[aur-general] Merge: fd-git into fd-rs-git

[Dan B]

I'll give it another try.

Thanks!

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 1:53 PM Eli Schwartz <eschwartz at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 11/01/2017 01:39 PM, Dan B via aur-general wrote:
> > Gist: I need a TU's help merging fd-git into fd-rs-git, as fd-rs-git is
> not
> > a valid merge target. (details below)
>
> No you don't need a TU's help, you just need an explanation as to how
> the AUR expects you to do what you want to do.
>
> > I contacted the previous maintainer of this package (Wesley Moore)
> > regarding this package since it wasn't populating in the aur. I received
> > the following message:
> >
> >> Hi Dan,
> >>
> >> I deleted the package mid September as there are now proper releases for
> > fd. I can't see it on aur.archlinux.org either so not sure I can add
> you as
> > a maintainer.
>
> This was silly, "there are now proper releases" is not a reason to
> dislike the idea of having the option to install a development release.
>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Wes
> >
> > I can clone fd-rs-git, but am unable to push changes to the aur:
> >
> >>  » git push origin master
> >> Counting objects: 5, done.
> >> Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
> >> Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
> >> Writing objects: 100% (5/5), 1021 bytes | 1021.00 KiB/s, done.
> >> Total 5 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
> >> remote: error: invalid pkgbase: fd-git, expected fd-rs-git
> >> remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master
> >> To ssh://aur.archlinux.org/fd-rs-git.git
> >>  ! [remote rejected] master -> master (hook declined)
> >> error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://
> > aur at aur.archlinux.org/fd-rs-git.git'
>
> The hook told you exactly the problem: you cannot push an fd-git pkgbase
> to the fd-rs-git repository. You will need to push an fd-rs-git pkgbase
> containing updates that were inspired by fd-git.
>
> Once you have created the updated fd-rs-git pkgbase, you can submit a
> merge request to have the comments for fd-git transferred to the
> fd-rs-git package.
>
> But I wouldn't bother as the only comments are discussing the actual move.
>
> Just resubmit the software as an update to the fd-rs-git package, and
> submit a deletion request for the fd-git package.
>
> --
> Eli Schwartz
>
>