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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/22/20 8:20 AM, Christopher
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<blockquote type="cite">On Apr 21, 2020, at 3:28 AM, Stelios
Tsampas via aur-requests <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:aur-requests@archlinux.org"><aur-requests@archlinux.org></a>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/21/20 11:53 AM, <a
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">soredake [1] filed a deletion request for dxvk-winelib [2]:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/commit/436357e28096f5e1e25aa8b72fceb77123ea8404" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/commit/436357e28096f5e1e25aa8b72fceb77123ea8404</a>
[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://aur.archlinux.org/account/soredake/" moz-do-not-send="true">https://aur.archlinux.org/account/soredake/</a>
[2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/dxvk-winelib/" moz-do-not-send="true">https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/dxvk-winelib/</a></pre>
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<p><font size="-1">The version pointed by the tag still builds
correctly under wine. The commit you are pointing to</font></p>
<p><font size="-1"> is after the tag built by this package.
And even so, since this package builds correctly for this
version,</font></p>
<p><font size="-1">what is the problem with it existing? </font><font
size="-1"><font size="-1">Why should this be deleted?</font></font></p>
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Are you suggesting that this package maintain a fork of the
library which still supports winelib builds? Or instead that it
continue to exist to build and install this old commit which will
quickly become obsolete as further improvements are added past
this commit?
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<p><font size="-1">I am suggesting neither. If you bother to look at
the commit history, since the tagged version `1.6.1` there</font></p>
<p><font size="-1">have been two commits at the time of writing, one
of which is removing winelib support. There has been no</font></p>
<p><font size="-1">release neither any groundbreaking change. It is
rather premature to request to delete a package that build the</font></p>
<p><font size="-1">latest version, especially without contacting the
maintainer first about it.<br>
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Also, allowing it to exist to build the last tagged version with
winelib support is not unheard of and it has been done</font></p>
<p><font size="-1">with numerous python packages in the past of
example as python2 support was being dropped.</font><br>
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