[aur-general] AUR cleanup policy

Karol Blazewicz karol.blazewicz at gmail.com
Wed Jun 19 17:48:52 EDT 2013


On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Karol Woźniak <wozniakk at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am against removing "dead upstream" packages, unless upstream is
> completely gone, i.e. there is no way to obtain necessary files. I am
> maintaining at least two packages with upstream long dead, but (after my
> patches, of course) they're still working and are used by some people.

How can I get the sources? If you provide a mirror, I think it's OK.
When talking about ded upstream, I'm not talking about upstream
website being 404, I'm talking about the sources for the package being
gone.

BTW, please don't top-post.


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