On 26/08/13 09:58 AM, Lex Black wrote: > Huge list incoming :) > > Following packages are out of date and orphaned and couldn't be revived, > as their source is dead, or better PKGBuilds are available. > > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xspice/ > Should be merged with https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-video-qxl > Both are the same Merged. > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/synce-gnomevfs superceeded by > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/synce-gvfs I didn't do this one because synce-gnomevfs depends on gvfs and synce-gvfs is an orphan. > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wbar-patched/ > patches gone Deleted. > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hawaii-login-manager-git/ > Merged with something else > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sddm-devel/g3kGNWI0A3A Not sure about this. Some people might prefer a no longer developed hawaii-login-manager over sddm. > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/meliae-dust/ > Downloadlink is dead > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nimbus/ > Better named and maintained package is > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk-engine-nimbus/ > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ob-pippe-menu/ > Seems to be gone Agreed for these three. > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/obmenugen-bin-fix/ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/obmenugen/ > Changes from the first went into the latter It still looks like bin-fix has patches that aren't in obmenugen. > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/obmenugen-bin/ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/obmenugen/ > Developer suggested the use of the latter. > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pymouse/ & > is replaced by > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-pyuserinput-git/ > pymouse got merged into pyuserinput. And versioned pymouse was > deprecated in favor for the git version. > But the git version > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pymouse-git > has a maintainer! Although last update was 2011-11-04 > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dpkg-ubuntu/ > Source link not available. Long time ood > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ntfs-3g-fuse-internal/ > should propably merged into > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ntfs-3g-fuse > I go along with the commenter that the packages are similar (internal > flag) and the latter is better maintained > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-grin/ > should be merged into > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-grin/ > Grin seems to support only python2 (Segfaults with python3) > On a sidenote. There is also another package > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/grin/ > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/programmer-dvorak-console-map/ > should be merged into > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/programmers-dvorak > It's more up to date and maintained > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qemu-diskp/ > Source and page dead. No alternative found > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/englab-cimg/ > Superceeded by > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libenglab-cimg > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/englab-plot/ > Superceeded by > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libenglab-plot > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/englab-matrix/ > Replaced and not used > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/englab-special_functions/ > Not used > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/khanacademy/ > Deprecated and replaced by youtube-viewer > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/needles-git/ > Repo gone and I couldn't find a fork. > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/octave-suitesparse/ > Octave from [extra] uses suitesparse > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/omnetpp4/ > should be merged into > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/omnetpp/ > It's more maintained and up-to-date > > ____________ > > And here some packages where I'm not sure if they can be removed or not: > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-video-ati-6.14.2/ > Orphaned and ood Agreed for all of these. > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pacman.manfr/ > Orphaned and ood > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rmlint/ > Dunno about that. -git is more active and due to missing tags/releases > this cannot be updated. IIRC the download section on github was > deprecated in that case > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/quick-boot/ > Upstream is gone, so is the wiki. Package may work, but without a docu > it seems to be risky. Leaving these to be safe. > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aeskulap/ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aeskulap-dcmtkcompat/ > The aeskulap package seems to conflict dcmtk and dreieck made a new > package to avoid this. As this package is more maintained than the > other, they should propably be merged. But the name from the first would > be better. > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/grass-svn/ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/grass7-svn > The first has the better name, but the latter is maintained and up to date Merged these. You can now upload the deleted names (aeskulap and grass-svn) and request that they be merged back. > ____________ > > Packages that should be merged/removed, but not possible: > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/coin-utils/ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/coin-or-utils/ > Both packages are the same. Though the later was more up-to-date in the > past. I suppose the first wasn't updated and someone uploaded the second. > In case of naming, there should only exist one of those and more > packages are uploaded as coin-*. > I wrote a comment and suggested a change. > ------ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/coin-clp/ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/coin-or-clp/ > Same story like the above > > > > Best regards > Lex Thanks!
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