[arch-dev-public] Spring cleanup '21

alad alad at archlinux.org
Tue May 11 09:00:15 UTC 2021


On 03/05/2021 21:24, Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public wrote:
>> You upload them as TU, but as normal user. archlinux-contrib has a 
>> convenient repos2aur script for it.
>
> Err, as TU you can upload any package to the AUR. But normal users 
> can't, so when dropping the packages please move them to the AUR.
>
On IRC a user mentioned that he wanted to take over maintainership of an 
AUR package which was previously in community, but could not push 
changes (presumably due to the same issue).

So even if you pushed old packages to AUR as TU, users are apparently 
unable to update them.

Alad

> Greetings,
>
> Jelle van der Waa
>


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