[aur-general] Deletion and merge requests (long list)

[Connor Behan]

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 Following packages are out of date and orphaned and couldn't be revived,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.
>
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> 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.
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> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wbar-patched/
> patches gone
Deleted.
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> 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.
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> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/meliae-dust/
> Downloadlink is dead
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> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nimbus/
> Better named and maintained package is
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk-engine-nimbus/
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> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ob-pippe-menu/
> Seems to be gone
Agreed for these three.
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> 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.
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> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/obmenugen-bin/
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/obmenugen/
> Developer suggested the use of the latter.
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> 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
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> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dpkg-ubuntu/
> Source link not available. Long time ood
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> 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
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> 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/
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> 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
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> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qemu-diskp/
> Source and page dead. No alternative found
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> 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
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> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/englab-matrix/
> Replaced and not used
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> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/englab-special_functions/
> Not used
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> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/khanacademy/
> Deprecated and replaced by youtube-viewer
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> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/needles-git/
> Repo gone and I couldn't find a fork.
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> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/octave-suitesparse/
> Octave from [extra] uses suitesparse
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> 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:
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> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-video-ati-6.14.2/
> Orphaned and ood
Agreed for all of these.
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> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pacman.manfr/
> Orphaned and ood
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> 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.
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> 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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