[aur-general] OCaml-PCRE

[oliver]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:02:26PM +0100, Baptiste wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 08:44:29AM +0100, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
> > On 12/23/2011 04:21 AM, oliver wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I created a package for OCaml-PCRE,
> > > and have not seen that it already exists on AUR 
> > > (but in a slightly older version).
> > > 
> > > There is this one:
> > > 
> > >   https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52452
> > > 
> > > 
> > > And my new one:
> > >   https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=55215
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Now there are two packages for the same stuff...
> > > 
> > > Any idea how to handle it?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Ciao,
> > >    Oliver
> > 
> > Send message to maintainer with updated PKGBUILD (and/or orphan
> > request), post it also in comments. If after 2 weeks you won't get any
> > answer, send to aur-general orphan request.
> > For now, I'm deleting your package.
> 
> "ocaml-pcre" [1] has been updated to the latest version (bobry, you're
> an awesome maintainer ;) )
[...]

I did marked it as out-dated after I sent the mail here to the list.
The maintainer then has updated his package.
So he reacted fast.


> 
> Bartłomiej, I think you can indeed delete "pcre-ocaml" [2]. Don't be
> afraid of the packages that depend on it, they are mostly old and
> unmaintained (the pcre package had been renamed from "pcre-ocaml" to
> "ocaml-pcre" a while ago in order to match Arch's OCaml guidelines)
[...]

Yes, the depending packages were also something which I had in mind,
why the new package might make sense.

A naming scheme for that is a good idea.

Ciao,
  Oliver