2008/12/18 Allan McRae <[email protected]>: > Ondřej Kučera wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Allan McRae wrote: >>> >>> Daenyth Blank wrote: >>>> >>>> Bob (Finch) asked for his community packages to be removed. I wrote a >>>> little script to help with it. It's not documented and has some rough >>>> edges, but it should give you a nice base to hack on. Enjoy :) >>>> >>> >>> >>> Two things here... >>> >>> Did Bob quit as a TU or just pulled all his packages from the repo? >>> >>> And, I do not see many of his old packages in the AUR. e.g. fldigi, >>> fdlog. Is that accidental? >> >> What does removing from community mean (in this case), anyway? Just moving >> from community to unsupported or REALLY removing altogether? If the latter >> is the case, should that be done? Is a maintainer (now I'm talking mainly >> about TUs) really actually an owner in the sense that he/she can decide to >> just delete PKDBUILDs of his/her packages? (I'm sorry if I'm misreading it >> all but such a possibility scares me a bit.) > > It should mean moving them from [community] to the AUR, which is why I am > querying what happened to a few of these packages. But, the PKGBUILDs for > anything that was in [community] can always be recovered from CVS. > > Allan > >
He said before that he was planning to resign, I don't know his current plans. He wanted his packages removed entirely and he deleted any in unsupported that he had made. I think the reason was that previously when others had adopted his packages, they removed his contributor data and replaced it with theirs, and he didn't want that happening again. When I said that I would move the community ones to unsupported he asked that I wait until they were set up on his personal repo for his distro. Those aren't the full details, but should summarize.
