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Why LibreWolf isn't in the official Arch repositories? (lemm.ee)
submitted 6 days ago by kooltechlord@lemm.ee to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml
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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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[-] kooltechlord@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

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

[-] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 24 points 6 days ago

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

[-] uiiiq@lemm.ee 13 points 6 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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