On 21-05-23 02:05, Christian Rebischke via aur-general wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 10:36:55AM -0500, Derek Taylor via aur-general wrote:
I received a notice that several of my suckless builds (dwm-distrotube-git, st-distrotube-git, dmenu-distrotube-git) have been deleted from the AUR due to being "for one person". That's certainly reasonable but these packages are not for one person. A lot of people use these and depend on them. Again, these builds are not for one person. What can be done about this?
Thanks in advance, DT
Hi Derek,
I just had a glimpse on your software and I see why it got mass-removed. Maybe you shouldn't describe the packages as:
"My heavily-patched customized build of the Suckless simple terminal (st)." "My heavily-patched and customized build of the Suckless dmenu run launcher."
I can only speculate, but did you use the same package description in the AUR?
My suggestion to solve this: give the packages a new name and make clear that the software is a fork and something different.
For example:
pkgname: dst description: "dst (Derek's ST) is a suckless st inspired terminal with additional features"
A lot of the suckless packages being removed were removed by me and I've had a few emails from affected people. Just to reiterate, upstream suckless says that packaging their software is pointless[0], because of how the software configuration is tightly coupled with compiling. The majority of these packages were for a single person, therefore are not suitable to be placed on the AUR. The AUR isn't meant for people to place dotfiles and configuration snippets as per the submission guidelines[1]. [0]: https://dwm.suckless.org [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines#Rules_of_submissi... -- George Rawlinson