Having any recopies on the AUR that blow up systems (such as destroying pacman) even for a few minutes could be considered a few minutes too much. I wasn't involved with the deletion and haven't even looked up who was, but I can easily defend that decision. Packages that broken can and should be removed post-haste and fixed versions discussed and posted later. In this case it looks like you have fixed the sources so it's probably fine to upload them again. You'll notice when you do that you need to pick up with the Git repository where you left off. Also if you still expect this to be deployed only in an environment where `pacman` is not present or that has any other conflicting tooling I suggest adding `conflicts=(pacman)` or similar to block installation on places it does not belong. But also if that is the case you should know that you're pretty deep in a grey area on the AUR where packages are *expected* to make some sense on regular Arch Linux systems even if they are only applicable for certain hardware or environments. Have you been following the aur-general discussions along those lines (e.g. Manjaro, arm platforms, etc) Caleb On 2021-08-01 23:23, Hunter Wittenborn via aur-requests wrote:
As of this morning, it looks like the following packages I'm maintaining were deleted:
- makedeb-makepkg - makedeb-makepkg-beta - makedeb-makepkg-alpha
The reasoning for deletion for all three was as follows:
"this package replace pacman with a empty file"
This can be seen in the sources for the PKGBUILDs [1], but this was just a packaging mistake that was left over from the Debian releases of makepkg [2, 3] that I'm packaging (where pacman wouldn't normally be present).
These appear to have been deleted in less than 24 hours of the deletion request going through, without me even having a chance to be able to fix anything.
Is it OK if I republish the packages? I can fix the issue, but I'm not really sure what I did wrong in the first place that even deemed a deletion that quickly.
[1]: https://github.com/makedeb/makepkg/tree/alpha/PKGBUILDs/AUR [2]: https://github.com/makedeb/makepkg/tree/alpha/PKGBUILDs/MPR [3]: https://github.com/makedeb/makepkg/tree/alpha/PKGBUILDs/LOCAL
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