On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 15:27:58 you wrote:
Hi,
You may not remember me. I contacted you a few months regarding the deletion of one of my packages. Since you did seem to be accessible, I thought it was a good idea to ask for your help.
I have two issues. The first is that I want 2 of my packages to be deleted. The first is: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/julia-cumatrix-git/(upstream is dead, and the package does not even build anymore).
Removed, thanks.
The second is libscl (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libscl/). This is still alive (I know the author). But the library uses C++ from the 90s and there are just better projects out there, so I have zero interest in it (perhaps it would be better to orphan it?).
Yes, I believe it better to just orphan it :)
I know that there is a mailing list to ask for deletion, but I sent a request months ago and it never showed up on AUR-general. Do you know why that is so? I submitted another request to AUR-general today, but I am not very optimistic about it.
Hmm, this is strange, I'm CC'ing the list to see if anyone can help you with this.
The second problem is that my shc package ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/shc/) does not build anymore because the sha256 of the source changed. This is weird because there is no mention of a new version or anything like that (and I am pretty sure that it was not my mistake, I keep multiple backup copies of my PKGBUILDs). I emailed the author about 2 weeks ago and got no reply. What should I do in this case since I do not trust that upstream's website was not compromised?
I guess it's better to just leave a comment on AUR page (as you already did) and update the checksums. As it is indeed the upstream url and you cannot get in touch with him, I don't see any better choice :(
Please let me know if you can help, and sorry for the long email.
Regards, Felix Yan