[aur-requests] [PRQ#31414] Deletion Request for libx32-glibc
MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for libx32-glibc [2]: Note: This deletion request is intended not for 1 but 64 AUR packages: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=n&K=libx32&outdated=&SB=l&SO=d&PP=100&do_Search=Go Reasons outlined below are true for all linked packages: • Package naming violates Arch guidelines*. Name should en d with '-x32', not start with 'libx32-'. The name will only confuse users, and the built executables won't work with any Arch/Arch-downstream distro kernels from binary repos. (*ref: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/32-bit_package_guidelines#Package_naming ) • Packages have not been updated in 6 years or more. • All erroneously named libx32- packages were uploaded by one user, fantix. He seems to have maintained Arch x32 PKGBUILD repos* separate from AUR, but have stopped updating them as well in 2016. * https://github.com/orgs/ArchLinux-x32/repositories • Virtually no one uses x32 ABI software, which needs to run on x86_64 CPU but with a special build of the Linux kernel* that enables the usage of the x32 ABI. (E.g.: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-x32/ ) • Whoever wants to use such a niche architecture will not in their right mind want to build it from 6-year old unmaintained build scripts from the AUR. They would use Debian x32 or build Gentoo from scratch for the x32 ABI. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/libx32-glibc/
Request #31414 has been accepted by Foxboron [1]. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Foxboron/
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