Le 07/02/2017 à 14:06, Awal Garg via aur-requests a écrit :
You apparently didn’t even asked the maintainer of firefox-developer about that move.
Apologies, I didn't realize I should be doing that first.
Contacting the maintainer before filing a request is a good practice, whether you ask his package to be orphaned, deleted or merged into another. ;) Maybe we should patch https://git.archlinux.org/aurweb.git/tree/web/template/pkgreq_form.php?h=v4.... to add that for merge and deletion (it’s already there for orphan).
Also, firefox-developer is the correct name, if anything it’s firefox-dev that should be merged in firefox-developer.
That is indeed what I mentioned in the original request, but I figured it made more sense to have the outdated package get merged in the updated one and rename the new one instead.
Since renaming = pushing a package with the new name + filing a request to merge the old one in the new one, this doesn’t make any sense.
That being said, both packages need some fixing, and auto-updating a VCS-like package is not a good practice
Agreed.
I'll take a better look at your nightly PKGBUILD and see if I can co-maintain firefox-developer. Thanks.
That’s OK. I’ll monitor the situation with firefox-aurora/firefox-dev/firefox-developer from now on, and will wait for things to be settled before accepting the current remaining requests. Regards, Bruno