Hi Rémy, On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 at 22:31:59, Rémy Marquis wrote:
Thanks Lukas for the follow up, and also for the work achieved on AUR 3.0.0!
Thanks!
In order to submit new packages, you will be able to generate empty Git repositories via the AUR web interface. During the transition period, all existing source tarballs will be converted to bare repositories with one initial commit whose tree equals the tarball contents.
Does this mean that all existing source tarballs will obtain full .AURINFO metadata? This is especially important for external tools like helpers. As of AUR 3.0.0, it is difficult to use the dependencies info from the RPC interface to solve the dependency tree, since only the newly uploaded packages have the metadata generated.
Good question. It is unlikely that we will add .AURINFO metadata to each package, since it would require rebuilding all source tarballs in the AUR. I agree that the transition period is a bit messy but I don't think we can do a lot better. Looking at the AUR statistics, however, it should not take too long until the most (working and maintained) packages are supplemented with metadata.
Regards, R.
Regards, Lukas