On 19/06/13 12:53 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Xyne <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2013-06-18 13:48 +0200 >> Karol Blazewicz wrote: >> >>> What's the policy wrt to packages that have been submitted years ago >>> and are neither developed upstream nor maintained in the AUR since >>> then? Just let them be or get rid of them as they're of no use? >>> If there're old unmaintained packages foo and foo-git, is it OK to >>> request removing at least one of them? Which one? >>> >>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/a4/ >>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/a4-bzr/ >>> >>> The PKGBUILD need updating but it still builds and runs so I can pick >>> it up, update and orphan it. I don't know which filetypes does it open >>> (.odp is not recognized) and the editor doesn't work, so you can't >>> create a new presentation from scratch. >>> It's man page is of no help. >> >> Packages should only be removed if they conflict with policy (copies of >> official repo packages, malware, illegal packages) or if upstream is dead. >> Even >> if the PKGBUILD is an ancient relic from the age of Judd in need of a >> complete >> rewrite, we tend to leave them as placeholders. > AUR lacks 'mark package as broken' feature, I guess I can leave a > comment that says it's broken + post compile errors etc. Maybe > somebody will post a fix ... > > With regard to dead upstream, do I have to Google around to see if > they moved it somewhere or is it OK to lazily submit for deletion? I'm > talking about orphaned packages w/o an updated PKGBUILD in the > comments or at least a comment that says upstream moved to a different > place. >
I would only submit such packages for deletion if their PKGBUILDs do a simple ./configure && make && make install. If there are non-trivial patches, even if they are long broken, I would leave it in the AUR. When someone comes along and says "I want to make this dead package work again" patches that once work can be a useful starting point.
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