[aur-general] Rename package?

rafael ff1 rafael.f.f1 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 4 19:45:36 EST 2011


2011/12/4 Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com>:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 09:19:09PM +0000, Jonathan Steel wrote:
>> The name of this package doesn't seem quite right:
>>
>> "lib32-gstreamer0.10-base `pacman -Q|grep gstreamer0\.10\-"
>>
>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15586
>
> That's what happens when you try to put magical crap in a PKGBUILD. The
> AUR's PKGBUILD parser is (correctly) simplistic and will not execute
> arbitrary code like this.
>
> Someone should adopt this and fix it, or it should be nuked.
>
> @CryptoCrack: shouldn't we at least follow the same validation rules as
> makepkg as far as pkgver goes? No dashes, no whitespace, etc... Yes yes,
> I'm sure this is a "patches welcome" scenario.
>
> d

I already talked to the previous maintainer about this "magical crap",
but it seems I just wasted my time... Now I adopted and fixed. I can
maintain it, if no one else wants it.

Cheers


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