Hi, Posting this here as well, after a suggestion from Gaetan Bisson:
It's time again for the yearly cleanup of the [community] repository. Somehow, time passed, and it's now too late for a "Christmas Cleanup" like last year. Instead I'm announcing a Winter Cleanup, which I think is a better name as well. (Or perhaps "New Year Cleanup" is better, as there isn't winter everywhere at the same time. Suggestions for a better name is welcome). The wonderful developers of Arch Web have added a report of "Uneeded Orphans" since last time, which should make this cleanup considerably easier. (Thanks Dan McGee: https://projects.archlinux.org/archweb.git/commit/?id=5379348c9337a4abe27e807fef7956e11eebed30) Another positive development is that all the ibus-packages that nobody seemed to want to adopt, are no longer orphans. Thanks goes out to Felix Yan, one of our latest TUs, for that. The list of unneeded orphans can be viewed at this page: https://www.archlinux.org/devel/reports/unneeded-orphans/ Here is the current list: dcron espeakup gmerlin-avdecoder i2c-tools iksemel isomaster libmatio libtlen libtxc_dxtn libxml-perl lua-sql-mysql lua-sql-postgres lua-sql-sqlite mget multipath-tools ndisc6 nvclock pam-krb5 perl-text-wrapi18n pidgin-musictracker python2-gasp python2-pypdf ttf-envy-code-r udunits vim-nerdcommenter vim-timestamp winefish I also checked that none of these packages are makedepends of any of the other [community] packages. If you know of other packages that deserves to be cleaned up somehow, in [community], AUR or any of the other repositories, please reply to this e-mail and let us know. (If there should be too many requests, we'll start a wiki page this year as well). If there aren't any protests, I'll wait a couple of days and then move all the unneeded orphans in [community] to AUR. Developers and maintainers of [core], [extra] and [multilib] should feel free to join in on the cleanup, of course. I'll round off this invitation with a somewhat pretentious and slightly akward slogan: :] "Happy Winter Cleanup. Let our repositories shine!" Sincerely, Alexander Rødseth xyproto / TU
