Am 09.02.2019 um 14:34 schrieb Xyne:
Hi everyone,
This is in regard to this thread on the forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=244051
The packaged contained this project: https://github.com/Aniket-Pradhan/lsd
To summarize the thread, an AUR package that had existed for a while was deleted when an unrelated package of the same name was moved to [community]. The reason given was that the AUR package was "not useful enough", either because it only had 2 votes or because the acting TU saw no personal use for it.
For trivial packages, it would be good to at least clarify the reason for deletion in a little more detail. There are plenty of AUR packages that persist for years with 0 votes so a maintainer with 2 votes may be understandably confused by the terse statement "not useful enough". A little clarification can easily disperse that confusion and better guide the user through future contributions.
However, "trivial" here usually means that someone uploaded a bash script to do something like open arandr and click on it with xdotool to save half a second, or baked some convoluted ls-cat-cat-grep-cat-sed-cat pipe into a 3-line script. The project involved here is not in the same category. It may not be practically "useful" for many users, but it does do something that is not trivial to replicated in a few lines of shell code. It's "usefulness" is subjective.
The "original" lsf looks like a joke/troll package to me, rather than "trivial". I'd have deleted it even without community duplicate. Alad
In this case, the TU should have proposed renaming the package, given the maintainer some time to pick a new name and re-upload the package, and then merged the old one. Even a single vote from another user can be encouraging so the merge is worthwhile unless the maintainer states otherwise.
Regards, Xyne