[arch-general] Deletion request

[Stefan Husmann]

Am 27.06.2010 09:47, schrieb Lukáš Jirkovský:
> Hello,
> please remove package pmt
> (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22689) which I maintain.
>
> There are several reasons for it:
> 1) I don't want to maintain it anymore
> 2)A little background is needed here. pmt used to be a part of [extra]
> but because of lack of interest it was moved to AUR where I adopted
> it. It contains several png handling tools (pngcrush, png2bmp,
> bmp2png, pngmeta) but only one is really maintained – it's pngcrush.
> As time gone by it was more and more difficult to keep all tools
> working with new libraries in Arch. Then I found out someone packaged
> pngcrush itself (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22877) and
> now it has much more votes than pmt ever had.
> png2bmp/bmp2png can be easily replaced with imagemagick convert. I'm
> not sure about pngmeta, but it didn't have a release since 2001 so I
> guess this one would be a big loss either.
>
> Thanks,
> Lukas
>
Hello,

I think this package should not be removed. I adopted it an uploaded a
version without pngcrush.

Regards Stefan