On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Tai-Lin Chu <tailinchu@gmail.com> wrote:
mysteriously? there is no uncertainty when a maintainer decides to remove the package. I feel any package should be fully controlled by the maintainer. To make things less "mysterious", it is possible to create remove history in the database.
A few days ago we had a case of a package 'mysteriously went missing' for not being compliant to the Arch PKGBUILD standards - deleted by a TU. I think this is wrong wrong wrong! There are only a few reason to delete a package build: If the source isn't available anymore, (eg. deleted or a move from svn to git) or if it doesn't build due to lack of maintenance. And I think it's a good idea to do it in public, eg. on the ML and not by the (current) maintainer!