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Why LibreWolf isn't in the official Arch repositories? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From Wiki:

When PKGBUILDs receive enough community interest and the support of a Package Maintainer, they are moved into the extra repository (maintained by the Package Maintainers) <...>

So, librewolf package has 150 votes and librewolf-bin has 429 votes. And it's 6th most popular package in AUR (by "Popularity" metric). Why it still isn't in official repos?

I understand why things like yay or google-chrome isn't in official repos, but browsers like LibreWolf seems reasonable to include. Other browsers Brave, Zen, Ungoogled Chromium isn't in official repos too, but Vivaldi is.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Because no Package Maintainer wants to maintain it, is my guess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I thought it is already maintained? And it's popular enough to have someone who would do it?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

AUR package maintainers are not the same as Arch repo package maintainers. Anyone can be an AUR package maintainer.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

And it is not straightforward to become arch maintainer. There has to be a level of trust in that person. The team shouldn’t be too big to manage. And there are other considerations too.

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