On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:44 PM, David Kaylor <dpkaylor@gmail.com> wrote:
I have so few packages to maintain, the burden to me is very low. And I'm just taking it as oppurtunity to finally learn to use Git. But a tool for submitting a tarball and having AUR4 do the conversion is a good one. Might help prrevent a massive pile of orphans after July 8th. Maintainers are going to have to jump through the hoops, though, one way or the other.
Well, sure, git is fun. :) But tarball uploads means maintainers wouldn't have to go through any more hoops than they do already. Primarily, I am wondering what people who refuse to learn git *just* to contribute to the AUR might think. Any local abstraction tool would have to be fairly robust to deal with e.g. authentication, first-time updating a package that already exists, and in combination with transferring to another computer. vs. providing a compatibility layer over the old tarball interface, since aurweb already has everything else. -- Eli Schwartz