On 11/6/18 4:55 PM, Aaron Fischer wrote: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 19:10:56 -0500 > Eli Schwartz <eschwa...@archlinux.org> wrote: > >> On 11/5/18 4:56 PM, notify--- via aur-requests wrote: >>> aaronfischer [1] filed a deletion request for emma [2]: >>> >>> [...] >>> For that, deleting the package is the proper way. >> >> Although the homepage is down, the source code archive is still >> available. And the github repo appears to be someone's totally >> unaffiliated mirror, so it does not need to be taken as the gospel >> home. >> >> Dead code is not always dead -- does it work okay? Do people use it? I >> see one vote from 2018-05-23. >> >> With this in mind, do you desire to reconsider this deletion request? > > The project itself has no relevance any more and there is nobody > actively maintaining it. I thought it would be the best to delete the > "emma" package and if there is any demand, create a "emma-git" package > with the new source. If this is not an option, I can change the source > to GitHub and adjust the PKGBUILD so that the project builds again. But > the project should in any case renamed to emma-git, so I can remove the > version number.
Well, I have no idea how much demand there is for it, that's why I asked you. :p But as I said, I can confirm it currently builds successfully, since the source is still available even though the project homepage is not. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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