[arch-proaudio] Audio packages moved from AUR to community
Hi Dave, when you move packages from AUR to community and use my PKGBUILD files as a basis, I would appreciate it, if you acknowledged my work by putting an appropriate "Maintainer:" line in the PKGBUILD. Also, why did you drop the python2 variant from python-jack-client? Chris
Am 28.07.2018 um 23:13 schrieb SpotlightKid:
[...], I would appreciate it, if you acknowledged my work by putting an appropriate "Maintainer:" line in the PKGBUILD.
Argh, I meant "Contributor:" line, of course.
On Sat, 28 Jul 2018 23:13:59 +0200 SpotlightKid wrote:
when you move packages from AUR to community and use my PKGBUILD files as a basis, I would appreciate it, if you acknowledged my work by putting an appropriate "Maintainer:" line in the PKGBUILD.
this is presuming that the person who added the package in question to the official repos first searched in the AUR for a PKGBUILD and copied it exactly but removing the maintainer name - is it inconceivable that a new PKGBUILD was written for this program without searching the AUR? - the OP did not mention which package that is, so it is quite likely that no one, perhaps not even dave, knows what you are referring to; and no way for anyone else to try determining any similarities there might be between them (if that is indeed an important thing to determine) secondly, i dont see anything in the guidelines that requires an AUR maintainer to be credited in the official repos; even in cases where a package is copied verbatim - im not an archlinux maintainer so i could be wrong about that; but one could easily imagine it being official policy to denote only official devs and TUs as maintainers of official packages, and it would be difficult to argue against the rationale of such a policy if or when the previous AUR packager is credited in an official package, it is probably purely a courtesy - i dont think there is any such policy requiring or preventing that - it seems like the OP is assuming that something was done improperly outside some protocol; but i dont think that any official protocol prescribes anything about it
Am 29.07.2018 um 00:00 schrieb bill-auger:
if or when the previous AUR packager is credited in an official package, it is probably purely a courtesy [...] it seems like the OP is assuming that something was done improperly
On Sat, 28 Jul 2018 23:13:59 +0200 SpotlightKid wrote:
when you move packages from AUR to community and use my PKGBUILD files as a basis, I would appreciate it, if you acknowledged my work ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I may be wrong here, since English ist not my native language, but to me
No, I didn't mean that. this means, that I would consider it a courtesy, I don't see it as obligatory. Concerning which packages I'm referring too, David has moved a couple of packages I was maintaining in AUR to community recently (e.g. very recently python-jack-client, python-zita-jacktools, python-zita-audiotools and zita-(j)client), and when I looked at his PKGBUILDs and mine, in some cases I thought that the former must have been based at least partially on the later. I might be wrong, but without attribution within the files, I can only make a best guess, since there is obviously no repo history to look at when moving packages out of the AUR. I don't say David copied whole files verbatim, if anything, he improved some packages. Chris
On July 29, 2018 12:24:02 AM GMT+02:00, SpotlightKid
if or when the previous AUR packager is credited in an official
Am 29.07.2018 um 00:00 schrieb bill-auger: package, it is probably purely a courtesy [...] it seems like the OP is assuming that something was done improperly
No, I didn't mean that.
when you move packages from AUR to community and use my PKGBUILD files as a basis, I would appreciate it, if you acknowledged my work ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I may be wrong here, since English ist not my native language, but to me
On Sat, 28 Jul 2018 23:13:59 +0200 SpotlightKid wrote: this means, that I would consider it a courtesy, I don't see it as obligatory.
Concerning which packages I'm referring too, David has moved a couple of packages I was maintaining in AUR to community recently (e.g. very recently python-jack-client, python-zita-jacktools, python-zita-audiotools and zita-(j)client), and when I looked at his PKGBUILDs and mine, in some cases I thought that the former must have been based at least partially on the later. I might be wrong, but without attribution within the files, I can only make a best guess, since there is obviously no repo history to look at when moving packages out of the AUR.
I don't say David copied whole files verbatim, if anything, he improved some packages.
Chris
Hi Chris, I did indeed start from scratch (had too many faulty PKGBUILDs before due to copy/paste errors; one lives and learns). However, a lot of the lines would obviously be the same (or very similar) doing a diff. There are not too many different ways of building a package ;-) Regarding AUR -> [community], there's the DevWiki, explaining things [1]. Generally, if I copy an existing PKGBUILD I leave the contributors in there. This was just not the case here. Sorry, if that came across as weird. That was not my intention (just spent the day in rebuild frenzy ;-) ). Will make sure to include contributors where appropriate in the future. None of the AUR repos are really 'gone' after deletion. They're just not accessible through the web interface anymore. You can still clone them! btw: Good and fast job on the packages! zita-convolver 4.0.0 sadly took some time due to LAC and dependency fixes. That being said: My offer for TU sponsorship still stands! :-) Best, David [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Package_Submittal_Rules -- https://sleepmap.de
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