El vie, 6 oct 2023 9:13, Marcell Meszaros <marcell.mesza...@runbox.eu> escribió:
> This library was adopted and updated, but it still does not have other > packages that would utilize it. > > It is still better to delete this, which in turn will allow other unneded > and not very actively maintained packages, like lib32-avahi, and several of > its lib32 dependencies, to be dropped as well. > > Savvy users like @sl1pkn07 can install AUR/wine-wow64 if they really want > to use their likely 20+ year old bin32 Windows-only scanners through wine. > (Scanner support was the one reason cited by @sl1pkn07 to having a need for > this package, though he failed to mention any concrete model or > driver/software package that would actually benefit from having this pkg > installed.) > > (Around 2004-2006, Microsoft was pushing OEM's to release 64-bit software > for their still in-use hardware devices, even those that were sold > previously. Consequently, many printers and scanners marketed after > 1999-2000 got those support software at least for the bare minimum > functionality in 64-bit.) > > (Also, no wine builds on AUR utilize lib32-sane, so even if someone > installed the latter, it would be pointless without recompiling said wine > package. But as I mentioned above, wine-wow64 works with both 32-bit and > 64-bit Windows software without relying on any 32-bit Linux libraries.) > > Also, AUR submission guidelines say that packages kept there should be > useful to more than a few user. It seems only @sl1pkn07 wants to hang on to > this package. > > On 22 July 2023 17:45:54 GMT+02:00, not...@aur.archlinux.org wrote: > >MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for lib32-sane [2]: > > > >Orphan package, last updated in 2021-11, no dependents. > > > >I flagged it OOD 2.5 years ago. > > > >There are no comments since 2021. > > > >I think it is better to delete. > > > >Only wine-stable-ununtu package depended on this from 2021; it has > >been deleted since. > > > >The new wine-wow64 package supports running 32-bit code with only > >64-bit Linux libraries. > > > >[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ > >[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/lib32-sane/ hi since the last request i maintain the package in my own. if is already upload again, is by mistake (first notice the new push). can delete again sorry :( > >
