[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up orphaned packages

[Jelle van der Waa]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Guillaume Alaux <guillaume at alaux.net> wrote:

> On 5 March 2012 21:23, Lukas Fleischer <archlinux at cryptocrack.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 05:49:57PM +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Lukas Fleischer
> > > <archlinux at cryptocrack.de> wrote:
> > > > * bluez-firmware
> > >
> > > I take this one.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > >
> > > > * lzo
> > >
> > > If nothing is depending on this, it might simply mean that all users
> > > have moved to lzo2 and that lzo can be dropped.
> >
> > partimage (which is in [community]) still depends on it. Not sure if it
> > can be easily patched to use lzo2.
> >
> > >
> > > > I'm not sure about lirc either, I'd prefer if someone could adopt
> both
> > > > lirc and lirc-utils and maintain them in [extra] (lirc-utils is
> > > > required
> > > > by a bunch of [extra] packages).
> > >
> > > In particular:
> > >
> > > kradio
> > > mplayer
> > > mythtv
> > > rhythmbox
> > > rosegarden
> > > xawtv
> > > xine-ui
> > >
> > > Maybe worth investigating if it can be made an opt-depend, like it is
> > > for some packages:
> > >
> > > pulseaudio (optional)
> > > totem (optional)
> > > vlc (optional)
> >
> > It's not that easy, I tested this before:
> >
> >    $ readelf -d $(which mplayer) | grep lirc
> >     0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library:
> > [liblirc_client.so.0]
> >    $ pacman -Rdd --noconfirm lirc-utils >/dev/null
> >    $ mplayer
> >    mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: liblirc_client.so.0:
> >    cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Tom
>
> Hi y'all,
>
> Just for you to know, I adopted apache-ant which I use a lot mainly
> for... Arch packaging :)
>
> --
> Guillaume
>

If python-lxml is orphan in [extra] (it looks like it accordign to archweb)
, i would like to adopt it in [community] and add python3 support.

Jelle van der Waa