[aur-general] Some packages to consider deleting...
I went through parts of AUR today intending to find some packages which could be deleted for various reasons. Here is what I got: audacious-beta <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26394>, audacious-plugins-beta <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26395>: Its an old, unmaintained version of Audacious. The version in the repos is 2 minor versions ahead of this one. I think it can safely be removed without hurting anything. bang <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15238>: This hasn't been maintained upstream for a while, and doesn't even build anymore. There is always Ecomorph, which is somewhat more maintained upstream. beryl-bmenu, beryl-desktopclick, beryl-screensaver: Beryl isn't available for Arch anymore, and hasn't been developed for over 2 years now. These can be removed. cairo-newspr <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16587>: Gentoo isn't even using the patches anymore, and the maintainer abandoned it. I see no reason for this package to stick around. catalyst-vanilla <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24451>: Old, unmaintained, a duplicate of the catalyst pkgbuild, and the old maintainer even asked for it to be deleted in the comments. Those should be reason enough to delete this PKGBUILD. ejourn <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2772>: Project page is down, with the program innacessable. Package hasn't been updated in 3 years. It should be deleted. enna-cvs <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14653>: e17 switched to svn long ago. This should be deleted. php4-gtk <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=730>: This is for php version 4, which isn't available in arch. Hasn't been updated in years. qtpoveditor <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2719>: Doesn't work anymore, and isn't supported either. rstatd <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2557>: Doesn't work anymore, program itself last updated in 2005. Hope this helps make AUR just a little bit cleaner. ;) Smartboy
On 21/09/2009, Smartboy <smartboyathome@gmail.com> wrote:
I went through parts of AUR today intending to find some packages which could be deleted for various reasons. Here is what I got:
audacious-beta <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26394>, audacious-plugins-beta <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26395>: Its an old, unmaintained version of Audacious. The version in the repos is 2 minor versions ahead of this one. I think it can safely be removed without hurting anything.
bang <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15238>: This hasn't been maintained upstream for a while, and doesn't even build anymore. There is always Ecomorph, which is somewhat more maintained upstream.
beryl-bmenu, beryl-desktopclick, beryl-screensaver: Beryl isn't available for Arch anymore, and hasn't been developed for over 2 years now. These can be removed.
cairo-newspr <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16587>: Gentoo isn't even using the patches anymore, and the maintainer abandoned it. I see no reason for this package to stick around.
catalyst-vanilla <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24451>: Old, unmaintained, a duplicate of the catalyst pkgbuild, and the old maintainer even asked for it to be deleted in the comments. Those should be reason enough to delete this PKGBUILD.
ejourn <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2772>: Project page is down, with the program innacessable. Package hasn't been updated in 3 years. It should be deleted.
enna-cvs <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14653>: e17 switched to svn long ago. This should be deleted.
php4-gtk <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=730>: This is for php version 4, which isn't available in arch. Hasn't been updated in years.
qtpoveditor <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2719>: Doesn't work anymore, and isn't supported either.
rstatd <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2557>: Doesn't work anymore, program itself last updated in 2005.
Hope this helps make AUR just a little bit cleaner. ;) Smartboy really thank you man. all deleted.
-- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer
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