[aur-general] changing a PKG's name and retaining votes/comments
I maintain the kernel26-ck in the AUR. Once the devs decide on a new name for the kernel package based on the upcoming "3.0" release, either "linux" or "kernel" or "kernel30" or whatever, is it possible to change the name of my "kernel26-ck" PKG and retain all of the comments/votes it has under the current name?
Thanks!
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:53 PM, member graysky graysky@archlinux.us wrote:
I maintain the kernel26-ck in the AUR. Once the devs decide on a new name for the kernel package based on the upcoming "3.0" release, either "linux" or "kernel" or "kernel30" or whatever, is it possible to change the name of my "kernel26-ck" PKG and retain all of the comments/votes it has under the current name?
Thanks!
It's not possible. You'll need to submit the new package to AUR, then send a note on this ML to have the old one removed.
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Eric Bélanger snowmaniscool@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:53 PM, member graysky graysky@archlinux.us wrote:
I maintain the kernel26-ck in the AUR. Once the devs decide on a new name for the kernel package based on the upcoming "3.0" release, either "linux" or "kernel" or "kernel30" or whatever, is it possible to change the name of my "kernel26-ck" PKG and retain all of the comments/votes it has under the current name?
Thanks!
It's not possible. You'll need to submit the new package to AUR, then send a note on this ML to have the old one removed.
If this is not technically possible (which is kinda hard to believe), it should be implemented. I don't care about the votes, but comments are usually extremely relevant to the package (and very much useful) and they shouldn't be lost just because changing a single string in a db is "not possible". We already lost countless useful comments on AUR before, let's not do it again.
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 17:07, D. Can Celasun dcelasun@gmail.com wrote:
If this is not technically possible (which is kinda hard to believe), it should be implemented.
You should send in a patch that would allow TUs to do it.
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Daenyth Blank daenyth+arch@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 17:07, D. Can Celasun dcelasun@gmail.com wrote:
If this is not technically possible (which is kinda hard to believe), it should be implemented.
You should send in a patch that would allow TUs to do it.
As requested, patch attached. This should allow TUs to change the package name.
Hi,
I maintain the kernel26-ck in the AUR.
It's not possible. You'll need to submit the new package to AUR, then send a note on this ML to have the old one removed.
I had the same question for kernel26-source[1]. Thanks for the advice.
Cheers, Emmanuel
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D. Can Celasun
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Daenyth Blank
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Emmanuel Gras
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Eric Bélanger
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member graysky