On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 11:41:29PM +0000, Mikael Blomstrand via aur-general wrote:
Hi! I just started playing around with making my own PKGBUILDs and just made one for the "*remarkable*" markdown editor. The problem with *remarkable* is that it uses webkitgtk. I was able to find a PR to the official project fixing this and I used this patch in my PKGBUILD. I uploaded the packet as *remarkable-webkit2gtk*. I'm now rethinking if this was the correct approach or if I should have just adopted the existing packet. (Which is orphaned.)
My thought was that since the patch have not been incorporated into the official project, I shouldn't taint the pure *remarkable* package. Am I being overconsiderate?
In general is this something people care about?
Normally I'd tell someone to absolutely make it a separate package, but considering that webkitgtk is no longer in the repos for good reason and I wouldn't recommend anyone use software that requires it, I don't think it would have been a horrible crime to adopt remarkable with the added patch. In practice, however, It would have become a problem if it never gets upstreamed and the patch somehow ended up broken and unmaintainable, so there's that.