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Daklon

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Registered: 2014-02-02

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Is AUR going to be migrated to giltab?

Hi! I noticed that aurphan was deleted, a quick search returned this issue from the archlinux bugtracker https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/80098

1. nobody ostensibly still uses this
2. the code will only get more broken with the migration to gitlab
3. even with flyspray aurphan would require a rewrite to work again
4. there's no upstream repo and no active upstream author

I disagree with the idea that nobody uses it (i'm using it to locate orphan aur packages to maintain) but what really calls my attention was the second point.
After searching on the forum and the wiki, i was unable to locate anything related to migrating AUR to gitlab. Maybe Alad was talking about the other aurphan flags that worked with the main repos?

I already made a replacement for it (at least for aur part) but would like to know if there are any plans to move AUR to adapt the code for the change.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/orphan-checker

Last edited by Daklon (2024-05-01 18:02:11)

gromit

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Re: Is AUR going to be migrated to giltab?

After searching on the forum and the wiki, i was unable to locate anything related to migrating AUR to gitlab. Maybe Alad was talking about the other aurphan flags that worked with the main repos?

Yes I assume that this was the context! Most of its functionality was broken and the program was unmaintained and therefore it got dropped.
To my knowledge there are no plans of migrating the AUR to another platform, although there has been some discussion around that topic on some of the aur Mailing lists about adding some overlay structure. But nothing there was fixed and nobody dared to implement anything ..

I already made a replacement for it (at least for aur part) but would like to know if there are any plans to move AUR to adapt the code for the change.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/orphan-checker

Cool, I didn't look at it in detail but nice that you have a project going like that!

Allan

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Re: Is AUR going to be migrated to giltab?

I think that was referring to flyspray moving to gitlab, not the AUR.   Particularly if you read #2 and #3 together.

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Daklon

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Registered: 2014-02-02

Posts: 8

Re: Is AUR going to be migrated to giltab?

After searching on the forum and the wiki, i was unable to locate anything related to migrating AUR to gitlab. Maybe Alad was talking about the other aurphan flags that worked with the main repos?

Yes I assume that this was the context! Most of its functionality was broken and the program was unmaintained and therefore it got dropped.
To my knowledge there are no plans of migrating the AUR to another platform, although there has been some discussion around that topic on some of the aur Mailing lists about adding some overlay structure. But nothing there was fixed and nobody dared to implement anything ..

I already made a replacement for it (at least for aur part) but would like to know if there are any plans to move AUR to adapt the code for the change.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/orphan-checker

Cool, I didn't look at it in detail but nice that you have a project going like that!

Thank you for the clarification, i will look into this at the mailing lists, I was planning on making an MR to aurweb because right now the api returns a lot of information that i don't really need. It's not a problem for me since i can just discard it, but it doesn't sound like the best solution to me. I was thinking on allowing the client to specify which fields does it wants and the api answering with the requested fields only.

I think that was referring to flyspray moving to gitlab, not the AUR.   Particularly if you read #2 and #3 together.

Yes that makes a lot of sense, thank you for the answer