[aur-general] Dropping packages from the repos

[Alexandre Ferrando]

I guess the rationale is that no one is interested enough on uploading them
after they have been dropped from community.

About why they have been dropped, see [ 1 ], [ 2 ] and [ 3 ], several
threads on arch-dev-public ( sorted by date)

[ 1 ]
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-July/025173.html
[ 2 ]
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-July/025192.html
[ 3 ]
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-July/025260.html


On 31 July 2013 19:25, Karol Blazewicz <karol.blazewicz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Compiz was removed from the repos
>
> https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-May/024956.html
> but appeared in the AUR a good while later - 2013-07-11 , even though
> Allan inquired about it in late May:
>
> https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-May/025022.html
>
> Recently ndiswrapper and cdfs have been removed from the repos but I
> don't see them in the AUR. What is the rationale for this? Are the
> other ndiswrapper / cdfs packages that are already in the AUR deemed
> sufficient? Is https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fuse-cdfs-git/ the
> same as 'cdfs' package that used to be in the repos?
> A word about why the package has been dropped .e.g 'doesn't work with
> linux 3.10 kernel' would be helpful.
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rusxmms/ has a comment that says
> 'removed from community'. Mentioning
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36229 would be helpful.
>