Re: [aur-general] move sc and python2-mrjob to [community]
Please disregard my last e-mail. Wrong response to the wrong thread. -- Best regards, Alexander Rødseth / xyproto
Re: [aur-general] move sc and python2-mrjob to [community]
Hi, 2014-07-22 22:09 GMT+02:00 David Phillips : >>but it's a problem if it has indeed not been updated since 2002 > > Simple question: why? Simple answer: It's not. Not by itself. The reasons lie in the parts I wrote that was snipped away. It is not a problem in itself that the available files has not been updated since 2002, but the sum of the earlier provided reasons were enough to remove it from [community]. I can expand on the reasons: * iat had to be updated, because of a TODO for rebuilding a whole series of packages, that was created by another TU/dev. * The rebuild of iat did not work, because the upstream files were gone. * A search for the missing files and a look at the homepage (that is missing) gave no result (but someone later found the missing files on a dumping ground for dead projects, congratulations). * No other packages depends on iat, so when it did not build and when the needed files were missing, the decision to remove it from [community] was easy. * The decision was also influenced by the fact that it is a dead project (no updates to the files for five years, no webpage, very low likelyhood of problems being fixed or looked at if reported). * Being related to physical media and CD-ROM technology did not help (but was not mentioned in the original list of reasons). I agree that a program or package isn't bad just because it's old, but there were other reasons at play here. Other TUs/devs may have other lines of reasoning. If any of you think I'm being unreasonable here, I can ask for feedback on the process (and any TU/dev are free to move iat back to [community] if they should wish to do so, at any time). Anyone can sumbit "iat" to AUR if they feel people are missing out here. -- Best regards, Alexander Rødseth / xyproto
Re: [aur-general] move sc and python2-mrjob to [community]
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:09 PM, David Phillips wrote: > >but it's a problem if it has indeed not been updated since 2002 > > Simple question: why? > I second David's point! Not all software needs updating. This is a simple, straightforward tool built on top of libraries that haven't changed much in the last decade.
Re: [aur-general] move sc and python2-mrjob to [community]
>but it's a problem if it has indeed not been updated since 2002 Simple question: why? -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] move sc and python2-mrjob to [community]
Hi, Good suggestion about sc, it could potentially be moved from AUR to [community]. It seems useful enough, but it's a problem if it has indeed not been updated since 2002. Perhaps there is a maintained fork somewhere (or one could be created)? python2-mrjob also looks like a good canidate, especially if it would support python 3 as well (I could not see a "python-mrjob" package on AUR). It would also need a few more votes. --- Best regards, Alexander Rødseth / xyproto
Re: [aur-general] move sc and python2-mrjob to [community]
While that is the latest year it was released, AFAIK, it doesn't seem to need maintenance, and is stable after several years of development. Either way, it's a good go-to CLI spreadsheet program and is included in several other distros. On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Sam Stuewe wrote: > On 2014-07-20 16:31, Ido Rosen wrote: > >> Would it be possible to request that "sc" be promoted to [community] by >> one >> of you fine TUs? It doesn't change very often at all and it's a pretty >> handy tool. Additionally, while we're at it, an unrelated but very cool >> package, "python2-mrjob"? :-) >> > Is sc maintained anymore? I was under the impression that it actually > hadn't been updated since 2002[1]. > > [1] http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/apps/financial/spreadsheet/!INDEX.html > > -- > All the best, > Sam Stuewe (HalosGhost) >
Re: [aur-general] move sc and python2-mrjob to [community]
On 2014-07-20 16:31, Ido Rosen wrote: Would it be possible to request that "sc" be promoted to [community] by one of you fine TUs? It doesn't change very often at all and it's a pretty handy tool. Additionally, while we're at it, an unrelated but very cool package, "python2-mrjob"? :-) Is sc maintained anymore? I was under the impression that it actually hadn't been updated since 2002[1]. [1] http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/apps/financial/spreadsheet/!INDEX.html -- All the best, Sam Stuewe (HalosGhost)
