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

[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MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for kitty-bitmap [2]: Broken, outdated 'hack' variant from 2020 of extra repo's kitty.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
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 24 Feb '24

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
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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
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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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[PRQ#51990] Merge Request for gr-limesdr
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 24 Feb '24

24 Feb '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a request to merge gr-limesdr [2] into gr-limesdr- git [3]: I'm closing my earlier deletion request, PRQ#46205 (2023-08-13), and I'm filing this merge request, to transfer votes, comments, and notification subscriptions. 'gr-limesdr' is long broken, abandoned, and upstream hasn't released any tags since Jan 2021. [a] Instead, they maintain a gnuradio 3.10 branch, and AUR/gr-limesdr-git uses that, to work with Arch repo's gnuradio v3.10.x. [a]: https://github.com/myriadrf/gr-limesdr/tags [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/gr-limesdr/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/gr-limesdr-git/

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[PRQ#51949] Merge Request for 3mux-git
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24 Feb '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a request to merge 3mux-git [2] into 3mux [3]: Upstream is not actively maintained since 2021, except for 2 merged patches for MacOS build. AUR/3mux-git is long abandoned and broken. But not worth keeping as per the above statement. AUR/3mux works, and is on the latest release version. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/3mux-git/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/3mux/

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[PRQ#50118] Merge Request for python-gym-git
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24 Feb '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a request to merge python-gym-git [2] into python- gym [3]: Upstream maintenance discontinued since Oct 2022. [a] Developers added a deprecation notice to README, stating that this won't receive any further updates, and consumers should migrate to the API-compatible successor called Gymnasium. [b] The git package on AUR is currently broken, but it's not worth fixing it. The python-gym pkg builds the exact same code version, which is the last stable release. [a]: https://github.com/openai/gym/commits/master [b]: https://github.com/openai/gym [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-gym-git/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-gym/

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