On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 06:57:33PM -0500, Doug Newgard wrote: > On 2014-04-30 17:20, Lukas Fleischer wrote: > >A first release candidate of the AUR 3.0.0 has been released! You can > >give it a try at [1]. Note that due to internal changes, the setup at > >aur-dev.archlinux.org uses a different database than aur.archlinux.org. > >You should be able login using your regular AUR account, though. > > > >The most important changes are: > > > >* Full split package support. > >* Support for {make,check,opt}depends, conflicts, provides, ... > >* Full support for the new fields in the RPC interface. > >* Metadata support. Use mkaurball instead of `makepkg --source` to > > generate source tarballs for the AUR`. You can get it from [2] -- it > > will eventually be moved to [community]. > > > >Note that in order to obtain the new fields, you need to request > >the new > >version of the RPC API explicitly, like this: > > > > https://aur-dev.archlinux.org/rpc.php?type=info&arg=pass&v=2 > > > >Otherwise, the replies default to the old format for compatibility > >reasons. > > > >Please report any bugs to the AUR bug tracker [3]. > > > >[1] https://aur-dev.archlinux.org/ > >[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pkgbuild-introspection-git/ > >[3] https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=2 > > It appears that pkgbase is now the important part of a PKGBUILD,
But note that it doesn't need to be included. Same as makepkg, it defaults to pkgname[0] if it isn't defined. > that's what people would be requesting deletion or merging on? Makes > merges a bit tough, since you can't upload a PKGBUILD with a > different pkgbase but an overlapping pkgname. You'd be referring to the package by its pkgbase, since that's the unifying factor. If 'foo' is split into 'python-foo' and 'python2-foo', you wouldn't ask to merge/delete 'python-foo' or 'python2-foo'. This doesn't make sense -- you'd just upload a new source tarball with the modification. I don't understand your concern over overlapping pkgnames. If you want to take ownership of existing packages, you should be asking for the package to be disowned, not merged, same as today.