Re: [aur-general] Merge request: python2-pyside -> python-pyside
Replaces should never be in aur packages. It is only used by Pacman when searching the repository. There is nothing that searches replaces in the aur. Sent via the Samsung GALAXY S®4, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo@osvaldobarrera.com.ar> Date: 09/15/2013 6:16 PM (GMT-06:00) To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" <aur-general@archlinux.org> Subject: Re: [aur-general] Merge request: python2-pyside -> python-pyside On 2013-09-13 09:57, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
On 09/07/2013 10:24 AM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote:
In recent shenanigans[0], python-pyside became a split package, building Python 3 and 2 versions simultaneously. python2-pyside still exists in the AUR. Please merge python2-pyside[1] into python-pyside[2].
[0]: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2013-September/025115.ht... [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-pyside/ [2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-pyside/
Done, thank you.
-- Bartłomiej Piotrowski http://bpiotrowski.pl/
As maintainer of python2-pyside shouldn't I have gotten a notification about this? At least an automated one from the AUR? Also, since the PKGBUILD states "replaces=(python2-pyside...", shouldn't searching the AUR for python2-pyside yield python-pyside as one of the results? Finally, why does this merge make sense? It merges two *different* libraries into one; I maintained python2-pyside, but have no interest in installing the python3 version, so why is the original package deleted? -- Hugo Osvaldo Barrera A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad?
danielwallace wrote:
Replaces should never be in aur packages. It is only used by Pacman when searching the repository. There is nothing that searches replaces in the aur.
The guidelines for packaging do not change simply because a package is on the AUR. If a package replaces another then it should include an entry in the "replaces" array. Whether or not AUR helpers detect it is irrelevant. What matters is that the resulting package contains the correct metadata and that any repo that eventually includes it (official, user-contributed or even private) behaves as it should. Regards, Xyne
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