[aur-general] Removal request

[rafael ff1]

2011/9/28 Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Max Roder <maxroder at web.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> please remove python-libchamplain
>>
>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40969
>>
>> It was needed by kismon only, but is not anymore. As 0.6.1, the latest
>> version supporting python is outdated and pretty old (0.12 is out), it
>> should be removed I think.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Max
>>
>>
>
> It does provide a valid package and it seems it was recently updated upstream.
> I just marked it out of date and left it alone.
>
> Deletion usually happens when upstream is dead or hasn't released a
> new version in a while.
> If the maintainer doesn't update it or refuses to, then that is a
> different discussion.
>
> Thanks.
>

It seems that the requester is the maintainer.

IMHO, if the package can't be updated to newer version with python
support, should not be flagged as out-of-date.

-- Rafael