On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Philipp Überbacher <hollunder@lavabit.com>wrote:
Excerpts from masutu's message of 2011-02-04 18:22:35 +0100:
Hi TUs,
can you please delete dino-git ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33598)? I'm the maintainer of this package and want it to be deleted because a) PKGBUILD is broken, outdated and i can't get current git versions to compile (neither master branch nor Branch_0_2) b) dino is not very popular, dino has 3 votes, dino-git 0 votes, so i think, we can live without the git package
masutu
Popularity or the lack of it is no reason for deletion from AUR, IMHO. Community is for the popular packages. If it doesn't build orphaning the package is the way to go IMHO, someone else can take it over, take what's there already or start from scratch.
This was not a question of popularity, masutu was just being awesome and covering his bases. masutu asked for the packages to be deleted because he was the maintainer and no longer felt that the package was needed, as the maintainer he holds that prerogative.
But yes, a lack of popularity is not grounds alone for package removal