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Seems like a skill issue on the part of the dev. GitHub lets you create issue templates and even forms. He could have made it so that every issue creator is warned that packaging issues will be ignored and closed without comment.
"We tried nothing so far and are going for the nuclear option first"
It sure would be a shame if his software was covered by the gpl because it's statically linked against Qt or FFMpeg or any other library... ๐
ArchLinux users can be a pain sometimes, but we're also often right when calling out someone's broken software.
Given other drama around that project and the developer clearly being a Windows fanboy, they're probably doing a lot wrong and blaming the Linux fragmentation for it instead of doing things properly, getting called out on it, and then being pissed at the users for it.
Makes me want to write an intentionally buggy PKGBUILD with wildly unsupported patches out of spite.
