It is not useful to keep a package that fails to build due to (make)depending 
on deprecated, unmaintained, broken package(s).

On 19 December 2023 21:04:28 GMT+01:00, nmlibertar...@gmail.com wrote:
>This should remain separate much as the gnucash version release and
>gnucash-docs version release are separate in the extra repos. FURTHER, it
>is up to date and does compile and work, as does gnucash-git.
>
>Best regards - Not_Anonymous
>
>On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 6:48 AM <not...@aur.archlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> MarsSeed [1] filed a request to merge gnucash-docs-git [2] into
>> gnucash-git [3]:
>>
>> Not useful to keep the broken pkgbase=gnucash-docs-git.
>>
>> It was last changed in 2015, and has been failing to build since at
>> least 2020 due to makedepends=rarian's reported FTBFS that year, which
>> persists to this day.
>>
>> But no one noticed. gnucash-docs-git has only 2 votes, and 1 comment
>> from maintainer made in 2017.
>>
>> Extra repo has the latest stable gnucash and gnucash-docs.
>>
>> If the rolling 'git' docs is needed, it is best to enable it in the
>> main gnucash-git's PKGBUILD. With this merge, it will become possible
>> in the latter to create a split package with the same 'gnucash-docs-
>> git' name.
>>
>> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/
>> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/gnucash-docs-git/
>> [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/gnucash-git/

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