[aur-general] Remove a few packages

Maxime Gauduin alucryd at gmail.com
Mon Jan 20 15:58:36 EST 2014


On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 09:30:01PM +0100, Maxime Gauduin wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Maxime Gauduin <alucryd at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > Except I don't remember ever seeing a python-python-pyfoo in our
> repos...
>
> We would, if python-pyfoo was the name of an upstream project.
>
> > > --
> > > Maxime
> > >
> >
> > Also we add python in all cases to differentiate python 2 and python 3,
> > there is no such problem with ruby...
>
> No, we add a python- prefix because that's our packaging guidelines for
> language specific packages. The fact that ruby has no divergent branch
> which requires separate packaging is irrelevant.
>
> The upstream project is called ruby/sdl. The gem is called rubysdl. It
> seems to me that ruby-rubysdl is the correct name, even if it seems to
> be redundant.
>
> I've merged ruby-sdl into ruby-rubysdl.
>

Fine, that call is not mine only anyway, I'll back off as promised since it
appears I'm the only one to be bothered by this. I still think it is overly
redundant, and like I pointed earlier, other distros like debian do too.
And with that I'm out.

Cheers,
-- 
Maxime


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