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

[PRQ#45642] Deletion Request for perl-www-curl-simple
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for perl-www-curl-simple [2]: Alternative Perl interface to curl, not developed since 2013. [a] Nothing on AUR depends on it. I recommend deletion; there are other curl bindings for Perl which are newer. [a]: http://search.mcpan.org/dist/WWW-Curl-Simple [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/perl-www-curl-simple/

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[PRQ#45641] Deletion Request for curl-pulse-secure
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for curl-pulse-secure [2]: Unneeded precompiled libcurl library from 2021, compressed binary .so file hosted in AUR git repo. Nothing depends on it. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/curl-pulse-secure/

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[PRQ#45638] Orphan Request for python-libarchive
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30 Oct '23

MarsSeed [1] filed an orphan request for python-libarchive [2]: Owner seems MIA for at least 7+ months: this package only lacks setuptools makedepend, but setuptools direct execution is pending removal from Python, so this PKGBUILD need to migrate to PEP 517 based installation. Also its consumer, d4m-git is missing more dependencies. A user mentioned the problem in 2022-12, but nothing happened. So it seems best to disown this package, along with d4m-git (PRQ#45637), and let someone else take over the maintenance. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-libarchive/

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[PRQ#45637] Orphan Request for d4m-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

MarsSeed [1] filed an orphan request for d4m-git [2]: Maintainer seems to be MIA. A missing makedepends was requested to be added in comment on 2022-12-25. So it would be best to disown this package and let someone else take it over. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/d4m-git/

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[PRQ#45636] Deletion Request for libvirt-remote-only
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for libvirt-remote-only [2]: Orphan, outdated variant/duplicate of repo's libvirt; one-time effort. No comments or votes, and didn't even get an OOD flag. Better to delete. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/libvirt-remote-only/

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[PRQ#45635] Deletion Request for webvirtmgr-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for webvirtmgr-git [2]: This project which uses python2 has been discontinued since 2018 [a], in favor of the successor application, webvirtcloud, which is developed actively. The PKGBUILD is also problematic, because it executes pip2 install using the requirements.txt of the project. But it is not useful anyhow to keep a developmental VCS package for a software that won't ever receive updates from upstream. [a]: https://github.com/retspen/webvirtmgr [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/webvirtmgr-git/

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[PRQ#45632] Deletion Request for anjay-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for anjay-git [2]: Orphan VCS package from 2017, one-time effort. Also broken since 2022-03 due to URL protocol deprecation. There are no comments or votes. The current package is also legally nonconformant now, as upstream code has been re-licensed from the previous Apache 2.0 license to a new, custom "AVSystem-5-clause License", whereas the PKGBUILD metadata still declares 'Apache' as the license. In addition, this build uses a not reliably monotonic pkgver(), and does not declare the necessary provides and conflicts. Better to delete. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/anjay-git/

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[PRQ#45631] Deletion Request for aur-mbedtls
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for aur-mbedtls [2]: Source-build duplicate of Arch extra repo's mbedtls and of ArchLinuxARM / ArchLinux32's packages for the same. Also the package has a superfluous and meaningless 'aur-' name prefix. The ArchLinuxARM repo does not carry a build for the legacy 'armv6h' architecture - if such is really needed, a new package can be reuploaded, maybe with the name 'mbedtls-armv6h'. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/aur-mbedtls/

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[PRQ#45630] Deletion Request for mingw-w64-json-glib-bin
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30 Oct '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for mingw-w64-json-glib-bin [2]: Outdated binary for json-glib, it's just a repackage of MSYS2 repo's prebuilt binary pacman package. AUR has the current version of mingw-w64-json-glib from same maintainer. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/mingw-w64-json-glib-bin/

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[PRQ#45628] Deletion Request for python-npyscreen-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for python-npyscreen-git [2]: Last released version is 4.10.5 from 2015 [a]; the source GitHub repo's newest commit is from 2019 but for an older version, 4.9.1. [b] Originally it was hosted on Google Code (abandoned), then the official repo was on BitBucket (repo got deleted). Not useful to keep this VCS package; there is a stable one on AUR: python-npyscreen 4.10.5-1, sourced from latest release on PyPI. And there is a drop-in replacement community fork available from PyPI, called pq-npyscreen, last released in 2022. [c] [a]: https://pypi.org/project/npyscreen/ [b]: https://github.com/npcole/npyscreen/blob/master/setup.py [c]: https://pypi.org/project/pq-npyscreen/ [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-npyscreen-git/

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