[arch-dev-public] Dropping xarchiver from [extra]

Evangelos Foutras evangelos at foutrelis.com
Mon May 7 12:40:55 EDT 2012


On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Tobias Powalowski
<tobias.powalowski at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 06.05.2012 10:23, schrieb Allan McRae:
>> On 06/05/12 17:50, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
>>> Reason is that it's buggy and has been unmaintained for close to 3
>>> years. There's currently one open bug about it [1], which I'm not
>>> willing to troubleshoot.
>>>
>>> The suggested alternative application is GNOME's archive tool, File Roller.
>>>
>>> Unless anyone objects, I'm going to move it to the AUR in a few days.
>>>
>>> [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29650
>>>
>>
>> I'm fine with that.  I seem to have been maintaining my own patched
>> version for better xz support anyway...  I just installed file-roller
>> and it looks a good alternative.
>>
>> Allan
>>
> +1

I just removed xarchiver from [extra] and uploaded it to the AUR.

Cheers.


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