Re: [aur-general] Changes in Arch packaging standards

2013-12-07 Thread Jeremy Audet
> Anyway, imho the rule should be: use plain name for the latest stable release, and add the appropriate suffix (usually 1 or 2 digits) for any other release. This is wonderfully simple and straightforward. It's also current practice. Let's keep using it. > There are basically 2 scenarios to consi

Re: [aur-general] Changes in Arch packaging standards

2013-12-07 Thread Xyne
> Jerome Leclanche wrote: >>Sensitive topic: Why doesn't arch support multiple versions for the >>same packages? >>Whenever it's brought up, there's always the answer that Arch is a >>rolling release (and we're all happy with that). But pretty obviously >>there are cases where multiple versions a

Re: [aur-general] Changes in Arch packaging standards

2013-12-07 Thread Eric Bélanger
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:41 AM, Maxime Gauduin wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Sergej Pupykin wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> Bartłomiej Piotrowski proposed packaging standard changes: >> if there are 2 versions of some package foobar, then older version (1.0 >> for example) must be named

Re: [aur-general] Changes in Arch packaging standards

2013-12-06 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 6 December 2013 17:25, Sergej Pupykin wrote: > Bartłomiej Piotrowski proposed packaging standard changes: Where is this proposal? I think he simply meant that it is the current practice. > if there are 2 versions of some package foobar, then older version (1.0 > for example) must be named as

Re: [aur-general] Changes in Arch packaging standards

2013-12-06 Thread Lukas Jirkovsky
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Sergej Pupykin wrote: > > Hi, > > Bartłomiej Piotrowski proposed packaging standard changes: > if there are 2 versions of some package foobar, then older version (1.0 > for example) must be named as foobar1-1.0 and newer version (2.0 for > example) must be named as

Re: [aur-general] Changes in Arch packaging standards

2013-12-06 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 12/06/13 at 10:22am, Jerome Leclanche wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > > On 06.12.2013 10:45, Sergej Pupykin wrote: > >> At Fri, 06 Dec 2013 09:42:11 +0001, > >> Maxime Gauduin wrote: > >>> I would chang

Re: [aur-general] Changes in Arch packaging standards

2013-12-06 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 06.12.2013 11:31, Sergej Pupykin wrote: > At Fri, 6 Dec 2013 10:22:35 +, > Jerome Leclanche wrote: >> Sensitive topic: Why doesn't arch support multiple versions for the >> same packages? > Another sensitive topic is removing packages without notification > refering to nonexistent rule. > >

Re: [aur-general] Changes in Arch packaging standards

2013-12-06 Thread Sergej Pupykin
At Fri, 6 Dec 2013 10:22:35 +, Jerome Leclanche wrote: > Sensitive topic: Why doesn't arch support multiple versions for the > same packages? Another sensitive topic is removing packages without notification refering to nonexistent rule. WTF? :S

Re: [aur-general] Changes in Arch packaging standards

2013-12-06 Thread Jerome Leclanche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > On 06.12.2013 10:45, Sergej Pupykin wrote: >> At Fri, 06 Dec 2013 09:42:11 +0001, >> Maxime Gauduin wrote: >>> I would change that rule a bit, because wxgtk is a special case. The >>> 2.9

Re: [aur-general] Changes in Arch packaging standards

2013-12-06 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 06.12.2013 10:45, Sergej Pupykin wrote: > At Fri, 06 Dec 2013 09:42:11 +0001, > Maxime Gauduin wrote: >> I would change that rule a bit, because wxgtk is a special case. The >> 2.9 branch is a devel branch, keeping wxgtk for the stable branch and >> adding a suffix for the devel branch makes

Re: [aur-general] Changes in Arch packaging standards

2013-12-06 Thread Sergej Pupykin
At Fri, 06 Dec 2013 09:42:11 +0001, Maxime Gauduin wrote: > > > > I would change that rule a bit, because wxgtk is a special case. The > 2.9 branch is a devel branch, keeping wxgtk for the stable branch and > adding a suffix for the devel branch makes sense. Speaking of wxgtk, > now that 3.0

Re: [aur-general] Changes in Arch packaging standards

2013-12-06 Thread Maxime Gauduin
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Sergej Pupykin wrote: Hi, Bartłomiej Piotrowski proposed packaging standard changes: if there are 2 versions of some package foobar, then older version (1.0 for example) must be named as foobar1-1.0 and newer version (2.0 for example) must be named as fooba

[aur-general] Changes in Arch packaging standards

2013-12-06 Thread Sergej Pupykin
Hi, Bartłomiej Piotrowski proposed packaging standard changes: if there are 2 versions of some package foobar, then older version (1.0 for example) must be named as foobar1-1.0 and newer version (2.0 for example) must be named as foobar-2.0. I did not see such rule yet on https://wiki.archlinux.