On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 19:16 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 06/12/10 18:41, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Allan McRae<[email protected]> wrote: > >> So... I just noticed a package was added to [community] that I am certain > >> did not pass any of the criteria required for being added. > >> > >> When I looked in the AUR for that package less than a week ago as a > >> potential replacement for an old and unmaintained package in [core], it was > >> not even in the AUR... and I can find no evidence for it every being > >> added to the AUR in the time since. So it did not have 10 votes, it > >> definitely would not have 1% pkgstats usage. > > > > Are you talking about mailutils? It has been in [community] for over a year. > > > > Oops... how the hell did I miss that when I searched a week ago! > > Anyway, that was not the only package I was talking about, as I have > seen quite a few new packages entering the repo lately which have been > questionable additions. So it was more of a reminder to people to put a > bit of thought into what is added into the repos. > > Allan
Good excuse, Allan =0
