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I use Evilwm and noticed that it is now no longer available except through AUR. According to the comment on AUR, it was listed as an unneeded orphan. I don't mind compiling it myself but I am curious how it became to be deemed unneeded.
Do anyone know how this process works?
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Usually discussions of that sort are on the mailing lists. See the complete lists here:
https://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo
I usually keep up with just arch-dev-public myself but all the individual lists have a purpose.
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Thanks.
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If nobody wants to maintain a package, it gets dropped to the AUR. It usually is orphaned, so that people who care can adopt and maintain it.
Edit: I checked the mailing lists and found no discussion about it, so I guess status as an orphan (in the repos) was the reason it was dropped.
Last edited by karol (2013-09-18 01:13:49)
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Thanks Karol. I wasn't finding anything either, so it's good to know that I wasn't missing something.
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I don't know if this is it, the date is from 2012, but here is an orphaning mentioning evilwm:
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail … 25803.html
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A more recent thread: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail … 24299.html
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