I'll give it another try. Thanks!
On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 1:53 PM Eli Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/01/2017 01:39 PM, Dan B via aur-general wrote: > > Gist: I need a TU's help merging fd-git into fd-rs-git, as fd-rs-git is > not > > a valid merge target. (details below) > > No you don't need a TU's help, you just need an explanation as to how > the AUR expects you to do what you want to do. > > > I contacted the previous maintainer of this package (Wesley Moore) > > regarding this package since it wasn't populating in the aur. I received > > the following message: > > > >> Hi Dan, > >> > >> I deleted the package mid September as there are now proper releases for > > fd. I can't see it on aur.archlinux.org either so not sure I can add > you as > > a maintainer. > > This was silly, "there are now proper releases" is not a reason to > dislike the idea of having the option to install a development release. > > >> > >> Regards, > >> Wes > > > > I can clone fd-rs-git, but am unable to push changes to the aur: > > > >> ยป git push origin master > >> Counting objects: 5, done. > >> Delta compression using up to 4 threads. > >> Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done. > >> Writing objects: 100% (5/5), 1021 bytes | 1021.00 KiB/s, done. > >> Total 5 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0) > >> remote: error: invalid pkgbase: fd-git, expected fd-rs-git > >> remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master > >> To ssh://aur.archlinux.org/fd-rs-git.git > >> ! [remote rejected] master -> master (hook declined) > >> error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh:// > > [email protected]/fd-rs-git.git' > > The hook told you exactly the problem: you cannot push an fd-git pkgbase > to the fd-rs-git repository. You will need to push an fd-rs-git pkgbase > containing updates that were inspired by fd-git. > > Once you have created the updated fd-rs-git pkgbase, you can submit a > merge request to have the comments for fd-git transferred to the > fd-rs-git package. > > But I wouldn't bother as the only comments are discussing the actual move. > > Just resubmit the software as an update to the fd-rs-git package, and > submit a deletion request for the fd-git package. > > -- > Eli Schwartz > >
