[aur-general] Orphans [extra] repository cleanup

[Eric Bélanger]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Andrea Scarpino <andrea at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Hi DEVs/TUs,
> I'm again on the cleanup of orphans packages in the [extra] repository; this
> time with a small list[1].
>
> The list is based on orphans packages needed by none.
>
> I don't see very important packages there, but chromium, krusader, mc and
> proftpd which maybe should be kept in [extra]; though they will probably find
> their maintainers in [community].
>
> As the last time (more than 7 months ago), please cross out the packages you
> want to keep in [extra]. Adoption is not required, but it would be nice.
>
> If you are a TU you can ask to maintain a package writing its name to the
> "Candidate to [community]" list[2].
>
> I invite all you maintainers to check the orphans packages on the Arch
> website, many are maintained packages where the maintainer simply forgot to
> adopt it.
>
> Thanks
>
> [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Repo_Cleanup
> [2]
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Repo_Cleanup#Candidate_to_.5Bcommunity.5D
>
> --
> Andrea
>

I adopted several of them and crossed them out. I wonder if it would
be better to simply remove the package  from the list once they have a
maintainer in order to not clutter the list.