Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#37081] Deletion Request for kde-servicemenus-rootactions

2022-08-23 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
@stevo11811 please don't make baseless accusations. This is perfectly legit. Manjaro officially used to carry it for years in their binary repo. Custom hosting of the source is necessary because it is only officially hosted here: https://store.kde.org/p/998469/ Which is not providing a stable

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#36747] Deletion Request for caffe2 Rejected

2022-08-07 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
> those seem to be -git repositories I am sorry but the reason for rejection seems nonsense to me. Could you please kindly explain it, @muflone? Thank you in advance, and for doing all this valuable work here in Arch and AUR. On 7 August 2022 17:36:29 GMT+02:00, not...@aur.archlinux.org wrote

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#36497] Orphan Request for go-scc-git Rejected

2022-08-07 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
Maintainer has had more than a hundred packages staying flagged OOD since 2015 -2018, then he was leaving some angry comments in April 2022 attacking me because of orphaning and updating some of his former packages, then again going MIA, and they have not updated any of their existing packages f

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#36826] Deletion Request for thunderbird-exchangecalendar-alpha

2022-08-06 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
Addendum: There is still a thunderbird-exchangecalendar-beta package on AUR, carrying the latest tagged release of this project from 2019. So there is really no loss to delete this alpha package. On 6 August 2022 14:37:30 GMT+02:00, not...@aur.archlinux.org wrote: >MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#36736] Deletion Request for gum-bin

2022-08-02 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
gum-bin provides binaries for non-x86-64 architectures so it has a broader scope than community/gum. I think therefore that this should not be deleted from AUR. On 3 August 2022 02:55:48 GMT+02:00, notify--- via aur-requests wrote: >grawlinson [1] filed a deletion request for gum-bin [2]: > >P

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#36746] Deletion Request for ngxtop

2022-08-02 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
Correction; It seems its Python 3 port, ngxtop-ce is also discontinued. But anyhow, ngxtop itself is still a defunct project and this package doesn't work because of the missing Py2 dependency. I think this CLI app was likely not essential, otherwise it would not have become ababdoned. There

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#36731] Deletion Request for nfspy

2022-08-02 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
Small correction: discontinued since 2014, not 2013. On 2 August 2022 20:27:41 GMT+02:00, not...@aur.archlinux.org wrote: >MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for nfspy [2]: > >Python 2 tool last released 9 years ago and discontinued since 2013. > >Package is orphaned since 1.5 year. I suggest d

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#36526] Deletion Request for xp-pen-tablet

2022-07-21 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
@rad4day, please kindly elaborate. Why do you suspect something malicious? Just because a piece of software is mirrored on a server with a Russian domain name, it does not become harmful. On 21 July 2022 18:01:23 GMT+02:00, notify--- via aur-requests wrote: >rad4day [1] filed a deletion reques

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#36474] Deletion Request for powerpill

2022-07-19 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
I suggest that you discuss your proposals in the public comments section of the package's AUR page instead of sending it to this deletion request thread. Also please note that @XeonDead does not receive mails sent to this list because he is not a subscriber. And TLDR; I am still convinced that

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#36474] Deletion Request for powerpill

2022-07-19 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
I understand your frustration completely. And for what it's worth, I fully disagree with any indiscriminate geoblocking by public hosting providers for political or ideological reasons, absent of any valid justification (of which I can barely name any). But still, please try to be reasonable with

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#36474] Deletion Request for powerpill

2022-07-18 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
Unless *all* IP's are blocked throughout the world from downloading the sources, this should not be deleted. Revenge is not a valid reason for dropping a package from AUR. On 18 July 2022 10:08:33 GMT+02:00, "Christopher Snowhill (kode54) via aur-requests" wrote: > >> On Jul 18, 2022, at 12:26

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#36463] Deletion Request for biber-bin

2022-07-17 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
+1 for deletion. And Arch [community] already carries biber. So this package is essentially redundant. On 16 July 2022 22:17:34 GMT+02:00, notify--- via aur-requests wrote: >maximdeclercq [1] filed a deletion request for biber-bin [2]: > >Impossible to meet the perl requirements > >[1] https://

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#36422] Orphan Request for ncurses5-compat-libs

