On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Frank Vanderham <[email protected]> wrote: >>> That list is huge. I can certainly pick up a couple, but some of them > look >>> horribly outdated; is it an option to delete the ones that haven't been >>> updated in - say - 12 months just to bring it down to a manageable > number? >>> It would be a waste of resources to spend time on a package that nobody > is >>> using anymore. > >> I'm afraid it's not possible to remove old and unmaintained packages, >> unless e.g. the upstream is dead i.e. the source is missing: >> https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2013-June/023923.html > > [sorry, accidentally hit Send too soon] > > Can we create a "zombie / placeholder" status for those packages that need > to be kept as Xyne mentions: " Even if the PKGBUILD is an ancient relic > from the age of Judd in need of a complete rewrite, we tend to leave them > as placeholders." I just don't think it's feasible to maintain all packages > that were created once upon a time, since *anyone* can create a package on > AUR?
What is the cost of maintaining these packages?
