[aur-general] AUR request mentality

2014-08-16 Thread carstene1ns
While the new AUR request functionality is a good thing and widely accepted (over 500 requests yet), it also brings us some problems: (1)inhibition threshold - It is much easier to remove a package now. (2)response time - Requests get accepted before the package maintainer or others have time to e

Re: [aur-general] Package deletion request for sublime-text-beta

2014-08-16 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On 17 August 2014 06:25, Ronald Kinard wrote: > Hello, > > I accidentally uploaded a package which is an effective duplicate of > sublime-text-dev, named sublime-text-beta. I'm requesting that my package > sublime-text-beta be deleted. > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sublime-text-beta/ > ht

Re: [aur-general] Package deletion request for sublime-text-beta

2014-08-16 Thread Taylor Lookabaugh
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Ronald Kinard wrote: > Hello, > > I accidentally uploaded a package which is an effective duplicate of > sublime-text-dev, named sublime-text-beta. I'm requesting that my package > sublime-text-beta be deleted. > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sublime-text-

[aur-general] Package deletion request for sublime-text-beta

2014-08-16 Thread Ronald Kinard
Hello, I accidentally uploaded a package which is an effective duplicate of sublime-text-dev, named sublime-text-beta. I'm requesting that my package sublime-text-beta be deleted. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sublime-text-beta/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sublime-text-dev/ Thanks

Re: [aur-general] replacing packages with split packages: how to merge?

2014-08-16 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 at 20:35:10, Xyne wrote: > [...] > >Votes are always only stored per package base. You cannot vote on a > >package. > > > >Note that it is also possible to merge two packages into another package > >without having a transition period where the original packages are > >unavailabl

Re: [aur-general] replacing packages with split packages: how to merge?

2014-08-16 Thread Xyne
On 2014-08-16 20:17 +0200 Lukas Fleischer wrote: >On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 at 20:00:48, Xyne wrote: >> [...] >> At first I thought that the pkgbase could be uploaded without anything in the >> pkgnames array as a placeholder for merging, but that would lump all the >> votes into the pkgbase and not the

Re: [aur-general] replacing packages with split packages: how to merge?

2014-08-16 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 at 20:00:48, Xyne wrote: > [...] > At first I thought that the pkgbase could be uploaded without anything in the > pkgnames array as a placeholder for merging, but that would lump all the votes > into the pkgbase and not the individual packages. > > Am I missing something? >

[aur-general] replacing packages with split packages: how to merge?

2014-08-16 Thread Xyne
Hi, Is there a standard procedure for replacing packages with split packages while preserving votes? For example, lets say there are two normal packages in the AUR, "foo-bar" and "foo-baz". foo-bar has 20 votes, foo-baz has 15. The maintainer realizes that he can produce both packages using a sp

[aur-general] Signoff report for [community-testing]

2014-08-16 Thread Arch Website Notification
=== Signoff report for [community-testing] === https://www.archlinux.org/packages/signoffs/ There are currently: * 0 new packages in last 24 hours * 0 known bad packages * 0 packages not accepting signoffs * 0 fully signed off packages * 4 packages missing signoffs * 0 packages older than 14 days