Simplify calls to meson to adhere to packaging guidelines.
Remove unnecessary quotes and curly braces.

Add all available sodeps in package() and move the respective packages to makedepends.
Add bash as optdepends for the a2j script.
Apply reasonable meson parameters for packaging.
Update maintainer info.

Upgrading to 9. Removing all (now unneeded patches). Switching to meson as build system and adding python-dbus to optdepends (it's only required for certain scripts). Adding docs.

Updating to working upstream. Applying all available latest patches (i.e. libpthread linking, controlling unique port names over dbus and fixing minor spelling issues in man page) from upstream.
Maintainer contacted for fix of missing tarball situation.

FTR, commands used to change arch=() and then verify the changes:

$ sed -Ei "/^arch=/{s/ *?['\"]?i686['\"]? *?//;s/ *$//}" */*/PKGBUILD*

$ grep -r i686 * | grep arch= | grep -v repos

$ svn diff | grep -A 1 ^-[^-] | grep -v -- -- | cut -c2- |
  while IFS=$'\n' read -r l1; IFS=$'\n' read -r l2; do
    echo "$l1 -> $l2"
  done | sort -u