[aur-general] Removal request
Stefan Husmann
stefan-husmann at t-online.de
Thu Sep 8 13:57:32 EDT 2011
Am 08.09.2011 18:09, schrieb Max Roder:
> Max Roder wrote on 08/31/2011 10:00 PM:
>> Hi,
>>
>> aircrack-ptw [1] can safly be removed. The ptw method is included in
>> aircrack-ng. Aircrack-ptw is unmaintained for years now. In addition,
>> it's not available on the official homepage anymore.
>>
>> Just clicked through all those madwifi packages. As ath5k superseded
>> madwifi (and is actually included in the kernel), couldn't most of the
>> orphaned and/or out-of-date madwifi-X packages be removed? It's just a
>> suggestion, though. In detail:
>>
>> dkms-madwifi https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11662
>>
>> madwifi-aircrack-tp https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17049
>> It's orphaned, depends on already removed packages (kernel26tp), thus
>> unusable.
>>
>> madwifi-aircrack https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33076 (same)
>>
>> madwifi-hal https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20857 (depends on
>> kernel26 ...)
>>
>> madwifi-hal-svn https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20963
>>
>> madwifi-svn-hal https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20221
>>
>> madwifi-ice https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23472 (depends on
>> removed packages, kernel26, ...)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Max
>>
>> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18331
>
> don't want to be annyoing - but maybe this (see above) did not reach the
> list? Please let me know about anything wrong with it, if so.
>
> Max
>
Hello,
sometimes things get lost, even on a mailing list read by many people. Sorry for that.
I removed most of the packages and only kept madwifi-hal, but only
because it has a number of votes > 10. Feel free to meet another decision.
Regards Stefan
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