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

[PRQ#51646] Deletion Request for xf86-video-dummy-with-vt
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for xf86-video-dummy-with-vt [2]: No longer maintained, minimally patched old version (released in 2016) of extra/xf86-video-dummy. The latter is carrying the last release from 2023. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/xf86-video-dummy-with-vt/

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[PRQ#54766] Deletion Request for perl-www-scripter-plugin-ajax
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for perl-www-scripter-plugin- ajax [2]: Broken for a long time on AUR. Upstream EOL, last updated in 2011. Many AUR dependencies have already been deleted. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/perl-www-scripter-plugin-ajax/

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[PRQ#54450] Deletion Request for perl-html-html5-sanity
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for perl-html-html5-sanity [2]: EOL from 2014, unused, missing a dependency. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/perl-html-html5-sanity/

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[PRQ#54215] Deletion Request for python-quamash
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for python-quamash [2]: Broken Python module, last released in 2018 [a], not compatible with Python 3.10. No longer needed: superseded by python-qasync, available from Arch repo. [a]: https://github.com/harvimt/quamash/tags [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-quamash/

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[PRQ#54140] Deletion Request for ebpfsnitch
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for ebpfsnitch [2]: EOL since 2021, fails to build, because it is incompatible with Arch repo's libbpf v1+. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ebpfsnitch/

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[PRQ#50344] Deletion Request for visit-build
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for visit-build [2]: Broken, unused package from 2020. OOD flag ignored since 2021. Last comment is from 2017. Upstream is continually developed, so abandoning it on AUR doesn't seem to be because of obsolescence, rather, just lack of interest here. Actually upstream publishes an easy-to-use, well-documented build script which helps users in acquiring the sources and building it for installation inside their user's directory. (There are also upstream binary releases, and an installation script to facilitate downloading and installing that one inside user's home.) PKGBUILD is problematic for an Arch/AUR package: does not declare sources, just lets upstream's install script fetch sources via wget. People who want to use this application better stick to using upstream's supported build or binary installation methods. (It doesn't need to exist inside system dirs to work.) [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/visit-build/

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[PRQ#50338] Deletion Request for friking-shark-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for friking-shark-git [2]: Broken, abandoned, unused VCS package from 2019. Missing a makedepend. Also incompatible with current Qt5-widgets. Source URL is broken since 18+ months ago. Seems best to delete. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/friking-shark-git/

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[PRQ#49523] Merge Request for lprng-cups
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a request to merge lprng-cups [2] into lprng [3]: Eliminating duplication, and also rationalizing packages. Currently, 'lprng-cups' doesn't include cups files, and 'lprng' does. It should be the other way around, or at least 'lprng' should be the one that doesn't conflict with cups. Please kindly adopt the currently orphan 'lprng', update it, and change its packaging to make it capable of coexisting with cups. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/lprng-cups/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/lprng/

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[PRQ#53527] Merge Request for wkhtmltopdf-static
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a request to merge wkhtmltopdf-static [2] into wkhtmltox-bin [3]: Renaming disguised '-bin' package. (Asked this politely in my comment made on 2022-02-15, but maintainer just ignored it.) Upstream's release tarball name is 'wkhtmltox', which conveys that the tool supports other output formats, not just PDF. Arch package guidelines also say that it is preferable to use upstream's release archive name as pkgname. And AUR submission guidelines mandate a '-bin' suffix for foreign binary based packages in case the code is open-source. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wkhtmltopdf-static/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wkhtmltox-bin/

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[PRQ#51991] Merge Request for python-pytest-astropy-meta
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a request to merge python-pytest-astropy-meta [2] into python-pytest-astropy [3]: I'm closing my earlier deletion request, PRQ#46223 (2023-08-13), and filing this merge request. AUR/python-pytest-astropy-meta is a blanked-out version from 2019 of AUR/python-pytest-astropy. Though PyPI/pytest-astropy defines itself as a metapackage [a], nevertheless its content is not nil, because it has dependency metadata definitions. AUR/python-pytest-astropy carries the latest upstream version. [a] [a]: https://pypi.org/project/pytest-astropy/ [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-pytest-astropy-meta/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-pytest-astropy/

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