On 26/04/11 01:15PM, Morten Linderud wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2026 at 01:05:11PM +0200, gromit wrote: > > On 26/04/11 11:52AM, gromit wrote: > > > 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 This is also a good time to check your out-of-date and/or unmaintained 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 Keeping packages out of date and/or with 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. > > > > > > > As a followup, here is the list of failing packages since the report is > > non-public: > > > > [SNIP] > > Can we make a todo list of these packages?
Sure, added one here: https://archlinux.org/todo/rebuild-packages-older-than-two-years/ Cheers, Chris
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