On Thursday, June 20, 2013 01:56:46 Karol Blazewicz wrote:

1. Question: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bacula/ is basically the same as https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bacula-mysql/ . They both are orphans, but the latter is more up to date. Is it OK to merge bacula with bacula-mysql or let them both be?

Given there're still 3 votes for mysql on AUR, I removed bacula and left bacula-mysql as is.

2. Deletion: According to the comment, the package is obsolete. The source is gone too. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/biblatex-apa/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/claws-tnef-plugin/

And both are very old packages (>3 year), removed.

According to the comment, the package is obsolete. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/breqn/

Removed.

According to the comment, it's OK to remove it. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bogo/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/clingcon/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/covim-git/

All removed.

The source is gone. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bin32-openjdk6/

Since it's still required by other packages, I just left it for now.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bin32-pando/

Very old (5 years) and upstream gone, removed.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bin32-prism/

Upstream dead, removed.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bluemote-k700i/

Very old (5 years) and upstream gone, removed.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/conky-google-reader/

Very old (> 3 years) and upstream gone, removed.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/concordance/

Very old (> 4 years) and upstream gone, removed.

3. Songbird stuff: http://blog.songbirdnest.com/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bin32-songbird-nightly/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/songbird-bin/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/songbird-nightly-bin/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/songbird-bin64/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/songbird-svn/

The last package has a comment that says the Nightingale project maintains a mirror for songbird: http://sourceforge.net/p/ngale/songbird-mirror/ci/master/tree/ Is it OK to remove songbird packages?

As Nightingale is just a forked version, I don't feel the need - people could choose whatever they want on AUR. (And songbird-bin still has 341 votes which could be somewhat an evidence for popularity)

4. Merge: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bukkit/ with https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/craftbukkit/ bukkit's description says "You are probably looking for the 'craftbukkit' package." The PKGBUILD doesn't list a proper source ...

Merged. And there are other obsolete packages in the dependency chain: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bukkit-general/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bukkit-healthy/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bukkit-minecart-mania-core/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bukkit-minecart-mania-autocart/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bukkit-minecart-mania-signs/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bukkit-minecart-mania-stations/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bukkit-permissions/ All upstreams dead, removed.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/claws-mail-extra-plugins-cvs/ with https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/claws-mail-git/ Same maintainer, see comment for claws-mail-extra-plugins-cvs: "Claws-mail moved to git, so please do not use this package but install claws-mail-git:"

Merged.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cloud9-git/ with https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cloud9

Given the former is -git version and the latter is fetching git tags, I don't feel the need to merge the two - as they are both out-dated for now.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cockatrice/ with https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cockatrice-git/ Have a look at the comment on cockatrice about C&D from Hasbro http://www.cockatrice.de/

Merged.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/compcache/ with https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zramswap/ http://code.google.com/p/compcache/: "compcache-0.6.2 is marked deprecated (so nothing available for download now). Please use the version available in the mainline (drivers/staging/zram)."

Merged.

(No idea if it makes sense, see comments) https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cross-arm-elf-binutils-sysroot/ , https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cross-arm-elf-base/ and

Removed the two since they are obsoleted by repo packages.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cross-arm-elf-newlib/ with https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/arm-elf-newlib/

Merged this one.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cross-arm-elf-gcc/ with https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/arm-elf-gcc/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cross-arm-elf-gdb/ with https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/arm-elf-gdb/

Both merged.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/curator/ with https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/curator-hg/ See drcouzelis' comment on curator.

Given the mercurial repo have at least a v3.0 tag, it's easy to update the curator package - so I didn't merge them.

Hey, TUs, do you prefer shorter, bite-sized mails or longer ones? Separate mails for merging, deleting and other stuff?

For me, I don't have a preference :)

If a package has e.g. one vote and no important comments, do I still have to suggest merging with a suitable package or is it OK to just delete it? I have no idea which is faster and which is the proper way.

I think it's OK to just delete it. Regards, Felix Yan