despite our previous discussions on IRC. I don't mind its presence in [community], but [extra] is definitely too much for now.
Bartłomiej
Hi, [extra] is where devs push their packages and maintain them. Likewise with [community] and TUs. Nothing more. I don't really care where agetpkg should land; both [extra] and [community] are official repositories and they offer the same easy way to users to get older packages. Could you tell me where is the link between official arch project (btw it's not a mirror) and [extra] repository. Almost all packages is in this repository are not from an official Arch project. Could you be more specific on the "too much for now"? My plan is to make the Archive[1] an official Arch project. I'm focusing on making the technical parts ready for applying, and agetpkg is part of this. Moving it to [community] and to moving it back to [extra] looks like a waste of time, but I can do it. Cheers, [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_Archive -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://seblu.net | Twitter: @seblu42 GPG: 0x2072D77A
On 17 October 2015 at 20:24, Sébastien Luttringer <seblu@archlinux.org> wrote:
[extra] is where devs push their packages and maintain them. Likewise with [community] and TUs. Nothing more.
I don't really care where agetpkg should land; both [extra] and [community] are official repositories and they offer the same easy way to users to get older packages.
Generally what we've practised is this: if you're interested in bringing something into [extra] you propose it. Nobody normally objects. Otherwise every dev who is a TU could theoretically put anything in [extra].
From https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_repositories
"extra contains all packages that do not fit in core. Example: Xorg, window managers, web browsers, media players, tools for working with languages such as Python and Ruby, and a lot more." Then: "community contains packages that have been adopted by Trusted Users from the Arch User Repository. Some of these packages may eventually make the transition to the core or extra repositories as the developers consider them crucial to the distribution." Read: "as the developers consider them crucial to the distribution" So, yeah, it's of course up to you to decide whether it is crucial, and ask the rest of us for objections if you're not sure. Anyway, feel free to ignore me. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
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Bartłomiej Piotrowski
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Rashif Ray Rahman
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Sébastien Luttringer