[community] repo: Movement of orphaned packages to unsupported.

Snowman · 2007-03-21 05:21:45

Hi fellow Archers,

With time, the number of orphaned packages in the community repo has steadily increased because of various reasons: TUs no longer had time/interest to maintain a package, TUs leaving the group, etc. Currently there's about 300 orphans in [community] and the TU group doesn't have currently the time or interest to maintain all of them. We finally came to the conclusion that it would be better to have maintained PKGBUILD in AUR than stale packages in community. So, in the next weeks, we'll gradually move some (all?) of them to unsupported. To ensure that these PKGBUILD get adopted by regular users, we'll be handing out orphaned community packages to users who are willing to maintain them. So if you are interested in one or more orphaned community packages, request it in this thread and it'll be moved to unsupported for you to adopt it. We'll be accepting requests until April 4th but it could be extended if necessary. Hopefully, this will drop the number of orphans to a manageable amount. If not, more orphans will be moved to unsupported.

Once a package is moved to unsupported, I can't guaranty that someone else browsing the AUR will adopt it. So you should adopt it as soon as it's moved to unsupported. If someone else request a package that you want before you, as a matter of courtesy, please give that person a few days to adopt the PKGBUILD. After that, you can adopt it. Also, once you adopt a package, you'll probably need to update it as some of these packages are out-of-date or the arch and license fields are missing.

"Reserved" orphans: DaNiMoTh is currently a TU candidate and, if he gets voted in, is willing to adopt the following orphans: mozplugger, sportstracker, gobby and rsnapshot. You may request them but they'll remain in the community repo until the end of the voting period to minimize package movement.

Snowman

Stalwart · 2007-03-22 17:12:42

Terminus-font maintainer doesn't respond to requests, i'd like to pick it up if vegai doesn't have time/willing to maintain it

Snowman · 2007-03-22 21:58:31

Stalwart wrote:

Terminus-font maintainer doesn't respond to requests, i'd like to pick it up if vegai doesn't have time/willing to maintain it

Contact vegai directly. If you want, you can send him a modified PKGBUILD. There has been a lot of discussion on the TUR ML about this pkg movement, so he's probably still interested in terminus-font otherwise he would've orphaned it.

tafsen · 2007-03-30 14:10:27

I have never made an PKGBUILD before, but I could try to make one for xmltv.

Snowman · 2007-03-31 16:34:45

tafsen wrote:

I have never made an PKGBUILD before, but I could try to make one for xmltv.

There's already a PKGBUILD for it. You just need to update it when it's out-of-date and basically maintain it. xmltv will be in unsupported shortly as well as xmltv-druid and ontv as they depends on xmltv. They might interest you as well.

Check the wiki for information. If you have a question, ask it on the forum.

bones · 2007-03-31 22:21:52

Regarding grism, I've already modified the PKGBUILD file so I've got the latest version on my box. If nobody is interested in it, maybe you could throw it this way

Snowman · 2007-04-01 00:52:25

bones wrote:

Regarding grism, I've already modified the PKGBUILD file so I've got the latest version on my box. If nobody is interested in it, maybe you could throw it this way

I've removed grism from community. You'll be able to upload your PKGBUILD once the db updates itself. I kept the old PKGBUILD in case you want it.

bones · 2007-04-01 05:57:31

Sweet, I already have the PKGBUILD file saved Thanks

Snowman · 2007-04-15 02:35:45

The community repo cleanup is completed.

The current orphans will remain in community and have been fixed/updated.
I've added myself to the notification list so I'll be aware of any
comments.

Some packages were completely removed from community/AUR:
schism: obsoleted by schismtracker
gst-plugins-png: Arch no longer support gstreamer 0.8
mysql-administrator: obsoleted by mysql-gui-tools
mysql-query-browser: obsoleted by mysql-gui-tools
multisync: This app has been actually splitted in two other apps
(multisync-gui and msynctool) whose PKGBUILDs are in
unsupported.
Other packages that were also in current/extra were removed.

