[aur-requests] [PRQ#423] Deletion Request for cygwin-toolchain
ant32 [1] filed a deletion request for cygwin-toolchain [2]: Should this package be removed? It hasn't been updated in a long time (2012-08-08). And has been superseded by mingw-w64. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/ant32/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/cygwin-toolchain/
Request #423 has been rejected by arcanis [1]: As far as I understand MinGW and Cygwin have similar goals, but have slightly different functionality. So I reject this request. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/arcanis/
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 7:41 AM, <notify@aur.archlinux.org> wrote:
Request #423 has been rejected by arcanis [1]:
As far as I understand MinGW and Cygwin have similar goals, but have slightly different functionality. So I reject this request.
My reasoning behind the request was more that it was outdated for 2 years and the source isn't available. It doesn't build. It only has 1 vote. And all the PKGBUILD does is simply extract and copy.
On Thursday 07 August 2014 09:50:29 Philip A Reimer wrote:
My reasoning behind the request was more that it was outdated for 2 years and the source isn't available. It doesn't build. It only has 1 vote. And all the PKGBUILD does is simply extract and copy.
The package doesn't build because it is outdated for a long time, so listed sources are no longer available, According to the repository activity [1] the project looks active (the latest archives update was 2014-07-27). And our rules don't forbid to create packages from source *rpm or *deb archives (although it isn't recommended if there are alternatives). I don't see any strong reason to remove this package from AUR now. If someone wants to continue maintain this package and if the current maintainer will not disown or will not update the package he may send disown request. BTW the current maintainer receives the copies of this thread emails. 1. http://sourceforge.net/projects/fedora-cygwin/ -- С уважением, Е.Алексеев. Sincerely yours, E.Alekseev. e-mail: darkarcanis@mail.ru ICQ: 407-398-235 Jabber: arcanis@jabber.ru
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