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

[PRQ#43422] Deletion Request for cntk
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 18 Aug '23

18 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for cntk [2]: Discontinued Microsoft AI toolkit. Last release was in April 2019. [a] Package broken since Oct 2019, because it hardcodes Python 3.7 site packages path, and Arch shipped Python 3.8 then. Last comment was made in July 2019. Not useful to keep his package. Active development was not continued after 2019: only 5 minor commits in 2020, then one commit in 2022 by a Microsoft bot. [b] Current owner @joaquinito2051 just adopted 100+ packages throughout the last 1.5-2 years, but he never touched almost any of them, or maybe made one or two very trivial changes somewhere. He has never responded to any of my comments ever. Safe to delete this unneeded and defunct package. [a]: https://github.com/microsoft/CNTK/releases [b]: https://github.com/microsoft/CNTK/commits/master [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/cntk/

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[PRQ#43420] Deletion Request for trinnity-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 18 Aug '23

18 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for trinnity-git [2]: Development on this mathematics research code seems to have been discontinued since 2020. [a] Maintainer seems to be MIA since same year. Also this is badly packaged: no pkgver() function. But no one noticed. Package last updated in 2019. No comments, apart from my fresh one about the openblas packaging change. 0 votes. I think it's best to delete this. [a]: https://bitbucket.org/STG-TCD/trinnity/commits/ [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/trinnity-git/

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[PRQ#43418] Deletion Request for deswl-shapelets-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 18 Aug '23

18 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for deswl-shapelets-git [2]: Build is reported broken since 2022-01. Code development stopped in 2015. [a] Maintainer MIA since years. Seems like a complex scientific computational software, with minimal documentation. I recommend deletion, based on the niche use case and the age of the code. Also this is a VCS package, which in this case is pointless to keep. [a]: https://github.com/rmjarvis/deswl_shapelets [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/deswl-shapelets-git/

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[PRQ#43417] Deletion Request for ytmenu-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 18 Aug '23

18 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for ytmenu-git [2]: Badly packaged, seemingly hobby project. Runs curl inside package() to download a source file script that is already downloaded from declared git repo. Short-term effort project, from Feb to April 2022, plus one arbitrary commit in Jun 2022. [a] The ytmenu shell script has an option to update itself during runtime, upon which it silently executes curl to fetch the latest commit version of the script and send it to STDOUT, but that gets redirected to a shell variable. It uses the following URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DemonKingSwarn/ytmenu/main/ytmenu The script then tries to use the patch command to update the contents of ytmenu shell script file that is currently running, with the source that is stored in the shell variable. Btw the package does not declare depends and makedepends for curl, nor depens for patch. (curl is not part of 'base'. It is a dependency of pacman, but pacman in theory could change it at any time in the future. And patch is only part of base-devel, not base.) There are so many grievous errors here that I don't have any confidence in author's code. There are proper alternatives to play and/or download videos via CLI. [a]: https://github.com/DemonKingSwarn/ytmenu/commits/main [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ytmenu-git/

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[PRQ#43416] Deletion Request for demon-terminal
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 18 Aug '23

18 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for demon-terminal [2]: Minimal terminal, broken packaging. A C++ wrapper around qtermwidget. Does not declare the latter as depends. There's also no Makefile et al. PKGBUILD directly executes g++ with hardcoded build parameters. (Inside the package() function!) 10-commit development during one week in March 2022. [a] As per README, a demo project for author's learning. Quote: [a] "I made this project only to learn C++ and not for real shipping purposes!" As such, it should be removed from here. [a]: https://github.com/demonkingswarn/demon-terminal [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/demon-terminal/

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[PRQ#43409] Deletion Request for keepassxc-kde-fix
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 18 Aug '23

18 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for keepassxc-kde-fix [2]: Orphan, duplicate of repo package 'keepassxc', from 2020. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/keepassxc-kde-fix/

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[PRQ#43408] Merge Request for chromium-keepassxc-browser
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 18 Aug '23

18 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a request to merge chromium-keepassxc-browser [2] into chromium-extension-keepassxc-browser [3]: Duplicates. Source package is older and unmaintained for 1+ year. Target package is well-maintained, up-to-date and follows the proper, established naming pattern. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/chromium-keepassxc-browser/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/chromium-extension-keepassxc-browser/

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[PRQ#46426] Deletion Request for jdk-openjdk-xdg-bin
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 18 Aug '23

18 Aug '23

muflone [1] filed a deletion request for jdk-openjdk-xdg-bin [2]: reinstated PRQ#43402. I missed the binary packages were made from the maintainer package, not from the upstream author [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/muflone/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/jdk-openjdk-xdg-bin/

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[PRQ#46427] Deletion Request for yarn-xdg-bin
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 18 Aug '23

18 Aug '23

muflone [1] filed a deletion request for yarn-xdg-bin [2]: reinstated PRQ#43403. I missed the binary packages were made from the maintainer package, not from the upstream author [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/muflone/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/yarn-xdg-bin/

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[PRQ#43407] Deletion Request for networkmanager-openvpn-xdg-bin
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 18 Aug '23

18 Aug '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for networkmanager-openvpn-xdg- bin [2]: Duplicate of repo's 'networkmanager-openvpn', pkg owner's build. @noahvogt, please file your xdg configuration patch as part of a bug / feature request ticket for the repo package. Don't duplicate it on AUR. As per AUR submission guidelines [a]: "The submitted PKGBUILDs must not build applications already in any of the official binary repositories under any circumstances. Check the official package database for the package. If any version of it exists, do not submit the package. If the official package is out-of- date, flag it as such. If the official package is broken or is lacking a feature, then please file a bug report." [a]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/networkmanager-openvpn-xdg-bin/

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