Packages that were moved to unsupported:
If you want to browse the list with the AUR interface, do a search with me
(Snowman) as submitter and look for the orphaned packages. Several of them
have found a new maintainer in unsupported.

Here's the list:

adns-python
alac_decoder
alex
anubis
arc
asterisk-addons
asterisk-sounds
asterisk-webvmail
atlascpp
bioapi
cal3d
ccid
cherrypy
chicken
cohoba
contacts
cyphesis
daap-sharp
dirac
e-uae
echelon
editobj
eds-feed
entagged-sharp
expresskeys
fantasdic
flamerobin
flumotion
gaim-xmms
galago-gtk-sharp
galago-sharp
gap
gaupol
gcursor
gizmod
gnelib
gnome-ppp
gnome-subtitles
gnomeradio
gpixpod
gpodder
grism
gsoap
gstreamer0.10-pulse
gyrus
hawknl
ifolder
ifolder-server
imapfilter
incollector
invest-applet
io-vm
iwar
joscar
ketchup
krb5-auth-dialog
lbdb
ldtp
leaftag-gnome
liban
libannodex
libao-pulse
libatomic_ops
libccc
libchipcard2
libcmml
libfakekey
libfishsound
libflaim
libgconf-java
libggigcp
libggiwmh
libglade-java
libgnome-java
libharu
libiaxclient
libleaftag
libmatchbox
libmodelfile
libmusclecard
liboggz
libomxil
libopensync-plugin-evolution2
libp11
libphish
libprelude
libpreludedb
libpri
libptp2
librasc
libsexymm
libsirius
libupnp
log4cxx
log4j
log4net
logjam
matchbox-common
matchbox-desktop
matchbox-keyboard
matchbox-panel
matchbox-panel-manager
matchbox-themes-extra
matchbox-window-manager
mediatomb
mercator
ming
mt-daapd
mudmagic
mugshot
muscletool
nautilus-burn-sharp
nautilus-ifolder
nemerle
nepenthes
netatalk
nihongobenkyo
olsrd
ontv
openct
openproducer
opensc
openscenegraph
openvpn-admin
osgedit
outguess
pam_bioapi
pam_p11
pcsclite
prelude-manager
prewikka
pureadmin
py2play
pyao
pygmy
pygopherd
pykanjicard
pymusepack
pyopenal
python-axon
python-dvb3
python-empy
python-gammu
python-kenosis
python-leaftag
python-nattraverso
python-pyalsaaudio
python-pyannodex
python-pygoocanvas
python-pyicu
python-pylucene
python-renderpm
python-scw
python-sexy
python-tofu
python-vobject
python-xlrd
pyzor
rugg
ruli
rvm
sabbu
sage
sharpmusique
shn2make
simias
skstream
slune
sobby
soya
straw
synbak
synfig-core
synfig-etl
synfigstudio
tagutils
tangerine
unicap
varconf
vazaar
wammu
wfmath
wmradio
xmltv
xmltv-druid

ekerazha · 2007-04-15 08:29:04

Also "PulseAudio" and many PulseAudio-related packages are orphaned inside [community]: however I hope a developer will move these packages to the official repositories, since it is a very good replacement for "dmix", EsounD etc. and some distros are already using it as default audio daemon.

Site: http://www.pulseaudio.org

Last edited by ekerazha (2007-04-15 08:34:32)

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#1 2007-03-21 05:21:45

[community] repo: Movement of orphaned packages to unsupported.

#2 2007-03-22 17:12:42

Re: [community] repo: Movement of orphaned packages to unsupported.

#3 2007-03-22 21:58:31

Re: [community] repo: Movement of orphaned packages to unsupported.

#4 2007-03-30 14:10:27

Re: [community] repo: Movement of orphaned packages to unsupported.

#5 2007-03-31 16:34:45

Re: [community] repo: Movement of orphaned packages to unsupported.

#6 2007-03-31 22:21:52

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#7 2007-04-01 00:52:25

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#8 2007-04-01 05:57:31

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