[aur-general] Delete request: gtkpacman
This one might be a bit controversial. gtkpacman hadn't been updated in over 6 years and hasn't functioned since pacman 4.1 at least, possibly before. I think it's safe at this point to say that it's dead. Dead + non-functional = should be removed IMO. Yes, it was a popular package with over 300 votes, but it's time is passed. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtkpacman/
I wonder if anyone's interested in getting it working again? If nobody else is willing, I'll adopt it. On 14/06/2014, Doug Newgard <scimmia@archlinux.info> wrote:
This one might be a bit controversial.
gtkpacman hadn't been updated in over 6 years and hasn't functioned since pacman 4.1 at least, possibly before. I think it's safe at this point to say that it's dead. Dead + non-functional = should be removed IMO. Yes, it was a popular package with over 300 votes, but it's time is passed.
-- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Actually, in light of the information present at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_GUI_Frontends I will retract my previous comment. Too many existing, working Gtk front-ends for me to bother with gtkpacman. On 14/06/2014, David Phillips <dbphillipsnz@gmail.com> wrote:
I wonder if anyone's interested in getting it working again? If nobody else is willing, I'll adopt it.
On 14/06/2014, Doug Newgard <scimmia@archlinux.info> wrote:
This one might be a bit controversial.
gtkpacman hadn't been updated in over 6 years and hasn't functioned since pacman 4.1 at least, possibly before. I think it's safe at this point to say that it's dead. Dead + non-functional = should be removed IMO. Yes, it was a popular package with over 300 votes, but it's time is passed.
-- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
-- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
On 2014-06-14 01:27, David Phillips wrote:
I wonder if anyone's interested in getting it working again? If nobody else is willing, I'll adopt it.
You're pretty much talking about forking it to do that. There are tarballs on Sourceforge, so it should be doable. You'd probably need to rename the software unless you could get permission from the original author to just take over as-is. I know there was one fork, wakka, that was also abandoned. Doug
Oh, so Wakka was abandoned. I had assumed it was still running. I might have a look at forking Wakka or something... anyway, that's outside the scope of this thread, I'm no longer opposing deletion. On 14/06/2014, Doug Newgard <scimmia@archlinux.info> wrote:
On 2014-06-14 01:27, David Phillips wrote:
I wonder if anyone's interested in getting it working again? If nobody else is willing, I'll adopt it.
You're pretty much talking about forking it to do that. There are tarballs on Sourceforge, so it should be doable. You'd probably need to rename the software unless you could get permission from the original author to just take over as-is.
I know there was one fork, wakka, that was also abandoned.
Doug
-- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 9:02 AM, David Phillips <dbphillipsnz@gmail.com> wrote:
Oh, so Wakka was abandoned. I had assumed it was still running. I might have a look at forking Wakka or something... anyway, that's outside the scope of this thread, I'm no longer opposing deletion.
On 14/06/2014, Doug Newgard <scimmia@archlinux.info> wrote:
On 2014-06-14 01:27, David Phillips wrote:
I wonder if anyone's interested in getting it working again? If nobody else is willing, I'll adopt it.
You're pretty much talking about forking it to do that. There are tarballs on Sourceforge, so it should be doable. You'd probably need to rename the software unless you could get permission from the original author to just take over as-is.
I know there was one fork, wakka, that was also abandoned.
Doug
-- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
+1 for me. I'll delete it a week from now if no one shows up to save it. -- Maxime
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