Am 09.02.2019 um 14:34 schrieb Xyne: > Hi everyone, > > This is in regard to this thread on the forum: > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=244051 > > The packaged contained this project: > https://github.com/Aniket-Pradhan/lsd > > To summarize the thread, an AUR package that had existed for a while was > deleted when an unrelated package of the same name was moved to [community]. > The reason given was that the AUR package was "not useful enough", either > because it only had 2 votes or because the acting TU saw no personal use for > it. > > For trivial packages, it would be good to at least clarify the reason for > deletion in a little more detail. There are plenty of AUR packages that > persist > for years with 0 votes so a maintainer with 2 votes may be understandably > confused by the terse statement "not useful enough". A little clarification > can > easily disperse that confusion and better guide the user through future > contributions. > > However, "trivial" here usually means that someone uploaded a bash script to > do > something like open arandr and click on it with xdotool to save half a second, > or baked some convoluted ls-cat-cat-grep-cat-sed-cat pipe into a 3-line > script. > The project involved here is not in the same category. It may not be > practically > "useful" for many users, but it does do something that is not trivial to > replicated in a few lines of shell code. It's "usefulness" is subjective.
The "original" lsf looks like a joke/troll package to me, rather than "trivial". I'd have deleted it even without community duplicate. Alad > > In this case, the TU should have proposed renaming the package, given the > maintainer some time to pick a new name and re-upload the package, and then > merged the old one. Even a single vote from another user can be encouraging so > the merge is worthwhile unless the maintainer states otherwise. > > Regards, > Xyne
