February 2024 - Aur-requests - lists.archlinux.org

[PRQ#49566] Deletion Request for i4tools-bin
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for i4tools-bin [2]: Broken proprietary foreign binary application, last released for Linux in 2021. Doesn't work with current libraries: it would need 25+ legacy SO files not currently available. Upstream stopped supporting Linux. The latest Windows version, however, is from Oct 20, 2023 as of now. Users have a better changes of success with installing that one in a WINE environment. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/i4tools-bin/

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[PRQ#49561] Deletion Request for vte3-nohang
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for vte3-nohang [2]: Not actively maintained older duplicate (v0.72.2) of extra/vte3 (v0.74.1). As per AUR submission guidelines, if there is a problem with a repo package, file an Arch bug report, and if relevant, also an upstream ticket, instead of duplicating repo builds on AUR. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/vte3-nohang/

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[PRQ#50395] Deletion Request for mingw-w64-qt5-base-angle
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for mingw-w64-qt5-base-angle [2]: Unused Qt5 base package from 2020, built ANGLE OpenGL backend support. Last user comment is from 2020, and in June 2023, maintainer @Martchus has verified that they also don't need this anymore. ANGLE support has been deprecated by upstream Qt Company, with Qt5 being EOL. Qt6 doesn't support ANGLE. ANGLE is not actually needed for OpenGL runtime support by Qt5. Safe to delete this package, as no one else chimed in about their need for it. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/mingw-w64-qt5-base-angle/

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[PRQ#49934] Deletion Request for perl-padre-plugin-wxwidgets
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for perl-padre-plugin-wxwidgets [2]: Unused Perl plugin from 2012 for wxgtk2.8, which it does not declare as depends, nor it is transitively part of its dependency tree. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/perl-padre-plugin-wxwidgets/

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[PRQ#50394] Deletion Request for mingw-w64-qt5-base-dynamic
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for mingw-w64-qt5-base-dynamic [2]: Unused Qt5 base package from 2020, built with dynamic OpenGL backend support, with ANGLE as a fallback (in case OpenGL-proper fails to initialize). Last user comment is from 2020, and in June 2023, maintainer @Martchus has verified that they also don't need this anymore. ANGLE support has been deprecated by upstream Qt Company, with Qt5 being EOL. Qt6 doesn't support ANGLE. ANGLE is not actually needed for OpenGL runtime support by Qt5. Safe to delete this package, as no one else chimed in about their need for it. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/mingw-w64-qt5-base-dynamic/

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[PRQ#49811] Deletion Request for pdfminer
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for pdfminer [2]: Unneeded EOL Python module from 2019. Repo has the latest version of its community-maintained, drop-in compatible fork, whose PyPI name is 'pdfminer.six', but which provides the original CLI and importable module names: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/python-pdfminer/ All AUR consumers actually depend on 'python-pdfminer', which is the name of the repo package, and this AUR build just provides it virtually. Which means that the AUR packages have all been using the repo build, not this legacy one. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/pdfminer/

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[PRQ#49158] Deletion Request for gimp-font-rendering-fix
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for gimp-font-rendering-fix [2]: Infinality font rendering mods are defunct and discontinued since 2021, and cause rendering glitches on current versions of freetype2. Therefore this package is not needed anymore and can be safely deleted. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/gimp-font-rendering-fix/

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[PRQ#49093] Deletion Request for lib32-freetype2-v35
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for lib32-freetype2-v35 [2]: Unneeded, outdated (v2.13.0 from 2023-03) variant of multilib repo's lib32-freetype2 (v2.13.2 from 2023-09). The repo package also supports the legacy v35 font subpixel hinting. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/lib32-freetype2-v35/

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[PRQ#49888] Deletion Request for dh-strip-nondeterminism
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for dh-strip-nondeterminism [2]: Unnecessary, unmaintained, currently broken duplicate of extra/strip- nondeterminism. The purpose of this was to include the 'dh-strip-nondeterminism' Perl script from upstream, which the Arch package omits, because it is strongly coupled to Debian's debhelper build system, not carried or supported by Arch. But this AUR package is also defunct for its purpose: it does not declare it depends on debhelper. If really needed, an addon package could be created on AUR to be a companion to repo's strip-nondeterminism, carrying only the debhelper specific script. Such a package would best be named strip-nondeterminism-dh or strip- nondeterminism-debhelper, to indicate that it is an addon pkg to strip-nondeterminism. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/dh-strip-nondeterminism/

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[PRQ#54627] Deletion Request for automake-1.15
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 24 Mar '24

24 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for automake-1.15 [2]: Unneeded old automake version from 7 years ago (2017). No AUR package requires it, not even via version constraint. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/automake-1.15/

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