On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:21 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/07/2012 01:12 PM, Jelle van der Waa wrote: >> >> On 07/05/12 16:20, David Rosenstrauch wrote: >>> >>> On 05/05/2012 11:27 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: >>>> >>>> On 05/05/2012 10:32 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> FYI: I plan to drop squirrelmail from [extra]. It is orphaned and it >>>>> wont work with PHP 5.4. (According to pkgstats it has no users anyway) >>>>> >>>>> Greetings, >>>>> >>>>> Pierre >>> >>> >>> pkgstats is wrong. I use it, and have for years. >>> >>> DR >> >> Then you didn't install pkgstats and have had it running ;) > > > Nope. Have had pkgstats installed since 2008: > > [darose@darsys12 log]$ grep pkgstats pacman.log > [2008-11-07 10:50] installed pkgstats (1.0-2) > [2009-10-29 22:06] upgraded pkgstats (1.0-2 -> 1.0-3) > [2010-09-10 16:25] Running 'pacman -S encfs hwdetect acidrip chromium > libmysqlclient mysql-clients pacman pkgstats vlc pacman-mirrorlist' > [2010-09-10 16:25] upgraded pkgstats (1.0-3 -> 2.0-2) > [2010-09-29 16:27] Running 'pacman -S thunderbird xterm openssh k3b qt > kernel26 kernel26-headers man-pages nspluginwrapper pkgstats dosfstools > dnsutils linux-firmware lftp xulrunner' > [2010-09-29 16:33] Note: A weekly cronjob was installed to > /etc/cron.weekly/pkgstats > [2010-09-29 16:33] upgraded pkgstats (2.0-2 -> 2.1-4) > [2011-05-25 22:01] Running 'pacman -S encfs frostwire file gparted pidgin > libpurple libxfce4util mkinitcpio pkgstats rsync xz' > [2011-05-25 22:02] Running 'pacman -S encfs frostwire file gparted pidgin > libpurple libxfce4util pkgstats rsync xz' > [2011-05-25 22:02] upgraded pkgstats (2.1-4 -> 2.1-5) > [2011-12-15 13:54] Running 'pacman -S pkgstats' > > > And (as far as I know) its weekly cron job has been running successfully. > Just ran it again by hand now to make sure: > > [root@darsys12 log]# su -s /bin/bash -c '/usr/bin/pkgstats -q' nobody > > > Anyway, bottom line is: I don't think your assumption that squirrelmail has > no users in Arch is correct. > > DR pkgstats only shows packages with more than 1% usage. Squirrelmail might have users but it's less than 1%, i.e. not enough to keep it in repo.
