That's very unfortunate and quite a bit counter-intuitive. Is this final? J. Leclanche
On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Lukas Fleischer <archli...@cryptocrack.de> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 at 13:36:29, Jerome Leclanche wrote: >> Hi >> >> I'm trying to upload a split package of sddm -qt5-git and -git >> (attached), but when I upload it, it says: "You are not allowed to >> overwrite the sddm-qt5-git package.". I'm a maintainer of both of >> course. >> Is this a bug? If not, what's the correct course of action? >> [...] > > No, this isn't a bug. You cannot overwrite a package from a different > package base. What you can do is: > > 1. Rename the sddm-qt5-git package without changing its package base: > > pkgbase=sddm-qt5-git > pkgname=sddm-qt5-git-old > > This might also require some "$pkgname" references to be replaced by > "$pkgbase" in order to successfully build a new package. > > 2. Submit the updated package to the AUR. This will result in the > package name changing from sddm-qt5-git to sddm-qt5-git-old. > > 3. Upload the new split package. > > 4. Request the old (renamed) package (sddm-qt5-git-old) to be merged > into the new one. > > Please read both [1] and [2] for details. > > Regards, > Lukas > > [1] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2014-May/028594.html > [2] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2014-June/028631.html