[aur-general] Please remove cov-analysis-bin (no download)

Evgeniy Alekseev darkarcanis at mail.ru
Sun Jan 12 10:03:42 EST 2014


On Sunday 12 January 2014 15:55:13 Johannes Dewender wrote:
> Am 12.01.2014 14:11, schrieb Evgeniy Alekseev:
> > On Sunday 12 January 2014 12:43:47 Johannes Dewender wrote:
> >> Pleare remove
> >> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cov-analysis-bin/
> >> from the AUR.
> >> 
> >> I created the package and was the last maintainer.
> >> However, upstream removed any possibility to download even the binary of
> >> the tool without logging in.
> >> 
> >> So there is no sense to include it in the AUR anymore.
> >> 
> >> Note that https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/coverity-submit/
> >> is still available since that tool is open source.
> >> That tool only makes sense when one also installs cov-analysis from some
> >> other source (manually, without AUR), though.
> > 
> > It may be kept in AUR. For example, some packages, such as vmd, ttf-win7-
> > fonts, require a preload of source files. In this case to install a
> > package
> > you need download tarball, download source files and build and install it
> > using makepkg (not automatical tools like packer or yaourt).
> > 
> > Do you still want to remove this package?
> 
> Yes. the package does nothing more than extracting the tarball to /opt.

Okay, as you wish. The package had been removed.
-- 
С уважением, Е.Алексеев.
Sincerely yours, E.Alekseev.

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