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

[aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Inactive for unspecified period of time
by Roman Kyrylych 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

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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[aur-general] Resigning as TU
by Leslie P. Polzer 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Hello folks, I hereby resign from my TU position. In the long run it makes more sense this way, I guess. It's been nice working with you. :) Leslie (dejari) -- My personal blog: http://blog.viridian-project.de/

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[aur-general] State of community64
by Eric Belanger 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Hi, I would to bring to your attention the current state of the x86_64 community repo. There are currently over 100 x86_64 packages out-of-date compared to the i686 ones (http://dev.archlinux.org/~andyrtr/pkg_diff.html) . Out of curiosity, how many TUs with a x86_64 machine are active? More precisely, are you checking the package diff list on a more or less daily basis to keep the two repo in sync? I have the impression that I was pretty much the only one doing that in the last few months. To help keeping the x86_64 repo in sync, I would recommend any TU without an x86_64 machine to ask Aaron for access on his x86_64 build machine. I'm not sure to what degree the packages can be tested on the build machine but several devs and TU are already using it. Nonetheless, if the build machine would be used, at the very least, for arch-independent packages (e.g. i18n, docs pkg), perl and python modules and non-critical packages (e.g. games, xfce-svn plugin, etc) that would reduce the workload for the x86_64 TUs. I don't mind helping out with the occasional x86_64 build or with problems/bugs only on x86_64. But would like to reduce that to a minimum as it's quite time-consuming. Eric -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[aur-general] sage in AUR
by Husmann, Stefan 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Hello, since the package sage has not been updated since v.0.1.2, is orphaned for some time now and does not compile anyway, and nobody complained about that, I think this package is not needed. I want to delete it next Friday. Though it is technically possible for a non-TU like me to adopt and delete it I want to ask the list members if this would be the usual way. The deletion would lead to the benefitial situation that the great package sage-mathematics could be renamed. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Stefan Husmann T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH AL S&F, GO DPWN, AC Express Hannover Stefan Husmann Projekt NewSourcing, Frame CSS Hausadresse: Brüderstr. 5, 30159 Hannover Telefon: +49 (511) 47 39 09 - 623 Telefax: +49 (511) 47 39 09 - 501 PC-Fax: +49 (431) 38 02 46 70 E-Mail: Stefan.Husmann(a)t-systems.com Internet: http://www.t-systems.com T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH Aufsichtsrat: René Obermann (Vorsitzender) Executive Committee: Reinhard Clemens (Vorsitzender)*, Helmut Binder, Albert Henn, Olaf Heyden*, Katrin Horstmann, Ulrich Kemp, Wilfried Peters*, Dr. Herbert Schaaff*, Zvezdana Seeger* Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main HRB 55933 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Frankfurt am Main WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE87523644 *Geschäftsführer gem. § 35 GmbHG

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[aur-general] bacula package
by kalos＠autistici.org 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

hola! I packaged the latest version of Bacula, so I wish to publish it, but there's already an older package in AUR that I can't replace. Could you help me? thanks

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[aur-general] maintaining orphaned packages
by Chess Griffin 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Hi there- I've been using Arch Linux for many years now, and I have done some packaging for other distros. I maintain a few slackbuild scripts for Slackware at Slackbuilds.org, one small package in the Debian tree, and currently maintain two ports in the FreeBSD ports tree. I also contribute documentation patches to FreeBSD. I'm a huge supporter of Arch and have really enjoyed using it all this time, so I thought I'd like to start contributing to its package maintenance. I have an x86_64 machine, so can probably help with packages for both x86_64 and i686. My question is about unsupported packages in AUR. Can I go ahead and adopt some or is there some approval process first? I don't have any specifically in mind at the moment, but from time to time I've come across orphaned packages that I use and thought about adopting them. Ok, 'nuff ramblin' from me. Chess -- Chess Griffin GPG Public Key: 0x0C7558C3 http://www.chessgriffin.com

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[aur-general] Applying to become a TU
by Abhishek Dasgupta 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

Hello, I'm Abhishek Dasgupta, from India and right now, I'm doing a Masters in Science (we'll be choosing our majors in the fifth semester). I've been using computers for a long time, and I know a bit of python, shell scripting and of course C, C++. I think that Arch does not have a significant presence in the scientific community. I wish to make Arch a viable choice for a scientist to use, by maintaining more popular scientific packages in [community], in addition to other packages. I've maintained one or two pages in the Wiki (not much :) ), and these are the packages I've in AUR right now (my username is abhidg in the AUR and the forums): ariadne bbpager blueman btsco ghemical libghemical liboglappth lightspeed num-utils pandoc weather xfce4-time-out-plugin Most of these I use myself, or have packaged because it could be useful to others. My introduction is now over, and I'm looking for someone to sponsor me (if any). If you have any questions, please do ask them. -- Abhishek Dasgupta http://abhidg.mine.nu http://abhidg.wordpress.com

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[aur-general] VOTE: Removal Of xterminus
by Callan Barrett 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

This is the vote for the removal of the Trusted User xterminus due to unexplained inactivity. Discussion period is over and everybody must vote and as per the bylaws this vote requires at least two thirds of us to vote in order to meet quorum. I vote: YES -- Callan 'wizzomafizzo' Barrett

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[aur-general] VOTE: pressh (Ronald van Haren)
by Roman Kyrylych 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

Hi! This message starts a voting period for pressh (Ronald van Haren). His introduction is here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2007-November/006260.html The discussion period was extremly quiet (0 messages!), I encourage you to be more active! (see previous threads for a reason). ;-) Now, let the voting begins! And for the first time in the history - I vote in the starting message (I always forgot before). :-P My vote is, obviously, Yes. You have 1 week to vote. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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