2007/11/14, Eric Belanger <belanger@astro.umontreal.ca>:
Hi,
Here is the second list of removal candidates. Please go through it to make sure we don't remove a package that, for some reason, should remain in extra. Some of the reason are actually questions or discussion topics so it would be nice to get some feedback on them. As said before, some of these packages can be depends of community packages. Please just dicuss them for now. I would prefer to do the actual removal myself. I will do so when the discussions will be over.
======================================================================================= Package Reason to remove it or Reason to keep it. Any comments, concerns, etc. ======================================================================================= akode will be dependency of kde4, right? (dp)
it seems yes.
aumix what console audio mixers do we provide? In previous thread the answer was given - alsamixer (in alsa-utils), so aumix can be removed.
bind DNS server. Should stay in repo. Any volunteer to take this is important package?
cdw project (ncurse cd-writer) has been revived, is there another console cd-writer in repo? I adopted it.
chgres old, low usage? Seems pretty useless to me -> Unsupported.
cplay yet another curses audio player The new homepage is http://mask.tf.hut.fi/~flu/cplay/ The latest version is 1.50pre7 dated 2006-05-09. Seems like a dead project -> Unsupported.
dump tapedrive utility. it it worthy to keep? Heh, it was the first package that I touched (fixed PKGBUILD) in Extra. :-) I've just read http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html and still don't find it useful. -> Unsupported
font-bh-ttf should we keep it? I can maintain it in Community, you can move it right there (if there are no objections). Instead, I'd like to bring ttf-freefont and ttf-liberation to Extra, which are much more important.
font-bitstream-speedo who uses speedo fonts? Not me. :-P
gnet1 unused lib Hm, probably it is a (make)depend for some community package IIRC, but that's not critical if you move it to Unsupported (can be moved back to Community if needed).
gnome-audio audio files for gnome. Are they still useful? Yes. They are in gnome-extra group. I'm volunteering to maintain anything Gnome (except Mono stuff) that JGC doesn't maintain.
gpgme03 obsoleted by gpgme??? I haven't seen any package that (make)depends on this (I maintain at least 2 gpg(me) frontends in Community).
gstreamer0.10-alsaspdif gstreamer0.10-cdaudio gstreamer0.10-jack should not be removed (drastic loss of function for any gstreamer using app) - if nobody takes the gstreamer pkgs, i will (damir) gstreamer0.10-mpeg2enc gstreamer0.10-musicbrainz gstreamer0.10-pitfdll gstreamer0.10-sndfile gstreamer0.10-wavpack gstreamer0.10-x264
IMO all gsteamer0.10 packages should be kept in the same repo (Extra) for easier maintainence. I can offer my help in this.
libflashsupport (in unstable) unused lib It was optional addition for old flashplugin, that offered ALSA support etc. (AFAIR) I think isn't needed for flashplugin-9, there's no mention of it on Adobe's Flash Plugin page now.
libgnomesu gksu and kdesu provide same functionality @JGC: is this some crap from previous Gnome?
libtrash unused lib "A shared library which, when preloaded, implements a trash can under GNU/Linux" Hm, I don't think anybody uses it -> Unsupported.
lineak_defaultplugin The lineak packages could be substituted by my (Eric) keytouch pkg in community. It has more dependencies (gtk2) but has much or more functionality. lineak_xosdplugin same comment as above
Lineak is pretty old but it may still be used by someone. I think it shouldn't be just deleted, but moved to Unsupported.
madplay yet another curses audio player And it depends on esd which is expected to not live long in Extra. -> Unsupported
mail-notification mail notification icon for gnome: low usage Move to Community, I'll adopt it.
masqmail home page disappeared, another MTA Sources and patches can be found on Debian's site (http://packages.debian.org/uk/etch/masqmail) But still -> Unsupported I think.
nautilus-sendto nautilus extension, can be removed from extra Move to Community -> I'll adopt it.
oidentd ident server like pidentd (orphaned). Which one should we keep or should we remove both? Are they used by someone? I'd say both.
powernowd Do we need it? We already have cpudyn and cpufreq. Not needed.
pure-ftpd yet another ftp server This is pretty good server, I guess somebody will maintain it in Extra/Community. I will take it if noone else will.
quick-lounge-applet gnome applet: low usage/usefulness Move to Community, I'll adopt it.
setserial support for serial device, should be kept unless it's no longer needed Used by lirc. See FS#3995 & FS#6224
tpop3d yet another pop3 server -> Community, I'll maintain it if noone else will
xpdf-arabic i18n support, should be kept xpdf-chinese-simplified i18n support, should be kept xpdf-chinese-traditional i18n support, should be kept xpdf-cyrillic i18n support, should be kept xpdf-greek i18n support, should be kept xpdf-hebrew i18n support, should be kept xpdf-japanese i18n support, should be kept xpdf-korean i18n support, should be kept xpdf-latin2 i18n support, should be kept xpdf-thai i18n support, should be kept xpdf-turkish i18n support, should be kept Weren't we going to remove xpdf from Extra? (and lesstiff?) If no, then xpdf maintainer should maintain packages above, I think.
-- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)