On 1 December 2024 20:53:35 GMT+01:00, notify@aur.archlinux.org wrote:

aliu [1] filed a deletion request for muse-hub-bin [2]:

Was told to submit a deletion request after merge request to muse- sounds-manager-bin (which I support) was denied for some reason.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/aliu/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/muse-hub-bin/ Hi Aaron,

It seems it was one Arch Developer in particular, Morten Linderud, a.k.a. @Foxboron, who was denying almost all merge requests for a short burst of time early this year. In my observation of AUR decision precedent, @Foxboron's very strong stance against most merge requests is not shared by other Arch Developers and Package Maintainers. As a fellow AUR user I encourage you to do due diligence when deciding to request transfer of comments from one package to another. If the comments of a package that is to be removed would unnecessarily litter the target package's comment history, I would decide against a merge. On the other side of this consideration are the notification subscriptions. If a new package is a successor of an old package, a merge is useful for transferring the user notification subscriptions from the former to the latter. This information is secret, so we as AUR users don't know if and how many users in total are subscribed to each package. Upon a merge, subscribed users of an old package will continue to get notifications relating to the new package. For me personally, this was a welcome feature, when packages that I was subscribed to didn't just "get lost" upon getting merged to a different one, but instead I started to receive notifications about the new package. These are just my personal views and not in any way constitute any kind of official Arch Linux policy. Cheers, Marcell / MarsSeed