[aur-general] Transition users from package x to package y (package x deprecated)

[NicoHood]

Hi Michael,
you can use 'replaces':
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#replaces

If the package should stay on the aur this still does not help much, so
you'd need to write a comment to the aur package page and tell users to
move to the new package. I'd keep it a month and then open a deletion
request.

People with an aur helper will possibly miss the change if they dont
subscribe on updates, but they will possibly notice the missing package,
I am not sure. No matter what, you have no other option than that
(correct me if i am wrong).

Cheers
Nico

On 12/26/20 11:17 AM, Michael Kogan via aur-general wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I maintain the multiload-ng AUR packages, in particular
> xfce4-plugin-multiload-ng-gtk2 and xfce4-plugin-multiload-ng-gtk3. After
> the recent Xfce 4.16 update the gtk2 version stopped building, so I would
> like to delete xfce4-plugin-multiload-ng-gtk2 and somehow migrate the users
> to xfce4-plugin-multiload-ng-gtk3 (which should be renamed to just
> xfce4-plugin-multiload-ng if possible). What are my options making the
> transition as smooth as possible?
> 
> Thanks for any input and merry Christmas!
> Michael
>