Hi Marcell,

Thanks for the quick reply and for looking into this. You are right, the best practice is to align with the extra repo package to avoid causing confusion.

I've now merged the history of modsecurity-git (with its history of the modsecurity PKGBUILD) into the libmodsecurity-git repo, and added the conflicts and provides options.

Feel free to merge all three however you see fit.

Regards,

Mark.

Hi,

I think it's fine to do this kind of merge.

However, I have a recommendation to consider beforehand.

Though modsecurity is both a library and has an executable, Arch repo maintainers chose the name 'libmodsecurity' for the [extra] repo package.
The latter still carries the 'modsec-rules-check' executable.

So for a git VCS package on AUR, I think it is the best practice and the most helpful (and least confusing) for users to name that package in alignment with the repo package, i.e:
'libmodsecurity-git'
(With provides='libmodsecurity' and conflicts='libmodsecurity').

Cheers,
Marcell (MarsSeed)

On 5 December 2023 14:41:14 GMT+01:00, notify@aur.archlinux.org wrote:

marcool04 [1] filed a request to merge modsecurity [2] into
modsecurity-git [3]:

The `modsecurity` v3.x.x branch is packaged as `libmodsecurity` in
extra [1]. This does differ from `modsecurity` v2.x.x, which I provide
a PKGBUILD for as `modsecurity2` in the AUR [2]. There is now no need
for this `modsecurity` PKGBUILD, however a `modsecurity-git` PKGBUILD
could be useful for those who wish to stay up to date with the latest
commits on the v3 branch. I have created that `modsecurity-git`
PKGBUILD and feel it would make sense to merge this package into the
`-git` one, but if you feel it is better to delete `modsecurity` from
AUR, then that is fine by me also. I have already pushed `modsecurity`
git history to `modsecurity-git`.

Regards,
Mark.

[1] https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libmodsecurity/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/modsecurity2

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/marcool04/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/modsecurity/
[3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/modsecurity-git/