[pacman-dev] abs

[Jason St. John]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> wrote:
> Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> on Tue, 2013/04/23 18:06:
>> On 23/04/13 17:53, Eric Bélanger wrote:
>> > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 23/04/13 16:29, Christian Hesse wrote:
>> >>> Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> on Tue, 2013/04/23 13:45:
>> >>>> The PKGBUILD proto files could have the prepare() function added just
>> >>>> to be more complete and fix the remaining bug is someone wants to
>> >>>> volunteer to do that...
>> >>>
>> >>> Speaking about PKGBUILD proto files... The extra package 'abs' installs
>> >> some
>> >>> proto files which look way outdated. Is anybody working on that? Patches
>> >>> welcome?
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> I have no interest in ABS.
>> >>
>> >> @Dave: looks like you did the last release.  Are you going to fix those?
>> >>
>> >> Allan
>> >>
>> >>
>> > If no-one is interested in updating/maintaining abs, we could always move
>> > the prototypes currently in to the pacman project.  It would make sense as
>> > they need to be kept in sync with the changes in makepkg and pacman.
>> >
>> > Eric
>> >
>>
>> I see no point for VCS prototypes now that they are just a source line.
>
> Could be worth to provide a VCS prototype that shows how to use the pkgver()
> function.
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Sorry for bumping a thread from April, but the VCS prototypes are
still an issue.

These prototypes are getting exceptionally dated, and they need to be
either removed or updated.

Can a final decision be made on what to do with them please?

If it's decided to remove them, can someone please remove them from
ABS and tag a new version? I think there's already a patch on
arch-projects to remove them all. It just needs to be applied.

For what it's worth, I would really like to keep them around,
preferably after moving them from ABS to pacman. I want to keep them
around because they are useful for quickly getting a generic pkgver()
function from, e.g., PKGBUILD-git.proto. If you decide to keep them, I
will gladly send in a patch to update/move them. And if downstream
packagers/distros don't want to include the VCS prototypes, they can
easily remove them.

Jason