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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssh 4.7p1-6
by Aaron Griffin 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

This is a repeat of the last email. -6 Fixes the xauth issue for good. The following changes have been made: FS#8729, Fix bad 'xauth' path when the binary isn't present (wasn't built in a chroot on i686 :oops:) FS#7996, Add /etc/conf.d/sshd for SSHD_ARGS params passed to sshd on startup FS#8505, disable strip as a configure flag so makepkg can decide whether or not to strip FS#8373, enable kerberos authentication (configure flag) Will be in testing for both arches in a few minutes Thanks, Aaron

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[arch-dev-public] Third list of removal candidates
by Eric Belanger 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

Hi, Here is the third sublist. It contains the packages from the second list that for which no decision has been made plus the remaining orphans in the wiki list. There might be a fourth sublist if there are still some stray orphans remaining. If you think a package should be kept or disagree about the comments, say it so. If you think all these packages can be removed, also say it so. If you want to adopt one of these packages, please adopt it through the dashboard and let me know. ====================================== adns Description: adns is an asyncronous replacement resolver library aide Description: AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a file integrity checker akode it seems like it will be dependency of kde4. Any takers? apmd replaced by acpi (incorrect. needed for older machines) aria Different from aria2. Do we keep? Is the maintainer of aria2 interested? aumix works with oss, do we keep? bchunk Description: A Tool to Convert .raw .bin files to an ISO file dctc Description: A Direct Connect clone dmcradio Description: A ncurses-based console program for radio tuner cards. efax utilities to send and receive faxes, I guess we should keep it unless another package provides fax support evms Description: Enterprise Volume Management System font-bitstream-speedo who uses speedo fonts? font-misc-ethiopic i18n support, should be kept font-misc-meltho i18n support, should be kept genius Roman: it's a gnome app. Description: Advanced calculator including a mathematical programming language giftoxic Description: A GTK frontend for the giFT daemon gimp-perl low usage: perl plugin and modules for gimp gnome-audio audio files for gnome. Part of gnome-extra group. Any takers? Jan? Roman? gpart Description: Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a PC-type hard disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is damaged gpgme03 obsoleted by gpgme??? gprolog Can be removed, I guess. There is another prolog compiler (swi-prolog) in repo. hashalot Description: A tool to hash stuff hnb Description: hierarchical notebook (hnb) is a curses program to structure many kinds of data in one place httptunnel Description: httptunnel creates a bidirectional virtual data connection tunnelled in HTTP requests httrack Description: HTTrack is an easy-to-use offline browser utility. hypermail Description: Hypermail is a program that takes a file of mail messages in UNIX mailbox format and generates a set of cross-referenced HTML documents idesk Description: idesk plops icons down on your root window (desktop). ijb Description: The Internet Junkbuster Proxy (TM) blocks unwanted banner ads and protects your privacy from cookies and other threats ippl Description: IP Protocols Logger ipvsadm Description: The IP Virtual Server administration utility ircd Description: Internet Relay Chat Daemon irda-utils Utilities for infrared communication between devices: should be kept isapnptools ISA Plug-And-Play devices support: shopuld be kept jetty Description: A full-fledged production-grade lightweight Java Servlet Container jpilot Description: A desktop organizer application for the palm pilot km (in testing) Only present in i686 testing. Contains 2 kernel modules (km_drv and km_api_drv) built for 2.6.20 libgnomesu gksu and kdesu provide same functionality libidl unused lib libsvg unused lib masqmail home page disappeared, another MTA mikmod Description: MikMod is an open source curses module player based on libmikmod mod_python used on Archlinux.org for django? mod_security Description: An open source intrusion detection and prevention engine for web applications mpcut Description: This program allows you to visualise the power levels in each frame of an MP3 file, select a number of frames, cut out frames you don't want, and then save the selected frames (excluding the cuts) to a separate MP3 file. mrtg Description: Multi Router Traffic Grapher. netdude w libnetdude & libpcapnav used to