[aur-general] Package from official repos build from git, instead of official upstream release - Was: TU Application - Dustin Falgout

[Eli Schwartz]

On 03/02/2016 01:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 12:22:09 -0500, Eli Schwartz wrote:
>> On 03/02/2016 11:42 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>> "pkgver() {
>>>   cd jack2
>>>   # get a plain number
>>>   echo $(git rev-list --count master) 
>>> }" - https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=jack2-git
>>>   
>>
>> That is a super-ugly pkgver which is only supposed to be used as a
>> method of last resort for packages that have *no* normal pkgver.
>>
>> You should suggest that the AUR maintainer fix the pkgver (and add an
>> epoch).
> 
> Hi Eli,
> 
> that's my opinion too, so I've done this by a comment on 2016-02-27.
> Assumed the maintainer shouldn't reply, resp. edit the PKGBUILD within 2
> weeks, I'll repeat the request to use 'git describe'.
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
> 

And speaking of ugly, learn to love the Pastebin[1] when posting files
to an AUR comment. ;)



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Eli Schwartz