FS#53731 - [uqm] optdep in AUR

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Brian McCord (beest) - Friday, 21 April 2017, 03:21 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Friday, 21 April 2017, 03:33 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

After discussion on the ML and on IRC, it's come to my attention that community packages should not carry optional AUR dependencies. I currently maintain uqm-sound, an optional dependency for uqm. I fairly recently fished it out of the AUR archive after being orphaned by AUR4, so it spent a good deal of time not even existing in the AUR at all.

I'd be happy to give up uqm-sound to a TU if it gets pulled it into community, or otherwise continue to maintain it if uqm gets knocked to the AUR. (One way or the other, uqm-sound probably needs a licence change; it was set as GPL by the prior maintainer, but I'm pretty sure the two packs it includes are a CC licence. I was planning on just waiting until an upstream release to change it and avoid a pkgrel bump, but it bugs me and there hasn't been a release in three years anyway.)
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Friday, 21 April 2017, 03:33 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  Discussion is ongoing, and there will likely be a todo list if this is the way things are decided.

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