On 13 December 2023 12:12:32 GMT+01:00, heinrich5991@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/10/23 14:27, notify@aur.archlinux.org wrote:
MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for libsrsbsns [2]:
Unneeded, discontinued joke library from 2013. [a]
Just read upstream repo's "About" section to see it's BS [b]: " Award winning unique innovative solution for cutting edge revolutionary business application. Feature rich robust scalable platform provides seamless and user-friendly out-of-box experience. State of art next generation cloud ecosystem leverages best practices for sustainable real-time performance. De-facto industry standard and 42% more serious… "
Also see todo list created by co-developer [c]: ( ) Create a todo list asap (As Srs As Possible) (*) Check some boxes to indicate a thriving bsns activity ( ) ????? ( ) PROFIT
[a]: https://github.com/srsbsns/libsrsbsns/tags [b]: https://github.com/srsbsns/libsrsbsns [c]: https://github.com/srsbsns/libsrsbsns/issues/3
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/libsrsbsns/
While the description is indeed a joke, the library contains data structures etc. implemented in C. It's not a joke library AFAIK.
Where do I respond to this ticket properly?
Kind regards, heinrich5991
Uh, hi, I'm terribly sorry that I missed your response. But indeed I have receive your message through the mailing list, so it is a proper form of reply. Just for clarification, I am just a fellow AUR user and not at all any kind of authority figure here. I was going through the AUR packages looking for potentially unneeded ones. Since you have expressed that this package is legit, can you maybe elaborate on what is the use case of this library? E.g., what do you personally use it for? And what does it offer to AUR users? I see that it was submitted to the current AUR database on 2015-06-19, and has 3 votes. Upstream's last git tag, v0.0.1 was created on Jul 4, 2013, and the devel branch has 210 newer commits, with the last one created ~4.5 years ago, on Nov 15, 2019. But from the looks of the code, the readme, the repo, the few (already accepted or closed) pull requests, and the few issues, everything seems to be a joke, or belonging to someone's personal learning sandbox rather than any focused and purpose-made project. On AUR there are no comments, and no reverse dependencies. I personally am not opposed to keeping this package, but on the other hand, if it does not offer anything that other AUR users benefit from, then by AUR submission guidelines it is not something worth having here. Thank you in advance for any insight you can provide on the utility and merits of this library! Cheers, Marcell / MarsSeed