[aur-general] Tarball Guidelines

[Stefan Husmann]

Am 03.12.2010 22:54, schrieb David Campbell:
> Excerpts from keenerd's message of 2010-12-03 13:46:10 -0500:
>> If no one can think of a better way to deal with the nonconforming
>> packages, I'll write a bot to post insulting comments.  Personally, I
>> really like this solution.  The AUR has always had a wild west
>> frontier / insane asylum feel to it.  The less regulation, the better
>> it works.  But a few well placed suggestions could help make the two
>> thousand maintainers do a better job.
> 
> Isn't this the sort of thing namcap was designed for? Maybe
> namcap should be extended to do checks on .src packages, and a
> report could be posted automatically using namcap when someone
> posts a .src package to the AUR.
> --
> David Campbell
> 
No, namcap is a tool for providing clean packages, not for clean 
aur-tarballs. 

But again, if the "uncleanlyness" of the aur tarballs in discussion 
here only consists in the fact that they provide icon files, they are 
IMHO not even unclean.

Regards Stefan