DeveloperWiki:AUR Cleanup Day

About

AUR Cleanup Day is a bi-yearly event at the 20th of September.

Cleanup suggestions will be looked at sooner if you submit them to the aur-general mailing list. Some guidelines are listed here.

The AUR has a large number of obsolete packages which could use cleaning up. Examples of packages that may be cleaned up are:

• Packages that have been renamed or replaced
• Old and unmaintained developmental (cvs/svn/etc) packages

Post suggestions of packages on the AUR Cleanup Day pages below. Trusted Users will get together and go though the list in a couple of weeks after the event and confirm which packages should be removed.

Join #archlinux-aur to collaborate and chat.

Template (Package list)

Candidates

Check for the package in the sorted lists below before adding.

* [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=NNN packagename] - reason

<--informative separator-->

* [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=NNN packagename] - reason

<--Orphaned & out-of-date since before 2016-->

• Up to page 10 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=nd&K=&outdated=on&SB=l&SO=a&PP=50&do_Orphans=Orphans

<--Should be renamed-->

• firefox-extension- packages to firefox- - Uniformity with the firefox-addons group and similar packages in the AUR

Possible reasons

• doesn't work anymore
• deprecated by packagename
• obsoleted by packagename
• replaced by packagename
• duplicate of packagename
• project page and sources aren't available
• "dead" project; it's very old and doesn't work with the latest versions of its dependencies
• "dead" project and too old to be useful
• project page and sources aren't available
• not needed anymore (it's for old PACKAGENAME), broken source link
• old dev-version, PACKAGENAME project uses git now
• is it needed in Arch Linux?
• broken links (see comment by USERNAME)
• outdated for a long time
• this one should be renamed
• deprecated by upstream
• outdated, orphaned
• broken links, too old, not maintained
• included in extra/PACKAGENAME
• already included in core/PACKAGENAME
• old beta version, broken source link, replaced by packagename
• maintainer wrote that it may be deleted
• dropped upstream
• depends on packagename and has not been updated for N years...
• development discontinued, project page deleted and current version doesn't work
• too old to be useful, broken source link -- hm, what is USERNAME's opinion?
• this package is no longer needed (see comments)

Template (TU)

For editing by TUs only! The wiki has a history so do not think you can get away with ignoring this... --Allan

Packages to Remove

In community:

• packagename - replaced by PACKAGENAME --Allan

Packages to Keep

• packagename - reason

Possible reasons

• It is for compiling old stuff, lets keep it, does not harm
• Seems to be actively maintained
• Seems to be actively maintained, no reason to delete
• Still useful, because ...
• So this package should maybe be orphaned, no obvious reason to delete it
• Needed by PACKAGENAME
• Package has new and active maintainer
• No reason to delete, actively maintained by USERNAME
• No, it seems to be down sometimes, but sometimes it works again. Package is maintained and has votes
• Should be rewritten, not dropped
• Actively maintained
• PKGBUILD is maintained and maintainer is active
• I orphaned the package
• It's not dead, it only needs some changes to work again
• Package builds with little tweaking
• Builds fine with a little patch in pkgrel N