On 1 June 2011 17:23, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis@gmail.com> wrote:
On 1 June 2011 17:03, D. Can Celasun <dcelasun@gmail.com> wrote:
Possible, but is it really necessary? How is this different than the original approach (TU changes the name, maintainer updates the PKGBUILD) ?
The main advantage is that the new package gets uploaded before the name change, meaning there won't be a mismatch between pkgname in the PKGBUILD and the name displayed on the web interface. It's just a more consistent way to handle renames.
One more use case covered by the comment/vote transfer is when there are two very similar packages, both with votes and comments, and we decide to remove one but keep the other. We could optionally move the votes and comments from the package being removed to the remaining package.