On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 04:02:00AM +0000, Adam Fontenot via aur-general wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:19:34PM +0000, Alad Wenter via aur-general wrote > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 02:17:45AM +0000, Adam Fontenot via aur-general > > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > The TU "alad" deleted my package, firefox-clean, from the AUR. I'm > > > assuming this is a mistake, but I can't contact alad directly because > > > their email is hidden on their profile. At first glance, it may appear > > > that my version of the Firefox PKGBUILD in Extra does not do anything > > > notable, but this is not the case. My package is intended to do three > > > things: > > > > > It's not a mistake. Check the submission guidelines [1]; a package > > should only be submitted if it's not overly specialized and useful to > > more than 1 user. In this case, all but a few users will be able to > > achieve what this package offers by configuration of the regular firefox > > package in the repositories. > > I disagree strongly. It is useful to multiple people: not only did the > package already have feedback (a comment from a user), it was > extremely popular when I posted about it on Reddit the day before you > deleted it: > https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/72id6q/firefoxclean_a_firefox_build_for_power_users_in/ > In that same thread, the top comments reflect the decision on deleting this package. It should then not come as a surprise that the package only had a single AUR vote (which are what matters).
> Furthermore, you have been deleting dozens of AUR packages in the last > week since you became a TU. Respectfully, perhaps you should check to > see if your expectations for AUR inclusion are quite as stringent as > those of the other TUs? > You should check before asking consensus from the TU team that your argument isn't based on personal attacks against them. > > If you had such concern about these "features" > > and wanted to disable them at compile time, there's existing packages > > which take this further e.g. firefox-esr-privacy. [2] > > > > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-esr-privacy/ > > Oddly enough, my AUR package does most of what this one does and more, > but it has the extra advantage of tracking the latest version of > Firefox instead of ESR. > Not really, as any glance over the patches in question shows. > > A restart button is available through an addon. [3] > > > > [3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/restart-my-fox > > This will not be usable when Firefox 57 hits, because it (along with > all other restart addons), isn't compatible with webextensions. I've > been purging all XUL extensions from my browser, and that's why I > wrote the patch as a replacement. > Regardless of any speculation on your behalf regarding the addon's functionality in future, it remains trivial functionality. > If there's a consensus among TUs that packages like mine are not > welcome on the AUR, I'm happy to back down and host the PKGBUILD on > Github. > The community guidelines are clear and visible to all on the wiki, including a warning that packages that ignore them are up for deletion. > Cheers, > Adam Alad
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