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Jitter.Jive.Groove

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Registered: 2026-10-09

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orphaned AUR package found

I have not been able to finish setting up my interface to the "Arch Linux"  ecosystem. This may be of interest:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xbin … onfig-gtk2 :

" frostwork commented on 2025-01-31 18:08 (UTC): Oh, I haven't seen the package was orphaned. Thank you for taking over, @xiota! :)  "

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ … onfig-gtk2   :

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# Maintainer:

# Contributor: Radoslav Georgiev <____________@gmail.com>

# Contributor: Felix Golatofski <_______@xdfr.de>

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https://aur.archlinux.org/register

"We continue to encourage all users of AUR packages to review all PKGBUILD and install script changes when updating, especially during this time. If you notice suspicious commits to a package that you use, please reach out to Arch staff via the aur-general mailing list with more information"

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: orphaned AUR package found

What are you talking about?
While there're currently 14850 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?submit=Orphans the linked package is maintained by xiota, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?K=xiota&SeB=m

Also gtk2 is bitrot and should™ ideally not be part of anybodies ecosystem.

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Jitter.Jive.Groove

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Registered: 2026-10-09

Posts: 7

Re: orphaned AUR package found

"What are you talking about?"  I do not know, it looked strange. I believe xiota does not have a link on the username. I was just looking around trying to fix something and noticed xbindkeys_config-gtk2 

BTW  PKGBUILD for  xbindkeys_config-gtk2 :

# Maintainer: _____________________

is blank

Package Details: xbindkeys_config-gtk2 0.1.4-2  :

Maintainer:     xiota (Technetium1)

xiota does not have a link on the username

oops, noob....

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loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,099

Re: orphaned AUR package found

Is this an X-Y problem? I am assuming this is a new installation when you mention finish setting up.  This lead to the question seth highlighted why install anything gtk22 based which in unmaintained on a new installation?  I would suggest if you are a new Arch user to avoid using the AUR altogether until you are familiar with how it works and the inherent risks involved in using it.

Also why the strange blank lines interleaved in your posts?