[aur-general] package splitting

[Thomas]

Hi,

I have 2 questions:

1) when is it allowed and / or good practice to split multiple packages by 1 PKGBUILD?
For example I have created a package which pulls 3 debian packages and creates 3 Arch packages from it.
I want to do that in 1 PKGBUILD by package splitting. Is that a good idea or should this avoided (if so why..)?


2) I found a bug in package splitting regarding the variable "pkgdesc" - when in AUR: it simply gets ignored when used in package_<pkgname> functions.

Example:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/systemd-libs-git
-> Line 220: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=systemd-git#n220

It should work though according to: https://archlinux.org/pacman/PKGBUILD.5.html#_package_splitting

It seems to work when in the regular package database - which is using the same PKGBUILD as the AUR ofc:
https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/systemd-libs/

-> Is this the right place to report an issue like that?


Thanks in advance
Thomas
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