inspect/manipulate tcpdump trace files. Should we keep it? netgo a tool for changing network settings quickly and easily: Is it still useful/usable with the latest network scripts? netkit-bootparamd Do we keep? netkit-ntalk Isn't talk obsoleted by Instant Messaging and IRC? netpipes Description: The netpipes package makes TCP/IP streams usable in shell scripts ngrep Description: A grep-like utility that allows you to search for network packets on an interface nss_ldap Description: The nss_ldap module provides the means for Linux and Solaris workstations to resolve the entities defined in RFC 2307 from LDAP directories. oidentd ident server like pidentd (orphaned). Which one should we keep or should we remove both? openchrome graphics drivers, should be kept unless it can be replaced by xf86-video-unichrome. Jürgen: you updated it recently, do you want to adopt it? pam_ldap Description: The pam_ldap module provides the means for Solaris and Linux workstations to authenticate against LDAP directories, and to change their passwords in the directory. pam_mysql Description: A PAM module to authenticate users against mysql. pan Description: A powerful Newsgroup Article reader based on GTK2 pdns-ldap unused lib, might be included in pdns (currently orphaned) pdns-mysql unused lib, might be included in pdns (currently orphaned) pdns-pgsql unused lib, might be included in pdns (currently orphaned) pdns-recursor Description: PowerDNS recursor pdq Description: pdq is a direct replacement of lpr perl-email-date unused perl module. To Jan: You added it to the repo 2 months ago with several other perl packages. Did you forgot to adopt them or are they future dependencies? pidentd ident server like oidentd (orphaned). Which one should we keep or should we remove both? powernowd Do we need it? We already have cpudyn and cpufreq. As a decision been made? pppconfig Description: A text menu based utility for configuring ppp. revelation Description: Password manager for the GNOME 2 desktop sclient Description: A small GTK-based MUD client for X sendfile Description: The sendfile client transfers files to the sendfile daemon of the recipient's host sharpconstruct Description: A real-time modeller for 3D sculpt models shorten Description: Shorten is an established low complexity waveform coder which uses a lossless compression scheme, superior to that of mp3 sloth Description: Sloth allows you to slow down a specified application by specifying (in milliseconds) the delay on the process speedtouch modem drivers, should be kept splitvt splitvt takes any VT100 terminal window and splits it vertically into two shell windows: screen does that ssldump Description: an SSLv3/TLS network protocol analyzer tiacx (in unstable) wireless drivers, should be kept tiacx-mm (in unstable) wireless drivers, should be kept tmda Description: Tagged Message Delivery Agent. urlview Description: A curses URL parser for text files valknut Description: Direct Connect 4 Linux File Sharing program. vbetool Description: vbetool uses lrmi in order to run code from the video BIOS vconfig Description: VLAN configuration utility weex Description: With weex, the maintainer of a web site or archive that must be administered through FTP interaction can largely ignore that process wxpython Description: A wxWidgets GUI toolkit for Python. x2vnc Description: Lets you use two monitors on two different computers one one computer x2x Description: Control one X display from another xautolock Description: An automatic X screen-locker/screen-saver xf86-input-* Xorg maintainer should adopt those xf86-video-intel Xorg maintainer should adopt it xf86-video-unichrome graphics drivers, should be kept, somebody with that hardware or the Xorg maintainer should take it xpdf-arabic i18n support, should be kept. Is xpdf maintainer interested? xpdf-chinese-simplified xpdf-chinese-traditional xpdf-cyrillic xpdf-greek xpdf-hebrew xpdf-japanese xpdf-korean xpdf-latin2 xpdf-thai xpdf-turkish xprobe Description: tool for remote OS fingerprinting based on ICMP responses received from the host yp-tools Description: yp-tools is an implementation of the NIS client tools for Linux ytalk Description: A client of the talk/ntalk inet daemon zebra Description: Manages IPv4 and IPv6 routing protocols zsh very popular. iphitus will adopt if nobody else will ============================================== -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[arch-dev-public] Why do we still have compatibility rename for community?
by Varun Acharya 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

Hi Devs/TU's, Why do we still have the renaming of packages in community so that packages are uploaded without the '-arch' in the filename? Official repo's were converted a while back, any reason were not editing communitypkg to do the same? Varun

