[aur-general] Merge request: python2-pyside -> python-pyside

[danielwallace]

Replaces should never be in aur packages. It is only used by Pacman when searching the repository. There is nothing that searches replaces in the aur.


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-------- Original message --------
From: Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo at osvaldobarrera.com.ar>
Date: 09/15/2013  6:16 PM  (GMT-06:00)
To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" <aur-general at archlinux.org>
Subject: Re: [aur-general] Merge request: python2-pyside -> python-pyside

On 2013-09-13 09:57, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
> On 09/07/2013 10:24 AM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote:
> > In recent shenanigans[0], python-pyside became a split package,
> > building Python 3 and 2 versions simultaneously.  python2-pyside still
> > exists in the AUR.  Please merge python2-pyside[1] into
> > python-pyside[2].
> >
> > [0]: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2013-September/025115.html
> > [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-pyside/
> > [2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-pyside/
> >
>
> Done, thank you.
>
> --
> Bartłomiej Piotrowski
> http://bpiotrowski.pl/
>

As maintainer of python2-pyside shouldn't I have gotten a notification
about this? At least an automated one from the AUR?

Also, since the PKGBUILD states "replaces=(python2-pyside...", shouldn't
searching the AUR for python2-pyside yield python-pyside as one of
the results?

Finally, why does this merge make sense? It merges two *different*
libraries into one; I maintained python2-pyside, but have no interest
in installing the python3 version, so why is the original package deleted?

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Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
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