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

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 05:15:50PM -0400, Kaiting Chen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Lukas Fleischer
> <archlinux at cryptocrack.de>wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 04:40:25PM +0100, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 01:01:03AM +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> > > > Am 24.02.2012 17:06, schrieb Lukas Fleischer:
> > > > > Apart from that, +1 to this idea. I already checked the list of
> > unneeded
> > > > > orphans and there's >20 packages I'd like to maintain if they aren't
> > > > > picked up in [extra]...
> > > >
> > > > Send me a list of these packages. But ensure they are still orphan and
> > > > are not a dep or makedep of any package in core/extra.
> > >
> > > Well, there's only a few packages left (others have already been moved
> > > or are required by another [core]/[extra] package):
> > >
> > > * bluez-firmware
> > > * cmus
> > > * evilwm
> > > * fortune-mod
> > > * id3v2
> > > * jhead
> > > * libofx
> > > * libofx-doc
> > > * lirc
> > > * lzo
> > > * msmtp
> > > * ncftp
> > > * pdksh
> > > * perl-timedate
> > > * pidgin-encryption
> >
> > Status? Only bluez-firmware has been adopted yet.
> >
> > >
> > > Note that fortune-mod is an optdep of xfce4-session and id3v2 is an
> > > optdep of gtkpod (I can also maintain gtkpod if no one else wants to but
> > > I don't use it, so this might not be in the sense of this cleanup).
> > >
> > > 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).
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Greetigns,
> > > >
> > > > Pierre
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Pierre Schmitz, http://pierre-schmitz.com
> >
> 
> Ooh I'll take vsftpd if that's available. I use it all the time. --Kaiting.

vsftpd is in [community] and is maintained by Bartłomiej...

> 
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