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[arch-dev-public] giFT (was: Third list of removal candidates)
by Dan McGee 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

On Nov 29, 2007 2:30 PM, K. Piche <kpiche(a)rogers.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 14:09 +0200, Roman Kyrylych wrote: > > 2007/11/27, Eric Belanger <belanger(a)astro.umontreal.ca>: > > > > > > [skipping gnome packages that Jan answered about] > > > > > evms Description: Enterprise Volume Management System > > I don't know who uses it but it's kinda important package. > > > > > giftoxic Description: A GTK frontend for the giFT daemon > > It's from 2003. giFT and OpenFT are from 2004 and 2005. Oldies... :-) > > > I won't cry if we drop the gift set of packages. No updates in years. Does anyone know why this project stopped development? I installed it the other day, gave it a try, and was astounded to see it hasn't been updated in forever. Seems like a good concept but maybe bittorrent just grew too strong. -Dan

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[arch-dev-public] Best practice for consecutive signoffs?
by Tom K 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Dan has shadow 4.0.18.1-8 in testing, pending signoff. Meanwhile, I have shadow 4.0.18.2-1 ready to upload - new upstream ver + bugfixes/requests. Do I wait for 4.0.18.1-8 to go to core, or will I replace Dan's package with mine in testing? T.

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[arch-dev-public] qt>=4 release schedule
by Damir Perisa 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

hi devs, qtiplot 0.9 is now in testing and cannot be backported to work. (0.8.9 needs old qt>=3 but has also quite some problems for building) therefore the only actually working qtiplot is now in testing. it depends on qt>=4 and pyqt>=4 (and newest qwt and qwtplot3d) details here: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6673 so i'm wondering if there is some news or a schedule of the release of new qt pkgs now in testing. what needs to be tested/rebuild so that we can move qt and all other pkgs related to it to extra? for me everything qt4 related works so far for me (x86_64). - D -- .·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´ ° ° ° ° ° ° ><((((º> ° ° ° ° ° <º)))>< <º)))><

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssh 4.7p1-5
by Aaron Griffin 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

The following changes have been made: FS#8729, Fix bad 'xauth' path that snuck in during the core rebuild (Daniel, run 'which xauth' for me, please?) FS#7996, Add /etc/conf.d/sshd for SSHD_ARGS params passed to sshd on startup FS#8505, disable strip as a configure flag so makepkg can decide whether or not to strip FS#8373, add kerberos support * Part a) Enable kerberos authentication (configure flag) * Part b) Allow kerberos key exchange between servers (patch) Part b is apparently disliked by Eliott and Paul, which is fine - but is apparently part of the stock build in Debian, Solaris, and others. Still, I must point out I *just* had to disable Part b as I wrote this, because it doesn't compile on x86_64 - I'm sure there's patches to fix that somewhere, but I can look into it later. Please approve the other 4 parts. Will be in testing for both arches in a few minutes (after patch removal on i686) Thanks, Aaron

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[arch-dev-public] msmtp, ssmtp, nbsmtp - 3 smpt forwarder in extra
by Tobias Kieslich 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hi, it's been talked about it a bit. Jason said he is using ssmtp and he is willing to maintain it in extra. I was using msmtp but with mutt's new build in smtp (for those who havn't heard it b4, yes you heard right: mutt build in and smtp in one sentence) I don't use msmtp anymore. I don't say msmtp is a bad program. I just think we should ship maybe only one forwarder in extra and I'm fine with ssmtp. Anyone using nbsmtp at all? -Tobbi

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[arch-dev-public] Missing packages?
by Aaron Griffin 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

The following appear to be missing for i686: firefox 2.0.0.10-2 pidgin 2.3.0-1 ddrescue 1.6-1 I *think* these missing packages might actually be causing a DB issue brought up on the pacman-dev list. If you look at the extra db entries, firefox has a filename pointing at the 2.0.0.10-1 version, which is still on the ftp, but the version is listed as 2.0.0.10-2 I don't know if the other two are affected

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] psmisc 22.6-1
by Eric Belanger 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hi, It a regular upstream update. It's in testing for both arch. Please signoff. Eric -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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