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

[PRQ#42841] Deletion Request for graceful-greeter
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for graceful-greeter [2]: Can't find any "Graceful Linux" distro on the web. @dingjing has these packages: -graceful-greeter -graceful-platform-theme -graceful-settings But no metapackage / install package exists. No documentation on how to create a "Graceful Linux" experience, and which desktop environment/framework is supported. (Deps show LightDM and Qt5. The latter is EOL, so the days are numbered for the compiled themes.) GitHub commit history shows most development happened in 2020 and 2021. After that, only packaging/metadata/config/comment/textlabel etc. changes were done. But all maintenance seems to have stopped in 2022. @dingjing also did not respond to packaging fix request made on AUR in 2020 for graceful-platform-theme. I reckon these packages are not useful to users. Seems like an abandoned one-person project. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/graceful-greeter/

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[PRQ#42832] Deletion Request for talend-open-studio-esb-7.0.1
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for talend-open-studio-esb-7.0.1 [2]: Orphaned binary-sourced package from 2018. Broken, unneeded. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/talend-open-studio-esb-7.0.1/

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[PRQ#42831] Deletion Request for arch-plymouthize
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for arch-plymouthize [2]: Discontinued tool from 2017: custom-made configuration tool for Plymouth. Violates law: PKGBUILD says license is GPL, but source BitBucket repo only contains pre-built binary deliverables and some config / man / script files. Insecure: even contains prebuilt old libpython2.7.so.1.0 from or before 2017. Depends on the obsolete and unsupported gksu. Better to delete. There are suitable ways to configure Plymouth on Arch. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/arch-plymouthize/

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[PRQ#42829] Deletion Request for easy-boot-creator
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for easy-boot-creator [2]: Discontinued binary app from 2018 for writing bootable usb disk images. PKGBUILD hosted in repo, says license is GPL, but there is no source code published. Better to delete this package. It is obsolete anyway: depends on the unsupported and deprecated gksu. There are much better, maintained solutions for writing bootable storage - including ones that are actually free and open-source. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/easy-boot-creator/

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[PRQ#42830] Deletion Request for isousb
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for isousb [2]: This bootable disc image (ISO) to USB stick writer tool seems to have been developed for Manjaro since 2013, but discontinued sometime after 2017. Depends on the obsolete gksu. Not needed: there are many maintained alternatives that are compatible with current Arch and other distro tools and access control solutions. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/isousb/

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[PRQ#42827] Deletion Request for gtksu-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for gtksu-git [2]: Development stopped after latest stable release in 2018. [a] Only readme and textual comment changes were committed after that. [b] So a VCS package is not needed. Package is built for Qt5, not GTK. But both KDE and LxQt has their own solution for the same purpose (kdesu, lxqt-sudo in Arch repo). No one has to use this discontinued third-party application. [a]: https://github.com/KeithDHedger/GtkSu/releases [b]: https://github.com/KeithDHedger/GtkSu/compare/gtksu-0.1.6...master [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/gtksu-git/

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[PRQ#42825] Deletion Request for libgksu-colormap-fix
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for libgksu-colormap-fix [2]: Unneeded, broken duplicate of AUR/libgksu. As per the only comment, left by @micwoj92 on 2023-02-22, the build fails, but AUR/libgksu works fine. The latter has an active maintainer; this one is an orphan. Please kindly delete. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/libgksu-colormap-fix/

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[PRQ#42824] Deletion Request for espeak-test
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for espeak-test [2]: Espeak 1 has been discontinued since 2017. [a] No need for this fixed-version 'devel' package from 2015. AUR has the latest stable espeak, and Arch repo Carries the successor, espeak-ng. [a]: https://sourceforge.net/p/espeak/code/HEAD/tree/ [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/espeak-test/

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[PRQ#42823] Deletion Request for caja-gksu
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for caja-gksu [2]: Orphan package from 2019. gksu itself has been deprecated and removed from most distros from 2018 on. And replaced by PolicyKit (admin://) based solutions. Nothing depends on this package. Has 2 votes, and only former owner commented in 2020 that he no longer has any use for this. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/caja-gksu/

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[PRQ#42822] Deletion Request for flaketill-says
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for flaketill-says [2]: A dummy project from 2016. Looks like tinkering for self-learning. No external source declared. Shell script source hosted on AUR does nothing except define colors and print some demo text. PKGBUILD dependencies are bogus. Upstream URL was a personal website unrelated to this package; now dead. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/flaketill-says/

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