How about instead, someone sets up a Gitlab.com <http://gitlab.com/> repository set to mirror the upstream? Gitlab can be configured to only mirror a repository, where it doesn't allow commits, but instead simply periodically tracks a repository and mirrors the remote commits.
> On Jul 19, 2022, at 3:11 AM, Marcell Meszaros <marcell.mesza...@runbox.eu> > wrote: > > I understand your frustration completely. And for what it's worth, > I fully disagree with any indiscriminate geoblocking by public hosting > providers for political or ideological reasons, absent of any valid > justification (of which I can barely name any). > > But still, please try to be reasonable with respect to this issue. > By the logic of your deletion proposal, all Qt software should be banned > from Linux because The Qt Company also geoblocks Russian Federation IP > addresses. > > On 19 July 2022 11:44:42 GMT+02:00, "Дмитрий Елисеев" <xeond...@gmail.com> > wrote: > Revenge? I'm not sure where you've got that from. > My provider's IPs are sometimes getting blocked, and sometimes they're not. > Open Source Software should be free for everyone, drawn lines based upon > GeoIP isn't very nice, and such package has no place on AUR, or should at > least be marked as inappropriate to use on specific territories. > > пн, 18 июл. 2022 г. в 20:21, Marcell Meszaros <marcell.mesza...@runbox.eu > <mailto:marcell.mesza...@runbox.eu>>: > Unless *all* IP's are blocked throughout the world from downloading the > sources, this should not be deleted. > > Revenge is not a valid reason for dropping a package from AUR. > > On 18 July 2022 10:08:33 GMT+02:00, "Christopher Snowhill (kode54) via > aur-requests" <aur-requests@lists.archlinux.org > <mailto:aur-requests@lists.archlinux.org>> wrote: > > > >> On Jul 18, 2022, at 12:26 AM, notify--- via aur-requests > >> <aur-requests@lists.archlinux.org > >> <mailto:aur-requests@lists.archlinux.org>> wrote: > >> > >> XeonDead [1] filed a deletion request for powerpill [2]: > >> > >> The author has disabled connections to his storage server based on > >> GeoIP. Just so happens, I've been hit, so the package can't be built, > >> or it's dependencies. > >> > >> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/XeonDead/ > >> <https://aur.archlinux.org/account/XeonDead/> > >> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/powerpill/ > >> <https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/powerpill/> > > > >Sounds like the dev is one of those helpful people who think it's really > >"helpful" to geoblock Russia right now. That sort of "help" doesn't belong > >in the AUR, in my opinion. > > > -- > С уважением, > Елисеев Дмитрий > моб. +7 (995) 593-01-64
