[aur-general] Duplicate yt-dlp packages

[Alexander Epaneshnikov]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 09:39:45PM +0000, Maxwell G via aur-general wrote:
>
> Oct 10, 2021 4:19:07 PM Alexandre Mendes <reversebob at gmail.com>:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > This package was my first package ever created, and I used a script to do it, but have been informed the convention is not respected (python- should apparently be for libraries).
> > Anyway, my package needs to disappear.
> > Should I delete it myself ? What exactly is the correct process ?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 10 Oct 2021 at 22:41, Maxwell Gottlieb <gotmax at e.email> wrote:
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> I hope you are having a good weekend!
> >>
> >> There are several duplicate packages for yt-dlp[1] available on the AUR.
> >> There are two regular packages (yt-dlp and youtube-dlp), as well as two
> >> Git packages (yt-dlp-git and python-yt-dlp-git). I think we should keep
> >> yt-dlp and yt-dlp-git, because they are the most popular, but I wanted
> >> to ask before creating any deletion requests.
> >>
> >> I have CC'd the maintainers of the aforementioned packages.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Maxwell
> >>
> >> [1]: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
> >>
> >> --
> >> Maxwell G (@gotmax23)
> >> Pronouns: He/Him/His
> >> gotmax at e.email
> Hi Alexandre,
>
> I'm not sure what the process of deleting packages looks like. One of the Trusted Users can chime in on that.

you should file a merge request from the package to be removed to the
package to be kept, so statistics and comments will be preserved.

> Please make sure that you reply to the entire mailing list and not just me. I think you have to subscribe[1] to the mailing list before posting.
>
> Thanks,
> Maxwell
>
> [1]: https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general
> --
> Maxwell G
> Pronouns: He/Him/His
> gotmax at e.email

--
Sincerely, Alexander | Trusted User
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