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Any chance to upload a pkgbuild at AUR?

Added by xphnx the-flow 28 days ago

I love privacybrowser android. Any chance to upload it to AUR?
Unfortunately I haven't the needed skills to do that.
Regards!


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RE: Any chance to upload a pkgbuild at AUR? - Added by Soren Stoutner 26 days ago

I am not familiar with AUR. Can you please explain what it is.

Also, this forum is for Privacy Browser PC, but you make reference to Privacy Browser Android. Did you mean to post on that forum:

https://redmine.stoutner.com/projects/privacy-browser/boards

RE: Any chance to upload a pkgbuild at AUR? - Added by xphnx the-flow 26 days ago

Sorry.

I meant PB-android is my main browser on my Smartphone and would be very happy to use the pc flavour on my arch/kde desktop.

AUR is a comunitary repo for compiling packages into ArchLinux. ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository)

Thanks a lot!

RE: Any chance to upload a pkgbuild at AUR? - Added by Soren Stoutner 26 days ago

I have never used Arch Linux (although I am aware of it). My general opinion is that it is always best if the packager of software is a user of the platform. Packagers that don't use the platform on a daily basis tend to not produce idiomatic packages.

As all my production systems run Debian, I have prepared the Debian package myself. My hope is that someone who uses Arch Linux will volunteer to package Privacy Browser. I would be more than happy to assist them in any way I can, including making reasonable upstream changes to facilitate easy packaging.

Along those lines, I would think the best target would be the extra repository as opposed to the Arch User Repository, although I understand that AUR can be a stepping stone into extra.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Extra_repository#extra

RE: Any chance to upload a pkgbuild at AUR? - Added by ask low 24 days ago

I daily drive arch too. Although I'm not sure about packaging at all. I've even never edited any pkgbuilds of AUR. I mostly tend to avoid AUR packages, as they're prone to breakages & dependency loopholes.

Even in most rough cases, I use AUR builds only if they're packaged by the owner himself. Users won't be maintaining them consistently, as I've seen a lot of cases where users stop maintaining the pkgbuilds & abandon updating them altogether. I've been there.

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