Hi, I am the maintainer of the AUR package [luametatex](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/luametatex) which provides the luametatex binary + the context macro package. Recently, a new package named [luametatex](https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/luametatex/) was added to extra, which provides the luametatex binary. I realize now that the name of my AUR package is not appropriate and I should have used a more elaborate name (either context-luametatex or context-lmtx). Is it possible to rename the package? Or should I delete the current package and simply create a new one with a more elaborate name? Thanks, Aditya
Hello Aditya, Push the package with a new name to AUR, then fill a merge request on the old one. Best Regards, Marcin Wieczorek On 23/06/27 17:59, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
Hi,
I am the maintainer of the AUR package [luametatex](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/luametatex) which provides the luametatex binary + the context macro package.
Recently, a new package named [luametatex](https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/luametatex/) was added to extra, which provides the luametatex binary.
I realize now that the name of my AUR package is not appropriate and I should have used a more elaborate name (either context-luametatex or context-lmtx).
Is it possible to rename the package? Or should I delete the current package and simply create a new one with a more elaborate name?
Thanks, Aditya
On Wed, 28 Jun 2023, Marcin Wieczorek wrote:
On 23/06/27 17:59, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
Is it possible to rename the package? Or should I delete the current package and simply create a new one with a more elaborate name?
Push the package with a new name to AUR, then fill a merge request on the old one.
Thanks. I'll do so. Aditya
Hi Aditya, On 27/06/2023 22:59, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
Hi,
I am the maintainer of the AUR package [luametatex](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/luametatex) which provides the luametatex binary + the context macro package.
Recently, a new package named [luametatex](https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/luametatex/) was added to extra, which provides the luametatex binary.
I realize now that the name of my AUR package is not appropriate and I should have used a more elaborate name (either context-luametatex or context-lmtx).
Is it possible to rename the package? Or should I delete the current package and simply create a new one with a more elaborate name?
Let me first address the direct question here. Renaming of AUR packages is not possible. The way you can do a rename is you can push a new package with correct name and PKGBUILD and then open a Request to merge the current luametatex package to the new one. This will transfer any comments of the old one to the new. Considering the current package has one comment only personally I wouldn't bother but it's your package. Now to the fact that the package is now provided from extra official repos. This mean the AUR package is redundant and should be deleted but you do mention that the AUR package contain some macro package. I won't claim I know what that means in this context but it seems like the modules you have specified on the PKGBUILD they should be separate packages. -- Leonidas Spyropoulos Developer & DevOps PGP: 59E43E106B247368
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Aditya Mahajan
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