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## 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    - Outdated for a long time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    - Outdated, orphaned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

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