[aur-general] [PRQ#29045] Deletion Request for hugo-bin

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

On Sat, 6 Nov 2021 at 19:54, Christian Rebischke via aur-general <
aur-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 06, 2021 at 06:47:04PM -0000, B via aur-general wrote:
> > Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I did not realize that it
> > was an issue to have a duplicate package in the AUR, and clearly see
> > now that I should not. I guess the action of deleting the package
> > makes more sense so I apologize for any confusion and unnecessary
> > complaint. I do think if a package in an official repo is not getting
> > updated that it makes sense to allow one in the AUR, but that would be
> > a separate proposal.
> >
> > Please note, I also maintain a separate Skaffold package
> > (skaffold-bin) since at times new updates were not getting pushed for
> > a month or more. Feel free to delete that as well.
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> I am the skaffold maintainer. Are you sure about this? I am very
> confident that I have updated skaffold over the last months within 24
> hours. Are you maybe on an old mirror or do you speak about longer ago?
>
> Some general advice: Patches are always welcome. Many package
> maintainers (including me) have their own PKGBUILD mirror on Github.
> For example: https://github.com/shibumi/pkgbuilds
>
> Feel free to open a PR against this repository.
>
>
> chris
>

We can see here [0] that updates for the official skaffold package happen
fairly often so I don't really see where the frustration about the
packaging delay is coming from.

[0]
https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/commits/packages/skaffold/trunk