On 2021-11-06 18:47, B via aur-general wrote:
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I did not realize that it was an issue to have a duplicate package in the AUR, and clearly see now that I should not. I guess the action of deleting the package makes more sense so I apologize for any confusion and unnecessary complaint. I do think if a package in an official repo is not getting updated that it makes sense to allow one in the AUR, but that would be a separate proposal.
I fear that you would be in the minority :). But please do feel free to maintain your own personal PKGBUILD for when you need an update faster than a maintainer can provide it!
Please note, I also maintain a separate Skaffold package (skaffold-bin) since at times new updates were not getting pushed for a month or more. Feel free to delete that as well.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention! I submitted a request.