January 2008 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] TU: Disown extract-xiso please
by Wes Brewer 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Could a TU please disown the extract-xiso package. It was added in April 2005 and has never seen an update. I would like to take over this package and I've tried to contact the contributer without success. Further investigation into this users packages reveals that 3 out of 4 of his packages are flagged out of date, all 4 of them were added in April 2005 and have never seen an update. Maybe it would be best to disown all of his packages as the contributer doesn't seem to be around anymore. At least then others could take over the PKGBUILD's. List of achlinux-nl's pacakges: cage, eggdrop, extract-xiso, gnuvd Thank You Wes,

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[aur-general] About ghc updates and cabalized packages
by Vesa Kaihlavirta 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Simo (and others who work on Haskell packages), Currently, every even minor ghc update breaks all packages that are registered via Cabal. This is not because of API incompatibilities but because the new version of ghc overwrites the Cabal db. This can be manually fixed by running all /usr/share/haskell/*/register.sh. I was wondering... could ghc do that itself in post_upgrade()? --vk

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[aur-general] orphaned packages in community
by Ronald van Haren 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hi all! I just took a look at the orphaned packages in community. I must say, they are quite a few (68, I added the full list at the end of this mail). If any of these belong to you and you did forget to adopt it after uploading, please do so now. If you did upload one of these and lost interest in it, please move it either to unsupported or post it in this thread so someone else can adopt it. In about a week time I will post the remaining list of orphaned packages at that time, so anyone interested (or needed as a dep) can adopt one of those. The rest I will move to unsupported a week or so after that. If you think the time schedule I mentioned is too short, please let me know so I can change it. Best regards, Ronald The full list of 68 orphaned packages in community: aoeui 1.0.0-1 the lightweight, unobtrusive, Dvorak-optimized editor basilisk 1.0-4 A free, portable Mac II emulator with JIT compiler bitterbpp 1.6-4 A program to backup DVDs to matroska byzanz 0.1.1-4 A desktop recorder that records to GIF childsplay 0.85.1-2 A suite of educational games for young children childsplay-plugins 0.85.2-1 Additional games for childsplay codeine 1.0.1-2 A simple, smart xine video player for KDE cowbell 0.2.7.1-3 An elegant music orgainzer divx4linux 6.1.1-1 DivX libraries (nonfree) e 0.16.999.039-1 Enlightenment Window Manager, Development Release 17 ecore 0.9.9.039-1 Event Abstraction and Modular Convenience Library edb-devel 1.0.5.007-4 Database Convenience Library wrapped around the Berkeley DB edje 0.5.0.039-1 Interface Abstraction Library and Toolset eet 0.9.10.039-1 Distribution Container Library and Tools efreet 0.0.3.004-1 An implementation of several specifications from freedesktop.org intended for use in Enlightenment DR17 (e17) and other applications using