[aur-general] my first AUR contribution

stefan-husmann at t-online.de stefan-husmann at t-online.de
Tue Oct 14 14:43:26 EDT 2008


-----Original Message-----
> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:56:22 +0200
> Subject: Re: [aur-general] my first AUR contribution
> From: "Daenyth Blank" <daenyth+arch at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)"
> <aur-general at archlinux.org>

> > There have always be discussions about adding a package hat already
> > has a counterpart in some official repo. Normally such packages
> > should not go to AUR and will be deleted. On the other hand we have
> > mplayer-nogui
> > or such things. Maybe this package is another example from that
> > rule.
> > 
> Just to spread the info, the rule is that you can't upload a version
> of a repo package unless something is changed. Different configure
> options, patches, etc, are fine. The rule is in place because people
> sometimes want to upload version bump packages, which they shouldn't
> 

Thanks for clarifcation. 





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