[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up orphaned packages

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 04:40:25PM +0100, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 01:01:03AM +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> > Am 24.02.2012 17:06, schrieb Lukas Fleischer:
> > > Apart from that, +1 to this idea. I already checked the list of unneeded
> > > orphans and there's >20 packages I'd like to maintain if they aren't
> > > picked up in [extra]...
> > 
> > Send me a list of these packages. But ensure they are still orphan and
> > are not a dep or makedep of any package in core/extra.
> 
> Well, there's only a few packages left (others have already been moved
> or are required by another [core]/[extra] package):
> 
> * bluez-firmware
> * cmus
> * evilwm
> * fortune-mod
> * id3v2
> * jhead
> * libofx
> * libofx-doc
> * lirc
> * lzo
> * msmtp
> * ncftp
> * pdksh
> * perl-timedate
> * pidgin-encryption

Status? Only bluez-firmware has been adopted yet.

> 
> Note that fortune-mod is an optdep of xfce4-session and id3v2 is an
> optdep of gtkpod (I can also maintain gtkpod if no one else wants to but
> I don't use it, so this might not be in the sense of this cleanup).
> 
> I'm not sure about lirc either, I'd prefer if someone could adopt both
> lirc and lirc-utils and maintain them in [extra] (lirc-utils is required
> by a bunch of [extra] packages).
> 
> > 
> > Greetigns,
> > 
> > Pierre
> > 
> > -- 
> > Pierre Schmitz, http://pierre-schmitz.com