On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 11:53 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> msnspk [1] filed a deletion request for vte-git [2]:
>
> Duplicates the vte3-git and vte4-git packages already found in the
> AUR. Maintainer seems to be using these packages to harass other
> maintainers
>
> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/msnspk/
> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/vte-git/
Ignoring the silly conflict between the maintainers of
aur/vte{3,4}-git and aur/vte-git, it seems to me that this request is
incorrect.
In the normal Arch Linux package, the vte-common vte3 vte4 vte-docs
are actually split packages from the same PKGBUILD. They are not
different PKGBUILDs like aur/vte{3,4}-git.
The ideal solution would be:
- Update the vte-git PKGBUILD, to have the split packages
vte-common-git vte3-git vte4-git vte-docs-git. There is should be no
such package as vte-git, that's only the pkgbase.
- Delete vte3-git vte4-git, with a deletion request.
The technical issue would be the temporary name conflict between the
split package and PKGBUILD versions of vte{3,4}-git. I am not sure how
the AUR software handles that, and a TU should clarify.
