On 9/27/25 6:35 AM, Vitalii Kuzhdin wrote: > Greetings, Hello,
> Versioned packages are allowed both in the official repositories and on the > AUR, > provided they are packaged properly. The guidelines [1] don't say that the full package version with major.minor.patch is allowed. They say package names should *not* be suffixed with major version, unless dependencies cannot trivially work with the new major version. I'm aware of official packages with major version suffixes, and even a few minor version suffixes, but none with the patch version because they by definition will work with dependencies. > Just because a package is not useful to you > personally doesn't mean it should be deleted. Even orphaned packages with no > dependencies are allowed as long as they work, because there is no reason to > delete them. I agree. It is not that I think this package isn't useful to me personally, I think it doesn't follow the guidelines because it has the full package version in the name, and thus creates an unnecessary duplicationof core/gnutls. > This particular package is required to run MATLAB<https://aur.archlinux.org/ > packages/matlab>, which I will update in a few days. See its comments for more > information if you are interested. Is gnutls version 3.8.9 in particular required to run MATLAB? Forgive me if I'm wrong as I'm not familiar with MATLAB, but it seems to me like matlab could just roll along with new minor/patch versions? And, it looks like the latest release in question 3.8.10 [2] is just bug fixes that would not break anything for packaging matlab. > Best regards, > Vitalii Best Regards, AlphaLynx [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_package_guidelines#Package_naming [2] https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-help/2025-July/004883.html
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