[aur-general] Spring cleaning (moving orphaned packages from [community] to AUR)

Alexander F Rødseth xyproto at archlinux.org
Tue Feb 25 15:22:36 UTC 2020


Hello,

It's time for the semi-yearly package cleanup of [community] packages, as
is tradition.

I have gathered a list of "unneeded orphans" in [community] (packages that
currently has no maintainer, and no other package depends on them) from the
excellent list on our web page.

TUs and Devs, please adopt, if you're interested:

adapta-kde - Adapta theme for KDE Plasma 5
agg - High Quality Rendering Engine for C++
aide - A file integrity checker and intrusion detection program.
arch - A modern and remarkable revision control system.
arc-kde - Arc theme for KDE Plasma 5
aspell-it - Italian dictionary for aspell
aspell-ru - Russian dictionary for aspell
autofs - A kernel-based automounter for Linux
bar - A script for showing progress bars.
bomberclone - Clone of the game Atomic Bomberman
cellwriter - A grid-entry natural handwriting input panel.
curseofwar - Fast-paced RTS/Action game with ncurses interface
dcfldd - DCFL (DoD Computer Forensics Lab) dd replacement with hashing
deadbeef - A GTK+ audio player for GNU/Linux.
dumb-a4 - IT, XM, S3M and MOD player library (for Allegro 4)
easystroke - Use mouse gestures to initiate commands and hotkeys.
eclipse-cpp - Highly extensible IDE for C++
eclipse-java - Highly extensible IDE for Java
eclipse-javascript - Highly extensible IDE for JavaScript
eclipse-jee - Highly extensible IDE for JEE
eclipse-php - Highly extensible IDE for PHP
eclipse-rust - Highly extensible IDE for Rust
esmtp - An easy SMTP forwarder.
flac123 - Command-line program for playing FLAC audio files
gimp-dbp - David's batch processor for the GIMP
gimp-plugin-fblur - Makes out of focus with luminosity and depth
gimp-plugin-lqr - Plugin for The GIMP providing Liquid Rescale
gimp-plugin-wavelet-denoise - Tool to reduce noise in each channel of an
image separately
gimp-refocus - A sharpen plugin for gimp using FIR Wiener filtering
glide - Dependency management and vendoring for Go projects
glitz - OpenGL image compositing library
gnunet-gtk - A frontend for GNUnet
gtk-theme-switch2 - Gtk2 theme switcher
gvmd - greenbone-vulnerability-manager
gvm-tools - greenbone-vulnerability-manager tools
icecast - Streaming audio over the Internet
ifuse - A fuse filesystem to access the contents of an iPhone or iPod Touch
iverilog - Icarus Verilog compiler and simulation tool
javasqlite - Java wrapper including a basic JDBC driver for the SQLite 2/3
database engine
matrix-appservice-irc - Node.js IRC bridge for Matrix
minbif - An IRC gateway to IM networks that uses libpurple.
mod_wsgi - Python WSGI adapter module for Apache
monica - Monitor calibration tool
mythes-pl - Polish thesaurus
ntop - A network traffic probe that shows the network usage.
ode - High performance library for simulating rigid body dynamics
openvas - Vulnerability scanning Daemon
pdfmod - Simple application for modifying PDF written in C Sharp
pidgin-otr - Off-the-Record Messaging plugin for Pidgin.
pinta - Drawing/editing program modeled after Paint.NET. It's goal is
to provide a simplified alternative to GIMP for casual users
privoxy - A web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities.
processing - Programming environment for creating images, animations and
interactions
projectm-pulseaudio - Music visualizer which uses 3D accelerated iterative
image based rendering (pulseaudio)
projectm-sdl - Music visualizer which uses 3D accelerated iterative image
based rendering (sdl)
python2-pyxmpp - Python XMPP and Jabber implementation based on libxml2
python-pyinsane - Python library to access and use image scanners
qtspim - New user interface for spim, a MIPS simulator.
rdiff-backup - A utility for local/remote mirroring and incremental backups.
remacs - Emacs with parts of it written in Rust
steghide - Embeds a message in a file by replacing some of the least
significant bits
surf - A simple web browser based on WebKit/GTK+.
tabbed - Simple generic tabbed fronted to xembed aware applications.
transset-df - A patched version of X.Org's transset with added
functionality.
tuxpaint-config - Tux Paint configuration tool
uncrustify - A source code beautifier
vim-jellybeans - Colorful, dark color scheme, inspired by ir_black and
twilight
vim-ultisnips - TextMate-style snippets for Vim.
wren - Small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language
xautomation - Controls X from the command line and does "visual
scraping".
xbindkeys - Launch shell commands with your keyboard or your mouse under X
zapcc - C++ compiler based on Clang, but significantly faster
zeal - An offline API documentation browser

I'll wait two weeks before adding them to AUR, running both `db-remove` and
`svn rm` on the unmaintained packages.

PS. If unmaintained orphans in [core] could be moved to [extra], and
unmaintained orphans in [extra] could be moved to [community], that could
be a nice "trickle down" effect and would be an appreciated cleanup as
well, but that is just my opinion.

To quote our newly elected leader, in connection with the previous spring
cleaning:

> Cleanup is always good
>
> - Levente Polyak

-- 
Best regards,
    Alexander F. Rødseth / xyproto


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