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

[PRQ#52567] Deletion Request for lib32-chromaprint
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 24 Feb '24

24 Feb '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for lib32-chromaprint [2]: This package never had an actual use case. Safe to delete. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/lib32-chromaprint/

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[PRQ#53017] Deletion Request for astra
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 24 Feb '24

24 Feb '24

Alad [1] filed a deletion request for astra [2]: 404 upstream [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Alad/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/astra/

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[PRQ#53358] Merge Request for tiscamera
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 24 Feb '24

24 Feb '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a request to merge tiscamera [2] into tiscamera-bin [3]: 'tiscamera' is an abandoned, broken package from 2020. I've tried to update it to the latest release from a year ago, but failed miserably: the firmware for camera support cannot be built on current Arch Linux. (I suspect it's a toolchain compatibility issue, but I'm not sure about it. And I don't have nearly enough expertise in this area to even begin to triage the scope of the problem.) AUR/tiscmamera-bin seems to work fine as per my brief testing, and has a maintainer. I recommend merging tiscamera to the '-bin' counterpart due to the niche nature of this application, seeing no OOD flag and only two comments throughout 2023 (one from January, one from August). Last commenter links to the AUR/tiscmamera-bin page and welcomes people to use that one. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/tiscamera/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/tiscamera-bin/

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[PRQ#53302] Deletion Request for telegram-history-dump-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 24 Feb '24

24 Feb '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for telegram-history-dump-git [2]: Dead, discontinued utility from 2016. Relies on the 2-years EOL telegram-cli (telegram-cli-git), which no longer supports Telegram's current API's (cannot even log in to the network services). Online login was necessary for this tool, as Telegram stores local history encrypted, and also typically it does not keep 100% of history in its cache, especially if the history goes back for many months and years. Actually this utility's function is not even needed anymore. Current Telegram Desktop client does have its built-in history exporter, which "dumps" the full history with rich text converted to HTML, and it can include all shared multimedia content if the user chooses so. Deleting this package would allow the other dead, EOL components to be dropped from AUR as well. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/telegram-history-dump-git/

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[PRQ#53281] Deletion Request for kitty-bitmap
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 24 Feb '24

24 Feb '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for kitty-bitmap [2]: Broken, outdated 'hack' variant from 2020 of extra repo's kitty. It has one user comment, from 2021, reporting rendering errors. Upstream kitty project owner stated [a] that they deliberately do not support bitmap fonts due to them not working well with arbitrary scaling. The latter is a core design aim of this terminal emulator. On the same issue thread, a user recommended alacritty (available in Arch repo) as an alternative GPU-accelerated terminal with bitmap font support. [b] [a]: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/97 [b]: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/97#issuecomment-655490864 [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/kitty-bitmap/

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[PRQ#53172] Deletion Request for minizip2-2.3.3
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24 Feb '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for minizip2-2.3.3 [2]: Unused, broken package from 2 years ago. Missing a source (404). Name is wrong: upstream's name is minizip-ng. Nothing depends on this. Arch extra repo carries the current version of the latter. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/minizip2-2.3.3/

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[PRQ#53254] Deletion Request for minizip2-2.3.3
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 24 Feb '24

24 Feb '24

dreieck [1] filed a deletion request for minizip2-2.3.3 [2]: I second the deletion request for this. I also see that it is no longer needed. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/dreieck/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/minizip2-2.3.3/

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[PRQ#52737] Deletion Request for rxvt-unicode-patched
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 24 Feb '24

24 Feb '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for rxvt-unicode-patched [2]: Abandoned package with vague name, but also no longer needed or usable. Reported as having broken character output. Users mention in the linked Arch Linux forum topic that extra repo's rxvt-unicode should be used instead, which works properly. [a] [a]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=288734 [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/rxvt-unicode-patched/

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[PRQ#52729] Deletion Request for nginx-rtmp
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 24 Feb '24

24 Feb '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for nginx-rtmp [2]: Abandoned, broken nginx bundle. Proper, maintained packages exist for the rtmp mod: - AUR/nginx-mod-rtmp - AUR/nginx-mainline-mod-rtmp [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/nginx-rtmp/

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[PRQ#52179] Merge Request for seafile-client-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 24 Feb '24

24 Feb '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a request to merge seafile-client-git [2] into seafile-client [3]: 'seafile-client-git' is broken and long abandoned. But it also would not really be useful even if fixed: upstream is updated only sporadically, with a few commits here and there; and then quickly publishes a new point release. The stable AUR/seafile-client is actively maintained, up-to-date, and works. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/seafile-client-git/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/seafile-client/

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