[arch-dev-public] [arch-general] proposal to add "aurpublish" to community

[Eli Schwartz]

On 07/22/2018 12:55 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On 07/20/2018 04:23 AM, WorMzy Tykashi via arch-general wrote:
>> On 20 July 2018 at 08:38, Jelle van der Waa <jelle at vdwaa.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/20/18 at 09:05am, Jelle van der Waa wrote:
>>>> On 07/19/18 at 07:23pm, Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public wrote:
>>>>> On Wed 18.07.18 - 15:28, Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public wrote:
>>>>>> I would like to add this to [community], but I'm unsure what people
>>>>>> think about this; specifically, whether this might come too close to
>>>>>> "supporting the AUR via [community] packages". Note that this is
>>> *not*
>>>>>> an AUR helper and is strictly a tool for package *maintainers* to use
>>>>>> during the process of uploading.
>>>>>
>>>>> Uploaders are fine by me and I think we had one in previously.
>>>>
>>>> From what I can recall, we had one in, some discussion and it was gone
>>>> again. I'll try to find the post in the archives.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Gotcha, it was cower. [1]
>>>
>>> [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2010-
>>> December/012763.html
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jelle van der Waa
>>>
>>
>> (apologies for crosslist posting)
>>
>> For uploaders, there was 'burp' in [extra] which which was added without
>> any serious opposition, and remained in the repos until shortly after AUR4
>> was launched (which made it redundant). See
>> https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2012-April/022787.html
>> and https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46210
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> WorMzy
> 
> So yeah, it seems like at least in the past there's been a distinction
> made between uploaders (burp, aurpublish) and downloaders (cower).
> 
> Anyway if no one has a serious objection by the end of the week I guess
> I will add it. :)

I've just added it to [community]. :)

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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