[aur-requests] [PRQ#34271] Merge Request for protonvpn-cli-ng

Yurii Kolesnykov root at yurikoles.com
Mon May 30 18:12:57 UTC 2022


Hi list, here is our conversation with Nate Ijams that was in fact private
because we didn't know that this list is now members-only.

вт, 26 квіт. 2022 р. о 17:31 Yurii Kolesnykov <root at yurikoles.com> пише:

> Thank you for clarification, Nate, I forgot about that.
>
>
>
> But nevertheless, this package is based on a source code of a project,
> that once started as replacement of an official package of that time, but
> it was eventually deprecated as a dead end, which may be seen by this
> commit[0]. So it's now actually older than official `proton-cli` package,
> `-ng` suffix in naming is wrong now.
>
>
> I suggest you to submit this package with a different name, e.g.
> `protonvpn-cli-community` and re-request a merger, but against that
> package. This will allow avoiding wrong naming here.
>
>
> [0]
> https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=protonvpn-cli-ng&id=e956fe6a1a1f1eed08830e86c7341aeb64f8050d
>
> вт, 26 квіт. 2022 р. о 17:19 Nate Ijams <nate at ijams.me> пише:
>
>> yurikoles,
>>
>> Thanks for the request! Actually, the two packages are distinct.
>> protonvpn-cli-ng is community-maintained and is an older package that
>> some still use as their preferred client. While I recommend that
>> everyone does start using the new protonvpn-cli, they are not the same
>> package.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nate Ijams
>>
>> On 26.04.2022 13:06, notify at aur.archlinux.org wrote:
>> >yurikoles [1] filed a request to merge protonvpn-cli-ng [2] into
>> >protonvpn-cli [3]:
>> >
>> >Built from same source as package from ProtonVPN team.
>> >
>> >[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/yurikoles/
>> >[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/protonvpn-cli-ng/
>> >[3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/protonvpn-cli/
>>
>
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