FS#53432 - [xbase] Consider dropping from repos

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Tomas Volf (gray_-_wolf) - Friday, 24 March 2017, 00:06 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Thursday, 06 July 2017, 19:33 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Felix Yan (felixonmars)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Please consider dropping extra/xbase. The packing is orphaned for some time, is outdated for many many years (2.1.0 was released 2003, the package is still 2.0.0), nothing depends on it and upstream seems to be dead too.

If someone really needs it it would probably be better to maintain it in AUR (it's probably what I'll do once it is dropped).
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Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Thursday, 06 July 2017, 19:33 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by Frederic Bezies (fredbezies) - Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 08:05 GMT
Last version could be found on sourceforge, or am I wrong ? https://sourceforge.net/projects/xdb/ ; https://sourceforge.net/projects/xdb/files/Source/
Comment by Tomas Volf (gray_-_wolf) - Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 17:45 GMT
No, you are not wrong. Latest version is on sourceforge, and it's the version I am using. However, the package is orphaned (the arch's one), so there is no one to do the update. Plus even their upstream doesn't build without patching. Here are the patches in case anyone is interested https://github.com/graywolf/xbase .

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