Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I did not realize that it was an issue to have a duplicate package in the AUR, and clearly see now that I should not. I guess the action of deleting the package makes more sense so I apologize for any confusion and unnecessary complaint. I do think if a package in an official repo is not getting updated that it makes sense to allow one in the AUR, but that would be a separate proposal.
Please note, I also maintain a separate Skaffold package (skaffold-bin) since at times new updates were not getting pushed for a month or more. Feel free to delete that as well. On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 11:32 AM Brett Cornwall via aur-general - aur-general at lists.archlinux.org <nzdhmllkzsryyxkzwmuhvygoecmyj...@simplelogin.co> wrote: > > On 2021-11-06 16:05, B via aur-general wrote: > >grawlinson made a deletion request on this package after I updated it > >to v0.89.1, and they immediately approved their own request. The > >community package is flagged out-of-date and is at v0.88.1. > > > >First, this violates the AUR community guidelines that requests a user > >be contacted before a package is removed. Additionally, I find that > >they are making a request and then immediately approving their own > >request without any discussion to be concerning. > > Indeed, that's not something that should happen! Thanks for bringing > this to our attention. > > >I do not think you should be deleting AUR packages, unless they are > >malicious. If they are not being maintained, then you should be > >contacting the users before deleting them. Otherwise, there is no harm > >in having an AUR and trusted package, as many times they be actually > >be different or the trusted package is the one not actively getting > >updated. > > The AUR is not a democracy! There are standards and guidelines that > clearly state that hugo-bin was not an acceptable package in the AUR > [1]. So while the acceptance of their own request should not have > happened, this package should not have existed in the first place. > > Hope this helps. > > [1] > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines#Rules_of_submission
