Thank you for explaining the use case. I will cancel my deletion request momentarily.
On 9 July 2023 17:03:43 GMT+02:00, Arvedui <[email protected]> wrote: >On 2023-07-09 15:52:27, Marcell Meszaros wrote: >> python2-feedgen is a Python library, so it shall be consumed by other >> Python2 code. >> >> There is no such package on AUR that does that. >> >> Arch repo carries the Python3 based variant, and that is used in repo by >> 'hotdoc' package. >> >> Without Python2 based consuming modules, it is not useful for users to keep >> a Python2 library in AUR. >Installing packages for local scripts is a valid use case. > >> There are also no votes or comments on its AUR page. >Votes and comments are not a good indicator of use or usefulness >especially for niche packets because only people with account can vote >and may still not do so and comments are unnecessary for a working >package. > >> So this is very clearly a case which is mentioned in the AUR submission >> guidelines, when a package is not needed by more than one person, it shall >> not be kept in the repo. >The guidelines do not talk about need, only about potential usefulness. >
