[aur-general] TU application for Caleb, aka alerque

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On Tue, Jun 22, 2021, 07:52 Eli Schwartz via aur-general <
aur-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 6/21/21 12:48 PM, Jayesh Badwaik via aur-general wrote:
> > Dear Eli,
> >
> > May be a little off-topic from the application discussion but
> > curious. What is a good way to get those packages in AUR then? Would
> > `audacity-jayesh` or `audacity3` would be an appropriate replacement?
>
>
> The deleted AUR package was "audacity3". Given one of the problems is
> the package doesn't build properly (when running cmake it git clones
> https://github.com/audacity/wxWidgets/commits/audacity-fixes-3.1.3 and
> uses the latest code currently on that branch) I'm skeptical it can be
> packaged correctly.
>
> If it cannot be packaged correctly, then as one of the rare people who
> actually believes the AUR is supposed to ideally contain packages which
> follow the package guidelines (I know this will eternally be a work in
> progress at best, but I refuse to just give up and not even try), I
> don't believe it should be submitted to the AUR as an *incorrectly*
> packaged edition.
>
> ... much less uploaded as "audacity-but-actually-up-to-date". The usual
> standard for this sort of thing is to have an AUR *-bin package
> containing the upstream prebuilt binaries with presumably vendored
> everything, including their wxwidgets fork.
>
> If anyone does figure out how to package it correctly for the AUR, then
> it doesn't belong in the AUR either :p email dvzrv / ainola to have the
> community package updated.
>
>
> --
> Eli Schwartz
> Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
>
>