On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 12:40:29 +0900 Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> wrote:
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rage-git > > Is gone but repo is alive: > git clone ssh://[email protected]/rage-git.git > > Works. As does: > git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/rage-git.git > > And I see no removal request on aur-requests: > https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/ > > (downloaded full mbox archive): > $ grep rage-git aur-requests.mbox > sickrage-git [3]: > [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/sickrage-git/ > > No rage-git. > > What happened? It's unmaintained because it doesn't build (since July 20 when > I > removed the autotools based build upstream and moved to meson as the build > system). I put in a comment on the pkg page that the AUR pkg build was broken > ages ago and offered to take over maintenance in the package comments but got > no reply and now the package page at least has disappeared. > > How about restoring it? I can also take over maintenance as I have kept a git > clone of rage-git and moved it to meson locally (have not pushed). I also now > maintain efl-git and enlightenment-git too (rage-git depends on efl). > A whole lot of orphans with no votes got deleted. When a package is deleted from the AUR, the git repo remains which is what you're seeing. As for restoring it, pushing a new commit to the repo would work. It can also be done over ssh, but you're going to need to fix it up anyway. Doug (Scimmia)
