On 12/3/19 9:13 PM, Eli Schwartz via aur-requests wrote: > On 12/3/19 2:27 PM, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: >> On 03/12/2019 18:26, [email protected] wrote: >>> rober_k [1] filed a deletion request for gtk3-classic [2]: >>> >>> this is an identical package as gtk3-mushrooms . >>> It pulls from the same repo, only is newer. >>> Proper way would be to mark gtk3-mushrooms out-of-date, not just >>> upload a different package with same content ;) >>> >>> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/rober_k/ >>> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/gtk3-classic/ >>> >> >> It's not a simply a more up-to-date package. The source repo is the same >> but gtk3-classic is essentially a forked gtk3-mushrooms which adds >> experimental/developmental (?) aspects to the PKGBUILD which the >> original does not (e.g. use of meson and quilt, see e.g. [1]). > > "Use quilt and meson" is not a valid reason to upload a new PKGBUILD. > The resulting package does not care what technology you use for applying > patches, and it *should* not care whether you use autotools or meson to > generate a series of compilation commands. > > Is there something that the resulting .pkg.tar.xz does, which is > different from "gtk3-mushrooms"? > > If it is just about the lib32-* variant, you can just upload a > lib32-gtk3-mushrooms package inspired by > https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/lib32-gtk3 > >> Also, technically the gtk3-mushrooms package is not out-of-date as the >> upstream is still at 3.24.11. >> >> If all of this is potentially too confusing let me update the PKGBUILD >> to use a different source rather than having the package deleted. > > I don't think changing the url= field makes a difference, if that is > what you mean. > >> [1] https://github.com/krumelmonster/gtk3-mushrooms/pull/26 >> > >
As far as i could see by a quick inspection there does appear to be a difference in the patches applied as well, hence me rejecting the request. If this is actually not the case, we might have to revisit my decision -- Rob (coderobe) O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
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