Am 14.11.23 um 03:32 schrieb xiota:
Prior to orphan request PRQ#49707, the package was also flagged. The
maintainer unflagged without taking action. The maintainer has also
written a reply to the orphan request, so is fully aware of the issue.
As said, nestopia does not need GLU, it should not be my responsibility
to fix upstream's or other package's bugs.
Despite claims that this is an issue with fltk, maintainer has not
opened an issue report for that package. (None appears in search
results at bugs.archlinux.org <http://bugs.archlinux.org>.) Also,
tools, such as namcap, do not identify reliance of fltk on any
glu-related packages.
You are likely capable of opening a bug yourself there, since writing
this email does not take much longer...
Even if fltk did have an unnamed dependency on glu, Arch package
guidelines state: "Do not rely on transitive dependencies". So a
prudent maintainer, especially given the error reports, would still
choose to include glu in the dependency list.
Do you add the `linux` dependency to all your packages, because without
the kernel nothing would run?
Given that the current maintainer is willfully keeping this package in
a broken state for about 2.5 years, it should be orphaned immediately
so that a responsible maintainer may take over.
Your whole effort is a bit misdirected, I suggest you try to resolve
some real problems in your free time.
best regards,
carstene1ns
