On 29 April 2024 04:21:36 GMT+02:00, not...@aur.archlinux.org wrote: >eh5 [1] filed a deletion request for pipewire-common-git [2]: > >No intention to keep maintaining. > >[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/eh5/ >[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/pipewire-common-git/
+1 for deletion, as this is a duplicate of AUR/pipewire-git [a] with wrong, misleading name. @eh5 chose the name qualifier "common", which is something that is typically used by some split packages when there are some files needed by all main split packages (e.g. in the Arch/extra pkgbase 'gnome-desktop', there are subpackages 'gnome-desktop', 'gnome-desktop-4', 'gnome-desktop-common'). But pipewire-common-git is not part of the pipewire-git pkgbase, it builds the main pipewire code, just like AUR/pipewire-git. @eh5 also chose not to collaborate with the active maintainer of AUR/pipewire-git and instead chose to create a duplicate, which is not something that is favored on AUR. Earlier I submitted a deletion request for this duplicate "common" package, but the responding PM chose to reject that and to keep this package, citing maintainer's statement that this is better. So I was contemplating filing a deletion request for the broken but correctly named pipewire-git. With this deletion request filed by the owner of pipewire-common-git, if accepted, AUR/pipewire-git will become yet again the canonical VCS package for pipewire. Anyone wishing to test or use a VCS build of pipewire can check out pipewire-git. It is currently in a neglected state and has been broken for quite some time. It is also in misalignment with how extra/pipewire is packaged. But its maintainer is very active when prompted, and is open to feedback and collaboration. [a]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pipewire-git
