AUR Cleanup Day
About
AUR Cleanup Day is a bi-yearly (odd years) event on the 20th of September.
The AUR has a large number of obsolete packages which could use cleaning up. Post suggestions of packages to the collaborative doc (template below) linked in the announcement email, submit them to the aur-general mailing list, or file requests directly. Trusted Users will get together and confirm which packages should be removed.
Join #archlinux-aur to collaborate and chat.
Template
# AUR Cleanup Day September 20th 20XY
## About
AUR Cleanup Day is a bi-yearly (odd years) event on the 20th of September.
The [AUR](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository) has a large number of obsolete packages which could use cleaning up. Post suggestions of packages below, submit them to the [aur-general mailing list](https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general), or file [requests](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines#Requests) directly. [Trusted Users](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Trusted_Users) will get together and confirm which packages should be removed.
Join [#archlinux-aur](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_IRC_channels) to collaborate and chat.
## Template (Package list)
### Candidates
Check for the package in the sorted lists below before adding.
- [PKGNAME](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/PKGNAME) - Reason
#### Informative heading
- [PKGBASE](https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/PKGBASE) - Reason
### Possible reasons
- Does not work anymore
- Deprecated by [PKGNAME](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/PKGNAME)
- Obsoleted by [PKGNAME](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/PKGNAME)
- Replaced by [PKGNAME](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/PKGNAME)
- Duplicate of [PKGNAME](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/PKGNAME)
- Project page and sources are not available
- "Dead" project; it's very old and does not work with the latest versions of its dependencies
- "Dead" project and too old to be useful
- Project page and sources are not available
- Not needed anymore (it's for old PKGNAME), broken source link
- Old dev-version (CVS/SVN/etc), PKGNAME project uses Git now
- Is it needed in Arch Linux?
- Broken links (see comment by USERNAME)
- Outdated for a long time
- This one should be renamed
- Deprecated by upstream
- Outdated, orphaned
- Broken links, too old, not maintained
- Included in extra/PKGNAME
- Already included in core/PKGNAME
- Old beta version, broken source link, replaced by [PKGNAME](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/PKGNAME)
- Maintainer wrote that it may be deleted
- Dropped upstream
- Depends on [PKGNAME](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/PKGNAME) and has not been updated for N years...
- Development discontinued, project page deleted and current version does not work
- Too old to be useful, broken source link -- hm, what is USERNAME's Opinion?
- This package is no longer needed (see comments)
## Template (TU)
**For editing by TUs only!**
### Packages to Remove
In community:
- [PKGNAME](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/PKGNAME) - Replaced by PKGNAME
### Packages to Keep
- [PKGNAME](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/PKGNAME) - Reason
#### Possible reasons
- It is for compiling old stuff, let's keep it, does not harm
- Seems to be actively maintained
- Still useful, because ...
- So this package should maybe be orphaned, no obvious reason to delete it
- Needed by PKGNAME
- Package has new and active maintainer
- Seems to be down sometimes, but sometimes it works again. Package is maintained and has votes
- Should be rewritten, not dropped
- I orphaned the package
- It's not dead, it only needs some changes to work again
- Package builds with little tweaking
- Builds fine with a little patch in pkgrel N
gollark: So alts were a massive advantage.
gollark: There's no inter-investor competition in the old system.
gollark: That would still not be very good.
gollark: Not only is detecting use of a template probably not easy, but you would need to check *every template* against *every meme* posted on Reddit, which would be *hard*.
gollark: The old system was not very good.
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