the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) embryo 0.9.1.039-1 Embeddable Scripting Language emotion 0.0.1.006-1 Video Smart-Object Library for Evas entice 0.9.3.004-4 Image Viewer using Enlightenment Foundation Libraries entrance 0.9.0.010-1 Enlightenment Display Manager epeg 0.9.0.009-1 JPEG Thumbnailing Library epsilon 0.3.0.009-1 Thumbnailing Library compliant with Freedesktop.org Standard esmart 0.9.0.009-1 A Collection of Evas Smart Objects etk 0.1.0.004-1 Etk is a toolkit based on the EFL evas 0.9.9.039-1 Enlightened Canvas Library ewl 0.5.1.009-1 Enlightenment Widget Library e_dbus 0.1.0.001-1 Wrappers around dbus to ease integrating dbus with EFL based applications freetype1 1.3.1-4 TrueType font rendering library fvwm-themes-devel 0.7.0-3 Development themes for fvwm gimpshop 2.2.11-4 A modified Gimp that features menu layouts and naming conventions similar to those in Photoshop. glitz 0.5.6-1 OpenGL image compositing library gnomesu 0.3.1-5 A program that allows a user to su to root in a Gnome environment. gourmet 0.13.4-2 A simple but powerful recipe-managing application gpsdrive 2.10pre4-1 A car (bike, ship, plane) navigation system gtk2+extra 2.1.1-1 GtkExtra is a useful set of widgets for creating GUI's for the Xwindows system using GTK+ gtk2hs 0.9.12.1-1 A GTK+2 binding for Haskell (prerelease) gtubeclock 0.9.1-3 A nixie tube style clock for X. haskell-binary 0.2-1 Efficient, pure binary serialisation using lazy ByteStrings for Haskell imlib2-devel 1.4.0.001-2 Image Rendering and Manipulation Library imlib2_loaders 1.4.0.001-1 Image Loaders for Imlib2 kdedecor-crystalgl 0.8.1-1 Transparent window decoration theme with a simple design and OpenGL-based effects kdenlive-svn 1727-1 A video editing GUI for KDE using the MLT video framework. last-exit 5-1 A last.fm player libconfig 1.1.3-1 C/C++ Configuration File Library libggi 2.2.2-1 GGI graphics library libgii 1.0.1-2 GGI input handling library libpq++ 4.0-2 C++ bindings for PostgreSQL lirc-xmms-plugin 1.4-1 XMMS LIRC plugin metakit 2.4.9.7-1 MetaKit is an efficient database library with a small footprint mowitz 0.3.1-1 This is the Mowitz (More widgets) library mxml 2.3-1 A small XML parsing library nautilus-audio-convert 0.1-2 An extension of Nautilus that provides a user-friendly way to convert several audio files nautilus-share 0.7.1-1 Share files through Samba with Nautilus nextaw 0.15.1-4 neXtaw is a replacement library for the Athena (libXaw) widget set opcion 1.1.1-4 A font viewer written in java perl-gtk2-sexy 0.02-3 Perl/CPAN Module Gtk2::Sexy php-gtk2 2.0.0beta-1 PHP bindings for gtk2 pydb 1.22-2 Pydb - Extended Python Debugger pyglet 1.0beta3-1 A pure python multimedia and game library pygoocanvas 0.9.0-1 GooCanvas python bindings qmmp 0.1.2-1 an qt4 based audio-player, rage 0.2.0.003-1 A media center designed mostly for use on a television hooked up to your pc via a remote control shapelib 1.2.10-3 simple C API for reading and writing ESRI Shapefiles shorewall-perl 4.0.5-1 perl compiler for shorewall firewall siag-office 3.6.1-4 Siag Office is a tightly integrated, free office package visualboyadvance 1.7.2-5 An emulator for Gameboy and Gameboy Advance systems. warzone 2.0.7-1 3D realtime strategy game on a future Earth winki 0.4.5-1 Aims to be the easiest program for video encoding zaptel 1.4.6-1 Zapatel Drivers for Asterisk

