I don't see it as mandatory, but if I was the maintainer of this development package I would do as the developer says and request package deletion.
In order to request deletion, you use the menu at the right of your package's page in AUR, "Submit request", select the proper type and provide the reasoning. FYI: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR#Other_requests Best regards, Rafael Fontenelle 2018-02-09 13:01 GMT-02:00 John Lane <archli...@jelmail.com>: > Hi, I got the below sent to me regarding a pkg I have in AUR. > > I guess it should be deleted as per the request. I believe that requires > a mail to this list? > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gsmartcontrol-svn/ > > I verified [1] the sender's address is indeed the upstream developer. > > thanks. > > [1] https://gsmartcontrol.sourceforge.io/home/index.php/Support > > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Please remove gsmartcontrol-svn package > Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:26:28 +0400 > From: Alexander Shaduri <ashad...@gmail.com> > To: archli...@jelmail.com > > Hi, > > I'm the developer of GSmartControl and I see there is an > Arch package of gsmartcontrol-svn here: > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gsmartcontrol-svn/ > > Could you please remove this package? I keep getting bug > reports for it, but the thing is, the SVN version is not intended > for public consumption at all. It may not build, may not run, > may destroy your data, etc... Plus, it's in the middle of active > rewrite/refactoring right now and is in no state to be even compiled. > > Thanks, > Alexander
