Leonidas,

many thanks for the quick response!

well the reason for 1) is simple... lazyness ;) its just more convenient for me 
that way.
I am just not sure if that is against any recommendations or just a bad way 
doing it in the given example?
Afaiu I should better create 3 packages instead of package splitting, right?

I had to decypher a bit on what you meant by bug but I think I got it.
The pkgdesc field on split packages is ignored on the web ui and picking
the first one (?) - right?

I am very sorry that I had described it not good enough.. but.. yes you exactly 
got it! :)
Thanks will do so..

Cheers
Thomas



Am 29.08.22 um 16:27 schrieb Leonidas Spyropoulos via aur-general:
Hi Thomas,

On 29/08/2022 15:34, Thomas via aur-general wrote:
Hi,

I have 2 questions:

1) when is it allowed and / or good practice to split multiple
packages by 1 PKGBUILD?
For example I have created a package which pulls 3 debian packages and
creates 3 Arch packages from it.
I want to do that in 1 PKGBUILD by package splitting. Is that a good
idea or should this avoided (if so why..)?
Simple answer - when it makes sense. On the example you describe above I
can't see a reason why 3 different packages (which would end up in 3
different packages in Arch Linux) would derive from one PKGBUILD. What's
the reasoning for doing that instead of 3 different PKGBUILDs?

2) I found a bug in package splitting regarding the variable "pkgdesc"
- when in AUR: it simply gets ignored when used in package_<pkgname>
functions.

Example:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/systemd-libs-git
-> Line 220:
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=systemd-git#n220

It should work though according to:
https://archlinux.org/pacman/PKGBUILD.5.html#_package_splitting

It seems to work when in the regular package database - which is using
the same PKGBUILD as the AUR ofc:
https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/systemd-libs/

-> Is this the right place to report an issue like that?

I had to decypher a bit on what you meant by bug but I think I got it.
The pkgdesc field on split packages is ignored on the web ui and picking
the first one (?) - right?
If yes then please report as an issue at
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/issues


Cheers,

Leonidas

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