[aur-general] aurdupes 0.6 released

Lukáš Jirkovský l.jirkovsky at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 10:51:41 EDT 2011


2011/9/15 Lukáš Jirkovský <l.jirkovsky at gmail.com>:
>> 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.
>

Also josm-svn and josm-latest-svn should be consolidated. I'll take a
look at these later, and I'll probably update them.


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