[aur-general] Merge request

[Maxime Gauduin]

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 4:08 PM, David J. Haines <djhaines at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:51:11PM +0100, Maxime Gauduin wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 6:02 PM, David J. Haines <djhaines at gmx.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I just took over pioneer and pioneer-git. The way upstream has been
> > > releasing things has made it that, under the prior maintainer,
> > > pioneer-git was really using upstream's versioning, while pioneer
> > > languished under upstream's old versioning system as "alpha"-something.
> > >
> > > Please merge pioneer-git
> > > (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pioneer-git/) into pioneer
> > > (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pioneer/) so that I can continue
> > > forward with just the one.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > --
> > > David J. Haines
> > > djhaines at gmx.com
> > > 0xAFB3D16D - F929 270F B7C3 78AE A741  434F A7C6 F264 AFB3 D16C
> > >
> >
> > I don't think a merge is necessary here. Those 2 packages can coexist,
> just
> > update pioneer so that it uses the new versioning. BTW, pioneer-git
> should
> > be updated to use the not so new now VCS source array capabilities.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > Maxime
>
> Given the freqeuency of releases upstream (in their own words: "We
> release a new version almost every day."), I don't see much of a need
> for both. If you're unwilling to merge, I'd request instead that
> pioneer-git be deleted.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> David J. Haines
> djhaines at gmx.com
> 0xAFB3D16D - F929 270F B7C3 78AE A741  434F A7C6 F264 AFB3 D16C
>

In that case, I'd say using the git version is probably more sensible.
Saves you from the trouble of having to update your pioneer PKGBUILD every
other day. Having both certainly does not hurt anyway, gives people more
options.

-- 
Maxime