On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 12:29:56AM +0100, Martin Peres wrote: > Hi, > > I've just spent a couple of minutes looking at the orphan packages > on AUR and > some of them should be deleted as their previous maintainers said they > are useless but forgot to send the deletion request on the ML: > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35080 > qtcreator-cpphelper-plugin-git > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39744 aften-svn > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28626 blender-simphys > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19607 texi2html-cvs > > This one is strange: > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33092 gold-cvs > Heftig, why do you want to keep this package for reference? > > Any news about the "Deletion request" button in the AUR website? > By the time it is implemented, it would be cool to add a warning when > people press the orphan button that they may want to send a mail to this > ML for deletion. > > Martin
Thanks for pointing these out. I've nuked the first 4. gold-cvs is a bit of an odd case.. it still has a valid upstream, but it's included as an optional linker as part of GNU ld. It's not invalid, but not it's necessary. dave
