[aur-general] deletion request: ruby-rcairo

Thomas S Hatch thatch45 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 7 10:39:20 EST 2011


On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:03 AM, solsTiCe d'Hiver
<solstice.dhiver at gmail.com>wrote:

> Le dimanche 06 mars 2011 à 15:14 -0700, Thomas S Hatch a écrit :
> >
> > That would be great, in these situations I would just post a comment
> asking
> > the maintainer if there is any difference with this package and the one
> in
> > community, there is the possibility that the difference is being
> overlooked.
> >
> > Then ask the maintainers of the dependencies if they can build and
> > run their packages against the one in community - and if so, request that
> > they update their packages to reflect the dep change.
> >
> > I know that it requires a little more effort, but the end result is much
> > cleaner.
> >
> So you're asking me to do that, now ?
>
> Well, I have made a visual diff of the 2 PKGBUILDs, and I assert that
> the 2 are exactly the same. So the generated package are also
> identicals.
>
> Remove ruby-rcairo http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8491
>
> gruler maintainer, grism maintainer, ruby-gnome2-all maintainer, please
> use ruby-cairo in [community] instead of ruby-rcairo
>
> see ? I have done it with one email ! how hard was it ?
>
>
Awesome, I will want to wait until the deps are cleaned up and then I will
delete ruby-rcairo, thanks for the find!


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