There were longer delays when it was first added. I was just explaining why I had maintained a separate package. Now that I know the guidelines advises against this, I have no qualms with them being removed as I can just maintain my own PKGBUILDS.
On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 11:56 AM Sven-Hendrik Haase via aur-general - aur-general at lists.archlinux.org <nzdhmllkzsryyxkzwmuhvygoecmyj...@simplelogin.co> wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Nov 2021 at 19:54, Christian Rebischke via aur-general < > aur-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 06, 2021 at 06:47:04PM -0000, B via aur-general wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I am the skaffold maintainer. Are you sure about this? I am very > > confident that I have updated skaffold over the last months within 24 > > hours. Are you maybe on an old mirror or do you speak about longer ago? > > > > Some general advice: Patches are always welcome. Many package > > maintainers (including me) have their own PKGBUILD mirror on Github. > > For example: https://github.com/shibumi/pkgbuilds > > > > Feel free to open a PR against this repository. > > > > > > chris > > > > We can see here [0] that updates for the official skaffold package happen > fairly often so I don't really see where the frustration about the > packaging delay is coming from. > > [0] > https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/commits/packages/skaffold/trunk >
