Hi, This post is to give a status report on the still ongoing repo cleanup. The list of the recently removed packages is posted at the end of this message. The current orphans are as follows. We still have a short list of hardware-related or more or less useful packages: apmd bluez-gnome ipvsadm isapnptools mrtg speedtouch vconfig zebra But now I would like to focus more on orphaned core packages: dash mlocate perl shadow abs heimdal bcm43xx-fwcutter bridge-utils dnsutils ifenslave netkit-telnet mailx (Aaron: adopt it if you still want it) and on orphaned depends (see https://dev.archlinux.org/wiki/Repo%20Cleanup/). The list of orphaned depends also indicates what packages depends on these orphans and, in some cases, who owns them. As mentionned previously, it would be nice if everyone would make efforts to adopt the depends of their packages because it is just logical and would surely ease the .so bump rebuilds. Of course, anyone is free to adopt any orphans that they wish. However, it is possible that some devs already have the maximum workload that they can handle so they can't really adopt any or all of their packages' orphaned depends. If it's the case for you, let us know. Perhaps someone else, who can add to their current workload, would be willing to adopt some of these orphans especially if they use the package that depends on them. I'm sure we'll be able to split the present orphans workload somehow. Eric ================== Removed packages ================== adns dmcradio efax gpgme03 gprolog hashalot hnb hypermail ippl ircd jetty libnetdude libpcapnav mod_security netdude netkit-bootparamd netkit-ntalk netpipes oidentd pam_mysql perl-email-date perl-email-abstract perl-email-simple perl-module-pluggable perl-time-piece pidentd pppconfig sendfile tmda xprobe ytalk ================== -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.