[aur-general] gopro package check

mickael foucaux mickael.foucaux at gmail.com
Sun Jul 2 23:21:40 UTC 2017


thanks for the review. I'm grabbing as it your suggestion for the package
description
.

2017-07-02 16:21 GMT+01:00 Eli Schwartz via aur-general <
aur-general at archlinux.org>:

> On 07/02/2017 09:48 AM, mickael foucaux via aur-general wrote:
> > thanks.
> >
> > The package author and I made some updates after you comments.
> >
> > about checksums:
> > - I changed it for 'SKIP' rule
> >
> > about version number:
> > - version tag has been added to original repository
> > - and the PKGBUILD grabs it
> >
> > about the name:
> > - I added the '-git' suffix
> > - I updated the group name as well
> >
> > about variables:
> > - $srcdir and $pkgdir are now embed in quoted strings
> >
> > about licence:
> > - it has been added to the source repository
> >
> > Is that good enough to fit AUR quality?
>
> Looks good to me. Note that now there are tags provided by upstream
> (good job on that), you could, optionally, choose to upload a non-git
> package that uses:
> source=("gopro-linux-$pkgver.tar.gz::$url/archive/$pkgver.tar.gz")
> which is the reproducible archive created on that repository's Releases
> page. As it is, though, this package is certainly sufficient to provide
> a *-git package.
>
> I'd also like to point to the pkgdesc... "Useful tool set for post
> production" doesn't seem descriptive enough to me, I would probably use
> something like "Tools for post production with GoPro cameras". Just from
> looking at the PKGBUILD, I cannot tell what gopro is or why I might want
> to use their tools.
> This might not matter to people already looking for software that
> relates to the gopro, but at least it could help people know when the
> package is *not* for them.
>
> --
> Eli Schwartz
>
>


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