[arch-dev-public] Spring cleanup '21

alad alad at archlinux.org
Tue May 11 09:01:12 UTC 2021


On 11/05/2021 11:00, alad via arch-dev-public wrote:
>
> 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.

PS. The package is proselint, which was dropped on 2021-05-08.


>
> Alad
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Jelle van der Waa
>>


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