December 2007 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-dev-public] Killing the 'codecs' package
by Aaron Griffin 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

We went over this before - codecs is a useless package, and the licensing is broken. We have opensource alternatives that play just about every format except a few outliers (real media). I'm rebuilding xine-lib right now with codecs removed. Apparently it's an optional dep anyway, as I've been running xine fine without it for some time. mplayer-svn is the last package that depends on the non-free and useless codecs package, so if we can get that rebuilt, we're gold. Now the real question: what do we do with this package. I'm sure it's useful to some people. Should we stick it in unsupported with a warning that no TUs should adopt it? Should we remove it altogether? Opinions?

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[arch-dev-public] Non-X monitor shutdown?
by Aaron Griffin 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

Another message from the "when did this stop working?" camp: I've had the following in my /etc/rc.local for a while: setterm -blank 10 setterm -powersave powerdown setterm -powerdown 15 Now what this does is put the monitor into the black-but-still-glowing mode after 10 minutes, then shut it off after 15. I have no idea when, why, or how, but it stopped working. I use this on 2 machines that don't run X, so using 'xset' is not an option, but I *think* xset works fine. Does anyone else know much about this? The internet is fairly silent on the topic

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[arch-dev-public] Inactive for unspecified period of time
by Roman Kyrylych 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

Hi all! I have <1 minute to write this email, so I'll be quick. I'm very sorry about my disappearance. My connection at job got down during Bug Day this Saturday and I got cable breakage somewhere on my street so I got no Internet at home as well. :-( The worst thing is that I am unable to follow Arch development until New Year (at least) because I've changed my job this Monday, and I don't even have a PC there yet (but I should in near future). Today is the first day I've got internet for a hour or so (I'm sitting at my ex-job now). If someone could update my packages in Extra/Community and keep an eye on bugtracker - that would be awesome and very appreciated. Bye all and Merry Christmas! -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] xine-lib 1.1.8-2
by Aaron Griffin 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

I know this package is in [extra], feel free to ignore me. I removed the dep on codecs, and want to get some testing for different formats WITHOUT codecs installed. I want to attempt to predict any formats we may lose (such as real media) so that I can react properly when people complain. All of my videos I have here work fine in both mplayer and xine, without codecs installed, so I wanted to get some outside opinions.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] dialog 1.1_20071028-1
by Andreas Radke 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

new dialog pkg in testing for both architectures. nothing special. -Andy

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[arch-dev-public] Ion Announcement
by Jeff Mickey 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

Just a quick review for me guys, I'm deleting ion today.. ----------------- Today I have removed the Ion Window manager from the official aArchlinux repositories. My initial thought was to keep the package inside it's license, but after further consideration, we the developers of Archlinux have decided that this is non-free software and will not be provided in our official repositories. ----------------- Sound good? -- . : [ + carpe diem totus tuus + ] : .

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[arch-dev-public] disowning xcdroast
by Varun Acharya 16 Dec '07

16 Dec '07

Hi, I've disowned xcdroast, so if anyone is interested, its up for grabs. IMHO, we should move this to community though, simply cause, ->It needs quite a few patches to run with current cdrkit/growisofs/mkisofs/whatever ->It hasn't been updated in a year. ->I'm not sure anyone uses this anymore with nautilus/brasero/k3b and the others around. Varun P.S - Roman, I've de-assigned the bug in flyspray http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8844, and its currently not assigned to anyone.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] libevent 1.3e-1
by Tom K 16 Dec '07

16 Dec '07

New upstream release, in testing for both architectures. T.

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[arch-dev-public] Absense
by Travis Willard 15 Dec '07

15 Dec '07

Hey everyone, My computer is freaking out- I think the power supply is busted. Frequently it'll "half-reboot" all on its own - the screen turns off, and the CD drives light up just like a reset, but then it locks up. I'm lucky for it to stay on for more than an hour or so doing regular work - when I stress the CPU/GPU it seems to happen more frequently, so I'm stuck not being able to build anything either. I'm not sure when I'll be able to get a new PSU and test to see if that fixes the problems, so for now consider me 'absent' until I can get this sorted out. If I don't get it fixed before the 22nd, then I'll be truly away for Christmas Holidays until Jan 2nd. I'll keep you all posted. -- Travis

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[arch-dev-public] Latest round of cleanup
by Eric Belanger 15 Dec '07

15 Dec '07

The following packages were removed from extra this week: aria aumix bchunk dclib dctc giftoxic gimp-perl idesk ijb km libgnomesu libidl libsvg masqmail mikmod mpcut netgo nextaw pdq powernowd sclient shorten sloth splitvt urlview valknut weex xautolock ============================ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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