[aur-general] Deletion of xfce4-volumed
Hi, I just noticed xfce4-volumed having been deleted from AUR.
From the aur-requests archive [0] (2016-12-07): oberon2007 [1] filed a deletion request for xfce4-volumed [2]:
Has been discontinued by xfce since 2009. replaced by xfce4-volumed- pulse
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/oberon2007/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/xfce4-volumed/
For anybody not using pulseaudio (like me), this package might still be of use. Unless there is a genral rule not to include discontinued software in the AUR, I would like to resubmit the package. Sorry for not objecting earlier, by the way. I just started using the package (and somehow overlooked the filed deletion request). Einhard Leichtfuß [0] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2016-December/014777.html
On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 13:07:08 +0100, Einhard Leichtfuß wrote:
Unless there is a genral rule not to include discontinued software in the AUR, I would like to resubmit the package.
Hi, even "community" provides discontinued software, e.g. https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/roxterm/ https://sourceforge.net/p/roxterm/discussion/422638/thread/60da6975/ It already is buggy, but IMO even with its bugs it is still the best terminal emulation, at least I didn't found another one to replace roxterm for me. There's countless maintained software, that is much more buggy, than some discontinued software, let alone that some old software is better designed, without missing features, without useless features etc.. Discontinued software could still be the best available software for a task. I can't comment xfce4-volumed, I neither use pulseaudio, nor xfce4-volumed, just alsa and jackd with hdspmixer. However, as long as software is useful and can't be replaced, there IMO is no need to rule out discontinued software. Regards, Ralf
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Einhard Leichtfuß
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Ralf Mardorf