November 2023 - Aur-requests - lists.archlinux.org

[PRQ#51646] Deletion Request for xf86-video-dummy-with-vt
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for xf86-video-dummy-with-vt [2]: No longer maintained, minimally patched old version (released in 2016) of extra/xf86-video-dummy. The latter is carrying the last release from 2023. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/xf86-video-dummy-with-vt/

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[PRQ#50344] Deletion Request for visit-build
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for visit-build [2]: Broken, unused package from 2020. OOD flag ignored since 2021. Last comment is from 2017. Upstream is continually developed, so abandoning it on AUR doesn't seem to be because of obsolescence, rather, just lack of interest here. Actually upstream publishes an easy-to-use, well-documented build script which helps users in acquiring the sources and building it for installation inside their user's directory. (There are also upstream binary releases, and an installation script to facilitate downloading and installing that one inside user's home.) PKGBUILD is problematic for an Arch/AUR package: does not declare sources, just lets upstream's install script fetch sources via wget. People who want to use this application better stick to using upstream's supported build or binary installation methods. (It doesn't need to exist inside system dirs to work.) [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/visit-build/

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[PRQ#50338] Deletion Request for friking-shark-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for friking-shark-git [2]: Broken, abandoned, unused VCS package from 2019. Missing a makedepend. Also incompatible with current Qt5-widgets. Source URL is broken since 18+ months ago. Seems best to delete. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/friking-shark-git/

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[PRQ#49523] Merge Request for lprng-cups
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a request to merge lprng-cups [2] into lprng [3]: Eliminating duplication, and also rationalizing packages. Currently, 'lprng-cups' doesn't include cups files, and 'lprng' does. It should be the other way around, or at least 'lprng' should be the one that doesn't conflict with cups. Please kindly adopt the currently orphan 'lprng', update it, and change its packaging to make it capable of coexisting with cups. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/lprng-cups/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/lprng/

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[PRQ#50214] Deletion Request for imlib2-heic
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for imlib2-heic [2]: Unneeded addon to imlib2, as now extra/imlib2 builds with HEIC/HEIF support via libheif. This was only useful earlier, when imlib2 itself did not use libheif yet. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/imlib2-heic/

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[PRQ#50228] Deletion Request for imlib2-heic-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for imlib2-heic-git [2]: Not useful to keep this VCS package on AUR any longer: repo 's current imlib2 natively supports the HEIF/HEIC formats via libheif. This separate plugin was developed for older versions of imlib2 that didn't have that format support built in yet. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/imlib2-heic-git/

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[PRQ#50936] Deletion Request for ssf-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for ssf-git [2]: Insecure, discontinued network tunneling utility from 2018 (not maintained since that year). [a] Relies on EOL, insecure openssl 1.0. This should now be deleted from AUR. Users can find secure, reliable, maintained alternatives nowadays. [a]: https://github.com/securesocketfunneling/ssf [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ssf-git/

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[PRQ#50095] Deletion Request for kcm-tablet-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for kcm-tablet-git [2]: Broken third-party KDE5 config GUI addon. Upstream not developed since 2020. [a] Seems not useful to keep: won't be compatible at all with KDE Plasma 6, coming in a few months. [a]: https://gitlab.com/zanny/kcm-tablet [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/kcm-tablet-git/

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[PRQ#51886] Deletion Request for scrivener
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for scrivener [2]: Broken foreign binary from 2015; with unbuildable legacy AUR dependencies (gstreamer0.10 et al). Upstream's latest releases support Windows and MacOS. One can run the Windows version on WINE. Free trial is available. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/scrivener/

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[PRQ#51746] Deletion Request for python-ofxtools
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for python-ofxtools [2]: Unused, abandoned, broken, outdated Python package from 2021 with wrong name. (This is a CLI application.) Better to delete. 0 votes/comments, and no downstream dependents. Users can install the latest version from PyPI. It's a very lightweight setup: the module has no required dependencies apart from Python itself. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-ofxtools/

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