[aur-general] VCS dupes in the AUR

[Peter Lewis]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Lukas Fleischer wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:45:52PM +0200, Martti Kühne wrote:
> > +1 for *-git vcs dupes to stay, where upstream vcs is a different one.
> > -1 for removal of vcs dupes in general, since apparently different
> > people prefer different vcs. Besides, how much space are these taking
> > all together? 600Kb?
> 
> The main point is removing packages where upstream moved to a different
> VCS and the old VCS repositories are either gone or unmaintained.

What they said :-)

Is this principle worthy of recording somewhere on the wiki as part of a vcs
packages policy?

Pete.