[aur-general] Unannounced and unreasonable deletion of python2-vdirsyncer
Hello everybody, Today i was notified by the AUR system that somebody called "arcanis" silently merged the package "python2-vdirsyncer" into "vdirsyncer", leaving other packages with missing dependencies. Vdirsyncer runs under both Python 2 and 3. It can be used as a library, but is more commonly used as a CLI tool. The Python 2 version was required by khal-git, as Khal doesn't work under Python 3. The Python 3 version still resides under the package name "vdirsyncer" and is there for the sake of completeness, and because Python 3 is technically the most up-to-date version of Python. It can be used independently of khal. khal-git: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/khal-git/ vdirsyncer: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vdirsyncer/ I also couldn't find a mailinglist about this, therefore i assume this is a mistake. Please restore the package "python2-vdirsyncer". Thanks, Markus
Hi, On Monday 29 September 2014 13:57:07 Markus Unterwaditzer wrote:
Today i was notified by the AUR system that somebody called "arcanis" silently merged the package "python2-vdirsyncer" into "vdirsyncer", leaving other packages with missing dependencies.
Vdirsyncer runs under both Python 2 and 3. It can be used as a library, but is more commonly used as a CLI tool. The Python 2 version was required by khal-git, as Khal doesn't work under Python 3. The Python 3 version still resides under the package name "vdirsyncer" and is there for the sake of completeness, and because Python 3 is technically the most up-to-date version of Python. It can be used independently of khal.
khal-git: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/khal-git/ vdirsyncer: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vdirsyncer/
I also couldn't find a mailinglist about this, therefore i assume this is a mistake. Please restore the package "python2-vdirsyncer".
Seems somebody called 'arcanis' is I =) If you was a maintainer you would have to be notified. There was a request [1] and there was no any discussion there. But really, it is my mistake because vdirsyncer provides only python3 library and there are packages which require python2 library. I've uploaded the python2-vdirsyncer back and have disowned it. 1. https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2014-September/001819.htm... -- С уважением, Е.Алексеев. Sincerely yours, E.Alekseev. e-mail: darkarcanis@mail.ru ICQ: 407-398-235 Jabber: arcanis@jabber.ru
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 at 13:57:07, Markus Unterwaditzer wrote:
Hello everybody,
Today i was notified by the AUR system that somebody called "arcanis" silently merged the package "python2-vdirsyncer" into "vdirsyncer", leaving other packages with missing dependencies.
Vdirsyncer runs under both Python 2 and 3. It can be used as a library, but is more commonly used as a CLI tool. The Python 2 version was required by khal-git, as Khal doesn't work under Python 3. The Python 3 version still resides under the package name "vdirsyncer" and is there for the sake of completeness, and because Python 3 is technically the most up-to-date version of Python. It can be used independently of khal.
khal-git: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/khal-git/ vdirsyncer: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vdirsyncer/
I also couldn't find a mailinglist about this, therefore i assume this is a mistake. Please restore the package "python2-vdirsyncer".
The mailing list is aur-requests, see [1]. Packages cannot be restored after merging. Packages can be resubmitted at any time, though. You may want to consider renaming it to python-vdirsyncer before doing so.
Thanks, Markus
[1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2014-September/001819.htm...
Hi Evgeniy, On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 04:20:37PM +0400, Evgeniy Alekseev wrote:
If you was a maintainer you would have to be notified. There was a request [1] and there was no any discussion there. But really, it is my mistake because vdirsyncer provides only python3 library and there are packages which require python2 library. I've uploaded the python2-vdirsyncer back and have disowned it.
1. https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2014-September/001819.htm...
I didn't see that (only looked on aur-general), sorry for the tone then. I am not the maintainer, and seing this request from the maintainer of both packages surprises me quite a bit. So i think the current status (keeping both packages) is fine, the maintainer probably made a mistake. Thanks, Markus
Hello Lukas,
The mailing list is aur-requests, see [1].
Yes, sorry. It has been quite a while since i got involved with the AUR, i think aur-requests wasn't around back then.
Packages cannot be restored after merging. Packages can be resubmitted at any time, though. You may want to consider renaming it to python-vdirsyncer before doing so.
I think you misread this: - python2-vdirsyncer contains the Python 2 variant - vdirsyncer contains the Python 3 variant - python2-vdirsyncer was accidentally deleted
Thanks, Markus
[1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2014-September/001819.htm...
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Evgeniy Alekseev
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Lukas Fleischer
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Markus Unterwaditzer