[aur-general] Why were my 'makedeb-beta' and 'makedeb-alpha' packages deleted?

[Brett Cornwall]

On 2021-12-16 16:58, Hunter Wittenborn via aur-general wrote:
>I just received some emails about an hour ago that my 'makedeb-beta'
>and 'makedeb-alpha' packages were deleted off of the AUR because they
>were duplicates of 'makedeb' [1] [2]. I'm a bit confused on how exactly
>they're "duplicates" of makedeb though, as they're literally the beta
>and alpha releases for makedeb, the lattermost being the stable
>release.
>
>
>The only other hypothesis I'd have is that the underlying program is
>the same, but these are all different releases, and they're all being
>published so users can use whichever channel they chose. My packages
>also aren't the only ones following a multi-channel packaging system on
>the AUR, so I'm not really sure why my packages got flagged like this
>in particular.
>
>
>Could I get an explanation for all of this? I'm quite confused on how I
>could have messed up - recloning the PKGBUILDs for 'makedeb-beta' and
>'makedeb-alpha' on my local system is also still clearly showing the
>differences between the three packages.
>
>
>[1]: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2021-December/063223.html
>[2]: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2021-December/063222.html

Hi, Hunter! Thanks for the email

I must admit, this was probably a poor decision on my part. I should 
have rejected those requests. I could go into the specifics of my 
thought process but ultimately it was a gaffe on my part. I'm sorry!

I've reinstated the packages, so please do claim them from the 
orphanage.

Thanks for the pushback, and I'm sorry again.
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