On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Andrea Scarpino <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi DEVs/TUs, > I'm again on the cleanup of orphans packages in the [extra] repository; this > time with a small list[1]. > > The list is based on orphans packages needed by none. > > I don't see very important packages there, but chromium, krusader, mc and > proftpd which maybe should be kept in [extra]; though they will probably find > their maintainers in [community]. > > As the last time (more than 7 months ago), please cross out the packages you > want to keep in [extra]. Adoption is not required, but it would be nice. > > If you are a TU you can ask to maintain a package writing its name to the > "Candidate to [community]" list[2]. > > I invite all you maintainers to check the orphans packages on the Arch > website, many are maintained packages where the maintainer simply forgot to > adopt it. > > Thanks > > [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Repo_Cleanup > [2] > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Repo_Cleanup#Candidate_to_.5Bcommunity.5D > > -- > Andrea >
I adopted several of them and crossed them out. I wonder if it would be better to simply remove the package from the list once they have a maintainer in order to not clutter the list.
