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

[PRQ#50798] Deletion Request for vncscreen
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for vncscreen [2]: Broken, unmaintained mobile application. During the last 1.5+ year, upstream only developed the Android port, not the KDE Plasma GUI. [a] Not useful to keep on AUR. Users can choose alternative GUI VNC clients that work. [a]: https://invent.kde.org/marcellodgl/vnc-screen/-/commits/master [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/vncscreen/

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[PRQ#52373] Deletion Request for python-pyqt5-pre-release
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for python-pyqt5-pre-release [2]: Upstream PyQt5 is in minimal maintenance mode, and will likely soon be completely EOL. Meanwhile it is not useful to have this package on AUR, especially because it is not actively maintained here. (ATM it is OOD but no one even flagged it as such.) There will absolutely be zero API changes in PyQt5, so outside of a few Qt developers and a maybe some Desktop Environment / Linux distribution maintainers / CI engineers, no one else can see any benefit in installing a prerelease of this deprecated package, even if the PKGBUILD itself were always up-to-date. And even those mentioned people would need the devel release only in their CI environment and not as a locally installed Arch Linux package. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-pyqt5-pre-release/

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[PRQ#52442] Deletion Request for mangonel-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for mangonel-git [2]: Upstream is abandonware. The package builds and installs fine, but then the launcher does not appear and there's no way to make it appear on KDE Plasma 5 desktop. All it does is sending a standard notification to the desktop with the message "Press Ctrl+Alt+Space to show Mangonel", but nothing happens when I do so. It is pointless to keep this dead KDE application launcher any longer on AUR. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/mangonel-git/

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[PRQ#51279] Deletion Request for wolf-m7m-cpuminer-v2-raspi4-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for wolf-m7m-cpuminer-v2-raspi4-git [2]: Abandoned ARM/aarch64-only VCS package; upstream discontinued since 2015. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wolf-m7m-cpuminer-v2-raspi4-git/

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[PRQ#50522] Deletion Request for polkit-dumb-agent-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for polkit-dumb-agent-git [2]: Discontinued polkit alternative from 2021 [a]; reportedly does not work even with correct dependencies. This was actually a personal hack daemon, created because author @sandsmark stated his hate for PolKit. [a]: https://github.com/sandsmark/qmarkdowntextedit/tree/martin/standalone [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/polkit-dumb-agent-git/

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[PRQ#50340] Deletion Request for pdfalto
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for pdfalto [2]: I am proposing to delete this from AUR, for the following reasons: - cannot download sources in clean chroot, - with git installed, linking phase fails after compilation, - there are many severe unresolved upstream issues (build/linking failure, crashes/segfaults with standard PDF features like comments, annotations). [a] Also: - This was an experimental tool to convert PDF files to ALTO, an obscure format conceived in the early 2000's as an open standard alternative to the then-proprietary formats like PDF, for archival purposes. - But nowadays, PDF is a royalty-free open standard, and its PDF/A derivative is specifically tailored for long-term archival and backward-forward compatibility. Upstream pdfalto is not actively maintained/developed: - last released in April 2021 [b], - a few newer commits from 2021, and one from 2022. [c] Does not seem to be used on AUR: - 1 vote, 0 comments, - no one mentioned the linking failure here. [a]: https://github.com/kermitt2/pdfalto/issues [b]: https://github.com/kermitt2/pdfalto/releases [c]: https://github.com/kermitt2/pdfalto/commits/master [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/pdfalto/

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[PRQ#50308] Deletion Request for python-omemo-backend-signal-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for python-omemo-backend-signal- git [2]: Upstream development discontinued since Aug 2022; GitHub repo archived. [a] [a]: https://github.com/Syndace/python-omemo-backend-signal [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-omemo-backend-signal-git/

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[PRQ#50336] Deletion Request for cnijfilter-ip1800series
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for cnijfilter-ip1800series [2]: Broken package for a cheap (sub-50$), entry level Canon InkJet printer from 2007. Cannot be packaged due to broken dependencies. I don't think it's worth keeping. It would require lots of hacking to make this particular package work. I think that even the least well-off computer-owning users can afford to buy a new cheap printer that has proper Linux support. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/cnijfilter-ip1800series/

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[PRQ#52378] Deletion Request for swig3
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for swig3 [2]: Unneeded, broken package for a legacy swig version from 2017. Was only created for the once already deleted AUR/armory from 2018, dead since 2019. Please see accepted deletion request for armory, PRQ#48074, and new deletion request for the still broken resubmitted package, PRQ#52375. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/swig3/

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[PRQ#52376] Deletion Request for python2-bsddb
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for python2-bsddb [2]: Broken, uncompilable legacy Python2 bindings from 2021. Cleanup after the once already deleted AUR/armory from 2018, dead since 2019. Please see accepted deletion request for armory, PRQ#48074, and new deletion request for the still broken resubmitted package, PRQ#52375. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python2-bsddb/

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