[aur-general] Please remove cov-analysis-bin (no download)

Johannes Dewender arch at JonnyJD.net
Sun Jan 12 10:08:03 EST 2014


Am 12.01.2014 16:03, schrieb Evgeniy Alekseev:
> On Sunday 12 January 2014 15:55:13 Johannes Dewender wrote:
>> Am 12.01.2014 14:11, schrieb Evgeniy Alekseev:
>>> On Sunday 12 January 2014 12:43:47 Johannes Dewender wrote:
>>>> Pleare remove
>>>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cov-analysis-bin/
>>>> from the AUR.
>>>>
>>>> I created the package and was the last maintainer.
>>>> However, upstream removed any possibility to download even the binary of
>>>> the tool without logging in.
>>>>
>>>> So there is no sense to include it in the AUR anymore.
>>>>
>>>> Note that https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/coverity-submit/
>>>> is still available since that tool is open source.
>>>> That tool only makes sense when one also installs cov-analysis from some
>>>> other source (manually, without AUR), though.
>>>
>>> It may be kept in AUR. For example, some packages, such as vmd, ttf-win7-
>>> fonts, require a preload of source files. In this case to install a
>>> package
>>> you need download tarball, download source files and build and install it
>>> using makepkg (not automatical tools like packer or yaourt).
>>>
>>> Do you still want to remove this package?
>>
>> Yes. the package does nothing more than extracting the tarball to /opt.
>
> Okay, as you wish. The package had been removed.
>

Thank you.

For anybody thinking otherwise:
The old PKGBUILD will still be available here:
https://github.com/JonnyJD/PKGBUILDs/blob/c489e2cd380e2bc0b1f7a73eb08887f4c0085f86/_coverity/cov-analysis/PKGBUILD


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