On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 01:13:19PM +0100, Marcell Meszaros wrote:
> On 23 March 2024 12:46:55 GMT+01:00, [email protected] wrote:
> >Request #58056 has been Rejected by Foxboron [1]:
> >
> >submit a deletion request.
> >
> >[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Foxboron/
> 
> 
> Hi @Foxboron,
> 
> Please kindly help me, I am at a loss here.
> 
> I would like to understand your view on what the actual, practical difference
> would have been in this particular case between a merge and a delete.

Only use merge if keeping metadata is important.

Both these packages have no metadata, there is nothing important to keep. You
submit a deletion request.

> Maintainer originally create this fork package, but it is a Git VCS build, so
> I advised them to change the pkgname and resubmit with a '-git' suffix. Which
> they were kind enough to do.
> 
> So in real-world human logic, this is a rename. AUR guidelines say that a
> merge type request is used for such cases.

Merge requests is not for *renames*, they are to retain metadata. If the
metadata doesn't exist then the merge request is not important.

> So far you are the only AUR PM / Arch Developer among everyone I've
> encountered during the last 3 years on AUR who did not accept this kind of
> merge request.

Then people have been accepting invalid merge requests for 3 years, I can't help
you with that.


I'm not going to write you emails for every misunderstanding when you have been
spamming us with hundred of requests for *years* at this point.

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Morten Linderud
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