On 26/03/20 10:47AM, Antonio Rojas wrote: > It's that time of the year again. Please head to > https://archlinux.org/devel/reports/unneeded-orphans/ and adopt > packages you want to keep in the repos. For reference, a current list > of packages is attached (but this may vary as packages are > adopted/disowned). If you adopt a package from the list, make sure to > check its dependencies and also adopt them in case they are orphan. > > This is also a good time to check your out-of-date and/or unmaintained > by upstream packages and disown the ones you no longer have interest > in/time to maintain, so they can find a maintainer in the official > repos or otherwise in AUR. Keeping packages out of date and/or with > unfixed issues for months/years is not ideal and can be detrimental to > the overall quality of our distro in the long run.
As always, thanks a lot for pushing this effort @arojas and lessening the amount of cruft and unneeded stuff inside of the repositories that is hard to maintain! In the same spirit I also went through all packages that were not built for more than 2 years (https://archlinux.org/devel/reports/old/) and tried to build them all. A lot of the broken ones had trivial issues such as the minimum cmake flag and I tried to fix them directly. However the ones currently remaining on the list are all still broken and we should check them too, especially the people who are assigned maintainers of those packages. There is a separate personal developer report for this information, i.e. https://archlinux.org/devel/reports/old/gromit/ for each maintainer. Cheers, Chris
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