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I see that there are more than 6700 orphan packages. Of those, more than 2400 are also flagged out of date (some packages have not been updated since 2007). Many packages are only waiting for a new maintainer but I think that many are only waiting to be scrapped as they're already been replaced by some other package in the AUR or in the community repository (or just become obsolete).
I'm wondering if the time has come to look into them to find out what worth to keep and what have to be removed and thus do some cleanup.
If can be useful, I can start working on it. Of course, clean up work like that is always appreciated. Keep in mind
On 07.11.2011 18:41, Nicola Bignami wrote: though that people might resubmit missing but obsolete software to AUR. Technically, there is no rule against that. I know.
So in case you do this work, you should look for packages that truly have no need for existence anymore as opposed to merely software that somebody forked and improved. Dead upstream sucks but it's no an immediate reason to drop something from AUR. in my opinion.
Good candidates for deletion: Unmaintained downstream variants of software patched with various little things, software that switched vcs but has old vcs packages remaining in AUR, totally broken and unmaintained software, renamed packages that didn't get deleted. You get the idea. That's exactly what I have in mind, and that's why IMHO it's necessary look carefully to the packages and not just delete them because they're orphan and out of date.
-- Sven-Hendrik Looks like you are good to go then. As already suggested, a wiki page
On 07.11.2011 20:16, Nicola Bignami wrote: page (your user page would be fine) for this would likely be a good idea.