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zebulon

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[Solved] What is the policy regarding multilib equivalent of extra?

Hi,

I am maintaining some packages on the AUR and had a question regarding the policy on lib32- equivalent packages of extra packages. I just adopted lib32-libxxf86dga from the AUR (it had been orphaned), which had been moved from multilib in January 2012. I am perfectly happy to maintain it, but was wondering: when a library is available in the ABS tree (here libxxf86dga is in extra), should not it be available in multilib? For instance, extra/libxxf86vm has multilib/lib32-libxxf86vm, so I was surprised that another so closely related XFree86 package had its multilib equivalent in AUR. Is that correct?

Many thanks,
Zeb

Last edited by zebulon (2012-03-14 07:14:00)

the.ridikulus.rat

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Re: [Solved] What is the policy regarding multilib equivalent of extra?

There is no guarantee that any library package present in extra/community will have an equivalent lib32 package in the multilib, especially if no other package in multilib requires that lib32-* package. It also depends on whether any Dev/TU is willing to maintain the package in the repo. You might find that some TUs also maintain some of their packages in AUR instead of community/multilib for various reasons, which might include they not willing to provide a binary package in the repos and are happy maintaining the build script (PKGBUILD) alone.

Last edited by the.ridikulus.rat (2012-03-13 16:19:03)

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zebulon

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Re: [Solved] What is the policy regarding multilib equivalent of extra?

OK, thanks for your answer. I am happy anyway to maintain it, but if some TU wants it back in multilib, I would be ok to release it.

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Re: [Solved] What is the policy regarding multilib equivalent of extra?

OK, thanks for your answer. I am happy anyway to maintain it, but if some TU wants it back in multilib, I would be ok to release it.

You wouldn't have a choice . Package maintainers in the AUR are guardians, not owners, of their packages.

Please mark as [solved].

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zebulon

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Re: [Solved] What is the policy regarding multilib equivalent of extra?

Thanks for the info