[aur-general] aurdupes 0.6 released

Lukáš Jirkovský l.jirkovsky at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 10:49:25 EDT 2011


> It's been a week since I tried to get in contact with some of these
> maintainers and some packages have been deleted since, so here is the final
> aurdupes -A list.
>
>
> *Packages created to update others:*
> stardict-ncce-ce-new (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40850) I
> think was created to fix the source links of stardict-ncce-ce (
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19437) after the project was
> removed from sourceforge. It currently has no maintainer or votes and
> stardict-ncce-ce is also orphaned.

Done.

> stardict-ncce-ec-new (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40851) did
> the same thing for stardict-ncce-ec (
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19438). It also is orphaned and
> has no votes and stardict-ncce-ec is also orphaned.

Done

>
> *Packages created for other reasons:*
> idjc-latest (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35076) is poorly
> named and should be called idjc-git
> spideroak-latest (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47096) is poorly
> named and should be called spideroak-beta. It is actively maintained.
> xf86-video-intel-newest (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22968) is
> poorly named and should probably be called xf86-video-intel-alpha. I'm not
> sure what is the norm around alpha packages so please let me know what
> happens with this one.
> yaffs2utils-latest (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46674) is
> poorly named and should be called yaffs2utils-snapshot but it's maintained
> by someone with an @archlinux email address so I think I'm mistaken on this
> one. Let me know what you think.
> josm-latest (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13569) is poorly
> named and should be called something like josm-devel
> metslib-newest (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43739). I'm not
> sure why this was created because the maintainer of metslib-newest and
> metslib is the same. Metslib-newest is more up to date than metslib though.

I've left these ones alone. I agree that the naming could be better,
but they seem to work. However josm-latest should really be improved
to incorporate md5sums, maybe using snapshot.


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