Can a new release of aurweb be published?

[Hunter Wittenborn]

This email is in reference to an issue on the Arch Linux bugtracker: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/71427



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I'm currently working on a platform known as the MPR [1], which is quite literally the AUR, just designed for Debian-based distributions. The whole idea of the project builds upon makedeb [2], which actually uses makepkg, and does some conversion stuff on top to make the package work properly with APT.



Getting back to the MPR then - I was wondering if it would be possible to get a new release published. The current 5.0.0 release has some bugs that aren't present in the live version, and it's requiring me (as stated in the issue on the bugtracker itself) to try to triage these bugs manually (which isn't too much of a problem, but for the reason mentioned next, it would be easiest if I could just get a new release with all the fixes incorporated).



The MPR is currently running off of mprweb [3], which (at this point) is pretty much just aurweb with a reskin.



I'm wanting to start make some more heavy modifications to the platform though, such as adding some things to the RPC JSON interface (mostly for things mentioned in makedeb's docs [4]), and possibly doing some things with the GUI. At current, the goal is to get a release of aurweb, and then just fork it and go from there. I wouldn't be using any new releases of aurweb at that point, and would just keep adding in features as I go along.



If I were to make any changes that would be deemable to be contributed back to aurweb, I'd be more than glad to do so as well. I'm just wanting to, before I start any (objectionably) bigger modifications, be able to use something that's at least somewhat close to aurweb's current state.



I'm not asking for anything immediately, I'm just, again, wanting something where I can have a starting point where these known bugs are just polished out.



[1]: https://mpr.hunterwittenborn.com/

[2]: https://github.com/makedeb/makedeb

[3]: https://github.com/makedeb/mprweb

[4]: https://docs.hunterwittenborn.com/makedeb/makedeb/additional-pkgbuild-specs



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Hunter Wittenborn

https://www.hunterwittenborn.com

https://github.com/hwittenborn