[tur-users] Xgl.. and its name

[Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino]

On 19:31 Sun 01 Apr     , JJDaNiMoTh wrote:
> Hello list.
> It is my first day of working and I have get first contestation ( right,
> for love of God :D ).
> 
> The problem is in the name of XGL.
> Packaging Guidelines says that:
> 
> Package versions *should be the same as the version released by the
> author*. Versions can include letters if need be (eg, nmap's version is
> 2.54BETA32). *Version tags may not include hyphens!* Letters, numbers,
> and periods only.
> 
> But, in the case of XGL, the first periods conflicts with the second
> one, because the name is xgl-0.0.1 ( as git repo says). When I put it on
> AUR, I've thought that autor's name is most important that guidelines.
> But now, that I add xgl to [community], the things are changed.
> 
> I've called xgl-0.0.1 because in AUR there is another version of this
> package, that get source directly from git repository, called xgl-git (
> it isn't working now, because source in repo are broken ). So, I've
> created xgl-0.0.1, and made version as version of the lastest snapshot
> that works well ( in this case, 20070105).
> 
> What do you think about this? Do I need to rename? What name I should
> use, to indicate that it is xgl 0.0.1, and it is the snapshot of 20070105?
> 
> In case of rename, I pray you of delete wrong xgl-0.0.1 on community/x11
> ( I know that delete is a dangerous thing on cvs.. and I hope that  you
> have more experience with this operation - I don't want to broke
> community - )
> 
> Excuse me for this supplementary work, and thank you for your help; I
> hope that this thing will be useful in future.

IMHO you should change the pkgname to just "xgl" and use the snapshot
date as pkgver.
You can't "rename" it, you have to delete that package and add another
one, with the right name.
To delete community packages:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_%E5%AF%BC%E5%BC%95#Deleting_packages_from_.5Bcommunity.5D

Anyway, don't worry, nothing is broken (yet :)
Cheers,

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Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino
Arch Linux Trusted User
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