[aur-general] Using old package name for new software

Lukas Jirkovsky l.jirkovsky at gmail.com
Thu Feb 27 11:09:42 EST 2014


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Fabien Dubosson
<fabien.dubosson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just discovered a tool called `q` [1] and I have done a PKGBUILD to
> try it. As it can be a useful to someone else, I was going to push it to
> AUR.
>
> But there exists already a package called `q` [2] (yeah, 26 letters are
> not enough for all packages) so the usual way is to call the new one
> otherwise regarding to its function. But in this particular case I think
> it worth a reflexion; Regarding to the fact that:

I have merged the package "q" to "q-lang", so now you can upload your
package under the name "q."

I will probably merge the "q-lang" into "pure" but first I want to
investigate those two a bit more.


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