[aur-general] Package `pijul` in both AUR and Community-Testing

[Rafael Fontenelle]

Hi Markus

On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 6:45 AM Markus Arians via aur-general
<aur-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> today I noticed I was unable to push to the AUR repository for the pijul
> package with the server hook error message "remote: error: package already
> provided by [community-testing]: pijul".
>
> Sure enough, the package exists in the Community-Testing repository (see
> https://archlinux.org/packages/community-testing/x86_64/pijul/).
>
> Now, as far as I understand, packages can be "promoted" to the community /
> community-testing repository, however, in this case it seems like a new
> package with the same name has been created. Is this the usual procedure?
> What will my responsibilities as packager of the AUR pijul package be? What
> happens to the AUR package? Should I just leave it as it is? Submit a
> delete request?
>
> Thanks for your help!
> Markus

My suggestion is to file a delete request. That's what I do when one
of my AUR packages goes to an official repository.

Best regards,
Rafael Fontenelle