August 2022 - Aur-requests - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-requests] [PRQ#36828] Deletion Request for thunderbird-exchangecalendar
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for thunderbird-exchangecalendar [2]: Orphaned package. Project is discontinued after 2019. Last "stable" release is from 2018 and works only with Thunderbird v59 and lower. As there is no such version in Arch and AUR repos, I recommend deleting this. There still is an (orphan) thunderbird-exchangecalendar-beta package on AUR, working with AUR/thunderbird-60-bin package. So it is no loss if this one is deleted. (And anyway, there is a more current addon, AUR/thunderbird-tbsync, whose project is still alive and supports Exchange ActiveSync.) [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/thunderbird-exchangecalendar/

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[aur-requests] [PRQ#36829] Deletion Request for thunderbird-tbsync-beta
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for thunderbird-tbsync-beta [2]: Long-abandoned and orphaned package (last updated in 2018). There is a stable (albeit also orphaned) AUR package for this. Also, this Thunderbird addon project is still alive and current, and the latest version of the module is available from addons.thunderbird.net. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/thunderbird-tbsync-beta/

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[aur-requests] [PRQ#36831] Deletion Request for python2-pjproject
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for python2-pjproject [2]: Unneeded Python 2 module. Former owner disowned it after my prompt about this package. Its only consumer is AUR/sacks, which has been defunct for several years because the NGO what was hosting its backend discontinued those online services. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python2-pjproject/

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[aur-requests] [PRQ#36832] Deletion Request for lxd-lts
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for lxd-lts [2]: Orphaned package. Last updated ~4 years ago. As such, I recommend deletion. Arch repo carries the latest lxd, and nothing depends specifically on this lts package. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/lxd-lts/

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[aur-requests] [PRQ#36840] Deletion Request for dbus-openrc
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for dbus-openrc [2]: Source repo on gentoo.org got deleted. Orphaned package, last updated in 2017. I suggest to delete it. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/dbus-openrc/

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[aur-requests] [PRQ#36834] Deletion Request for pyvnc
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for pyvnc [2]: Orphaned Python 2 package. Project has not been updated since 2018. [a] Its only AUR consumer is sacks, which is a discontinued Py2 and Qt4 based FOSS videoconferencing stack based on external applications and was hosted by an Italian NGO advocating for digital freedoms in the 2000's. Their website and videoconferencing backend servers seems to have been shut down after 2016. The developer and package maintainer of sacks have disowned that package as well as this one after my prompt about the status of these packages. So I infer they don't need this package, and it can be deleted as it serves no useful purpose anymore. [a] https://github.com/cair/pyVNC [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/pyvnc/

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[aur-requests] [PRQ#36839] Deletion Request for deskcon-desktop-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for deskcon-desktop-git [2]: This unofficial fork of a desktop integration toolkit for Android phones based on Python 2 Gtk2 has been discontinued since 2015. [a] Its upstream fork's development ended in 2014. [b] Today there are many currently maintained and well-developed solutions to integrate Android and Linux desktop interactive features and notifications, file / calendar / contacts syncing and remote input control (like the one I use, KDE Connect on Plasma Desktop). So I recommend deleting this obsolete VCS package. There are no user comments since 2017 and nothing depends on it. [a] https://github.com/MK-42/deskcon-desktop [b] https://github.com/screenfreeze/deskcon-desktop [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/deskcon-desktop-git/

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[aur-requests] [PRQ#36838] Orphan Request for unifont
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

txtsd [1] filed an orphan request for unifont [2]: Maintainer hasn't replied or applied a fix in more than a week now, since the last push about a month ago. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/txtsd/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/unifont/

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[aur-requests] [PRQ#36837] Deletion Request for astakosclient
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for astakosclient [2]: This is a Python2-only plugin for kamaki (CLI to manage OpenStack clouds). Both have been discontinued since 2017. [a] [b] kamaki on AUR has been defunct 9 months due to dropped Py2 depends, but no one complained. So I've submitted a deletion request for that, and now I am doing the same for this package, because it has no use anymore. [a] https://pypi.org/project/astakosclient/ [b] https://pypi.org/project/kamaki/ [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/astakosclient/

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[aur-requests] [PRQ#36830] Deletion Request for sacks
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for sacks [2]: Pakage is defunct - it was a FOSS videoconferencing stack for an Italian NGO fostering digital freedoms in the 2000's. But the organization seems defunct now, and its websites servers have been shut down since at least 2016. Package maintainer/developer @robertfoster tried to revive this Python 2 and Qt4 based software in 2019 by porting it to Python 3 and Qt5 in 2019, but ultimately abandoned that initiative. Current AUR package is still on Qt4 and Python 2. But after my prompt and OOD flag for this update, maintainer disowned this. So I infer that they agree with my observations above that this package is not worth the effort now that its backing NGO and backend services are gone. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/sacks/

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