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
Dear Derek, The AUR is not meant to be a repository for personal items and as such, the packages that were heavily modified for your personal needs (this is what "being for one person" means)were deleted. Please read the AUR submission guidelines, found here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines
Thanks for your understanding.
Best Regards, Barnabas Beres
Derek Taylor via aur-general aur-general@lists.archlinux.org ezt írta (időpont: 2021. máj. 13., Cs, 17:37):
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
It's just all been going down hill ever since Judd left...
On 5/13/21 10:03 AM, Barnabás Béres via aur-general wrote:
Dear Derek, The AUR is not meant to be a repository for personal items and as such, the packages that were heavily modified for your personal needs (this is what "being for one person" means)were deleted. Please read the AUR submission guidelines, found here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines
Thanks for your understanding.
Best Regards, Barnabas Beres
Derek Taylor via aur-general aur-general@lists.archlinux.org ezt írta (időpont: 2021. máj. 13., Cs, 17:37):
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
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"
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...
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