[aur-general] Unexpected aur package removal.

[Daniel Wallace]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:17:13AM -0400, Yichao Yu wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Daniel Wallace
> <danielwallace at gtmanfred.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:25:58PM -0400, Yichao Yu wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> A TU "gtmanfred" have just decided to remove one of my package just
> >> one minute after he commented on the package pointed out the missing
> >> package() in the PKGBUILD without any further explaination.
> >>
> >> The package is python-django-git[0], which I have uploaded 2-3 days
> >> ago[1] to replacing two old packages including one with 3 vote that I
> >> uploaded last Nov.
> >>
> >> I have already re-upload the package[0] since I don't think anything
> >> is wrong with the package (especially not for the package name, I can
> >> fix it if anything else with the package is wrong). And I just want to
> >> know if that was a delete by mistake or a missing package() somehow is
> >> enough reason to remove a package within ~1min after notifying the
> >> maintainer now?
> >>
> >> Yichao Yu
> >>
> >> [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-django-git/
> >> [1] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2013-March/022494.html
> >
> > Please follow packageing guidelines, anything that touches $pkgdir
> > should be inside the package() function.
> >
> > repackaging without a package() function has been deprecated
> > https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-April/010620.html
> >
> > and PKGBUILDs without a package() function have been depricated
> > https://patchwork.archlinux.org/patch/515/
> > https://www.archlinux.org/todo/clean-up-pkgdir-usage/
> 
> I agree, and I have already fixed it.
> 
> BUT, that is NOT what I am asking!! What I am REALLY asking here is
> why did you simply remove the package!!
> You can leave a comment (which you did 1min before you go right to the
> incorrect last step), flag it out-of-date, send me a email, or even
> disown it and correct it yourself according to the AUR two-week policy
> if I refuse to update. Is it what you think a TU should do to remove
> (without waiting for the shortest reasonable response time or even
> attempting to improve) all non-standard/old PKGBUILD on AUR.
> 
> It is fine if you have just removed it by accident (although I will
> probably suggest to move the remove button and the flag-out-of-date
> button farther away for TU if that's the case), but if you were doing
> that on purpose, what you did is totally non-constructive. This is
> definitely NOT what a TU should do. Let me remind you what a TU should
> do is "check PKGBUILDs for minor mistakes, suggest corrections and
> improvements"[1], I am not sure which of the three does "removing
> package right away" belong to.
> 
> [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines#The_TU_and_.5Bunsupported.5D
> 
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Wallace
> > Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
> > Georgia Institute of Technology

Also note that you didn't fix it until I replied to your inquiry about
why it was deleted.  And instead of taking my advice to fix it, you
decided it was correct and just uploaded it again.

-- 
Daniel Wallace
Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology
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