[aur-general] TU Application: Alad Wenter

alad at mailbox.org alad at mailbox.org
Thu Sep 14 15:01:50 UTC 2017


On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 01:51:19PM +0000, Levente Polyak wrote:
> On 09/14/2017 03:43 PM, Alad Wenter via aur-general wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 01:01:58PM +0000, Evgeniy Alekseev wrote:
> >> Hai,
> >>
> >> On Sunday, 10 September 2017 19:55:16 MSK Eli Schwartz wrote:
> >>> python-i3-py:
> >>> - It is probably not important to point out in the description which
> >>>   programming language it uses, especially when the pkgname already
> >>>   includes that info.
> >>> - git source at pinned commit should not re-clone itself to a new
> >>>   $pkgname-$pkgver every time you bump the pkgver
> >>> - Python packages which are intended to install a command-line tool
> >>>   rather than a library should not be prefixed with python- and do not
> >>>   need to be installed for both Python 3 and Python 2.
> >>
> >> BTW, it looks like this PKGBUILD works normally for this package, but in general calling setup.py with python3 interpreter assuming python2 build [1] is bad idea. Also it looks like the package has several licenses, e.g. winmenu.py header says WTFPL-v2 :)
> >>
> > Thanks, I've updated the build step and LICENSES. [2]
> > 
> > [2] https://github.com/AladW/community/commit/a48ba9a3ff917b596d89748a3a69e4f39e4b4398
> > 
> > Note that I installed the license to /usr/share/licenses/python-i3-py,
> > as python-i3-py is the common pkgbase. The PKGBUILD guidelines [3]
> > however mention to use pkgname - and namcap issues a warning
> > accordingly. Do these guidelines account for split packages?
> > 
> > python-i3-py-examples E: Missing custom license directory
> > (usr/share/licenses/python-i3-py-examples)
> > 
> 
> If a particular package has some special license, it should indeed
> install those into the license directory for that particular pkgname
> instead of pkgbase.
> Note that using $pkgbase could potentially also yield into a scenario
> where py2 and py3 variant can't be installed at the same time as the
> license file would conflict.
> 
All right, I've updated the PKGBUILD accordingly.

> cheers,
> Levente
> 
Cheers,

Alad
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