On 3/22/25 11:50 AM, Antonio Rojas wrote:

Time to clean up old cruft again. Please head to https://archlinux.org/devel/reports/unneeded-orphans/ and adopt packages you want to keep in the repos. [...] I will start dropping packages to AUR in ~ 10 days. [...] reflector [...]

Re: Spring cleanup '25 [1]: Aside from being quite popular among our users (probably for historical reasons and because it's currently the only solution offered in the official repo as far as I can tell), `reflector` is included and used in our ISO [2]. As such, it should *not* be dropped in the current state of things. That being said, it's fair to say that reflector is virtually upstream dead. If we are to keep it we might want to fork it into our GitLab instance. Alternatively, it might eventually be the occasion to look at actively maintained alternatives. One I'm aware of that seems quite popular is "rate-mirrors" [3][4]. For what it's worth, this is what CachyOS uses on their side and Peter reported to me that they are really satisfied with it on the CachyOS side. I personally never used it myself so I can't personally really tell how it holds up in term of features as compared to reflector but I assume this shouldn't be too hard to study. We can also eventually try to throw some questions to Peter if needed :P [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.or... [2] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/search?search=reflector&nav_source=navbar&project_id=10&group_id=23&search_code=true&repository_ref=master [3] https://github.com/westandskif/rate-mirrors [4] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rate-mirrors -- Regards, Robin Candau / Antiz

Den 22.03.2025 kl. 11.50 skrev Antonio Rojas:

Time to clean up old cruft again. Please head to https://archlinux.org/devel/reports/unneeded-orphans/ and adopt packages you want to keep in the repos. For reference, a current list of packages is attached (but this may vary if packages are adopted/disowned). If you adopt a package from the list, make sure to check its dependencies and also adopt them in case they are orphan.

This is also a good time to check your out-of-date packages and disown the ones you no longer have interest in/time to maintain, so they can find a maintainer in the official repos or otherwise in AUR. Keeping packages out of date and/or with unfixed issues for months/years is not ideal and can be detrimental to the overall quality of our distro in the long run.

I will start dropping packages to AUR in ~ 10 days.

ack acpilight arc-solid-gtk-theme arduino-builder aspell-da b43-fwcutter caja-actions echoping flterm fusesoc gauche gmrun gpgit gradle7 hitch hq kakoune-lsp lastpass-cli libutp libxml++2.6-docs log4cpp lxsplit mailgraph med-openmpi megatools molecule-plugins netcf obconf ophcrack perl-app-borgrestore perl-config-simple perl-cpanplus-dist-arch perl-data-messagepack perl-dir-self perl-statistics-descriptive physlock pinta psiconv python-clint python-glfw python-migen python-nptyping python-olm python-pyswip python-sounddevice reflector rhino-javadoc rp-pppoe ruby-cairo sc scim-chewing sipcalc smokeping snap-sync spampd swaks sx t-prot taskd tenshi tree-sitter-bash tree-sitter-python ttf-joypixels vbam-sdl vbam-wx web-ext wldash xautolock xcftools xplc

I'm still new, but I would like to take over aspell-da if possible. It seems pretty low maintenance. I'm just need to figure out how to adopt a package as a junior package maintainer.

Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org> on Sat, 2025/03/22 11:50:

perl-config-simple

At least this one is used in our own infrastructure... https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/blob/master/roles/po... Actually I use it myself, but I would like to avoid going deeper into the perl rabbit hole. If no one else adopts it I will probably get it anyway... -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Best regards my address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* Chris cc -ox -xc - && ./x */b/42*2-3)*42);}

On 25/03/22 11:50AM, Antonio Rojas wrote:

Time to clean up old cruft again. Please head to https://archlinux.org/devel/reports/unneeded-orphans/ and adopt packages you want to keep in the repos. For reference, a current list of packages is attached (but this may vary if packages are adopted/disowned). If you adopt a package from the list, make sure to check its dependencies and also adopt them in case they are orphan.

This is also a good time to check your out-of-date packages and disown the ones you no longer have interest in/time to maintain, so they can find a maintainer in the official repos or otherwise in AUR. Keeping packages out of date and/or with unfixed issues for months/years is not ideal and can be detrimental to the overall quality of our distro in the long run.

I have now also orphaned the packages from farseerfc, see the full list below. Not all of these are unnededed orphans , but it might still make sense to look at all of them since some may need new maintainers to retain a bus factor > 1 :D - alacritty - btrfs-heatmap - dbus-client-gen - fcitx5-mozc - fcitx-mozc - fira-code - flameshot - jlatexmath - kdiskmark - libfilteraudio - libtg_owt - lsw - lzip - otf-ipaexfont - otf-ipafont - otf-ipamjfont - pdfpc - pelican - plantuml - plantuml-ascii-math - powerline - python-btrfs - python-cairocffi - python-dbus-client-gen - python-dbus-signature-pyparsing - python-feedgenerator - python-ghp-import - python-hs-dbus-signature - python-into-dbus - python-justbases - python-justbytes - python-markdown-math - python-mdx-video - python-pdfrw - python-smartypants - python-typogrify - qtox - retext - skk-jisyo - snorenotify - stratis-cli - stratisd - telegram-desktop - toxcore - toxic - ttf-hanazono - ttf-opensans - tuntox - utox - xfsdump Cheers, gromit

On 3/22/25 11:50, Antonio Rojas wrote:

Time to clean up old cruft again. Please head to https://archlinux.org/devel/reports/unneeded-orphans/ and adopt packages you want to keep in the repos. For reference, a current list of packages is attached (but this may vary if packages are adopted/disowned). If you adopt a package from the list, make sure to check its dependencies and also adopt them in case they are orphan.

This is also a good time to check your out-of-date packages and disown the ones you no longer have interest in/time to maintain, so they can find a maintainer in the official repos or otherwise in AUR. Keeping packages out of date and/or with unfixed issues for months/years is not ideal and can be detrimental to the overall quality of our distro in the long run.

I will start dropping packages to AUR in ~ 10 days.

I also have some stuff I no longer really use: * tarsnap * nginx-prometheus-exporter * intel-gpu-tools (won't drop to AUR as it is generally useful)