Hello
In the AUR section of the Arch Packaging Standards guide [1] we can read
that a package must not build any of applications in the official
repositories.
At the moment the extra/strace 4.7-1 package uses the most updated
released version of the application but the current version has a defect
with custom kernel version numbers (eg. the 3.3-pf) which renders the
tool unusable at all.
Such bug has been fixed in the git repository [2] but the author has not
yet released an updated version.
Would be allowed to build a strace-git package to always pick the most
recent version from the git repo, even if it builds a binary application
present in the official repos?
What guidelines should be followed to avoid conflicting packages?
Thanks in advance
[1]
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards#Submitting_packages_to_the_AUR
[2]
http://strace.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=strace/strace;a=commitdiff;h=0dbc80de895c25769791b7726022a274695eec31;hp=55980f5b72000406e3fd843b098b5c1328a21e45
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Muflone
