[arch-dev-public] archlinux-tools group

Jelle van der Waa jelle at vdwaa.nl
Sun Apr 25 20:56:38 UTC 2021


On 24/04/2021 22:55, Santiago Torres-Arias wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 10:43:38PM +0200, Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've introduced a new group "archlinux-tools" for arch-rebuild-order and
>> orhun will add it to arch-repro-status. I'm planning to add arch-signoff,
>> and ask Fox to add archlinux-contrib as well.
>>
>> The idea is that Arch Linux related tools which benefit packaging get added
>> to the archlinux-tools group.
> 
> I'm confused though, wasn't the goal of -contrib to be exactly
> this?

Well, the archlinux-contrib package contains a bunch of utilities which 
aren't "big" enough to be a standalone project (or not yet).

So that's why they aren't packaged in -contrib.

Greetings,

Jelle van der Waa

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