[aur-dev] What should AURv4 helpers do to get packages?

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 at 07:12:03, Rémy Marquis wrote:
> On 10 Jun 2015 20:05, "Lukas Fleischer" <lfleischer at archlinux.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 at 07:52:09, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> > > On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 at 04:30:15, Rémy Marquis wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > > Some AUR helpers (cower, aurget, ..) currently rely in this URLPath
> field
> > > > for retrieving the correct tarball.
> > > >
> > > > It would be very useful to allow backward compatibility with the RPC
> > > > interface v3, at least for the time being.
> > > >
> > >
> > > How? The new snapshot tarballs are not source tarballs (they contain a
> > > different directory structure), so there is no point in pretending that
> > > the tarball feature still works.
> > >
> >
> > Looks like I was mistaken about the directory structure. cgit does
> > indeed create subdirectories with the branch name. I will add the field
> > back for compatibility, however using it is not recommended.
> 
> Thank you!
> 

Done, the URLPath field should be back now.