[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Out-of-date orphans in repo

Damjan Georgievski gdamjan at gmail.com
Sat Mar 7 17:52:46 EST 2009


> Lately, I've been updating out-of-date orphans. So far I did the ones
> that were easy to update/test so this is a status report on the
> remaining ones.  The purpose here is, ideally, to find maintainers for
> them or at least testers (devs or users).
>
> BTW, make sure that you are listed as maintainer for both arches of
> the packages you maintain even if you can't build the package for that
> architecture.  Several packages have only one of their arch adopted.
> This clutters the list of orphaned and it spams the dev ML with
> out-of-date notifications.
>
> Here the commented list:
...
> userui:
> I can't really test the rest. Is there anyone able/willing to test
> updated packages for them?  In fact, I didn't really checked them out.
> evms and exim seems important so I'm not confortable to push them even
> in testing without any good testing. For the rest, if noone comes
> forward, I could test them as good as I can and push them to testing
> then as for testers on the arch-general ML much like I did for the
> scim stuff. Moving some of them to AUR is always a possibility.

I use userui (since I use a TuxOnIce patched kernel) .. and I'm
updateing this package myself too.

Recently /usr/sbin/tuxoniceui_fbsplash can't be compiled on Arch since
the Arch freetype package doesn't include the static (.a) library.

So  I can test an updated package.



-- 
damjan


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