[aur-general] Task[warrior]

Peter Lewis plewis at aur.archlinux.org
Mon Jan 10 05:50:06 EST 2011


On Monday 10 January 2011 10:26:14 Magnus Therning wrote:
> > Does anyone know why this package does not use upstream name ? There is
> > no way to tell this "task" package is Task Warrior except looking to the
> > URI.
> 
> There's some confusion on the upstream page, taskwarrior.org.  Text like
> 
> "Taskwarrior is an ambitious project to supercharge task with an
> interactive interface, GTD features, color themes, data synch,
> dependencies, custom reports, charts, and Lua plugins, all while our
> international team provides excellent support!"
> 
> make it sound like 'taskwarrior' is a layer on top of something called
> 'task'.  But then the download file is
> http://www.taskwarrior.org/download/task-1.9.3.tar.gz  The package is
> called 'task' by upstream in all distro files they provide too.
> 
> No matter how confusing this is, I would say that 'task' is the
> correct package name for the program taskwarrior :-)

You're right, but it might be worth including something like "AKA taskwarrior" 
in the description, to help people searching for that term.

Pete.


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