AUR Cleanup Day
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About
AUR Cleanup Day is a bi-yearly (odd years) event on the 20th of September.
The AUR has a large number of obsolete packages which could use cleaning up. Post suggestions of packages to the collaborative doc (template below) linked in the announcement email, submit them to the aur-general mailing list, or file requests directly. Package Maintainers will get together and confirm which packages should be removed.
Join #archlinux-aur to collaborate and chat.
Template
# AUR Cleanup Day September 20th 20XY ## About AUR Cleanup Day is a bi-yearly (odd years) event on the 20th of September. The [AUR](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository) 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](https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general), or file [requests](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines#Requests) directly. [Package Maintainers](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Package_Maintainers) will get together and confirm which packages should be removed. Join [#archlinux-aur](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_IRC_channels) to collaborate and chat. ## Template (Package list) ### Candidates Check for the package in the sorted lists below before adding. - [PKGNAME](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/PKGNAME) - Reason #### Informative heading - [PKGBASE](https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/PKGBASE) - Reason ### Possible reasons - Does not work anymore - Deprecated by [PKGNAME](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/PKGNAME) - Obsoleted by [PKGNAME](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/PKGNAME) - Replaced by [PKGNAME](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/PKGNAME) - Duplicate of [PKGNAME](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/PKGNAME) - 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 PKGNAME), broken source link - Old dev-version (CVS/SVN/etc), PKGNAME 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 - Broken links (see comment by USERNAME) - Outdated for a long time - This one should be renamed - Deprecated by upstream - Outdated, orphaned - Broken links, too old, not maintained - Included in extra/PKGNAME - Already included in core/PKGNAME - Old beta version, broken source link, replaced by [PKGNAME](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/PKGNAME) - Maintainer wrote that it may be deleted - Dropped upstream - Depends on [PKGNAME](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/PKGNAME) 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!** ### Packages to Remove In extra: - [PKGNAME](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/PKGNAME) - Replaced by PKGNAME ### Packages to Keep - [PKGNAME](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/PKGNAME) - Reason #### Possible reasons - It is for compiling old stuff, let's keep it, does not harm - Seems to be actively maintained - Still useful, because ... - So this package should maybe be orphaned, no obvious reason to delete it - Needed by PKGNAME - Package has new and active maintainer - Seems to be down sometimes, but sometimes it works again. Package is maintained and has votes - Should be rewritten, not dropped - 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