I suggest that you discuss your proposals in the public comments section of the package's AUR page instead of sending it to this deletion request thread.
Also please note that @XeonDead does not receive mails sent to this list because he is not a subscriber. And TLDR; I am still convinced that regional geoblocking on its own is not a valid reason to delete a working and maintained AUR package. On 19 July 2022 14:26:17 GMT+02:00, "Christopher Snowhill (kode54) via aur-requests" <aur-requests@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: >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 >
