[aur-general] Please delete a lot of packages

Evangelos Foutras foutrelis at gmail.com
Thu Sep 9 16:14:21 EDT 2010


On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Det <nimetonmaili at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, please do such a thing.
>>
>> 1)  xorg-server-gentoo (delete; unnecessary (the patches that were
>> originally used with this package have all been pulled upstream over the
>> years) and not being updated):
>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15089
>>
>> 2)  songbird-nightly (delete; unnecessary ('songbird-auto-nightly' actually
>> works as it should) and not being updated):
>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13193
>>
>> 3)  songbird-nightly-bin (delete; unnecessary ('songbird-auto-nightly'
>> actually works as it should and uses precompiled binaries) and not being
>> updated): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32932
>>
>> 4)  songbird-nightly-latest (delete; unnecessary ('songbird-auto-nightly'
>> actually works as it should) and not being updated):
>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28885
>>
>> 5) songbird-svn (delete; should replace songbird with its PKGBUILD (of
>> course after changing the pkgname to just 'songbird')):
>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23968
>>
>> 6) songbird (orphan/replace with 'songbird-svn'; doesn't work -
>> 'songbird-svn' does. Both aren't needed since there is a separate
>> 'songbird-bin' package using the precompiled binaries. This can of course be
>> done the other way around too so that 'songbird' would be removed but maybe
>> that shouldn't be done.. I don't know, that's why you are doing this - not
>> me): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7286
>>
>>                    Thanks for deleting a lot of packages,
>>                    'Det'
>
> Deleted xorg-server-gentoo; will go through the songbird mess now.

I've only deleted songbird-nightly-latest, the rest seem fine to keep
(i.e.: they have maintainers, were updated within a year and have
enough votes).


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