[aur-general] Package Removal Request: yajl-ruby, redcloth

[Evangelos Foutras]

On 20 April 2011 14:54, talki walki <lolilolicon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I removed both packages. However, ruby-yajl (without the -ruby suffix)
>> would be a better name for the first package. If you want, go ahead
>> and re-upload it under the new name, and reply here to delete
>> ruby-yajl-ruby.
>>
>
> I named it ruby-yajl-ruby because I was assuming the convention to be
> ruby-{gemname}. A quick query for "ruby-%-ruby" returns another
> package that's thus named: ruby-sqlite3-ruby. There's also another
> package named sqlite3-ruby in AUR, but there's no ruby-sqlite3.

I just deleted ruby-sqlite3-ruby; it was an outdated orphan, and there
is ruby-sqlite3 which is actively maintained.

(Now only your package is named like that. :>)

> Although ruby-yajl-ruby looks a bit redundant, I personally consider
> it the correct naming in principle. As such, for the sqlite3-ruby gem,
> the correct package name is ruby-sqlite3-ruby.

I see your point, but I strongly believe the -ruby suffix should be removed.