[aur-general] Status of the Chromium/Chrome packages on AUR

[Panos Filip]

On Friday 25 September 2009 22:07:46 Biru Ionut wrote:
> Biru Ionut wrote:
> > Panos wrote:
> >> Hello to everyone!
> >>
> >> I had recently created a thread on bbs.archlinux.org here
> >>
> >> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79410
> >>
> >>  in order to discuss the situration for the numerous chromium packages
> >> on AUR.
> >> As I can see, they are getting more and more. I would like to make the
> >> discussion on mailing list so that more people would participate.
> >>
> >> The list:
> >>
> >> 1 aur/chromium-browser 4.0.204.0~svn20090831r24879-1 (369)
> >> 2 aur/chromium-browser-4.0.219.3 4.0.219.3~svn20090925r27181-1
> >> (0)                  3 aur/chromium-browser-dev r26808-1
> >> (107)                                           4
> >> aur/chromium-browser-inspector r26919-1
> >> (22)                                      5 aur/chromium-browser-l10n
> >> 4.0.219.0~svn20090924r27064-1 (6)
> >> 6 aur/chromium-browser-svn `svn info /chromium/src/ | grep (8)
> >> 7 aur/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-nonfree r26428-1 (39)
> >> 8 aur/chromium-continuous -latest (46)
> >> 9 aur/chromium-fresh -latest (25)
> >> 10 aur/chromium-snapshot 27035-1 [27188-1] (439)
> >> 11 aur/chromium-snapshot-64 27164-5 (110)
> >> 12 aur/chromium-snapshot-64-last -6 (40)
> >> 13 aur/chromium-snapshot-latest -3 (4)
> >> 14 aur/cxchromium 0.9.0-3 (153)
> >> 15 aur/iron 3.0.197.0-6 (61)
> >
> > is the second time today when i deleted 2). i've sent him both times
> > emails but i think he just don't reads them. i believe that, like
> > others, he just uploaded a new packages, just because 1) is out of date.
> 
> and to be clear enough, with the maintainer of 8,9 i've discussed in the
> past about those packages, deleted one or two times one of them, but he
> argue with me about the importance of them. some time he didn't upload
> anything but surprise, he did it again.
> 

I agree with you. Those two are supposed to provide differently "matured" 
chromium, I suppose marked as "stable, testing, unstable" by Google or so.

I really can't understand if they are both needed, since the meaning of 
"stability" in svn, and especially on a browser that is still experimental 
(but with satisfactory stability), is relative.

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For the chromium-snapshot one's, i'd propose to keep only the one that is 
autodownloaded (I guess it's no.13). But, it downloads only the 32bit package.
No.12 does the same, but for the 64bit package.

:-/


-- 
Panos Filip