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definitellynotspammer

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Registered: 2016-06-07

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[SOLVED] What names should I give to packages?

Hello,

NBFC software author (https://github.com/hirschmann/nbfc) changed his github repo structure into 3 branches:

1. Stable
2. Beta
3. Development

And I am not quite sure about what AUR packages should I maintain? Currently I maintain 2 AUR packages:

1. nbfc (releases on GitHub)
2. nbfc-git (master branch)

But since author created more branches (more info at https://github.com/hirschmann/nbfc/issues/567), I am planning to create more AUR packages as well, but I am not sure about their names. Would it be OK to name them like this:

1. nbfc (from releases section on GitHub)
2. nbfc-stable-git (Stable branch)
3. nbfc-beta-git (Beta branch)
4. nbfc-dev-git (Development branch)

Thoughts? Or should I keep maintaining only existing 2 packages as I do now (nbfc & nbfc-git) and forget about other branches?

Any suggestions or tips are welcome!

Regards,
Erikas

Last edited by definitellynotspammer (2018-10-07 21:08:18)

eschwartz

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Re: [SOLVED] What names should I give to packages?

What's the point of the stable branch at all? It's apparently just 173 commits behind master, and last updated in December 2016.

By the way, the beta and master branches are currently identical.

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Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] What names should I give to packages?

Building on the above would those 4 different packages serve 4 different purposes?

It makes (some) sense to me to have the nbfc stable package, and one nbfc-git (probably best to be to the master or development branch).

Don't make more packages just because you can, make more packages if/when there is a need or demand for them.

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definitellynotspammer

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Registered: 2016-06-07

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Re: [SOLVED] What names should I give to packages?

Thanks everyone, I will keep only 2 packages as they are already in AUR