On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:14:57 -0500 Thomas Dziedzic wrote:

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Laurent Carlier wrote:

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I would like to start a talk about packages that can be moved to aur, for various reasons, not only because they are orphaned, but essencially due to lack of maintainance upstream.

Feel free to comment and add other packages.

striim: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/striim/ Project seem dead upstream, better alternatives exist

xf4vnc-xcliplistproto http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/xf4vnc-xcliplistproto/ Depend on a cvs snapshot from 2007, not update for 3 years (project is dead ?)

xf4vnc-vncproto http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/xf4vnc-vncproto/ Similar to xf4vnc-xcliplistproto

sfarkxtc http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/sfarkxtc/ Binary only, x86 only (x86_64 with lib32), doesn't seem maintain upstream

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I did grep -R pkgname /var/abs/community for all of them and nothing depends on them.

I also think these should be removed.

I agree, however I'd say the active maintainers should also be asked. -- Jabber: atsutane@freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4

Am 17.07.2010 20:52, schrieb Ray Rashif:

On 17/07/2010, Thorsten Töpper wrote:

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On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:14:57 -0500 Thomas Dziedzic wrote:

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On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Laurent Carlier wrote:

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sfarkxtc http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/sfarkxtc/ Binary only, x86 only (x86_64 with lib32), doesn't seem maintain upstream

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I did grep -R pkgname /var/abs/community for all of them and nothing depends on them.

I also think these should be removed.

sfarkxtc is used for soundfonts [1]

A project may not be active, but the use of the tool may still be valid. Sometimes, good/simple programs don't need updates.

[1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Timidity#Soundfonts

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1+ Maintained packages should only be removed by the maintainer, if at all. Regards Stefan