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amieljc

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Registered: 2024-04-26

Posts: 1

Package "moved" from AUR to extra

Hello,

I'm the co-maintainer of the AUR package hurl-bin (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hurl-bin) (and also the upstream maintainer of Hurl https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl)

There is a new hurl package in extra for Hurl https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/hurl/ and I wonder what should I do with the AUR Hurl package. Do I have to keep updating the AUR package it with new Hurl versions ?

Things to know:

• the AUR package is a binary package only. We get the binaries from the upstream GitHub repo

• the AUR package has two architectures x86 and arm64, while there is only x86 in extra

I really haven't a lot of experience with packaging on Arch so sorry if my questions are too obviuous!

Regards,

jc

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,969

Re: Package "moved" from AUR to extra

Do I have to keep updating the AUR package it with new Hurl versions ?

Aur is completely voluntarily, so you don't have to do that. But maybe you want to ?

Do you feel the -bin package adds enough things that are not available with the repo package to warrant the work of maintaining it ?

EDIT :

Seems a deletion request was filed by the PM who added it to repos, https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/li … 4CFG2KAAN/

If you feel there are good reasons to keep the hurl-bin package, you should send a reply to the aur-reuests list.
(as co-maintainer you should have gotten a notification email of the del request) .

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Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,311

Re: Package "moved" from AUR to extra

What you should do, especially if you are upstream, is contact the maintainer of the repo package (pacman -Qi hurl should show an email) and directly talk about it. You could, however maintain a "hurl-git". See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VCS_package_guidelines. Whatever you do, have a chat with the maintainer, they usually don't bite too hard.