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Chazza

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Registered: 2013-06-02

Posts: 506

[SOLVED]Compiz 0.9 packaging cleanup

There are a great deal of orphaned Compiz 0.9 packages in the AUR, some for stable releases and some for bazaar. They are all on around 0.9.5 or 0.9.7. These are the packages I'm referring to:

for stable release:
* ccsm-dev -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ccsm-dev/
* compiz-plugins-extra-dev --  https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/comp … extra-dev/
* compiz-plugins-main-dev -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/comp … -main-dev/
* compizconfig-backend-gconf-dev -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/comp … gconf-dev/
* compizconfig-backend-gsettings-dev -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/comp … tings-dev/
* compizconfig-python-dev -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/comp … ython-dev/
* libcompizconfig-dev -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libcompizconfig-dev/

for development release:
* ccsm-bzr -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ccsm-bzr/
* compiz-core-bzr -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/compiz-core-bzr/
* compiz-plugins-extra-bzr -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/comp … extra-bzr/
* compiz-plugins-main-bzr -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/comp … -main-bzr/
* compizconfig-backend-gconf-bzr -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/comp … gconf-bzr/
* compizconfig-backend-gsettings-bzr -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/comp … tings-bzr/
* compizconfig-python-bzr -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/comp … ython-bzr/
* libcompizconfig-bzr -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libcompizconfig-bzr/

As I understand it, all these Compiz components are no longer packaged separately but are all packaged together and that is why we have two main packages for installing Compiz 0.9, compiz-dev and compiz-bzr. I've had a look on launchpad and this seems to be the case. The compiz-ccsm page lists 0.9.5.92 as the latest version when it's actually 0.9.10. Therefore, all the packages above can never be updated. I think a merge request should be made; all the dev packages should be merged with compiz-dev and all the bzr packages should be merged with compiz-bzr. I just wanted to run this past people to make sure I haven't made any mistakes.

Last edited by Chazza (2014-04-01 13:07:14)

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: [SOLVED]Compiz 0.9 packaging cleanup

You should probably post this on the aur-general mailing list, I'm not sure how many of the TU's actually visit the forum regularly.

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Chazza

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Registered: 2013-06-02

Posts: 506

Re: [SOLVED]Compiz 0.9 packaging cleanup

Well that's what I was planning on doing but as it's such a lot of packages I just wanted to check I hadn't missed anything. I guess you're right though. I'll post this on the mailing list and see what happens.

EDIT: done.

EDIT 2: The merger has now taken place.

Last edited by Chazza (2014-04-01 13:07:41)