[aur-general] Orphaning some community packages

Dave Reisner d at falconindy.com
Sun Oct 9 23:20:53 EDT 2011


On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 09:16:13PM -0600, jwbirdsong wrote:
> On 10/09/2011 03:37 AM, Ángel Velásquez wrote:
> > Hi people,
> > 
> > I've been orphaning a list of packages in the few days, but I do want
> > to find a maintainer first before orphaning them (*tsk* *tsk* for
> > non-TU maybe if you're interested in some of them is time to apply to
> > be a TU :D).
> > 
> > Reasons to orphaning these packages are enough like (I don't need or
> > won't use them on the near future, or I stopped recently to follow the
> > development of them for whatever reason), so, if none of the TUs are
> > interested on these packages and nobody wants to be a TU in order to
> > maintain them, they will unfortunately go to AUR waiting for a new
> > maintainer.
> > 
> > Some of them have opened bugs, are out of date, please if you think in
> > adopt those packages is not just "bump the pkgrel" .. please take care
> > of the bugs, updates, patches, etc.
> > 
> > The mentioned list is:
> > 
> > ctpl
> > eclipse-emf
> > eclipse-gef
> > eclipse-mylyn
> > eclipse-phpeclipse
> > eclipse-subclipse
> > eclipse-ve
> > geany
> > geany-plugins
> > lxappearance
> > lxdm
> > lxlauncher
> > lxpanel
> > lxsession
> > lxtask
> > lxterminal
> > perl-linux-pid
> > pidgin-musictracker
> > pidgin-otr
> > tora
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> Just curious, but wasn't pidgin-otr  recently moved FROM the aur?  By
> recently i mean last 6 mo or so?  Or am i TOTALY mistaken in this case
> and thinking of another pkg?
> 

pidgin-otr was added in 2009 with the initial commit of the community
repo into SVN. Looks like you're mistaking this for something other
package.

dave


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