Hi David, I'm zoorat. I'm the guy who sent deletion requests to "gtkwrite" and "gtkwrite-git". no clue about "gtkate" tho. The reason for deletion are 1. Missing dependency (gtksourceview2) with that broken dependency, you can't build any of those packages. and I tried by removing the dependency but build will fail. 2.Last Updated: 2019-02-21 00:53. or Last Updated: 2019-02-26 10:41. It's been more than 2 years...
If you think I made a mistake please let me know. If you need those packages clone "https://aur.archlinux.org/gtkwrite-git" and "https://aur.archlinux.org/gtkwrite".
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 16:34:32 +0000, zoorat via aur-general wrote:
The reason for deletion are
- Missing dependency (gtksourceview2)
with that broken dependency, you can't build any of those packages. and I tried by removing the dependency but build will fail.
Was there any comment or anything to let the maintainer know about the issue? Filing a deletion request right away seems a little harsh.
2.Last Updated: 2019-02-21 00:53. or Last Updated: 2019-02-26 10:41. It's been more than 2 years...
Is there a need to constantly "update" PKGBUILDs? What about software that doesn't see upstream releases very often?
If there *was* an upstream release, why not simply use the "out of date" flag?
Of course if there is an issue for over 2 years, that's another thing. But again, was the author previously notified about the issue at all (e.g. via AUR comment)?
Regards, Tinu
On 9/13/21 11:34 AM, zoorat via aur-general wrote:
Hi David, I'm zoorat. I'm the guy who sent deletion requests to "gtkwrite" and "gtkwrite-git". no clue about "gtkate" tho. The reason for deletion are
- Missing dependency (gtksourceview2)
with that broken dependency, you can't build any of those packages. and I tried by removing the dependency but build will fail. 2.Last Updated: 2019-02-21 00:53. or Last Updated: 2019-02-26 10:41. It's been more than 2 years...
If you think I made a mistake please let me know. If you need those packages clone "https://aur.archlinux.org/gtkwrite-git" and "https://aur.archlinux.org/gtkwrite".
Well,
That makes sense. gtk_sourceview2 is still installed on my system that I build on, but I hadn't tried building again. I need to move to gtk_sourcview3 anyway. At least I have a reason. I was quite disappointed at the removal, but did not have any idea that Arch dropped gtk_sourcview2. I guess gtk is dying anyway, the css styling with gtk+3 on is a show-stopper.
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