False positive warnings on split packages?

[lahwaacz]

I'm getting the following on the doxygen PKGBUILD:

E   1 # Maintainer: Jakub Klinkovský <lahwaacz at archlinux dot org>     ■ Split PKGBUILD needs additional makedepends ['libfmt.so', 'libspdlog.so', 'libsqlite3.so'] to work properly
    2 # Maintainer: Levente Polyak <anthraxx[at]archlinux[dot]org>
    3 # Contributor: Dan McGee <[email protected]>
    4
    5 pkgbase=doxygen
    6 pkgname=(doxygen doxygen-docs)
W   7 pkgver=1.11.0     ■ pkgver: is unsorted due to pkgbase@file:///home/lahwaacz/doxygen/PKGBUILD:5:1-5:7
W   8 pkgrel=4     ■ pkgrel: is unsorted due to pkgbase@file:///home/lahwaacz/doxygen/PKGBUILD:5:1-5:7
W   9 pkgdesc='Documentation system for C++, C, Java, IDL and PHP'     ■ pkgdesc: is unsorted due to pkgbase@file:///home/lahwaacz/doxygen/PKGBUILD:5:1-5:7
W  10 url='http://www.doxygen.nl'     ■ url: is unsorted due to pkgbase@file:///home/lahwaacz/doxygen/PKGBUILD:5:1-5:7
   11 arch=(x86_64)
...
  103 package_doxygen-docs() {
W 104   pkgdesc='Developer documentation for doxygen'     ■ pkgdesc: is unsorted due to pkgbase@file:///home/lahwaacz/doxygen/PKGBUILD:5:1-5:7
  105
  106   mv -v $pkgname/* "$pkgdir"
  107   install -vDm 644 $pkgbase-Release_${pkgver//./_}/LICENSE -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/"
  108 }
  109
  110 # vim: ts=2 sw=2 et:

Why does it warn about unsorted pkgver, pkgrel, pkgdesc and url? Also note that a pkgdesc defined in the package_doxygen-docs function is fine too.

[Freed-Wu]

warn about unsorted

Refer #19 (comment)

pkgdesc defined in the package_doxygen-docs function is fine too.

Should be an unexpected behaviour.

[lahwaacz]

Refer #19 (comment)

But here the order pkgname, pkgver, pkgrel is correct, only they are placed after pkgbase.

[Freed-Wu]

I see, the order comes from man 5 PKGBUILD, in the man, pkgbase is placed after them. 😢

[lahwaacz]

That is because split packages are not that common, so pkgbase is explained near the end of the manual page. But it does not suggest that pkgbase should be at the bottom - typically it is either right before or right after pkgname. See PKGBUILD-split.proto or some PKGBUILDs of official Arch packages.

[Freed-Wu]

So the order should be adapted to the official recommended order. Except man, is there any good official information about it?

[lahwaacz]

I guess only the PKGBUILD-split.proto file or making a sample from the official Arch packages...