[aur-general] [rmlint] Package merge

[Maxime Gauduin]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Doug Newgard <scimmia22 at outlook.com> 
wrote:
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>>  From: florian at floriandejonckheere.be
>>  Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:12:36 +0200
>>  To: aur-general at archlinux.org
>>  Subject: Re: [aur-general] [rmlint] Package merge
>> 
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>>>>  Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:58:25 +0200
>>>>  From: florian at floriandejonckheere.be
>>>>  To: aur-general at archlinux.org
>>>>  Subject: Re: [aur-general] [rmlint] Package merge
>>>> 
>>>>  On Oct 16, 2013 5:44 PM, "Doug Newgard" <scimmia22 at outlook.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
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>>>>>>  From: florian at floriandejonckheere.be
>>>>>>  Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:12:42 +0200
>>>>>>  To: aur-general at archlinux.org
>>>>>>  Subject: [aur-general] [rmlint] Package merge
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  Please merge rmlint [1] into rmlint-git [2]. GitHub dropped 
>>>>>> named
>>>>>> 
>>>>  downloads
>>>>>>  a while ago, and thus the package is outdated.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  Thanks
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rmlint/
>>>>>>  [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rmlint-git/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>  It's out of date, but I don't know about outdated. You can still 
>>>>> get
>>>>> 
>>>>  release tarballs from Github.
>>>> 
>>>>  But the release tarballs reflect the current state of master, if 
>>>> I'm not
>>>>  mistaken.
>>>> 
>>>  Nope, they reflect tags. You can get a tarball of master as well, 
>>> but
>>>  that's not what I'm talking about.
>>> 
>> 
>>  As far as I can tell from the repo, the only existing tag is 
>> '1.0.6b',
>>  which makes the AUR package more recent. Am I missing something?
>> 
> Just that the author is really bad at versioning. 1.0.8 in the AUR is 
> from Apr 2011, the 1.0.6b tag is from Nov 2012, and 1.0.0 in the 
> debian dir is from Mar 2013. 
> 
Then rmlint should package the 1.0.6b version found on GitHub if it is 
indeed the most recent. No need to merge into the git counterpart.
--
Maxime