Hi, 2014-07-22 22:09 GMT+02:00 David Phillips <dbphillipsnz@gmail.com>:
but it's a problem if it has indeed not been updated since 2002
Simple question: why?
Simple answer: It's not. Not by itself. The reasons lie in the parts I wrote that was snipped away. It is not a problem in itself that the available files has not been updated since 2002, but the sum of the earlier provided reasons were enough to remove it from [community]. I can expand on the reasons: * iat had to be updated, because of a TODO for rebuilding a whole series of packages, that was created by another TU/dev. * The rebuild of iat did not work, because the upstream files were gone. * A search for the missing files and a look at the homepage (that is missing) gave no result (but someone later found the missing files on a dumping ground for dead projects, congratulations). * No other packages depends on iat, so when it did not build and when the needed files were missing, the decision to remove it from [community] was easy. * The decision was also influenced by the fact that it is a dead project (no updates to the files for five years, no webpage, very low likelyhood of problems being fixed or looked at if reported). * Being related to physical media and CD-ROM technology did not help (but was not mentioned in the original list of reasons). I agree that a program or package isn't bad just because it's old, but there were other reasons at play here. Other TUs/devs may have other lines of reasoning. If any of you think I'm being unreasonable here, I can ask for feedback on the process (and any TU/dev are free to move iat back to [community] if they should wish to do so, at any time). Anyone can sumbit "iat" to AUR if they feel people are missing out here. -- Best regards, Alexander Rødseth / xyproto