On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 at 03:11:54, Dave Reisner wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 06:31:40PM -0500, Dave Reisner wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 08:52:46PM +0100, Lukas Fleischer wrote: > > > 3) duplicate a lot of stuff in the pkgname section, even if it's > > > identical to what is listed in the pkgbase section. > > > > That shouldn't be the case. What package were you looking at that shows > > this in the .AURINFO? The goal is that pkgbase section provides the > > bulk of the metadata -- the individual pkgname sections are only > > overrides and supplements. The GetMergedPackage def in the python parser > > illustrates how the base and "overlay" create each output package. > > Nevermind this -- I found cases where this happens. Fixed locally, just > need to write some regression tests.
Great! I just submitted some patches to the AUR to add support for the new format and add a deprecation warning for packages not containing any meta data [1]. [1] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-dev/2014-January/002616.html
