[aur-general] AUR4 refuses to accept *any* commit that doesn't have a .SRCINFO

[Tai-Lin Chu]

> although I still think there would have to be a way to keep from having to duplicate metadata,

I had similar discussion before. Putting the whole build script in one
file is a very simple and convenient design. If we want to ensure
safety and don't want to duplicate meta data, splitting PKGBUILD file
is required.

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Kyle <kyle at gmx.ca> wrote:
> I can see that .SRCINFO is completely different from the fields in
> PKGBUILD after all. It isn't just the spaces left and right of the =
> sign as I first thought. Apparently it doesn't show arrays in the same
> way either, instead putting the same key on multiple lines with one
> value per key. So this isn't exactly as trivial as I thought, although I
> still think there would have to be a way to keep from having to
> duplicate metadata, but as long as there is something that can take the
> info from the PKGBUILD and generate the file, it isn't really a big problem.
> Sent from the horns of a goat
> --
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