[aur-requests] [PRQ#4005] Deletion Request for entop

[Aaron France]

I had no notifications of people saying they were broken. I had no time
until recently to update them.

I'll get to it this weekend.

On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 at 12:25 WorMzy Tykashi <wormzy.tykashi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 11 September 2015 at 10:13, Aaron France <aaron.l.france at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm upgrading to the latest AUR4 stuff, they will be fixed. No need to
> > delete. I doubt anyone is even using these packages besides me!
> >
> > On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 at 11:10 WorMzy Tykashi <wormzy.tykashi at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On 11 September 2015 at 00:28, Aaron France <aaron.l.france at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Why is a deletion filed before anything else?
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 at 00:30 <notify at aur.archlinux.org> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> WorMzy [1] filed a deletion request for entop [2]:
> >> >>
> >> >> Broken, ancient, PKGBUILD
> >> >>
> >> >> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/WorMzy/
> >> >> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/entop/
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> Let me answer your question with another question: why upload clearly
> >> outdated PKGBUILDs in the first place?
>
> Other people _are_ trying to use them, which is what drew them to my
> attention in the first place. You say you were (are?) going to update
> them, but you were the previous maintainer of at least two of these
> packages[1][2], and pacman 4.2 came out nine months ago and you still
> haven't updated them. How much longer is it going to take? Uploading a
> broken PKGBUILD is bad enough, but then leaving it in a broken state
> for months on end is even worse.
>
> [1]
> http://web.archive.org/web/20150801021347/https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/entop/
> [2]
> http://web.archive.org/web/20150801154108/https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bumperl/
>
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