Replacing package with a superset split package?

2025-03-12 Thread Sam Mulvey
Hello all! I (try to) maintain the Xen stuff in AUR. As background: There are multiple ways to boot a VM inside of Xen.  For full hardware emulation, I can use SeaBIOS or edk2-ovmf as appropriate.   For paravirtualization there is the newer PVH method, and the older PV method.  Both are supp

Re: xen moving to [extra]

2024-01-21 Thread Sam Mulvey
On 1/21/24 22:19, Daurnimator wrote: There's not really any ongoing discussions. For what it's worth, my personal motivation is to package qubes guest packages into the Arch [extra] repo, of which qubes-libvchan will depend on shared library from xen (https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-core-

xen moving to [extra]

2024-01-21 Thread Sam Mulvey
Hello! I've been maintaining xen and associated packages for a few years.   This relative evening the package got the following comment: https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/xen#comment-952940 I think it'd be a great idea to include xen in [extra], and I'm wondering if there's some way I could

Re: [aur-general] request to make a -libs package

2022-02-06 Thread Sam Mulvey via aur-general
On 2/6/22 05:51, Uwe Koloska via aur-general wrote: But wasn't the request about splitting off the library part from a bigger package that contains all about xen? So that there is a xen-lib split-package and the rest, so that everyone providing services for xen, could be build with only the

Re: [aur-general] request to make a -libs package

2022-02-06 Thread Sam Mulvey via aur-general
On 2/6/22 04:46, Morten Linderud via aur-general wrote: Arch doesn't split off libraries and development headers into seperate packages and this is a feature. There are few exceptions to this but generally I don't think there is anything written about this. I understand this is not something

[aur-general] request to make a -libs package

2022-02-06 Thread Sam Mulvey via aur-general
Hello! I maintain the xen package in AUR, and I recently got a merge request on my private repo to split the libs off into a split package in order to make building packages for things like ocaml a little easier.   Previously, packages depended on a now outdated xenstore package. I have a va

Re: [aur-general] audacity3

2021-06-22 Thread Sam Mulvey via aur-general
On 6/22/21 3:16 AM, alad via aur-general wrote: There's 59 TUs looking after 70676 packages and moderating 85141 users. To make that manageable, you need some a strict set of rules. One of them is not submitting "-latest" packages that are already in the repos. But the implementation is not

Re: [aur-general] audacity3

2021-06-22 Thread Sam Mulvey via aur-general
On 6/22/21 1:48 AM, Caleb Maclennan via aur-general wrote: As background, many years ago when working as an audio engineer I used to use it in production nearly full time. I'm quite familiar with it's past and the weird development practices upstream (such as forked toolkit versions). I am no l