[aur-general] Package rename

郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) techlivezheng at gmail.com
Sat Dec 24 13:22:25 EST 2011


2011/12/25 Florian Pritz <bluewind at xinu.at>:
> On 24.12.2011 19:16, Gustavo Genovese wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've adopted this package
>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18644 (firefox32) some time
>> ago and I think it should be renamed to bin32-firefox. Can you do this
>> for me? Or should I just change the name in PKGBUILD and upload it?
>> Also the i18n for this package (
>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18647 ) should be renamed
>> too, to bin32-firefox-i18n
>> Once renamed, how do I notify the people using the old package
>> versions they should switch to the new ones? Just a comment in the old
>> package?
>
> Upload the new version and request a merge of the old package into the
> new one.
>
> --
> Florian Pritz
>

I think package merging in AUR should also send the an email to the
subscribe list of the original package notifying the merge.


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