[aur-general] packages deletion request

[Xavier D.]

  Ok, forget about my request, I'll try to adopt them when I have free time

On 09/12/2010 06:31 PM, Brad Fanella wrote:
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> On Sep 12, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 11:01 -0500, Brad Fanella wrote:
>>> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:05:35AM -0600, jwbirdsong wrote:
>>>> On 09/12/2010 07:17 AM, Xavier D. wrote:
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>>>> 1st-ly I'd like to apologize to the OP, the following comments are NOT
>>>> directed just at you but more as an open mail to community.
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>>>> There seems to be a recent trend to request deletion of (to use OP
>>>> phrasing) orphans, out-of-date and not updated for over a year.
>>>>
>>>> It seems this makes them PERFECT candidates for adoption and/or
>>>> abandonment-adoption as opposed to deletion.  The few I viewed in the
>>>> list all seemed to have source available.
>>>>
>>>> Deletion criteria include (but not limited to) no sources and 
>>>> duplicates
>>>> of AUR/community or other repo packages.
>>>>
>>>> Just my bitchin' to put in my 2 cents
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>>> Agreed. I also feel this way towards [community]. If a project has 
>>> been ended and the source is still available, then I see no reason 
>>> to remove it from [community].
>>>
>>> It's just one of those things that I never understood.
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>> One additional criteria - if it doesn't build anymore (for ended
>> projects it happens after a while).
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> Oh, I thought that was a given. ;-)