Excerpts from Jos\xe9 Valecillos's message of 2010-10-05 20:37:04 -0400: > On 10/03/2010 01:24 PM, Jakob Gruber wrote: > > Hi TUs, > > > > I've just created a new proposal concerning the orphaning of all packages > > marked 'out of date' which have not been updated (or submitted) since > > before > > January 1st, 2009. For details, see the actual proposal text. > > > > The voting period ends on October 10th, please cast your votes! > > > > schuay > > I propose clean up the orphaned packages as well. There are many > packages (about 900) that are orphan and also flaged as out of date. Aur > is becoming a cementary of old packages, many people abandon packages > that aren't need them anymore, or just have been dropped by their > original developers. > > One way can be delete all the packages that have been outdated for about > a year and have 2 months orphaned. Its a idea, there can be other > criteria. But, please consider thoroughly if the packages haven't been > updated in one year and have months orphan is very likely that isn't > used by anybody.
The old packages serve as a reference for anyone wanting to adopt. If you delete them, people will have to start over from scratch. -- David Campbell
