[aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

Antonio Rojas arojas at archlinux.org
Tue Aug 11 07:09:06 UTC 2015


Rob McCathie <korrode at gmail.com>
 Wrote in message:

> 
> 
> Just a query: Why were packages i added to AUR4, ensured were in good
> working order (and made an enhancement to one of the packages compared
> to the last release on AUR3), know are used by at least some users,
> and then orphaned so some other interested party can take over
> maintenance, were deleted from AUR4?
> 
> compiz-gtk-standalone was actually the ONLY package on AUR4 that
> provided the Compiz 0.8 series core component.
> Since it's deletion there is now at least one package on AUR4 that has
> unresolvable dependencies.
> (eg. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ccsm/ )
> 
> Regards,
> Rob McCathie
> 
> 

I was wondering the same thing... Many of the kde-applications git
 packages that I uploaded to AUR4 and then disowned ( but were
 working fine) have been deleted, and I can't find any related
 request.
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