Am Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:51:16 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>:
You keep saying "official policies"... Where is this official policy document that says do not use the split PKGBUILD hack to upload packages to the AUR?
Yes, the AUR does not support split packages. But there is nothing actually wrong about using "true && pkgname=()" to provide one. It is still a perfectly valid PKGBUILD. Not being supported by AUR helpers is never a benchmark of a valid PKGBUILD...
But as you see in the mentioned example it doesn't work at least in some cases. And it's just a workaround anyway. Having no syntax errors in the PKGBUILD and being able to upload it only with a workaround doesn't mean that it's valid. So a missing official support for split packages in AUR means for me that such a PKGBUILD is not valid, at least not the best packaging quality. Heiko