On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:17:13AM -0400, Yichao Yu wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Daniel Wallace > <danielwall...@gtmanfred.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:25:58PM -0400, Yichao Yu wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> A TU "gtmanfred" have just decided to remove one of my package just > >> one minute after he commented on the package pointed out the missing > >> package() in the PKGBUILD without any further explaination. > >> > >> The package is python-django-git[0], which I have uploaded 2-3 days > >> ago[1] to replacing two old packages including one with 3 vote that I > >> uploaded last Nov. > >> > >> I have already re-upload the package[0] since I don't think anything > >> is wrong with the package (especially not for the package name, I can > >> fix it if anything else with the package is wrong). And I just want to > >> know if that was a delete by mistake or a missing package() somehow is > >> enough reason to remove a package within ~1min after notifying the > >> maintainer now? > >> > >> Yichao Yu > >> > >> [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-django-git/ > >> [1] > >> https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2013-March/022494.html > > > > Please follow packageing guidelines, anything that touches $pkgdir > > should be inside the package() function. > > > > repackaging without a package() function has been deprecated > > https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-April/010620.html > > > > and PKGBUILDs without a package() function have been depricated > > https://patchwork.archlinux.org/patch/515/ > > https://www.archlinux.org/todo/clean-up-pkgdir-usage/ > > I agree, and I have already fixed it. > > BUT, that is NOT what I am asking!! What I am REALLY asking here is > why did you simply remove the package!! > You can leave a comment (which you did 1min before you go right to the > incorrect last step), flag it out-of-date, send me a email, or even > disown it and correct it yourself according to the AUR two-week policy > if I refuse to update. Is it what you think a TU should do to remove > (without waiting for the shortest reasonable response time or even > attempting to improve) all non-standard/old PKGBUILD on AUR. > > It is fine if you have just removed it by accident (although I will > probably suggest to move the remove button and the flag-out-of-date > button farther away for TU if that's the case), but if you were doing > that on purpose, what you did is totally non-constructive. This is > definitely NOT what a TU should do. Let me remind you what a TU should > do is "check PKGBUILDs for minor mistakes, suggest corrections and > improvements"[1], I am not sure which of the three does "removing > package right away" belong to. > > [1] > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines#The_TU_and_.5Bunsupported.5D > > > > > -- > > Daniel Wallace > > Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred) > > Georgia Institute of Technology
Also note that you didn't fix it until I replied to your inquiry about why it was deleted. And instead of taking my advice to fix it, you decided it was correct and just uploaded it again. -- Daniel Wallace Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred) Georgia Institute of Technology
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