[aur-general] Dropping multiget

Stefan Husmann stefan-husmann at t-online.de
Tue Mar 29 06:15:24 EDT 2011


Am 29.03.2011 11:45, schrieb Ray Rashif:
> On 29 March 2011 15:09, Stefan Husmann <stefan-husmann at t-online.de> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to drop the multiget package from [community] for the following reasons.
>>
>> - the tarball does not build. The error consist in a missing header file and
>> was reported twice on upstream bugtracker without an answer
>>
>> - the latest svn-checkout builds, but the revision number is still low, it is 3.
>>
>> So what do you think? Should I upload a svn-based PKGBUILD or drop the package?
>> In svn there is a desktop file, which never made it to the tarball. This
>> would at least allow me to remove multiget from the list in FS#23387.
> 
> Upload an svn-based PKGBUILD. multiget is one of the very few download
> managers that can be compared to stuff like IDM, FDM. In fact, other
> than fatrat, I think it's the only other one. I say we should try and
> keep this maintained if it's not too troublesome.
> 

Okay, did so. 


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