Unsubscribe On Tue, Jun 22, 2021, 07:52 Eli Schwartz via aur-general < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/21/21 12:48 PM, Jayesh Badwaik via aur-general wrote: > > Dear Eli, > > > > May be a little off-topic from the application discussion but > > curious. What is a good way to get those packages in AUR then? Would > > `audacity-jayesh` or `audacity3` would be an appropriate replacement? > > > The deleted AUR package was "audacity3". Given one of the problems is > the package doesn't build properly (when running cmake it git clones > https://github.com/audacity/wxWidgets/commits/audacity-fixes-3.1.3 and > uses the latest code currently on that branch) I'm skeptical it can be > packaged correctly. > > If it cannot be packaged correctly, then as one of the rare people who > actually believes the AUR is supposed to ideally contain packages which > follow the package guidelines (I know this will eternally be a work in > progress at best, but I refuse to just give up and not even try), I > don't believe it should be submitted to the AUR as an *incorrectly* > packaged edition. > > ... much less uploaded as "audacity-but-actually-up-to-date". The usual > standard for this sort of thing is to have an AUR *-bin package > containing the upstream prebuilt binaries with presumably vendored > everything, including their wxwidgets fork. > > If anyone does figure out how to package it correctly for the AUR, then > it doesn't belong in the AUR either :p email dvzrv / ainola to have the > community package updated. > > > -- > Eli Schwartz > Bug Wrangler and Trusted User > >
