Em outubro 22, 2016 13:17 Florian Pritz via aur-general escreveu:
I feel like the goal should be that every AUR package is in a state that allows it to be simply moved to community without requiring any changes. Sadly, most of the time I want to move stuff I have to invest a couple of hours/days into making sure it builds properly and follows our (implicit?) standards. Like keeping users after removal, not including tons of patches, using split packages only when necessary or depending on all dependencies. It appears many people still build with plain makepkg and without build chroots.
I agree with all this. I have been using the devtools for a while now. Not only I use a clean chroot build, but I have developed a testing procedure where I test the packages on both VM's and on bare metal machines, before pushing them to the AUR. Not only that, but I invest some effort into making sure I got the right upstream sources. I have a multi ISP/VPN/TOR download tool that I plan on polishing and releasing that automates in part the retrieval of the sources (also making sure you have the right one).
Also please keep in mind that AUR packages are influenced by each other. If you have one package doing things a certain way and you only clean them up when necessary, you'll have to clean them up every time. If people get used to the way we want packages, moving could be much simpler and every package you improve is a step in the right direction.
This experience, even if I don't get in, has been much fruitful. I will continue helping either way, whenever I can. Cheers, Giancarlo Razzolini
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