Hi,

I'm the maintainer of the gosh package, and this seems reasonable enough to me, but obviously there's the concern that people who have the old gosh installed may be using it and not want this to go through (though I doubt there are many of them).

If my input is at all necessary (which I doubt) I'm happy with any decision from the TUs. I assume there's some kind of protocol for this.

Thanks, Sauyon

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 23:33 notify@aur.archlinux.org wrote:

mvdan [1] filed a deletion request for gosh [2]:

Hi,

I'm the author of shfmt, which was recently added to the Community repo: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/shfmt/

As part of the same "shell tooling" project, I'm now working on a second tool called "gosh". You can see both here: https://github.com/mvdan/sh/tree/master/cmd

It seems like the name is mostly free. The only official package providing /usr/bin/gosh is "gauche", but being Scheme, I doubt many people will run into that conflict.

This package hasn't seen a real update in three years, and the upstream project seems like it stalled in early 2015. I was wondering if you could free up this package name in the AUR, so that I may use it to package my shell tool.

The command name in my project first appeared in early 2017, so this isn't a last-minute attempt to take over someone else's package :) I hope it doesn't seem that way.

Thanks!

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/mvdan/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/gosh/

On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 14:58:49 +0000, Sauyon Lee wrote:

I'm the maintainer of the gosh package, and this seems reasonable enough to me, but obviously there's the concern that people who have the old gosh installed may be using it and not want this to go through (though I doubt there are many of them).

Thanks for your reply. I too imagine there likely aren't that many of them, and installing Go programs is usually straightforward anyway.

If my input is at all necessary (which I doubt) I'm happy with any decision from the TUs. I assume there's some kind of protocol for this.

It seems like the request was rejected. TUs, is there a protocol for this? The rejection mentioned that minimal activity in early 2017 is enough to keep the package around, so should I file a request again in a few months?

I realise that no activity for two years is usually OK for most packages, but with Go having a major release every six months, any Go interpreter that hasn't had updates for more than two releases is likely just unmaintained.