2022-07-14 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
Hi @invidian, Please note that your reply was not received by the aur-requests mailing list because you are not a member on it. (Your emails sent to this list just get silently rejected and deleted.) But anyway, thank you for confirming that you are active as a maintainer. I've also observed t

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#36037] Deletion Request for python2-scruffington

2022-07-14 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
> Nothing depends on this package because you just had > the package that did depend on it deleted. I don't know what you are talking about. There hasn't been anything on AUR that would depend on python2-scruffington for at least two years now: https://web.archive.org/web/20200807153935/https:

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#35947] Deletion Request for python2-sip

2022-07-14 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
@a.kudelin, please kindly revoke your deletion request. It is not useful to delete this package as it is fixed now and there are still packages that depend on it on AUR. Cheers, Marcell On 10 July 2022 19:03:47 GMT+02:00, Marcell Meszaros wrote: >There are still packages that depend on this o

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#36423] Deletion Request for shadowsocks-go-git

2022-07-14 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
Hi, @database64128, There is no need for the deletion of the AUR page of the orphaned shadowsocks-go-git base package. There are no comments on it. Also, there is no actual shadowsocks-go-git package that gets created from its PKGBUILD, as it only has two (wrongly named) split packages: Package

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#36422] Orphan Request for ncurses5-compat-libs

2022-07-13 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
> maintainer seems inactive And what is the basis of that assertion? On 13 July 2022 23:23:24 GMT+02:00, notify--- via aur-requests wrote: >tata [1] filed an orphan request for ncurses5-compat-libs [2]: > >maintainer seems inactive > >[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/tata/ >[2] https://aur

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#35889] Deletion Request for oomox-git

2022-07-10 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
Re: Sat Jun 25 20:48:48 UTC 2022 > actionless [1] filed a deletion request for oomox-git [2]: > > yup, i think so > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/actionless/ > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/oomox-git/ Co-maintainer @actionless has responded with this separate deletion request t

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#35888] Deletion Request for oomox

2022-07-10 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
Re: Sat Jun 25 20:48:35 UTC 2022 > actionless [1] filed a deletion request for oomox [2]: > > yup, i think so > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/actionless/ > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/oomox/ Co-maintainer @actionless has responded with this separate deletion request to my p

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#36023] Deletion Request for python-flask-kvsession

2022-07-10 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
@ser, If this is so important, why have you disowned it, instead of patching it with the unofficial fork commits I recommended, to make it potentially more compatible with current Python versions? To @all, As I have stated in my original deletion request [PRQ#36003], this has been discontinued af

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#35947] Deletion Request for python2-sip

2022-07-10 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
There are still packages that depend on this on AUR. So I've fixed and updated it to last version from 2021. Original request: Mon Jun 27 12:51:47 UTC 2022 > a.kudelin [1] filed a deletion request for python2-sip [2]: > unmaintained and obsolete > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/a.kude

Re: [aur-requests] Fwd: Re: [PRQ#35967] Deletion Request for cloudstation-3.0

2022-07-10 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
Meszaros via aur-requests wrote: >Forwarding maintainer's response to aur-requests as it has not been >received/accepted by the mailing list. > > > Original Message >From: Pierre-Gildas MILLON >Sent: 10 July 2022 08:14:03 GMT+02:00 >Cc: aur

[aur-requests] Fwd: Re: [PRQ#35967] Deletion Request for cloudstation-3.0

2022-07-10 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
Forwarding maintainer's response to aur-requests as it has not been received/accepted by the mailing list. Original Message From: Pierre-Gildas MILLON Sent: 10 July 2022 08:14:03 GMT+02:00 Cc: aur-requests@lists.archlinux.org, marcell.mesza...@runbox.eu Subject: Re: [PRQ#35967

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#35848] Deletion Request for python2-pyvex

2022-07-09 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
Now this deprecated Python 2 package has no dependents on AUR anymore. On 24 June 2022 14:23:16 GMT+02:00, not...@aur.archlinux.org wrote: >MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for python2-pyvex [2]: > >This Python 2 based legacy version from 4 years ago is not needed >anymore. > >It was only use

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#36173] Deletion Request for u2fval

