[aur-general] aur-general Digest, Vol 156, Issue 5

[Jens Hojgaard]

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> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 00:56:32 -0400
> From: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz at archlinux.org>
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> Subject: Re: [aur-general] Package review
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> On 10/13/2017 11:06 AM, Konstantin Gizdov wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Looking for a bit of help with two new python packages I uploaded to AUR.
> > Packages in question are python-root_numpy & python-hep_ml.
> >
> > So I think I've done the PKGBUILDs correctly, but when I run namcap on
> the
> > packages I get warnings about unneeded dependencies included and
> > specifically for hep_ml I get warning about not including any ELF files
> but
> > not labelling it as 'any' platform.
>
> sed -i -e ... $(find -name '*.py') is terrible, see
> http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs for why, as well as the proper way
> to do this.
>
> Please do not add pointless `msg "now I'm doing this thing that was
> obvious from context"` messages.
>
> As for namcap warning about unneeded dependencies, namcap is a rough
> hack and one of its big weaknesses is reliably determining what is
> actually a needed dependency. It can only really detect shared library
> dependencies, and assumes anything else, like for example python module
> dependencies, are unneeded...
>
> Take everything namcap says with a grain of salt, it can be useful to
> point out potential trouble spots but is hardly authoritative.
>
> > My issue is that I have included only dependencies that are listed by the
> > package developers, but I still have namcap complaining. Also, I thought
> we
> > weren't not supposed to label packages as 'any'. Or am I wrong?
>
> If this were true, then why does "any" exist?
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> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#arch
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> Eli Schwartz
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