[aur-requests] [PRQ#36474] Deletion Request for powerpill

[Marcell Meszaros]

I suggest that you discuss your proposals in the public comments section of the package's AUR page instead of sending it to this deletion request thread.

Also please note that @XeonDead does not receive mails sent to this list because he is not a subscriber.

And TLDR; I am still convinced that regional geoblocking on its own is not a valid reason to delete a working and maintained AUR package.

On 19 July 2022 14:26:17 GMT+02:00, "Christopher Snowhill (kode54) via aur-requests" <aur-requests at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
>How about instead, someone sets up a Gitlab.com <http://gitlab.com/> repository set to mirror the upstream? Gitlab can be configured to only mirror a repository, where it doesn't allow commits, but instead simply periodically tracks a repository and mirrors the remote commits.
>
>> On Jul 19, 2022, at 3:11 AM, Marcell Meszaros <marcell.meszaros at runbox.eu> wrote:
>> 
>> I understand your frustration completely. And for what it's worth,
>> I fully disagree with any indiscriminate geoblocking by public hosting
>> providers for political or ideological reasons, absent of any valid justification (of which I can barely name any).
>> 
>> But still, please try to be reasonable with respect to this issue.
>> By the logic of your deletion proposal, all Qt software should be banned
>> from Linux because The Qt Company also geoblocks Russian Federation IP addresses.
>> 
>> On 19 July 2022 11:44:42 GMT+02:00, "Дмитрий Елисеев" <xeondead at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Revenge? I'm not sure where you've got that from.
>> My provider's IPs are sometimes getting blocked, and sometimes they're not.
>> Open Source Software should be free for everyone, drawn lines based upon GeoIP isn't very nice, and such package has no place on AUR, or should at least be marked as inappropriate to use on specific territories.
>> 
>> пн, 18 июл. 2022 г. в 20:21, Marcell Meszaros <marcell.meszaros at runbox.eu <mailto:marcell.meszaros at runbox.eu>>:
>> Unless *all* IP's are blocked throughout the world from downloading the sources, this should not be deleted.
>> 
>> Revenge is not a valid reason for dropping a package from AUR.
>> 
>> On 18 July 2022 10:08:33 GMT+02:00, "Christopher Snowhill (kode54) via aur-requests" <aur-requests at lists.archlinux.org <mailto:aur-requests at lists.archlinux.org>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Jul 18, 2022, at 12:26 AM, notify--- via aur-requests <aur-requests at lists.archlinux.org <mailto:aur-requests at lists.archlinux.org>> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> XeonDead [1] filed a deletion request for powerpill [2]:
>> >> 
>> >> The author has disabled connections to his storage server based on
>> >> GeoIP. Just so happens, I've been hit, so the package can't be built,
>> >> or it's dependencies.
>> >> 
>> >> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/XeonDead/ <https://aur.archlinux.org/account/XeonDead/>
>> >> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/powerpill/ <https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/powerpill/>
>> >
>> >Sounds like the dev is one of those helpful people who think it's really "helpful" to geoblock Russia right now. That sort of "help" doesn't belong in the AUR, in my opinion.
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> С уважением,
>> Елисеев Дмитрий
>> моб. +7 (995) 593-01-64
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