<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">How about instead, someone sets up a <a href="http://Gitlab.com" class="">Gitlab.com</a> 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.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 19, 2022, at 3:11 AM, Marcell Meszaros <<a href="mailto:marcell.meszaros@runbox.eu" class="">marcell.meszaros@runbox.eu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">I understand your frustration completely. And for what it's worth,<br class="">I fully disagree with any indiscriminate geoblocking by public hosting<br class="">providers for political or ideological reasons, absent of any valid justification (of which I can barely name any).<br class=""><br class="">But still, please try to be reasonable with respect to this issue.<br class="">By the logic of your deletion proposal, all Qt software should be banned<br class="">from Linux because The Qt Company also geoblocks Russian Federation IP addresses.<br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 July 2022 11:44:42 GMT+02:00, "Дмитрий Елисеев" <<a href="mailto:xeondead@gmail.com" class="">xeondead@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr" class="">Revenge? I'm not sure where you've got that from.<div class="">My provider's IPs are sometimes getting blocked, and sometimes they're not.</div><div class="">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.</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">пн, 18 июл. 2022 г. в 20:21, Marcell Meszaros <<a href="mailto:marcell.meszaros@runbox.eu" class="">marcell.meszaros@runbox.eu</a>>:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Unless *all* IP's are blocked throughout the world from downloading the sources, this should not be deleted.<br class="">
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Revenge is not a valid reason for dropping a package from AUR.<br class="">
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On 18 July 2022 10:08:33 GMT+02:00, "Christopher Snowhill (kode54) via aur-requests" <<a href="mailto:aur-requests@lists.archlinux.org" target="_blank" class="">aur-requests@lists.archlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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>> On Jul 18, 2022, at 12:26 AM, notify--- via aur-requests <<a href="mailto:aur-requests@lists.archlinux.org" target="_blank" class="">aur-requests@lists.archlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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>> XeonDead [1] filed a deletion request for powerpill [2]:<br class="">
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>> The author has disabled connections to his storage server based on<br class="">
>> GeoIP. Just so happens, I've been hit, so the package can't be built,<br class="">
>> or it's dependencies.<br class="">
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>> [1] <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/account/XeonDead/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://aur.archlinux.org/account/XeonDead/</a><br class="">
>> [2] <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/powerpill/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/powerpill/</a><br class="">
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>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.<br class="">
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