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

[PRQ#45632] Deletion Request for anjay-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for anjay-git [2]: Orphan VCS package from 2017, one-time effort. Also broken since 2022-03 due to URL protocol deprecation. There are no comments or votes. The current package is also legally nonconformant now, as upstream code has been re-licensed from the previous Apache 2.0 license to a new, custom "AVSystem-5-clause License", whereas the PKGBUILD metadata still declares 'Apache' as the license. In addition, this build uses a not reliably monotonic pkgver(), and does not declare the necessary provides and conflicts. Better to delete. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/anjay-git/

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[PRQ#45631] Deletion Request for aur-mbedtls
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for aur-mbedtls [2]: Source-build duplicate of Arch extra repo's mbedtls and of ArchLinuxARM / ArchLinux32's packages for the same. Also the package has a superfluous and meaningless 'aur-' name prefix. The ArchLinuxARM repo does not carry a build for the legacy 'armv6h' architecture - if such is really needed, a new package can be reuploaded, maybe with the name 'mbedtls-armv6h'. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/aur-mbedtls/

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[PRQ#45630] Deletion Request for mingw-w64-json-glib-bin
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for mingw-w64-json-glib-bin [2]: Outdated binary for json-glib, it's just a repackage of MSYS2 repo's prebuilt binary pacman package. AUR has the current version of mingw-w64-json-glib from same maintainer. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/mingw-w64-json-glib-bin/

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[PRQ#45628] Deletion Request for python-npyscreen-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for python-npyscreen-git [2]: Last released version is 4.10.5 from 2015 [a]; the source GitHub repo's newest commit is from 2019 but for an older version, 4.9.1. [b] Originally it was hosted on Google Code (abandoned), then the official repo was on BitBucket (repo got deleted). Not useful to keep this VCS package; there is a stable one on AUR: python-npyscreen 4.10.5-1, sourced from latest release on PyPI. And there is a drop-in replacement community fork available from PyPI, called pq-npyscreen, last released in 2022. [c] [a]: https://pypi.org/project/npyscreen/ [b]: https://github.com/npcole/npyscreen/blob/master/setup.py [c]: https://pypi.org/project/pq-npyscreen/ [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-npyscreen-git/

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[PRQ#45627] Orphan Request for python-fastavro
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

MarsSeed [1] filed an orphan request for python-fastavro [2]: Maintainer seems to be away since 2022-11, and this package needs an update. Flagged since 2023-04-28. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-fastavro/

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[PRQ#45624] Deletion Request for pyinstaller2
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for pyinstaller2 [2]: Unused old Python2 version of pyinstaller, which creates one-file installable Python bubdle packages. Nothing depends on it, and maintainer's last comment is from 2020, whereas @FabioLolix' question posed in 2022 inquiring if anyone uses this package got no answer from anyone. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/pyinstaller2/

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[PRQ#45620] Deletion Request for mingw-w64-libpurple
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for mingw-w64-libpurple [2]: Orphan, outdated library, short-time effort (2021-12-08 - 2021-12-11). Nothing depends on it, and cannot be built because of a missing transitive dependency. Its related dependencies are also orphan leftovers. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/mingw-w64-libpurple/

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[PRQ#45618] Deletion Request for gnome-terminal-middle-click-close-tab
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for gnome-terminal-middle-click- close-tab [2]: Unmaintained old variant from 2021-09 of repo's gnome-terminal. Outdated but not flagged. 1 vote, 0 comments. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/gnome-terminal-middle-click-close-tab/

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[PRQ#45617] Deletion Request for perl-scriptdist
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for perl-scriptdist [2]: Deprecated, unmaintained Perl packaging tool from 2014; AUR version is from 2013. Nothing depends on it, so I recommend deletion. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/perl-scriptdist/

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[PRQ#45616] Deletion Request for vocp-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for vocp-git [2]: Development stopped since 2016 [a], no need to keep this VCS package. AUR still has a stable package from same maintainer: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vocp The latter is almost the same as the VCS one, lacking just two small commits, which can be easily added there as patches. [a]: https://github.com/ppickfor/vocp [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/vocp-git/

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