[aur-general] Orphans [extra] repository cleanup

[Andrea Scarpino]

On Wednesday 04 May 2011 01:44:15 Andrea Scarpino 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
Hi DEVs/TUs,
after a week this is the status:

# These will be moved to [community]
abcde
aria2
dosbox
gtk-theme-switch2
icecast
mc
nickle
numlockx
tango-icon-theme-extras
vbetool
vim-a
vim-bufexplorer
vim-colorsamplerpack
vim-doxygentoolkit
vim-guicolorscheme
vim-minibufexpl
vim-omnicppcomplete
vim-project
vim-taglist
vim-vcscommand

# These will be moved to AUR
bladeenc
bs
cscope
ettercap-gtk
gnupod
gptfdisk
gqmpeg
kmldonkey
kmplayer
krusader
libbtcl
monotone
nbsmtp
nppangband
perl-text-csv
python-gtkglext
speedcrunch
xchat-gnome

If there are no objections I'll move all them tomorrow.

-- 
Andrea