[aur-dev] Git repositories for AUR packages

Colin Woodbury colingw at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 14:53:33 EDT 2014


> Also, note that dropping all the tarball handling code allows us for
cleaning up the AUR a lot.

+1


On 24 June 2014 02:44, Lukas Fleischer <archlinux at cryptocrack.de> wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 at 09:20:08, 郑文辉 (Techlive Zheng) wrote:
> > [...]
> > So, this means, all the maintainers have to use git to submit
> > packages? Any thought on keeping the old package submission form and
> > proceed the commit process on the server? which will allow normal
> > people to contribute packages.
> > [...]
>
> I don't think the old package submission form will be supported any
> longer. All that package maintainers need to know is how to use
> git-add(1), git-commit(1) and git-push(1). Since package maintainers
> should have some very basic knowledge on VCS anyway, I don't think we
> expect too much here.
>
> Also, note that dropping all the tarball handling code allows us for
> cleaning up the AUR a lot.
>


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