2022-07-08 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
Fwd: AUR comment from @sweetpea [a], maintainer: > I support deletion of this package, as requested by @MarsSeed. [a] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/sweetpea/

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#36293] Merge Request for rawstudio-git

2022-07-07 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
Hi there, This request of yours is not going to be acceptable, as it offers to replace a package that is maintained well and conforms to the AUR guidelines, with a package that is not. And you should have sought the current maintainer's consent, and, preceding that, his guidance. Please don'

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#35715] Deletion Request for python-fuocore

2022-07-07 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
It seems this was used as a dependency for feeluown between 2018 and 2019, but not after that. It is useless on its own. On 22 June 2022 15:30:40 GMT+02:00, not...@aur.archlinux.org wrote: >MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for python-fuocore [2]: > >Deprecated since 2019, GitHub repo inactiv

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#35774] Deletion Request for python2-crossplane

2022-07-07 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
Btw this was only used by NGINX, and was developed by that project. But now NGINX only uses Python 3. On 23 June 2022 01:40:00 GMT+02:00, not...@aur.archlinux.org wrote: >MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for python2-crossplane [2]: > >Legacy Python 2 module. Not needed by anything anymore. >

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#35770] Deletion Request for python2-mapnik

2022-07-07 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
Tilecache has been deleted. So now this broken and orphaned package has no more dependents. On 23 June 2022 00:06:22 GMT+02:00, not...@aur.archlinux.org wrote: >MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for python2-mapnik [2]: > >Deprecated Python 2 binding for Mapnik. > >Doesn't work because of the

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#36144] Deletion Request for lib32-libmp4v2

2022-07-06 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
+1 for deletion. Its name can be misleading: this is not an MP4 codec / demuxer / whatever; it is only an MP4 metadata reader and editor library. Repo's 64-bit variant has only two dependents: an ncurses-based music player (cmus), and a media file tag editor (kid3). Nothing depends on the lib3

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#36212] Deletion Request for evernote

2022-07-06 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
I don't particularly mind either way, but I don't really see any sense in the merger. All comments pertaining to the 'evernote' package are from 2016 or before, and they were only relevant to the Windows binary running via Wine. These comments would only be spam on the Linux-native 'evernote-bi

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#35506] Deletion Request for perl-extutils-makemaker-aur

2022-07-04 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
Hi all, If someone really needs a perl-extutils-makemaker package on AUR on top of Arch/core/perl already providing the same as a vendored module, I suggest to upload a properly named one: AUR/perl-extutils-makemaker At the risk of repeating myself: There is no MakeMaker-AUR module on CPAN but

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#35915] Deletion Request for pythonbrew

2022-06-30 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
# Note: resending to aur-requests as previously I was not subscribed. Seems there were some newer Python3 tagged releases after 2015. Though none of them were published to PyPI. But then in 2020, developer added note [a] that this is no longer maintained, and recommended that people use pyenv [

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#35800] Deletion Request for cutecoin-git

2022-06-30 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
# Note: resending to aur-requests as previously I was not subscribed. Project has also been renamed to sakia, so that is another reason for deleting this. After the last commit 18 months ago (Jan 2021), the main repo has added the designation: "[UNMAINTAINED]" [a] I think that is pretty much

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#36040] Deletion Request for pac4cli-git

2022-06-30 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
# Note: resending to aur-requests as previously I was not subscribed. Now there is only one dependent remaining, and it actually just wants a Python module included in this mishmash package. That small Python module should have its own package instead of being part of a defunct VCS package for

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#35645] Deletion Request for python2-topia.termextract

2022-06-30 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
# Note: resending to aur-requests as previously I was not subscribed. It's dependency on AUR got fixed. But still this module has been discontinued 13 years ago, and nothing depends on it. So I think my original rationale for suggesting deletion still holds. On 22 June 2022 01:26:56 GMT+02:00,

Re: [aur-requests] [PRQ#35618] Deletion Request for python2-pytest-expect

2022-06-30 Thread Marcell Meszaros via aur-requests
# Note: resending to aur-requests as previously I was not subscribed. # Note2: @Zigsaz: you haven't actually responded to my question about this package, so please do so. No, this is not unneeded. I've just restored this to AUR, to allow using check() in the PKGBUILD of python2-html5lib, itsel