On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 01:13:19PM +0100, Marcell Meszaros wrote:
On 23 March 2024 12:46:55 GMT+01:00, notify@aur.archlinux.org wrote:
Request #58056 has been Rejected by Foxboron [1]:
submit a deletion request.
Hi @Foxboron,
Please kindly help me, I am at a loss here.
I would like to understand your view on what the actual, practical difference would have been in this particular case between a merge and a delete.
Only use merge if keeping metadata is important. Both these packages have no metadata, there is nothing important to keep. You submit a deletion request.
Maintainer originally create this fork package, but it is a Git VCS build, so I advised them to change the pkgname and resubmit with a '-git' suffix. Which they were kind enough to do.
So in real-world human logic, this is a rename. AUR guidelines say that a merge type request is used for such cases.
Merge requests is not for *renames*, they are to retain metadata. If the metadata doesn't exist then the merge request is not important.
So far you are the only AUR PM / Arch Developer among everyone I've encountered during the last 3 years on AUR who did not accept this kind of merge request.
Then people have been accepting invalid merge requests for 3 years, I can't help you with that. I'm not going to write you emails for every misunderstanding when you have been spamming us with hundred of requests for *years* at this point. -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16