DeveloperWiki:AUR Cleanup Day
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AUR Cleanup Day is a bi-yearly event on the 20th of September. The next one will be in 2020.
The AUR has a large number of obsolete packages which could use cleaning up. Post suggestions of packages below, submit them to the aur-general mailing list, or file requests directly. Trusted Users will get together 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--Orphaned & out-of-date since before 2016--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- Up to page 10 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=nd&K=&outdated=on&SB=l&SO=a&PP=50&do_Orphans=Orphans
Possible reasons
- does not work anymore
- deprecated by packagename
- obsoleted by packagename
- replaced by packagename
- duplicate of packagename
- project page and sources are not available
- "dead" project; it's very old and does not work with the latest versions of its dependencies
- "dead" project and too old to be useful
- project page and sources are not available
- not needed anymore (it's for old PACKAGENAME), broken source link
- old dev-version (cvs/svn/etc), 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- outdated for a long time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- outdated, orphaned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 does not 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