[aur-dev] AUR 2.1.0 released

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 08:41:37PM +0000, kachelaqa wrote:
> On 18/03/13 19:18, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> >Changes since 2.0.1:
> >* pkgsubmit.php: Parse .AURINFO metadata.
> >
> >.AURINFO files can now be included in source packages to overwrite
> >specific PKGBUILD fields. .AURINFO files are parsed line by line. The
> >syntax for each line is "key = value", where key is any of the following
> >field names:
> >
> >* pkgname
> >* pkgver
> >* pkgdesc
> >* url
> >* license
> >* depend
> >
> >Multiple "depend" lines can be specified to add multiple dependencies.
> 
> I've read a couple of threads [1][2] relating to this topic, and I
> am puzzled by the idea of using .AURINFO files to "overwrite"
> PKGBUILD fields. What is the use case for this? It seems completely
> different to the idea behind .SRCINFO files. Have there been some
> other discussions on this topic that I've missed?

Why is it completely different? .AURINFO files are .SRCINFO files
without support for split packages (which we currently do not support in
the AUR anyway).

The use cases are pretty obvious: The AUR does not include a full bash
parser and will never include one -- metadata should be provided by the
client instead.

> 
> [1] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2012-August/015900.html
> [2] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-dev/2013-March/002392.html