On 2/23/17 12:36 PM, Dan B via aur-general wrote:

I make an attempt to get packages working before submitting removal requests.

I'm 100% in agreement with this.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Lex Black wrote:

For me, if there aren't any upstream sources, or forks, what not, but the pkgbuild still builds, I'll usually locate a source package 'somewhere' and host it on my own site to keep the pkgbuild working. If, for some weird reason, there aren't any tarballs to be found, or perhaps there's some exotic license involved that makes self hosting impossible, only then will I submit a removal request. But typically, someone somewhere has a source tarball for a given app/utility, a little bit of research can go along way to keep old programs available for those that choose to use them. -- Thanks, John D Jones III UNIX Zealot; Perl Lover unixgeek1972@gmail.com jnbek1972@gmail.com http://zoelife4u.org/ Where Earth and Spirit Unite