[aur-general] Absence of kdelibs3

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Aaron DeVore

1 Aug 2014 1 Aug '14

5:31 p.m.

I noticed that kdelibs3, which was demoted from the main repositories in May, is not present in the AUR. Is this by design or a mistake? There are many packages in the AUR that depend on kdelibs3, so not having it available breaks all of those packages. Whether some of those packages should be deleted is another story, though. -Aaron DeVore

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Alexander Rødseth

1 Aug 1 Aug

6:42 p.m.

Hi, kdelibs3 was not demoted, but removed, by Eric Bélanger, the 15th of May. He wrote: "I've just removed qt3/kdelibs3 (as well as packages depending on them) from the repos.". I fully support his decision, but perhaps it should also have been uploaded to AUR. Anyone is free to upload a kdelib3 package to AUR. After looking at the packages I could find that depends on kdelibs3, it is mostly old and unmaintained software, with extremely few votes (the exception being the once-popular amarok1 with 91 votes). Most of them are orphans too. I strongly dislike kdelibs3 and think that all kdelibs3 related packages should be removed from AUR, but that is my personal opinion. Which kdelibs3 related package is it you care for? Perhaps we can focus on fixing that one and/or finding a better alternative. -- Best regards, Alexander Rødseth / xyproto

Lukas Jirkovsky

2 Aug 2 Aug

6:43 p.m.

On 1 August 2014 12:42, Alexander Rødseth wrote:

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I strongly dislike kdelibs3 and think that all kdelibs3 related packages should be removed from AUR, but that is my personal opinion.

I don't think any package should be removed if it works/is maintained. And if somebody wants to maintain an old unsupported package it's their fight.

Aaron DeVore

3 Aug 3 Aug

1:23 a.m.

I could take a crack at maintaining kdelibs3. How would I get a hold of the PKGBUILD for it? On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote:

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On 1 August 2014 12:42, Alexander Rødseth wrote:

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I strongly dislike kdelibs3 and think that all kdelibs3 related packages should be removed from AUR, but that is my personal opinion.

I don't think any package should be removed if it works/is maintained. And if somebody wants to maintain an old unsupported package it's their fight.

Jelle van der Waa

2:45 a.m.

On 08/02/14 at 10:23am, Aaron DeVore wrote:

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I could take a crack at maintaining kdelibs3. How would I get a hold of the PKGBUILD for it?

On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote:

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On 1 August 2014 12:42, Alexander Rødseth wrote:

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I strongly dislike kdelibs3 and think that all kdelibs3 related packages should be removed from AUR, but that is my personal opinion.

I don't think any package should be removed if it works/is maintained. And if somebody wants to maintain an old unsupported package it's their fight.

You can find it in the online git repo, here is the commit which removes the package. https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/?id=1b850099e914... But these packages should imo have landed in the AUR. -- Jelle van der Waa

Aaron DeVore

11:52 a.m.

I'm testing the building for various packages. This is a partial list of packages that should be deleted. I didn't include any packages that are maintained by trusted users. Kicker packages ============= Kicker was a part of the KDE 3 desktop, but is not present in any KDE 4. All packages that use Kicker are therefore useless. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/diskmonitor/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kooldock-svn/ Won't compile ============= These packages will never compile unless development magically springs to life upstream (it won't). https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kalsamix https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kaudiocreator3/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/k3bmonkeyaudioplugin/ Only works with an old version of k3b https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kapitalist/ Needs modification to the upstream source to work -Aaron DeVore On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Jelle van der Waa wrote:

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I could take a crack at maintaining kdelibs3. How would I get a hold of

On 08/02/14 at 10:23am, Aaron DeVore wrote: the

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PKGBUILD for it?

On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote:

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On 1 August 2014 12:42, Alexander Rødseth wrote:

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I strongly dislike kdelibs3 and think that all kdelibs3 related packages should be removed from AUR, but that is my personal opinion.

I don't think any package should be removed if it works/is maintained. And if somebody wants to maintain an old unsupported package it's their fight.

You can find it in the online git repo, here is the commit which removes the package.

https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/?id=1b850099e914...

But these packages should imo have landed in the AUR.

-- Jelle van der Waa

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