Repentinus [1] filed a deletion request for gitit [2]:
The package does not conform to the Haskell package guidelines and
includes around a hundred third-party dependencies as sources, a
number of which are available packaged in the Arch repositories. I
have invited the maintainer to fix the issues, but they declined.
Repentinus commented on 2021-05-28 03:08
> Rufflewind, could you please rewrite this PKGBUILD to conform to the
Haskell package guidelines?
Rufflewind commented on 2021-05-28 04:14
> @Repentinus This package has a large number of aging dependencies
and runs into version conflicts easily. Freezing dependencies was
necessary for getting it to build reproducibly. Stack would have been
a good choice but Gitit doesn't play well with that either:
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=gitit&id=c2b9a66c0e6509bb3…
> Let me know if you have an alternative approach for building Gitit
that works reliably.
Repentinus commented on 2021-05-28 04:34
> Rufflewind, PKGBUILDs support versioned dependencies. Dependencies
requiring a specific version not available in the Arch repositories
should have separate AUR packages created for them and this PKGBUILD
should depend on those.
Rufflewind commented on 2021-05-28 05:21
> That is not a feasible approach given the number of dependencies.
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Repentinus/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/gitit/
frealgagu [1] filed a deletion request for drawio [2]:
Duplicated package, drawio-desktop already exists. Even, this package
is using already built binaries, so by convention it should be drawio-
desktop-bin or something like that.
A previous merge request was accepted in the past, merging both
packages into drawio-desktop, so, this package should not be longer
re-commited (and even worse deleting previous maintainers/contributors
in the process).
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/frealgagu/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/drawio/