[aur-general] Dropping PCManFM
Hi, This release of PcmanFM is hard to built (at least on Arch and other distros) .. libfm refuses to build, and pcmanfm cannot build without libfm >= 0.1.16 .. Since LXDE upstream have been doing slow releases (and full of bugs and patches) I am not so sure if we should drop many of LXDE components to AUR, maintaining buggy software is a hell, patching it a lot, and reporting bugs to their upstream isn't nice, and it becomes worst when upstream seems to be dead. If anyone (TU or Dev) would like to maintain pcmanfm or the rest of the components of LXDE, please adopt it go ahead and let me know, but in the contrary case, I think PcmanFM and buggy LXDE software should go to AUR Regards -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com
On 15.08.2011 04:56, Ángel Velásquez wrote:
Hi,
This release of PcmanFM is hard to built (at least on Arch and other distros) .. libfm refuses to build, and pcmanfm cannot build without libfm >= 0.1.16 ..
Since LXDE upstream have been doing slow releases (and full of bugs and patches) I am not so sure if we should drop many of LXDE components to AUR, maintaining buggy software is a hell, patching it a lot, and reporting bugs to their upstream isn't nice, and it becomes worst when upstream seems to be dead.
If anyone (TU or Dev) would like to maintain pcmanfm or the rest of the components of LXDE, please adopt it go ahead and let me know, but in the contrary case, I think PcmanFM and buggy LXDE software should go to AUR
Regards
I definitely support dropping these to AUR for the reasons you stated.
On 15/08/11 12:56, Ángel Velásquez wrote:
Hi,
This release of PcmanFM is hard to built (at least on Arch and other distros) .. libfm refuses to build, and pcmanfm cannot build without libfm>= 0.1.16 ..
Since LXDE upstream have been doing slow releases (and full of bugs and patches) I am not so sure if we should drop many of LXDE components to AUR, maintaining buggy software is a hell, patching it a lot, and reporting bugs to their upstream isn't nice, and it becomes worst when upstream seems to be dead.
If anyone (TU or Dev) would like to maintain pcmanfm or the rest of the components of LXDE, please adopt it go ahead and let me know, but in the contrary case, I think PcmanFM and buggy LXDE software should go to AUR
If it is going to be dropped and no-one else wants it, then I will take over LXDM. Allan
2011/8/15 Ángel Velásquez
Hi,
This release of PcmanFM is hard to built (at least on Arch and other distros) .. libfm refuses to build, and pcmanfm cannot build without libfm >= 0.1.16 ..
Since LXDE upstream have been doing slow releases (and full of bugs and patches) I am not so sure if we should drop many of LXDE components to AUR, maintaining buggy software is a hell, patching it a lot, and reporting bugs to their upstream isn't nice, and it becomes worst when upstream seems to be dead.
If anyone (TU or Dev) would like to maintain pcmanfm or the rest of the components of LXDE, please adopt it go ahead and let me know, but in the contrary case, I think PcmanFM and buggy LXDE software should go to AUR
Regards
-- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com
I tested PCManFM from git just before its release, and it compiled seamlessly. I think the best way would be to describe your problems on the PCManFM mailing list, PCMan is quite reactive. For the other components, it's another story, they are not actively developed and answers can be long to come. But they still are packages that are used by a few archers. Feel free to help :) Cilyan
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Allan McRae
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Cilyan Olowen
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Sven-Hendrik Haase
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Ángel Velásquez