[aur-general] Pruning Old / Abandoned Packages

[Dan B]

I make an attempt to get packages working before submitting removal requests.

> Why should something be removed if it is still working?

I'm 100% in agreement with this.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Lex Black <autumn-wind at web.de> wrote:
> Hello
> How do you define abandoned? Upstream stated software x is obsolete or just no upstream activity?
>
> Nonetheless personally I submitted requests in the past for packages where upstream was gone and no alternative location of the software could be found (like active fork, still existing dev repo).
>
> If a valid source was available I checked if it could be built and was working. If it was still working I just updated the Pkgbuild and mostly abandoned it afterwards.
> Not working --> request.
> Why should something be removed if it is still working?
>
> Best regards