[aur-general] Regarding deletion request #30697 (waybox)

[Leonidas Spyropoulos]

On 16/12/2021 15:52, Lex Black via aur-general wrote:
> Good day list,

Hi Lex,

Thanks for reaching out.

> I'm currently a little bit stumped about this particular request. I
> wouldn't have said anything if there were the right reason named for
> deletion. One reason would be, that due to upstream stagnation the
> waybox release could only be compiled with an older wlroots versions.
> Would have been a fair point and I was aware of that restriction.
> But what happened instead?
> I got a OOD Mail, 2 min later a deletion request[0] was issued. And
> eight minutes down the road this request got already accepted. Hella
> speedy process. If I recall the requests I made, there was time involved
> for checking if I made a reasonable request.
> But again: There were reasons why a request could have been valid. So
> let us take look:
>
> Regarding the OOD message:
> Quote: "This branch is 32 commits behind wizbright:master."
> Well, yes. But we are talking about a release from a tagged release. We
> aren't talking about waybox-git. And yes, it wasn't the main repo, but
> it was the personal repo from the last active developer. He did tag only
> in his repo as he wasn't the owner[1].
>
> Regarding the request:
> Quote: "th1nhhdk [1] filed a deletion request for waybox [2]:
>
> -There's no "release", only the git version exists
> -Maintainer's custom repo is outdated
> -Maintainer don't want to maintain this package anymore"
>
> Okay, first point is debatable. But from my point of view were the tags
> from someone who actively contributed in the main repo and knew what he
> was doing.
> Second point is in my opinion not valid, as it build from a tag. But
> what maintainer are we talking about? The waybox maintainer or the
> PKGBUILD maintainer? If the latter. Well... I have nothing to do with
> this so called custom repo.
> And now the third point: Again. What maintainer? I got reprimanded in
> the past for requests that made it difficult when looked at a later
> point. And this was only a few hours ago. Although I must admit I cannot
> recall if I pinned a comment regarding the status with recent wlroots
> packages. But I'm fairly sure I didn't orphan the package (well, I got
> the OOD-message) and I didn't leave a comment like the previous
> maintainer of the PKGBUILD, who wrote an agiated message when he 
> dropped it.
>
Thanks for taking the time and explaining your view on this. I 
understand the reaction for the deletion request might have been a bit 
quick from my side so I'd happily restore the package if you like, just 
let me know.

Kind regards,


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Leonidas Spyropoulos
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