On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Firmicus <Firmicus@gmx.net> wrote:
These requests of yours pop up quite frequently on this mailing list. I try not to.
I assume you are using a tool that generates those PKGBUILD for CPAN distributions (perhaps pacpan?) and then submits them to the AUR.
if you read the pkgbuild you would know.
Often it seems the tool you are using is not very good at finding out whether a perl package is already in the repos or not.
The tool doesn't check. I have to do that by hand. I'm not aware of any tool that does. I suppose I could work on adding that functionality as it would be really useful. I'm getting tired of checking.
Perhaps you could improve that, to avoid annoying the TUs every couple of days ;)
Instead of asking me not to make a mistake how about we allow authors to delete there own packages from AUR? Or maybe Make AUR smarter and reject packages that are in one of the other repos. problem is I've got more packages and am adding more every day. for every 1 I've asked you to delete I've added (or adopted) about 20 (to the tune that I maintain over 300 now and growing). I'm trying to make sure I check every package before uploading. but sometimes I screw up. I've got a system that I'm working on that's helping to keep me from doing this. I now have a partial list (well really the templates I generate from) of what I'm actually maintaining here http://github.com/xenoterracide/AURpan . I still have to check cpanp -o daily to see what's out of date, that's not on that list. Then I try to check to see if it's on aur or in an arch repo and respond appropriately. Again, sometimes I screw up. I suppose the final option is to make me a TU so that I can handle my own deletions. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com