FS#24418 - pacupdate package is broken and project seems dead

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Slavi Pantaleev (s.pantaleev) - Tuesday, 24 May 2011, 14:14 GMT
Last edited by Jaroslav Lichtblau (Dragonlord) - Wednesday, 29 June 2011, 18:41 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Jaroslav Lichtblau (Dragonlord)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
`pacupdate`, which is currently in the community repository doesn't seem to work properly.

From what I see, it doesn't parse the output from `pacman -Qu` correctly, so it always reports that there are no updates available.
Probably a recent version of pacman changed the output format and that's why pacupdate fails.

The second problem I experienced, after fixing this with a patch, is that notifications when updates were available didn't show:

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pacupdate/tray.py", line 145, in create_notification
self.notification.attach_to_status_icon(self)
AttributeError: 'pynotify.Notification' object has no attribute 'attach_to_status_icon'

After I wrote a second patch to fix this issue, it seems like the notification window's "Show full updates list" button is broken and doesn't show a list at all.

Looking at the SVN repository <http://code.google.com/p/pacupdate/source/list> shows that the latest changes are from more than 2 years ago.

Because the project seems dead and also broken, I propose that it gets removed from [community].

Additional info:
* package version(s)
0.1.1-4 / or latest from SVN
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
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Closed by  Jaroslav Lichtblau (Dragonlord)
Wednesday, 29 June 2011, 18:41 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  Package removed from [community].
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Saturday, 28 May 2011, 14:07 GMT
i would vote for removal
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Wednesday, 22 June 2011, 12:07 GMT
any update? I'd say we remove it
Comment by Slavi Pantaleev (s.pantaleev) - Wednesday, 22 June 2011, 16:16 GMT
nothing new on the official google code page.. last change is from 25th March 2009..
the repository's owner doesn't seem to have been active on his other projects hosted there since Nov 2010

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