[arch-general] Status of swt and azureus/vuze

[Andrea Scarpino]

2008/12/6 Ondřej Kučera <ondrej.kucera at centrum.cz>:
> I think one of two things should happen.
> (a) Someone (ideally just one person) - a dev I mean - will adopt azureus
> again, rename it to vuze and update it to the latest version, alongside with
> swt. Then the vuze package in unsupported can be deleted.
> (b) Both azureus and swt will be dropped from extra. Then the vuze in
> unsupported will become more or less "official" (or at least the only
> available version in ArchLinux world) and perhaps a TU can then move it to
> [community] if they feel like maintaining it. It might also be possible to
> create a swt package in unsupported and let vuze depend on it (because
> perhaps there are more applications out there that could depend on swt) - if
> one sticks to the precompiled binaries, it's not that hard to maintain it.
(c) Both azureus and swt will be moved to community. I can adopt and
update they to last version, then rename azureus to vuze and drop vuze
from unsupported.

Thanks for your work.

-- 
Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino
Arch Linux Trusted User
Linux User: #430842