[aur-general] Orphans in community part II

[Allan McRae]

Ángel Velásquez wrote:
> Hi fellas, there is a new list of packages which are orphans, many of 
> them, could be dependences of other packages which are adopted, if 
> this is the case, please TUs adopt all dependencies of their packages.
>
> The following list are the packages which i am talking about:
>
> dvd-slideshow 0.8.0-4
> eclipse-mylyn 3.0.0-1
> gambas 1.0.19-1
> glib2-docs 2.18.0-1
> gtk2+extra 2.1.1-1
> kdvdauthorwizard 1.4.6-4
> ktechlab 0.3.6-1
> openlh-server 0.1-4
> opensips 1.4.2-4
> qmc2 0.2.b4-1
> qstardict 0.12.9-2
> sarg 2.2.3.1-1
> scilab 4.1.2-4
> sofia-sip 1.12.7-1
> telepathy-glib 0.7.10-1
> wqy-bitmapfont 0.9.9-4
> wqy-zenhei 0.6.26-1
> xgl 0.0.1.20080407-1
>
> Many were maintained by DaNiMoTh, since his resign we adopt many of 
> his packages, but the rest still orphans, please new TUs adopt some of 
> them if you consider able to maintain it, else I want to propose an 
> date for move these packages to unsupported. 21/10/2008 (two weeks) 
> sounds good to me.
>
> Opinions are open.
>

I propose no packages are moved unless they are out-of-date.  There is 
no point removing perfectly good binaries from the repos.

Allan