Thanks Eric, Just one quick thing: On Jan 30, 2008 12:08 AM, Eric Belanger wrote:

mailx (Aaron: adopt it if you still want it)

You need to orphan it first. The interface doesn't allow people to steal packages from people 8)

On Wed, January 30, 2008 17:08, Eric Belanger wrote:

mlocate

mine. oops.

On Jan 30, 2008 12:08 AM, Eric Belanger wrote:

mrtg Snagged because it looks pretty 8)

dash Dan?

perl Kevin?

abs Travis?

shadow heimdal bcm43xx-fwcutter bridge-utils dnsutils ifenslave

I could grab some of these, like shadow, bvm43-fwcutter and heimdal, if no one wants them. The rest I'm unsure of. I'm fairly certain I don't use them 8)

netkit-telnet I grabbed this one

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Eric Belanger wrote:

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.

But now I would like to focus more on orphaned core packages:

Here's an updated list (some of these were recently added): ifenslave coreutils dmraid logrotate mpfr linux-atm Here's Varun's packages that weren't adopted yet: bladeenc dvdbackup handbrake miro d4x nicotine wicd

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.

Apart for adoptions of core packages, there wasn't any progress (AFAIK) related to orphaned extra packages. Can I get more feedback? This should be our top priority so we can finish up the cleanup/adoption process (at least for the current orphans). -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.