Am Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:51:16 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae <[email protected]>:
> You keep saying "official policies"... Where is this official policy > document that says do not use the split PKGBUILD hack to upload > packages to the AUR? > > Yes, the AUR does not support split packages. But there is nothing > actually wrong about using "true && pkgname=()" to provide one. It is > still a perfectly valid PKGBUILD. Not being supported by AUR helpers > is never a benchmark of a valid PKGBUILD... But as you see in the mentioned example it doesn't work at least in some cases. And it's just a workaround anyway. Having no syntax errors in the PKGBUILD and being able to upload it only with a workaround doesn't mean that it's valid. So a missing official support for split packages in AUR means for me that such a PKGBUILD is not valid, at least not the best packaging quality. Heiko
