On 27.12.2011 18:35, Edoardo Maria Elidoro wrote:
Hi, I wrote to the ex-mainteiner of input-wacom ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45001) asking if it's safe to remove this out-of-date and orphan package. Here's his answer:
For current 3.x kernel, it is useless, that's
true - but I left it in case someone wants to port it into lts - because lts kernel lags behind and there input-wacom can still be useful (probably it requires very little change, but I don't have lts kernel on my machine to test). So primarily I left it for users of lts or other custom kernel to pick, but as no one was interested for all that time, I think it should be pretty safe to remove. After all it's not that hard to package this, so if someone needs it he can build it from scratch.
So, shall we remove this package?
I'm for keeping it until lts moves away from 2.x. Then we can remove it.
How should we deal with out-of-date packages that maybe someone still use? (Question extended to kde3, xfce4.x - with x lesser then 8 and gnome2 related packages)
If people use it and it still builds/works I don't see a problem in keeping them. PKGBUILDs don't use much space and if you build it yourself you should know that it's old and probably buggy. -- Florian Pritz