On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Sébastien Luttringer <seblu@seblu.net> wrote:

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Karol Blazewicz <karol.blazewicz@gmail.com> wrote:

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Is it OK to upload PKGBUILDs like https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ga/gawk-source/PKGBUILD ?

This package doesn't do bad things like duplicate an official one or violate a copyright.

That's right.

It seems perfectly useless btw.

This is what I meant :-)

Cheers,

-- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://www.seblu.net GPG: 0x2072D77A

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Alexander Rødseth <rodseth@gmail.com>wrote:

We have no policies against useless packages. I have faith that the AUR web system + devs/TUs will be able to keep AUR useful, also in the future, despite of this, though. :)

- Alexander / xyproto

That is incorrect. There are policies: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_User_Guidelines#Submitting_packages - Make sure the package is useful. Will anyone else want to use this package? Is it extremely specialized? If more than a few people would find this package useful, it is appropriate for submission. - The AUR and official repositories are intended for packages which install generally software and software-related content, including one or more of the following: executable(s); config file(s); online or offline documentation for specific software or the Arch Linux distribution as a whole; media intended to be used directly by software.

On 09/13/13 at 01:11pm, Eric Bélanger wrote:

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Alexander Rødseth <rodseth@gmail.com>wrote:

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We have no policies against useless packages. I have faith that the AUR web system + devs/TUs will be able to keep AUR useful, also in the future, despite of this, though. :)

- Alexander / xyproto

That is incorrect. There are policies: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_User_Guidelines#Submitting_packages

- Make sure the package is useful. Will anyone else want to use this package? Is it extremely specialized? If more than a few people would find this package useful, it is appropriate for submission.

- The AUR and official repositories are intended for packages which install generally software and software-related content, including one or more of the following: executable(s); config file(s); online or offline documentation for specific software or the Arch Linux distribution as a whole; media intended to be used directly by software.

Since these source packages aren't of any use, I'm removing it and CC'ing the AUR submitter. -- Jelle van der Waa