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.
>

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