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

[PRQ#43866] Deletion Request for aurupbot
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 27 Aug '23

27 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for aurupbot [2]: Discontinued since 2016. [a] This tool violated AUR guidelines because its functionality was to automatically update the pkgver of VCS packages without doing any other changes, and pushing the version bump to AUR. This practice is discouraged. (See note about VCS packages. [b]) Also this tool utilizes pkgbuild-introspection, which is not just deprecated but should no longer be used at all, in case it might do something differently (and wrongly) compared to what current makepkg does when executing the same use case. [a]: https://github.com/brunelli/aurupbot [b]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository#Flagging_packages_out- of-date [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/aurupbot/

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[PRQ#43864] Deletion Request for maptiler-oss
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 27 Aug '23

27 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for maptiler-oss [2]: This Python2 based application has been broken since at least 2 years ago (2021-07), when Arch shipped gdal 3.3.0. As that version dropped Python2 support. The recently uploaded python2-gdal AUR package is useless, as there is no corresponding gdal legacy build. Fellow AUR user @hexd maintains lots of legacy python2 packages like NumPy and ScyPy, and many others for scientific use. He said he tried to build GDAL for Python2 but it resulted in lots of segfaults, so he deemed this effort doomed despite his expertise. This package has not been updated since 2019. Its source repo also saw its last commit then. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/maptiler-oss/

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[PRQ#43861] Deletion Request for netctl-eduroam-tu-dresden
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 27 Aug '23

27 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for netctl-eduroam-tu-dresden [2]: Unneeded old example WLAN configuration file from 2015, supposedly for a German university. But upstream URL points to a GitHub repo of a random user, hosting an 8-year-old file. Meanwhile the actual file that gets packaged is hosted in the AUR git repo. Better to delete this. The university most certainly hosts their own network setup guide and example configuration. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/netctl-eduroam-tu-dresden/

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[PRQ#43840] Deletion Request for xboxdrv-sl6566bk
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 27 Aug '23

27 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for xboxdrv-sl6566bk [2]: I think this modded xboxdrv should be deleted. It just hacks the (8 year old) xboxdrv source with a hard-coded hex value, replacing a dynamic query. The purpose was to make it work with the xbox controller clone Speedlink SL-6566-BK. I think it now works only with that device. Seems like the patch creator didn't bother looking up how to enter additional supported device hwids instead of dumbing down the logic of the code. The Speedlink SL-6566-BK controller was first marketed in 2013 and is long discontinued. The xboxdrv project has not created new tagged releases since 8 years, but there are many new commits. This package has not been kept up-to- date with any updates since 2018. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/xboxdrv-sl6566bk/

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[PRQ#43839] Deletion Request for xow-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 27 Aug '23

27 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for xow-git [2]: Deprecated; superseded by the xone project. [a] [a]: https://github.com/medusalix/xow [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/xow-git/

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[PRQ#43838] Deletion Request for xpad-dkms-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 27 Aug '23

27 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for xpad-dkms-git [2]: VCS package from 2016, no longer needed. This out-of-tree enhanced Linux xpad (xbox controller) kernel driver is superseded by official Linux v6.1 driver, which incorporates the functionality from this paroj/xpad fork code. [a] Though the paroj/xpad is still maintained, developer paroj also commits to upstream torvalds/linux git repository. So users shouldn't install this fork anymore. [a]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.1-XPad [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/xpad-dkms-git/

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[PRQ#43837] Deletion Request for xpad-noone-dkms
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 27 Aug '23

27 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for xpad-noone-dkms [2]: This is no longer needed. Linux kernel driver extracted from upstream torvalds/linux source tree. This is already included in Linux v6.1 and newer. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/xpad-noone-dkms/

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[PRQ#43836] Deletion Request for python-libarchive-c-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 27 Aug '23

27 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for python-libarchive-c-git [2]: Proposal for deletion. Seems not actively maintained, last change in 2016. Build reported broken in 2020. Better to delete than keep in a defunct form. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-libarchive-c-git/

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[PRQ#43835] Deletion Request for lib32-libplacebo
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 27 Aug '23

27 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for lib32-libplacebo [2]: Proposal for deletion. Nothing on AUR needs this lib32 package anymore. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/lib32-libplacebo/

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[PRQ#43834] Deletion Request for network-manager-applet-gtk2
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 27 Aug '23

27 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for network-manager-applet-gtk2 [2]: Unneeded gtk2 variant of repo's network-manager-applet; broken since at least 2021 as per comment, not fixed since. No one else mentioned the problem since 2021 apart from me, and I don't use this package. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/network-manager-applet-gtk2/

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