On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Felix Yan <felixonmars@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 17:09:03 Karol Blazewicz wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Felix Yan <felixonmars@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 09:38:36 Edoardo Maria Elidoro wrote:
Hi everyone, this package [1] is four years old, upstream developement has stopped (around four years ago) and seems to not compile anymore. I request its removal from AUR.
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/green/
Thanks, Edoardo
Removed, thanks.
Regards, Felix Yan
Can somebody please explain again, what does it mean "dead upstream"? Since the sources are available, I thought we should keep it. Is the policy "remove the broken package - if someone knows how to fix this, they will upload a fixed package" or "let it be, maybe somebody someday will post a patch"?
Given the PKGBUILD simply calls make and install the result, and the PKGBUILD itself doesn't follow guidelines, I don't see a problem just to remove it (and it's been 4 years).
Anyway it's still there if you wanna have a look: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gr/green/PKGBUILD
Regards, Felix Yan
Thanks, I saw it's a very simple PKGBUILD but I wanted to ask before I submit a list of not-dead-yet packages for removal :-P