27 Oct
2009
27 Oct
'09
5:46 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote:
Under the current conventions, it is necessary to change the package name whenever the underlying version control system (VCS) is changed. Perhaps there should be a policy that encourages a more general suffix for such packages: "vimperator-vcs".
I guess my `replaces=(vimperator-git)' took care of it. :-)
I was wondering whether that would happen; I guess I should have checked.
BTW replaces only has an effect when put in a sync db for pacman. So it is completely useless on AUR, at least from pacman point of view, but I am not aware of any other usage of this field. You can only use provides/conflicts