It's one of the request types you may file from the AUR web site. Orphan, Merge, or Delete. Merge also asks for the name of the candidate to merge into.
> On Mar 25, 2021, at 8:32 PM, Giuseppe Nebbione <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I am sorry Sir, but I am not confident with the AUR, and am not able in these > days to look up how to do this "merge". > > Greetings, > Giuseppe > > On 26/03/21 04:30, Christopher Snowhill wrote: >> >> As I said, it should be a merge request, so that requests to the old package >> get redirected. >> >> >> >> On Thursday, Mar 25, 2021 at 7:54 PM, Giuseppe Nebbione >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> The package has been pushed under the name "kb" now, tested and works >> nicely. So we can delete python-kb. >> >> On 26/03/21 03:52, Christopher Snowhill wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, Mar 25, 2021 at 7:47 PM, notify--- via aur-requests >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> gnebbia [1] filed a deletion request for python-kb [2]: >>> >>> I request the deletion of this package for two reasons: >>> 1) the package is out-of-date >>> 2) More importantly this has changed name to "kb" >>> since it is not a python module, but more a program >>> >>> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/gnebbia/ >>> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-kb/ >>> >>> >>> Should still be a merge request, once the package has been edited and >>> pushed to the correct name.
