[aur-general] Request package removal: qasmixer
Hello everyone! The package I was maintaining "qasmixer" (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48676) has been superseded by a collection of tools that include the one I was maintaining (qastools https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=54793). Therefore I would like to ask for qasmixer to be removed since the standalone sources for qasmixer have been removed from upstream. Thanks! Spyros
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Spyros Stathopoulos <foucault.online@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everyone! The package I was maintaining "qasmixer" (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48676) has been superseded by a collection of tools that include the one I was maintaining (qastools https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=54793). Therefore I would like to ask for qasmixer to be removed since the standalone sources for qasmixer have been removed from upstream.
Thanks! Spyros
qasmixer has been merged into qastools. Thanks
I maintain qastools and I do not totally agree to this merge. Qasmixer can be built singularly from the qastools source using the -DBUILD_LIST=qasmixer cmake flag (see attachment). Also not always merging comments is a good idea, in this case they make no sense and may be misunderstood referring to qastools. If you agree, I'll re-upload the attached build script to the AUR so a comments reversion can be operated (qastools -> qasmixer). Next time it would be better wait for some other opinions when the packages to be merged do not share the same maintainer. Cheers On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:01:07 +0200 Massimiliano Torromeo <massimiliano.torromeo@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Spyros Stathopoulos <foucault.online@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everyone! The package I was maintaining "qasmixer" (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48676) has been superseded by a collection of tools that include the one I was maintaining (qastools https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=54793). Therefore I would like to ask for qasmixer to be removed since the standalone sources for qasmixer have been removed from upstream.
Thanks! Spyros
qasmixer has been merged into qastools.
Thanks
Although I understand your disagreement regarding the comment merge I can't see why two packages that provide pretty much the same functionality should exist in AUR. It's not like qastools is a huge multi-module package that would be better off if built separately. It's basically three binaries and some pixmaps. In my opinion it makes more sense to replace qasmixer with the complete package, since this is what upstream seems to suggest. That's why I asked for the removal and I'm sorry if this caused some kind of misunderstanding. I'm willing to reupload qasmixer back up, but honestly I can't see the point for such action. Regards Spyros On Mon 26 Mar 2012 10:08:26 PM EEST, speps wrote:
I maintain qastools and I do not totally agree to this merge. Qasmixer can be built singularly from the qastools source using the -DBUILD_LIST=qasmixer cmake flag (see attachment).
Also not always merging comments is a good idea, in this case they make no sense and may be misunderstood referring to qastools.
If you agree, I'll re-upload the attached build script to the AUR so a comments reversion can be operated (qastools -> qasmixer).
Next time it would be better wait for some other opinions when the packages to be merged do not share the same maintainer.
Cheers
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:01:07 +0200 Massimiliano Torromeo <massimiliano.torromeo@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Spyros Stathopoulos <foucault.online@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everyone! The package I was maintaining "qasmixer" (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48676) has been superseded by a collection of tools that include the one I was maintaining (qastools https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=54793). Therefore I would like to ask for qasmixer to be removed since the standalone sources for qasmixer have been removed from upstream.
Thanks! Spyros
qasmixer has been merged into qastools.
Thanks
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:08 PM, speps <speps@gmx.com> wrote:
Also not always merging comments is a good idea, in this case they make no sense and may be misunderstood referring to qastools.
I agree that those comments when merged may not make much sense (and this is true in most cases when merging packages on aur) but it still makes sense to merge votes since users expressed their desire to see qasmixer in [community] and qastools is now the package providing that software. I don't have a strong opinion on this but since qasmixer is a small software already provided by qastools and the previous maintainer did not want to maintain it anymore, it seemed a good idea to clean it up by merging. If you want to reupload qasmixed go ahead. Regards
On 26 March 2012 21:08, speps <speps@gmx.com> wrote:
Also not always merging comments is a good idea, in this case they make no sense and may be misunderstood referring to qastools.
That's certainly true, but it is not possible to merge two packages without merging comments now. Patches are welcome.
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:08:43 +0200 Lukáš Jirkovský <l.jirkovsky@gmail.com> wrote:
On 26 March 2012 21:08, speps <speps@gmx.com> wrote:
Also not always merging comments is a good idea, in this case they make no sense and may be misunderstood referring to qastools.
That's certainly true, but it is not possible to merge two packages without merging comments now. Patches are welcome.
That's probably not true, and a patch is even not needed to achieve this. Possible steps for merging votes from pkg1 to pkg2: . Delete all pkg1 comments . Merge pkg1 in pkg2 Step one needs some scripting while number of comments grows and there's no a mass comment deletion function though. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
On 27 March 2012 18:31, speps <speps@gmx.com> wrote:
That's probably not true,
It is true.
. Delete all pkg1 comments
No one is going to delete comments manually if there are lots of them (actually I do delete comments in some cases when there is only a few of them).
Step one needs some scripting
It would be better to implement this feature in AUR rather than using some custom scripts. Lukas
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Lukáš Jirkovský
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Massimiliano Torromeo
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speps
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Spyros Stathopoulos