[aur-requests] [PRQ#31414] Deletion Request for libx32-glibc

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MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for libx32-glibc [2]:

Note: This deletion request is intended not for 1 but 64 AUR packages:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=n&K=libx32&outdated=&SB=l&SO=d&PP=100&do_Search=Go

Reasons outlined below are true for all linked packages:

• Package naming violates Arch guidelines*. Name should en d with
'-x32', not start with 'libx32-'. The name will only confuse users,
and the built executables won't work with any Arch/Arch-downstream
distro kernels from binary repos.
  (*ref:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/32-bit_package_guidelines#Package_naming
)

• Packages have not been updated in 6 years or more.

• All erroneously named libx32- packages were uploaded by one user,
fantix. He seems to have maintained Arch x32 PKGBUILD repos* separate
from AUR, but have stopped updating them as well in 2016.
  * https://github.com/orgs/ArchLinux-x32/repositories

• Virtually no one uses x32 ABI software, which needs to run on x86_64
CPU but with a special build of the Linux kernel* that enables the
usage of the x32 ABI.
  (E.g.: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-x32/ )

• Whoever wants to use such a niche architecture will not in their
right mind want to build it from 6-year old unmaintained build scripts
from the AUR. They would use Debian x32 or build Gentoo from scratch
for the x32 ABI.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/libx32-glibc/