[aur-general] Orphaning of 44 packages

G_Syme demichan at mail.upb.de
Sun May 17 15:10:05 EDT 2009


Hi fellow listmates,

in trying to make a long story short:
I've finally switched from KDE3 to KDE4, and not directly via Arch, but on a 
parallelly installed Kubuntu with shared home partition. The result is, that 
the Kubuntu installation (which was previously only intended to be a test-
platform and failsafe solution) now runs fine, but has devastated the KDE3 
configs of the Arch system.
But, contrary to my expectation, upgrading Arch to KDE4 didn't utilize the 
configs from Kubuntu (from the shared home). This means I currently have a not-
really-working KDE4 installation on Arch with some additional anomalies (like 
e.g. graphic glitches, etc.).
Unfortunately, university doesn't leave me much spare time to try to repair my 
current Arch system at the moment. So I'm sticking to my "backup" Kubuntu 
system for the time being.

Because I won't be able to properly maintain my packages at the moment, I'd 
like to take this opportunity to cut my packages from 64 down to a manageable 
state of 20.

Hope this will give new AUR users the opportunity to collect a few of them, so 
the distribution gets a bit more balanced. ^^

Now for the list. All of the packages work (except for ditz-git, because 
upstream development has stalled a bit). Albeit from jvlt, they're all up-to-
date (as far as I know). I've tried to categorize them a bit:

-- uml2tools and dependencies --
(best to be maintained by one person)
eclipse-emf-query
eclipse-emf-transaction
eclipse-emf-validation
eclipse-gmf
eclipse-mdt-ocl
eclipse-mdt-uml2
eclipse-mdt-uml2tools

-- subversive and its dependencies --
(best to be maintained by one person)
eclipse-subversive
eclipse-subversive-svn-connector
eclipse-subversive-svn-connector-svnkit

-- (maybe) frozen in time (AKA last update was quite some time ago) --
edumips64
faces
finomaton
geg
gt5
hexxagon
jacksum
jmencode
lookat
nihongobenkyo
pytraffic
reed
roll
umodpack
unmass
urxvtcd
violet

-- candidates for removal (AKA let the community decide) --
brother-mfc260c-cupswrapper
brother-mfc260c-lpr
(the 2 packages above have never been tested because I don't own the printer 
(they're build analog to the brother-mfc260c-* packages) and haven't received 
any votes or comments, so probably no one is using them.)

doomsday-1.8
(was intended to be an alternative for the sometimes savegame-corrupting 
version 1.9beta5. But the problem seems to be solved in 1.9beta6, which makes 
this package deprecated.)

tinyuml
(development has been stalled, and the official website has vanished ages ago. 
The sources can still be obtained from SF.net, though, and the package has 
received 19 votes over time, but I'm not sure if they still use it...)

-- misc --
4pane
aespipe
ditz-git
dosbox-cvs
jvlt
mathomatic
maxr-svn
midish
notecase-pro
pauker
thinkingrock
veusz
wirbel

That's it. I hope to be back on track in late summer with my Arch system. I'll 
try to maintain my remaining packages as best as I can until then.

Cheers,
G_Syme


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