On 2015-08-10 19:07, Damian Nowak wrote:
Well, if you need in the future, perhaps you will create a new PKGBUILD then? Relying in unmaintained packaged will most likely give you trouble.
I can't agree with that. If I search for something next time and it's not in AUR4, I'd go to AUR3, get the old PKGBUILD, update it, make sure it works, and then upload to AUR4 so others can use it too. Better than writing from scratch.
I agree with this. In fact, this is how I recently 'rescued' a couple orphaned packages from aur3 before it went offline. I was very grateful to have a working PKGBUILD to start from. In one case, it wasn't up to date, but at least I had something to start from. With that in mind, I think a static, read-only copy of the latest state of AUR3 would be a valuable resource, at least for a while. It doesn't _have_ to be permanent, does it? Maybe keep it around for a year or two? -- Chris