[aur-general] AUR cleanup policy

[Karol Woźniak]

On 19 June 2013 23:49, Doug Newgard <scimmia22 at outlook.com> wrote:
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> I don't think anyone's suggesting just removing them en mass, but removing them if upstream is gone, they don't build, and haven't been updated in a long time. In that situation, what would the reason be to keep them?
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For example there might be some patches already applied which could
help a possible future maintainer to bring the package back to life.
And even if not, someone might find an application he needs through
our search and then adopt it. I sometimes do it myself, instead of
googling around for something, I go straight to yaourt -Ss with some
keywords :).

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