FS#29356 - {archweb} Add rss/atom feed of recently orphaned packages

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dolores (meskarune) - Monday, 09 April 2012, 15:06 GMT
Last edited by Kristian (klausenbusk) - Monday, 05 June 2023, 17:43 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Web Sites
Status Closed
Assigned To Jelle van der Waa (jelly)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

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Description: It would be really useful to have an rss feed available of recently orphaned packages so people can subscribe and adopt packages they know/use. It would make orphans more visible and hopefully decrease the number of orphaned packages.
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Closed by  Kristian (klausenbusk)
Monday, 05 June 2023, 17:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  Please report upstream if this is still relevant: https://github.com/archlinux/aurweb.
Comment by Karol Błażewicz (karol) - Monday, 09 April 2012, 16:16 GMT
If these are [community] packages, you can't adopt them unless you're a TU. If they have been dropped to the AUR, that's another story. I think the simplest way would be to periodically run aurphan.
Maybe you can write a script that will list packages that were in the repos last week but are not in the repos now. Some packages may have been renamed, merged, moved to another repo (e.g. extra2community [1] ) or removed altogether.

Bigger cleanups are usually documented: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Christmas_Cleanup


You can view the list of orphans in the repos sorted by 'Last Updated' date: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=last_update&limit=50&maintainer=orphan but not all of them can be dropped to [community] or AUR.


[1] https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/eclipse-cdt&id=170bb66262f8e356c1b8d5ee86fcf03e9020f6f2
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Tuesday, 10 April 2012, 10:50 GMT
You should check either svn/git https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/log/ . So create some fancy hook that creates an rss feed , which archweb can use :D

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