[aur-general] Compiz 0.9 packages cleanup, mergers?

Charles Bos charlesbos1 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 16:48:17 EDT 2014


There are a great deal of orphaned Compiz 0.9 packages in the AUR, some 
for the stable releases and some for bazaar. They are all on around 
0.9.5 or 0.9.7. These are the packages I'm referring to:

for stable release:
* ccsm-dev -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ccsm-dev/
* compiz-plugins-extra-dev -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/comp 
... extra-dev/ 
<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/compiz-plugins-extra-dev/>
* compiz-plugins-main-dev -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/comp ... 
-main-dev/ <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/compiz-plugins-main-dev/>
* compizconfig-backend-gconf-dev -- 
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/comp ... gconf-dev/ 
<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/compizconfig-backend-gconf-dev/>
* compizconfig-backend-gsettings-dev -- 
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/comp ... tings-dev/ 
<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/compizconfig-backend-gsettings-dev/>
* compizconfig-python-dev -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/comp ... 
ython-dev/ <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/compizconfig-python-dev/>
* libcompizconfig-dev -- 
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libcompizconfig-dev/

for development release:
* ccsm-bzr -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ccsm-bzr/
* compiz-core-bzr -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/compiz-core-bzr/
* compiz-plugins-extra-bzr -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/comp 
... extra-bzr/ 
<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/compiz-plugins-extra-bzr/>
* compiz-plugins-main-bzr -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/comp ... 
-main-bzr/ <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/compiz-plugins-main-bzr/>
* compizconfig-backend-gconf-bzr -- 
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/comp ... gconf-bzr/ 
<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/compizconfig-backend-gconf-bzr/>
* compizconfig-backend-gsettings-bzr -- 
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/comp ... tings-bzr/ 
<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/compizconfig-backend-gsettings-bzr/>
* compizconfig-python-bzr -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/comp ... 
ython-bzr/ <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/compizconfig-python-bzr/>
* libcompizconfig-bzr -- 
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libcompizconfig-bzr/

As I understand it, Compiz upstream no longer packages all these 
components separately. They are all developed and packaged together in 
one launchpad project. That is why we have two main packages in the AUR 
for installing Compiz 0.9, compiz-dev and compiz-bzr. I've had a look on 
launchpad and this seems to be the case. For instance: The compiz-ccsm 
page (https://launchpad.net/compiz-ccsm) lists 0.9.5.92 as the latest 
version when it's actually 0.9.10. Therefore (unless I am much mistaken) 
all the packages above are obsolete and can never be updated to their 
latest upstream versions.

I propose that all the dev packages above be merged with compiz-dev 
(https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/compiz-dev/)

and all the bazaar packages be merged with compiz-bzr 
(https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/compiz-bzr/)


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