[aur-general] Consolidation of ALAC

speps speps at gmx.com
Wed May 30 06:47:25 EDT 2012


On Tue, 29 May 2012 21:00:22 -0400
SJ_UnderWater <webmaster0007 at rcn.com> wrote:

> Done, see: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=59618
> 
> On May 29, 2012, at 8:43 PM, speps wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 29 May 2012 16:25:48 -0400
> > SJ_UnderWater <webmaster0007 at rcn.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> After adopting alacconvert and libalac, I decided that they should be handled as one (split) pkg, so if someone could please merge:
> >> alacconvert: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=53497
> >> libalac: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=53480
> >> 
> >> into
> >> alac: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=59613
> > 
> > It sounds reasonable, btw you may better upload an alac-svn package
> > instead, since there is still no release and your package actually
> > uses svn.
> > 
> > Also using a split package is probably not strictly necessary.
> > A single alac (that provides both libalac and alacconvert) would be
> > sufficient, since it will not result a big one and upstream does not
> > split or suggest to split.
> > 
> > Otherwise, if in future upstream will provide two separate source tarball for
> > releases, splitting again will be necessary.
> > 
> > So, please re-upload a new alac-svn (that provides alac, libalac{,-svn} and
> > alacconvert{,-svn}), and I'll proceed by deleting alac and merging libalac
> > and alacconvert into alac-svn.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > 
> > - speps -
> 

Done, thanks.

Btw you may better add provides and conflicts lines for continuity; like

provides=('alac' {libalac,alacconvert}{,-svn})
conflicts=(${provides[@]})
replaces=(${provides[@]:1})

Also please do not top post, cheers.

- speps -
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