Thanks for being a co-maintainer.
The provides field tells other packages what this package, well, provides: e.g., awk', gawk, mawk and nawk could all provide=('awk') if they had a binary called awk with a behaviour equal to the reference AWK implementation (this is just an example).
In our context, soupault-bin and possibly a soupault-git would provide the same functionality as the soupault package (had it been compiled from the sources), so a user can choose any of these to fulfill a dependency.
As for your soupault package:
The package has 3 votes, so presumably someone is using it. To alert them of the fact, I would bump e.g. the pkgrel (to force an update for anyone with the package installed), and then add a prepare() function that would alert people to install soupault-bin instead:
prepare() {
echo 'This package has been replaced by "soupault-bin".' >&2
echo 'Please install that package instead.' >&2
exit 1
}
and change build() to e.g.:
build() {
false
}
This prevents the package from being built, and forces people to take a look at the outpout: that they should switch to the binary package.
Then just disown the package. Hopefully, an OCaml expert will pass by and adopt the package to compile from the sources.
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kseistrup commented on 2024-03-26 15:16 (UTC)
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v4.9.0-2I've experimentally added theaarch64architecture. Please test it, someone. TIA!