[arch-general] NetBeans 9.0 not a drop-in replacement of 8.2

[Leonidas Spyropoulos]

On 12/11/18, Danila Kiver via arch-general wrote:
> Agree, NB 9.0 is a complete headache and probably should not be considered
> an *upgrade* from 8.2. Even upcoming NB 10.0 does not seem to solve
> all the migration issues.
> 
> Maybe Apache Netbeans (9.0 and higher) has to be distributed as a different
> package ("apache-netbeans"), conflicting with old "netbeans" package?
> 
> This way would allow manual upgrade (by installing "apache-netbeans")
> from old good NB 8.0 to Apache NB when it will be good enough to replace it.
> 
> Regards,
> Danila Kiver.
> 
Hi Danila,

A package mainatainer should not make such decisions for the users. If
you don't like it you have the option to not update and stick to the
8.2. If you think that this could benefit others then submit a package
in AUR as suggested already. You can use the history of the package to
fetch the 8.2 version of PKBUILD [1] and push it to AUR with netbeans8
name (probably conflicts / provides netbeans).

Cheers,
Leonidas

[1]: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/netbeans&id=bfdf023d7e3506227ffed92abaaa7a5e9e5d107d

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