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

[PRQ#49283] Deletion Request for qt5-3d-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 17 Mar '24

17 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for qt5-3d-git [2]: Not useful to keep this package. Qt5 is EOL since May 2023. This PKGBUILD relies on Qt Group's public repo as source, which is typically behind the source used by the stable PKGBUILD in extra repo. Because upstream delays the public availability of Qt5 patches by one year, but allows the KDE project to cherry-pick and backport most of the patches accepted for Qt5 but not yet publicly pushed to Qt5 branch by Qt Group. The extra repo package uses KDE's updated Qt5 source. Therefore it is both better for users to use, and also newer, and has less bugs. Also this essentially makes extra/qt5* packages similar to a git VCS package. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/qt5-3d-git/

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[PRQ#49282] Deletion Request for qt5-tools-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 17 Mar '24

17 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for qt5-tools-git [2]: Not useful to keep this package. Qt5 is EOL since May 2023. This PKGBUILD relies on Qt Group's public repo as source, which is typically behind the source used by the stable PKGBUILD in extra repo. Because upstream delays the public availability of Qt5 patches by one year, but allows the KDE project to cherry-pick and backport most of the patches accepted for Qt5 but not yet publicly pushed to Qt5 branch by Qt Group. The extra repo package uses KDE's updated Qt5 source. Therefore it is both better for users to use, and also newer, and has less bugs. Also this essentially makes extra/qt5* packages similar to a git VCS package. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/qt5-tools-git/

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[PRQ#49466] Deletion Request for pidgin-indicator
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 10 Mar '24

10 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for pidgin-indicator [2]: Unneeded Gtk2 desktop systray icon addon to pidgin. There's no functional Gtk2 based desktop environment available from Arch or AUR repos. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/pidgin-indicator/

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[PRQ#51257] Deletion Request for open-sasc-ng-dkms
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 10 Mar '24

10 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for open-sasc-ng-dkms [2]: This driver from 2015 only works with Linux kernel 2.6 and 3.x, therefore it is defunct on current Arch Linux. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/open-sasc-ng-dkms/

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[PRQ#49565] Deletion Request for proxsign-bin
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 10 Mar '24

10 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for proxsign-bin [2]: Abandoned, broken, unused foreign proprietary binary package. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/proxsign-bin/

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[PRQ#49554] Deletion Request for geany-snippets
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 10 Mar '24

10 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for geany-snippets [2]: Abandoned addon pkg for Geany from 2015; sources are very outdated, may not even work with current Geany, and one of the snippet sources was hosted on Dropbox that is now unavailable (404). [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/geany-snippets/

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[PRQ#49503] Deletion Request for libreport-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 10 Mar '24

10 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for libreport-git [2]: Broken, abandoned, unused Python2 based VCS package from 2018, with wrong, random pkgver(). Not useful to keep. AUR/libreport is much newer and is in a working state. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/libreport-git/

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[PRQ#49453] Deletion Request for ndjbdns
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 10 Mar '24

10 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for ndjbdns [2]: Unused fork of djbdns from 2014, its development ceased since 2017. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ndjbdns/

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[PRQ#51406] Merge Request for gnucash-docs-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 10 Mar '24

10 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a request to merge gnucash-docs-git [2] into gnucash-git [3]: Not useful to keep the broken pkgbase=gnucash-docs-git. It was last changed in 2015, and has been failing to build since at least 2020 due to makedepends=rarian's reported FTBFS that year, which persists to this day. But no one noticed. gnucash-docs-git has only 2 votes, and 1 comment from maintainer made in 2017. Extra repo has the latest stable gnucash and gnucash-docs. If the rolling 'git' docs is needed, it is best to enable it in the main gnucash-git's PKGBUILD. With this merge, it will become possible in the latter to create a split package with the same 'gnucash-docs- git' name. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/gnucash-docs-git/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/gnucash-git/

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[PRQ#49436] Deletion Request for lib32-gstreamer0.10-base
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 10 Mar '24

10 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for lib32-gstreamer0.10-base [2]: Abandoned, not actually used gstreamer0.10 lib32 library pkg from 2020. It is unbuildable, just like its also several-years-unmaintained native-build counterpart (gstreamer0.10-base). AUR/crossover currently defines this as an optdepend, but its current version can no longer use this. I plan to submit a comment on the latter's AUR page with a suggested PKGBUILD diff, because the current package has many other obsolete (opt)depends as of now, due to upstream changes. Safe to delete this defunct library. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/lib32-gstreamer0.10-base/

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