On 2015-01-17 17:15, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 at 17:03:45, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've been reading about the upcoming AUR 4.0 with git repositories for each
> > package (which is very much welcome for a variety of reasons!).
> > 
> > I'm curious how existing packages will be handled. I already keep git repos 
> > for
> > my packages, so it would be nice to be able to import those directly for two
> > reasons:
> > 
> >  * To share the existing history with everyone else.
> >  * If packages are imported as-are into new repositories, then I can't push 
> > the
> >  existing repos. I'll need to create clone the AUR-generated ones, and work 
> > on
> >  those, loosing all my history.
> > 
> > Has this sort of scenario been given any thought?
> > [...]
> 
> Yes, please check [1].
> 
> [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-dev/2014-December/003014.html

Ah, thanks, yes, that covers it.

Will all AUR mantainers get a notification when this migration period starts? I
kinda don't follow aur-general too closely, generally, and I'm sure I'm not the
only one.

-- 
Hugo Osvaldo Barrera

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