Daenyth Blank wrote:
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.
I feel removed of packages completely from the AUR violates Trusted User
status. We stopped users doing this specifically because we did not
want this to happen. I will be starting a removal thread.
Allan
