It's one of the request types you may file from the AUR web site. Orphan, Merge, or Delete. Merge also asks for the name of the candidate to merge into.
> On Mar 25, 2021, at 8:32 PM, Giuseppe Nebbione <nebbionegiuseppe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> I am sorry Sir, but I am not confident with the AUR, and am not able in these days to look up how to do this "merge".
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> Greetings,
> Giuseppe
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> On 26/03/21 04:30, Christopher Snowhill wrote:
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>> As I said, it should be a merge request, so that requests to the old package get redirected.
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>> On Thursday, Mar 25, 2021 at 7:54 PM, Giuseppe Nebbione <nebbionegiuseppe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> The package has been pushed under the name "kb" now, tested and works nicely. So we can delete python-kb.
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>> On 26/03/21 03:52, Christopher Snowhill wrote:
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>>> On Thursday, Mar 25, 2021 at 7:47 PM, notify--- via aur-requests <aur-requests(a)lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
>>> gnebbia [1] filed a deletion request for python-kb [2]:
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>>> I request the deletion of this package for two reasons:
>>> 1) the package is out-of-date
>>> 2) More importantly this has changed name to "kb"
>>> since it is not a python module, but more a program
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>>> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/gnebbia/
>>> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-kb/
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>>> Should still be a merge request, once the package has been edited and pushed to the correct name.
As I said, it should be a merge request, so that requests to the old package get redirected.
> On Thursday, Mar 25, 2021 at 7:54 PM, Giuseppe Nebbione <nebbionegiuseppe(a)gmail.com (mailto:nebbionegiuseppe@gmail.com)> wrote:
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> The package has been pushed under the name "kb" now, tested and works nicely. So we can delete python-kb.
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> On 26/03/21 03:52, Christopher Snowhill wrote:
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> > > On Thursday, Mar 25, 2021 at 7:47 PM, notify--- via aur-requests <aur-requests(a)lists.archlinux.org (mailto:aur-requests@lists.archlinux.org)> wrote:
> > > gnebbia [1] filed a deletion request for python-kb [2]:
> > >
> > > I request the deletion of this package for two reasons:
> > > 1) the package is out-of-date
> > > 2) More importantly this has changed name to "kb"
> > > since it is not a python module, but more a program
> > >
> > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/gnebbia/
> > > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-kb/
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> >
> > Should still be a merge request, once the package has been edited and pushed to the correct name.