[arch-general] Removal of the Dasher package
Hello! I don't know if I'm in the right mailing list, so sorry if I'm in the wrong place... I need to install the package Dasher, and I realized it's not anymore in the official repositories (it was in extra and it was removed this year). I don't know if I didn't searched right, because I found nothing about this removal. Does anyone knows why? Of course I can download the source code and build it by myself, and that's what I'm doing. But I just wanted to know why they removed. Thanks, and sorry for anything...
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 12:48:24PM +0000, Germano Corrêa via arch-general wrote:
Hello!
I don't know if I'm in the right mailing list, so sorry if I'm in the wrong place...
I need to install the package Dasher, and I realized it's not anymore in the official repositories (it was in extra and it was removed this year). I don't know if I didn't searched right, because I found nothing about this removal. Does anyone knows why?
Of course I can download the source code and build it by myself, and that's what I'm doing. But I just wanted to know why they removed.
Thanks, and sorry for anything...
Typically, packages in the official repos are maintained by devs / TUs that use the packages. Sometimes a dev stops using a package, so they drop maintenance of it. If no other dev wants to take it, it usually will get dropped to the AUR. I guess that didn't happen here. Taking a peek into the SVN repos: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/log/?qt=grep&q=dasher It looks like the last update to this package was 2014-07-01. Its listed maintainer is Damir Perisa, who according to this page: https://www.archlinux.org/people/developer-fellows/#damir Is no longer an active Arch developer. The package got removed recently, most likely because it no longer worked as-is and no one stepped up to fix it. What I would suggest is to take the old version of the package: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/dasher/trunk?id=c819de8... patch it up and upload it to the AUR. --Sean
There also seems to be a (possibly newer?) PKGBUILD for 5.0 alpha 22 from
just before it was removed:
https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/dasher/trunk/PKGBUILD?i...
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Sean Greenslade
Hello!
I don't know if I'm in the right mailing list, so sorry if I'm in the wrong place...
I need to install the package Dasher, and I realized it's not anymore in the official repositories (it was in extra and it was removed this year). I don't know if I didn't searched right, because I found nothing about this removal. Does anyone knows why?
Of course I can download the source code and build it by myself, and
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 12:48:24PM +0000, Germano Corrêa via arch-general wrote: that's
what I'm doing. But I just wanted to know why they removed.
Thanks, and sorry for anything...
Typically, packages in the official repos are maintained by devs / TUs that use the packages. Sometimes a dev stops using a package, so they drop maintenance of it. If no other dev wants to take it, it usually will get dropped to the AUR. I guess that didn't happen here.
Taking a peek into the SVN repos:
https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/log/?qt=grep&q=dasher
It looks like the last update to this package was 2014-07-01. Its listed maintainer is Damir Perisa, who according to this page:
https://www.archlinux.org/people/developer-fellows/#damir
Is no longer an active Arch developer. The package got removed recently, most likely because it no longer worked as-is and no one stepped up to fix it.
What I would suggest is to take the old version of the package:
https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/dasher/trunk?id=c819de8...
patch it up and upload it to the AUR.
--Sean
On 07/25/16 at 12:48pm, Germano Corrêa via arch-general wrote:
Hello!
I don't know if I'm in the right mailing list, so sorry if I'm in the wrong place...
I need to install the package Dasher, and I realized it's not anymore in the official repositories (it was in extra and it was removed this year). I don't know if I didn't searched right, because I found nothing about this removal. Does anyone knows why?
Of course I can download the source code and build it by myself, and that's what I'm doing. But I just wanted to know why they removed.
Thanks, and sorry for anything...
Usually and this should always be done, these packaged are moved to the AUR. Why this package did not end up there, I don't know. But it might be because of the AUR4 move. -- Jelle van der Waa
Hmm... thanks for the clarification.
It's really wierd that isn't in AUR, at least. Dasher seems like a good
assistive technology, and I wanted to try out.
Since Dasher is part of the Gnome Project, it couldn't be in gnome-extra
group?
Regards,
Em seg, 25 de jul de 2016 às 14:15, Jelle van der Waa
Hello!
I don't know if I'm in the right mailing list, so sorry if I'm in the wrong place...
I need to install the package Dasher, and I realized it's not anymore in the official repositories (it was in extra and it was removed this year). I don't know if I didn't searched right, because I found nothing about this removal. Does anyone knows why?
Of course I can download the source code and build it by myself, and
On 07/25/16 at 12:48pm, Germano Corrêa via arch-general wrote: that's
what I'm doing. But I just wanted to know why they removed.
Thanks, and sorry for anything...
Usually and this should always be done, these packaged are moved to the AUR. Why this package did not end up there, I don't know. But it might be because of the AUR4 move.
-- Jelle van der Waa
participants (4)
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Germano Corrêa
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Ido Rosen
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Jelle van der Waa
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Sean Greenslade