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

[PRQ#49703] Deletion Request for nomad-firewall-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 19 Mar '24

19 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for nomad-firewall-git [2]: Duplicate of nx-firewall-git. Legacy, EOL, GitHub repo archived. Not needed: KDE Plasma ships with a firewall config module. Also see deletion request for nx-firewall-git (PRQ#49702). [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/nomad-firewall-git/

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[PRQ#49196] Deletion Request for ros2-galactic
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for ros2-galactic [2]: Unneeded, defunct package. ROS 2 Galaxy distribution was based on Ubuntu 20.04, and is EOL since Dec 2022. On AUR it depends on broken packages, and it is also incompatible with many of Arch core's new library versions. Actually it doesn't make sense to maintain old foreign distro packages on Arch which are targeted for legacy Ubuntu LTS versions, because Arch is a leading-edge rolling distro, whose aim and offering is freshness, not very long backwards compatibility with ancient toolchains and system libraries. Arch users should migrate to the newest maintained ROS 2 distribution (Iron Irwini), or better yet, ROS 2 Rolling. (Packages for both are available on AUR.) Or they could just use the main upstream ROS distribution images. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ros2-galactic/

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[PRQ#49195] Deletion Request for ros2-foxy
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for ros2-foxy [2]: Unneeded, defunct package. ROS 2 Foxy distribution was based on Ubuntu 20.04, and is EOL since March 2023. On AUR it depends on broken packages, and it is also incompatible with many of Arch core's new library versions. Actually it doesn't make sense to maintain old foreign distro packages on Arch which are targeted for legacy Ubuntu LTS versions, because Arch is a leading-edge rolling distro, whose aim and offering is freshness, not very long backwards compatibility with ancient toolchains and system libraries. Arch users should migrate to the newest maintained ROS 2 distribution (Iron Irwini), or better yet, ROS 2 Rolling. (Packages for both are available on AUR.) Or they could just use the main upstream ROS distribution images. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ros2-foxy/

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[PRQ#49094] Deletion Request for freetype2-v35
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for freetype2-v35 [2]: Unneeded, outdated (v2.13.0 from 2023-03) variant of extra repo's freetype2 (v2.13.2 from 2023-09). The repo package also supports the legacy v35 font subpixel hinting. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/freetype2-v35/

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[PRQ#49154] Deletion Request for hid-glorious-dkms
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

alwyn [1] filed a deletion request for hid-glorious-dkms [2]: Package is no longer relevant as the driver has been merged into kernel 5.7. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/alwyn/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/hid-glorious-dkms/

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[PRQ#49127] Deletion Request for git-etc
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for git-etc [2]: Unused Python2 package from 2017. Does not follow Arch Python package guidelines and PyPA guidelines, e.g. doesn't use setuptools, even though they call for such instead of relying stdlib's distutils. Also this is dependent on systemd, but it's not declared in PKGBUILD. I recommend deletion. There are working alternatives to "monitor changes in files". [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/git-etc/

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[PRQ#49120] Deletion Request for pikaur-aurnews
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for pikaur-aurnews [2]: Unspecified mod/duplicate of pikaur ("with the live aurnews eggzpatch", say pkgdesc). Deliberately a VCS package in disguise (without a pkgver function), which have been asked to be rectified by @haawda in a comment on 2022-11-28, but maintainer refused. [a] At this point it's obvious that maintainer created this package only for himself and does not care about anyone else. Not useful to keep. There's already the proper AUR/pikaur and pikaur-git. If there's any improvement idea, it could be submitted to upstream, who is the same person who maintains the just-mentioned AUR pikaur builds. [a]: https://archive.ph/tOWi2#comment-891634 [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/pikaur-aurnews/

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[PRQ#49119] Deletion Request for ffmpeg-nocuda
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for ffmpeg-nocuda [2]: This package is a pointless duplicate of extra/ffmpeg, as the latter also does not support CUDA, and does not have "nvidias propriatary blobs" as the pkgdesc here implies. This is also incompetently maintained. As of now, it is on pkgver=6.1, which is not yet an existing ffmpeg release. It is actually a git VCS package, without a pkgver() function. The PKGBUILD still has now defunct remnants of a stable package: like an unused 'gitver' variable declaration. (Without a leading '_' underscore as per PKGBUILD guidelines.) This package has no legitimate basis to exist on AUR whatsoever. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ffmpeg-nocuda/

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[PRQ#50138] Deletion Request for python-hamster-gtk-git
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for python-hamster-gtk-git [2]: Proposal to delete: - no upstream commit since March 2020 [a], - PKGBUILD source URL broken since March 2022, - 1 vote, 0 comments. [a]: https://github.com/projecthamster/hamster-gtk [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-hamster-gtk-git/

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[PRQ#49049] Deletion Request for auto-cpufreq-no-gnome-power
by notify＠aur.archlinux.org 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

grawity [1] filed a deletion request for auto-cpufreq-no-gnome-power [2]: looks like it never got deleted when 1.8.1 out [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/grawity/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/auto-cpufreq-no-gnome-power/

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