How to get package into official package repo?

buhtz · 2023-09-15 07:59:35

Hello,

I'm not an Arch user but an upstream maintainer (backintime@AUR).

I would like to know how can a package become part of the official Arch package repo instead of AUR? The Wiki explains the different repos but I couldn't find infos about how to "join" them.

Kind
Christian Buhtz

WorMzy · 2023-09-15 08:03:24

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_U … epository?

Last edited by WorMzy (2023-09-15 12:06:39)

buhtz · 2023-09-15 08:17:16

URLs are not answers.

Do I get it right? It is a voting system? An AUR package need to have minimum 10 up votes to move? That is all?
What is about the maintainer? Does the AUR maintainer keep maintaining such a package or will it taken over by a more qualified non-AUR maintainer?

V1del · 2023-09-15 08:27:36

Usually the votes matter very little, the qualified non-AUR (AKA Trusted User/TU) maintainer wanting and using the software and taking it into the repos is the much more relevant factor.

Last edited by V1del (2023-09-15 08:29:51)

buhtz · 2023-09-15 08:28:57

V1del wrote:

Usually the votes matter very little, the qualified non-AUR (AKA Trusted User/TU) maintainer wanting and using the software and taking it into the repos is the much more relevant factor.

Thanks for making this clear. Sounds more like a political decision I can not influence as upstream maintainer.

Awebb · 2023-09-15 08:59:29

buhtz wrote:

URLs are not answers.

That's because the URL was missing a question mark. BBCode thought the ? wasn't part of the URL. "How to get a PKGBUILD into the extra repository?" is the name of the section in the mentioned article.

Political? You need to find a TU who is willing to maintain the package. There is no grand scheme behind this. Poke graysky, the maintainer of your stable version, dude's got plenty of AUR packages, is nice and makes stuff fly, so Y U no TU, graysky?

WorMzy · 2023-09-15 12:07:36

Awebb wrote:

buhtz wrote:
URLs are not answers.
That's because the URL was missing a question mark.

Whoops, thanks for pointing that out. Fixed.

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How to get package into official package repo?

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