Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
TUs will not be able to start uploading rebuilds yet as they do not have a staging equivalent, but we will sort something out for them once we get all the db-scripts/devtools changes tested for the main one first. The package pool is going to save us a heap of issues when this gets moved so it is worth the wait.
The current python package already contains a /usr/bin/python2 link. This means that packages which only need a patch to point to python2 instead of python can be rebuilt directly without the need for a [staging] package. For example, glib2 (where python is only used for a script), or youtube-dl (which *is* a script). Similarly, a number of packages which are already in [staging] could probably be moved to [extra] or [testing] without problems: AFAIK, problems would only occur when linking libpython2.7.so or putting files in /usr/lib/python2.7. Should we warn TUs and people on AUR about this fact? It could make the transition smoother. I have generated the attached quick-and-dirty list of safe packages from the wiki. There could be false positives, of course. -- Rémy