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

[PRQ#62223] Deletion Request for ucglib-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 23 Aug '24

23 Aug '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for ucglib-git [2]: Broken, abandoned pkg from 2015. Upstream is not maintained since 5 years ago. [a] [a]: https://github.com/olikraus/ucglib [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ucglib-git/

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[PRQ#62221] Deletion Request for u8glib-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 23 Aug '24

23 Aug '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for u8glib-git [2]: Upstream discontinued since 2+ years ago, as per author's note in repo readme. The AUR package is also broken since 2022-03 due to broken dependency. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/u8glib-git/

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[PRQ#62219] Deletion Request for u8gfonttest-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 23 Aug '24

23 Aug '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for u8gfonttest-git [2]: Upstream EOL since 9 years ago, and its AUR dependencies are also unbuildable for 2+ years. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/u8gfonttest-git/

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[PRQ#62217] Deletion Request for firefox-dpms-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 23 Aug '24

23 Aug '24

justasug [1] filed a deletion request for firefox-dpms-git [2]: The program is useless since a long time now and isn't updated upstream anymore. See note in the README. https://github.com/dglava/firefox-dpms [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/justasug/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/firefox-dpms-git/

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[PRQ#62173] Deletion Request for jsreport-bin
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 23 Aug '24

23 Aug '24

micwoj92 [1] filed a deletion request for jsreport-bin [2]: Uploaded to aur and then never updated, maintainer last logged in over 2 years ago, 0 votes, 0 comments. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/micwoj92/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/jsreport-bin/

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[PRQ#62215] Deletion Request for mingw-w64-seafile-shared
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 23 Aug '24

23 Aug '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for mingw-w64-seafile-shared [2]: Broken, abandoned, unused pkg from 2015. Missing a dependency. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/mingw-w64-seafile-shared/

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[PRQ#62179] Deletion Request for casperjs-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 23 Aug '24

23 Aug '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for casperjs-git [2]: Dead, discontinued by upstream since 2018, repo archived. [a] Not viable to keep, as it crashes upon execution with nodejs TypeErrors. Plus the runtime selftest fails with tons of errors. Seems like this is not compatible with current nodejs. [a]: https://github.com/casperjs/casperjs [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/casperjs-git/

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[PRQ#62169] Deletion Request for gedit-trailsave-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 23 Aug '24

23 Aug '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for gedit-trailsave-git [2]: Broken, abandoned VCS pkg from 2016; upstream not maintained since that year. [a] There is still a fixed-version package on AUR for upstream's last release [b], which can still be built. [a]: https://github.com/jonleighton/gedit-trailsave [b]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gedit-trailsave [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/gedit-trailsave-git/

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[PRQ#62155] Deletion Request for azure-cli-bin
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 23 Aug '24

23 Aug '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for azure-cli-bin [2]: The azure-cli package has been added to Arch/extra repo in March 2024. I don't think it is very useful to keep this old-distro-targeting (Debian Bookworm), Python 3.11 based upstream build, which btw contains its own Python 3.11 runtimes (python3, pip, pbr, etc.) and binary+Python-module ecosystem in the install, with up to two hundred of its own Python modules. Also this PKGBUILD strips the upstream binaries, therefore the installed package is useless for crash reporting purposes. Upstream's binaries are also less secure than the Arch build, as the ELF files here lack full RELRO and PIE. The AUR package is also configured improperly: - It defines 'python' as its dependency, but it is not true, as I mentioned, this package installs its own /opt/az/bin/python3 symlink to the /opt/az/bin/python3.11 runtime. - Man viewing doesn't work in the AUR package, as the relevant files are installed inside /opt/az and not to their proper places inside '/usr/share'. - Bash completions get installed in the wrong place, inside /etc/bash_completon.d, instead of the expected '/usr/share/bash- completion/completions'. - It does not install the mandatory MIT license file. I am observing that there is a discrepancy in AUR PM decisionmaking regarding keeping or deleting upstream's binary releases from AUR when a source-based build gets added to the official Arch repos. I typically saw Arch Developers like @arojas, and Package Maintainers like @Antiz delete '-bin' counterparts of Arch repo packages from AUR, citing the reason that the in such cases the '-bin' builds do not add any meaningful benefit to users. I think this specific PKGBUILD has even stronger than typical reasons to be dropped from AUR. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/azure-cli-bin/

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[PRQ#62152] Deletion Request for insight3d
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 23 Aug '24

23 Aug '24

a821 [1] filed a deletion request for insight3d [2]: Orphan and broken for long time (last update in 2015). The sources have been moved here [0] and it misses a dependency (libcl). It seems that attempts to revive the package have been unsuccessful (last comment from last year reports it fails to build). I think this can be deleted. [0] https://github.com/lukasmach/insight3d/commits/master/ [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/a821/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/insight3d/

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