Re: [aur-general] Regarding deletion request #30697 (waybox)

[Leonidas Spyropoulos via aur-general]

On 16/12/2021 15:52, Lex Black via aur-general wrote:

Good day list,

Hi Lex,

Thanks for reaching out.

I'm currently a little bit stumped about this particular request. I
wouldn't have said anything if there were the right reason named for
deletion. One reason would be, that due to upstream stagnation the
waybox release could only be compiled with an older wlroots versions.
Would have been a fair point and I was aware of that restriction.
But what happened instead?
I got a OOD Mail, 2 min later a deletion request[0] was issued. And
eight minutes down the road this request got already accepted. Hella
speedy process. If I recall the requests I made, there was time involved
for checking if I made a reasonable request.
But again: There were reasons why a request could have been valid. So
let us take look:

Regarding the OOD message:
Quote: "This branch is 32 commits behind wizbright:master."
Well, yes. But we are talking about a release from a tagged release. We
aren't talking about waybox-git. And yes, it wasn't the main repo, but
it was the personal repo from the last active developer. He did tag only
in his repo as he wasn't the owner[1].

Regarding the request:
Quote: "th1nhhdk [1] filed a deletion request for waybox [2]:

-There's no "release", only the git version exists
-Maintainer's custom repo is outdated
-Maintainer don't want to maintain this package anymore"

Okay, first point is debatable. But from my point of view were the tags
from someone who actively contributed in the main repo and knew what he
was doing.
Second point is in my opinion not valid, as it build from a tag. But
what maintainer are we talking about? The waybox maintainer or the
PKGBUILD maintainer? If the latter. Well... I have nothing to do with
this so called custom repo.
And now the third point: Again. What maintainer? I got reprimanded in
the past for requests that made it difficult when looked at a later
point. And this was only a few hours ago. Although I must admit I cannot
recall if I pinned a comment regarding the status with recent wlroots
packages. But I'm fairly sure I didn't orphan the package (well, I got
the OOD-message) and I didn't leave a comment like the previous

maintainer of the PKGBUILD, who wrote an agiated message when he dropped it.

Thanks for taking the time and explaining your view on this. I understand the reaction for the deletion request might have been a bit quick from my side so I'd happily restore the package if you like, just let me know.

Kind regards,


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Leonidas Spyropoulos
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