----- Messaggio originale ----- > On 07.11.2011 18:41, Nicola Bignami wrote: > > I see that there are more than 6700 orphan packages. Of those, more > > than 2400 are also flagged out of date (some packages have not been > > updated since 2007). > > Many packages are only waiting for a new maintainer but I think that > > many are only waiting to be scrapped as they're already been replaced > > by some other package in the AUR or in the community repository (or > > just become obsolete). > > > > I'm wondering if the time has come to look into them to find out what > > worth to keep and what have to be removed and thus do some cleanup. > > > > If can be useful, I can start working on it. > Of course, clean up work like that is always appreciated. Keep in mind > though that people might resubmit missing but obsolete software to AUR. > Technically, there is no rule against that.
I know. > So in case you do this work, you should look for packages that truly > have no need for existence anymore as opposed to merely software that > somebody forked and improved. Dead upstream sucks but it's no an > immediate reason to drop something from AUR. in my opinion. > > Good candidates for deletion: Unmaintained downstream variants of > software patched with various little things, software that switched vcs > but has old vcs packages remaining in AUR, totally broken and > unmaintained software, renamed packages that didn't get deleted. You get > the idea. That's exactly what I have in mind, and that's why IMHO it's necessary look carefully to the packages and not just delete them because they're orphan and out of date. > -- Sven-Hendrik