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[aur-general] request to be orphaned: postgresql-jdbc3
by Vitaliy Berdinskikh 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hi all! I can update postgresql-jdbc3 but this package not orphaned. Owner did last update at 2005. -- Sincerely yours, Vitaliy Berdinskikh xmpp:skipper13@jabber.in.ua

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[aur-general] cdrtools package
by Lukáš Jirkovský 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hi, I'd like to maintain cdrtools package in AUR. User maintaining this package (alejandronova) seems not updating packages any more (he has 3 packages in AUR and 2 of them are out-of-date). I've contacted him before Christmas and I haven't got response yet. Please, can somebody orphan this package? Thanks Lukas '6xx' Jirkovsky

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[aur-general] eb- & arp- tables packages / other question
by Michal Soltys 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hello I've added ebtables recently, but arptables is already added by someone else. Problem is - that PKGBUILD is a little careless (using /usr/local, trying to install into real filesystem). I left a comment and contacted current maintainer by mail, but no reply so far. What is the best way to adopt such package ? As for the the other question - I've some builds for already existing packages, but in a bit specialized way - i.e. by default installing into chroot environment. Is it ok to add such packages to AUR (i.e. mldonkey-chroot) with proper conflicts / provides tables ?

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[aur-general] User thtde not updating packages
by Jordi Cerdan 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hello, I'm using backup-manager for my personal backups and this package is maintained by thtde in AUR. This user has got 2 packages: qbankmanager and backup-manager and both are flagged out-of-date. Backup-manager last update was on 26 june 2006 and qbankmanager last update was in 07 july 2006. Several comments are asking him to update the packages but ther's no update coming. I would lñike to update backup-manager as I use it daily, but it's impossible by now. What is to be done in that case? Regards, jcerdan.

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[aur-general] forgot password
by Gary W Haller 26 Jan '08

26 Jan '08

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[aur-general] kernel modules depends
by Roman Kyrylych 26 Jan '08

26 Jan '08

Hi! In order to implement FS#7150 for Community packages I ask all TUs to use the following dependency scheme in next versions of your packages (which will happen when 2.6.24 will hit Core): depends=('kernel26>=2.6.24-2' 'kernel26<=2.6.25' 'foobar-utils') In this case when user has an older kernel version (e.g. 2.6.23.x) - (s)he won't be annoyed by pacman who will want to upgrade foobar module and broke the system. And when version 2.6.25 will be released - Pacman won't allow the user to upgrade to it when there's at least one not-yet-updated module. Note that it is 2.6.24-2, not -1 in above example - this is because there was a configuration change to important kernel subsystem that required all modules to be rebuilt. You should always change depends version in such cases, otherwise some people with out-of-sync kernel and module version will report that module is broken. I already added this to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Module_Package_Guidelines (feel free to improve that text). -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[aur-general] TU Resignation - mOLOk
by Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

Hi fellow TUs, ~13 months have passed since my election, today I decided to step down. I really enjoyed doing this job, it taught myself a lot and gave me the chance to give back something to this great community. The first months I created hundreds (literally) of packages, I gave suggestions to AUR users how to improve their packaging skills and things like that. Lately my enthusiasm dropped and slowly reached zero. When I receive an out of date notification instead of thinking "Cool, a new version of that app.", I think "Oh, cr*p, I have to update and test that silly stuff". So, "It's not funny anymore"™. Moreover, I'd like to spend more time studying and contributing to different projects. Anyway, I'll still use Arch, so you'll probably read my mails now and then on the mailing lists 8) Now, the technical stuff, this is the list of the packages I maintain in [community]: gnome/gtranslator - not required by any package lib/confuse - required by tilda and awesome (maybe others) lib/fpconst - req. by python-soappy lib/gnu-efi - req. by refit lib/librsync - req. by rdiff-backup lib/python-soappy - not required by any lib/python-sqlalchemy - req. by griffith multimedia/griffith - not required by any multimedia/lxmusic - broken multimedia/mp3gain - not required by any network/ddclient - not required by any network/flock - not required by any network/links-g - not required by any network/mldonkey - not required by any network/sopcast - required by gsopcast and qsopcast network/youtube-dl - not required by any system/mairix - not required by any system/man-pages-it - not required by any system/nopaste - not required by any system/pommed - required by gpomme system/rdiff-backup - not required by any system/unace - not required by any x11/gpomme - not required by any x11/gsopcast - not required by any x11/lxpanel - not required by any x11/lxsession - not required by any x11/netwmpager - not required by any x11/obmenu - not required by any x11/openbox-themes - not required by any x11/pcmanfm - not required by any x11/sancho-gtk - not required by any x11/smplayer - required by smplayer-themes x11/smplayer-themes - not required by any x11/sux - not required by any x11/xkbset - not required by any note: smplayer{,-themes} will go in [extra] when qt4 will go out of [testing]; pommed/gpomme require an Apple laptop to be tested; lxmusic is broken and the author won't fix it any time soon. I'll move packages that won't be adopted in 2,3 weeks in [unsupported] (so please don't delete my account yet :) Cheers, -- Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino Arch Linux Trusted User (for the last time :) Please send personal email to themolok(a)gmail.com Public Key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFE0270FB GPG Key ID = 1024D / FE0270FB 2007-04-11 Key Fingerprint = 9AF8 9011 F271 450D 59CF 2D7D 96C9 8F2A FE02 70FB

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