[arch-dev-public] First list of removal candidates

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/10/31, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net>:
> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > Van: arch-dev-public-bounces at archlinux.org [mailto:arch-dev-public-
> > bounces at archlinux.org] Namens Roman Kyrylych
> > Verzonden: maandag 29 oktober 2007 16:18
> > Aan: Public mailing list for ArchLinux development
> > Onderwerp: Re: [arch-dev-public] First list of removal candidates
> >
> > 2007/10/27, Eric Belanger <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca>:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > As promised, here is a first list of removal candidates.  Please go
> > > through it to make sure we don't remove a package that, for some
> > reason,
> > > should remain in extra. Some of the reason are actually questions
> > > (cvsup, gnome-system-tools, ksymoops, makedev, nail, rxvt_ja, rxvt)
> > so it
> > > would be nice if someone can answer them. As said before, some of
> > these
> > > packages are depends of community packages. Please just dicuss them
> > for
> > > now. I would prefer to do the actual removal myself. I will do so in
> > a few
> > > days after the discussion.
> > >
> >
> > > gnome-system-tools (in unstable)        replace with new package from
> > AUR and move to Extra?
> > +1 for updating this. I can take it if noone else wants.
>
> Either remove from unstable and maintain in community, or update in extra
> and use the AUR version. As the current AUR maintainer is one of the
> community guys, this would be best in community, unless someone else takes
> over maintainership and communicates with the original author (it's perl,
> it's tricky and I won't help :P)

The maintainer of gnome-system-tools, liboobs and
gnome-system-tools-backends is not a TU, but I will closely work with
him (if noone else adopts it) as I'm not a perl guru. :-P


> > 2007/10/31, Eric Belanger <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca>:
> >> libesmtp        unused lib
> > required by esmtp and balsa - I'll take them all in community
> >
> >> libgdamm        unused lib
> > move to community, I'll adopt it (required by glom)
> >
> >> libpixman       unused lib
> > just curious - is pixman from Testing the same but updated?
> >
> > other packages that are required by community packages:
> > glitz - by gnustep-back and xgl
> > metakit - by gourmet
> > shapelib - by gpsmanshp and gen2shp
> >
> >
>
> Are these the only packages in the candidate list that are
> makedepends/depends of community packages?

I think yes, I've checked almost all libraries from this candidate list.

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)