[aur-requests] [PRQ#7438] Request Rejected

[John D Jones III]

On 2/7/17 8:56 AM, Bruno Pagani via aur-requests wrote:
> Le 07/02/2017 à 14:06, Awal Garg via aur-requests a écrit :
>
>
> Contacting the maintainer before filing a request is a good practice,
> whether you ask his package to be orphaned, deleted or merged into
> another. ;)
>
> Maybe we should patch
> https://git.archlinux.org/aurweb.git/tree/web/template/pkgreq_form.php?h=v4.4.1
> to add that for merge and deletion (it’s already there for orphan).
>
>
> Since renaming = pushing a package with the new name + filing a request
> to merge the old one in the new one, this doesn’t make any sense.
>
>
> That’s OK. I’ll monitor the situation with
> firefox-aurora/firefox-dev/firefox-developer from now on, and will wait
> for things to be settled before accepting the current remaining requests.
>
> Regards,
> Bruno

I'm here, I'll take a good at the firefox-nightly-fr pkgbuild and work 
to make the necessary adjustments. I've never particularly cared for how 
it just skips the sha512 sum on the tarball, but I also wasn't thrilled 
updating the sha512 every 1-180 minutes so I went with what was 
available to me at the time.

I too agree that auto-updating a PKGBUILD without some form of vetting 
is a bad idea. Given the number of pkgs I maintain, I'd love to let 
things update automatically, but my experience in these past several 
years suggests that there is always something that fails in the process 
and that nothing but good old fashioned vim/diff can properly ensure a 
working and clean pkgbuild.

As for co-maintaining... I'm not really ready for that, but thanks anyways.
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