[aur-general] package splitting

[Mark King]

On Mon, 2022-08-29 at 14:34 +0200, Thomas via aur-general wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 

I do not think this is a bug, when viewing the web page for the package base [1]
it does not display the description, but when viewing the individual package's
page [2], it does display them.

> Thanks in advance
> Thomas

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/systemd-git
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/systemd-git

Mark King