August 2009 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] Community packages in the AUR have been disabled.
by Loui Chang 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

Hey everyone. I've disabled all community packages in the AUR. There will still be a few artifacts remaining in the interface which will be taken care of in the next release of the AUR. Cheers!

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[aur-general] Source code for community packages.
by Xyne 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

A small public repo of compiled AUR packages reminded me of something. What's the official policy for providing source code for GPL'd binary packages in [community]? I know there was a long discussion about this with some phraknagging eventually leading to a source "repository" for core and maybe extra. Although it would most likely never happen it is possible for someone to show up after nearly 3 years and request a previous package's source code. I suppose that previously the devs could argue that [community] was "not official" and relegate all obligations to the packagers (although only tentatively). Now that [community] is integrated more tightly with [core] and [extra] it seems that this is something at least worth a discussion. How are sources for [core] and [extra] handled? How is the user actually informed of their availability? Are those source archives mirrored or only hosted on the main server? Is this all irrelevant due to some misunderstanding of the GPL's clauses? How much storage space would it take to hose source files for all current packages that require them (e.g. GPL'd binary apps)? Xyne

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[aur-general] nfoview package
by Nélson «VuDu» Cunha 23 Aug '09

23 Aug '09

Hello. nfoview package ( aur-general(a)archlinux.org ) seems to be abandoned. The package is marked out-of-date for some months now and I tried to contact the maintainer by email with no success. Best regards.

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[aur-general] AUR deletion request
by keenerd 23 Aug '09

23 Aug '09

I made an app yesterday with a very stupid name. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29526 It now has a better name (pacmatic). It is not even a day old at this point, so deleting it won't break much. To prevent this from happening again, my future release schedule will require I get a solid eight hours of sleep between pulling an all nighter to write it and uploading it to the AUR. Thanks! -Kyle

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[aur-general] SVN Web Interface
by Xyne 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

When will the "View SVN Entries" link on the package info pages start working for community packages? I think this was mentioned before but I'm not sure where. Thanks. Xyne

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[aur-general] license convention for public domain packages
by Abhishek Dasgupta 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

There are widely varying methods for specifying the license of a public domain package in Arch Linux. We should standardise and use one of them. Some packages use - 'Public Domain' (unclutter, python-webpy) - 'PD' (ttf-mph-2b-damase) - I think some packages might also be using 'none'. I saw one package using 'custom:public' (shuffle) Also, there is the question of whether we should have public domain declarations for each package in /usr/share/licenses or put a public domain declaration in /usr/share/licenses/common and refer to that. -- Abhishek

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[aur-general] timer-applet orphan request
by Christian Scharkus 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

Hi. I wrote a mail to the maintainer of the timer-applet PKGBUILD in AUR back in May and didn't get an answer by now. So it would be nice to orphan the package so I can correct the mistake myself. Thank You Christian Scharkus

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[aur-general] TU dashboard accounts: Round 2
by Aaron Griffin 20 Aug '09

20 Aug '09

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Aaron Griffin<aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello TUs, > The last little part of the "official tool" transition is getting you > all accounts of the dev dashboard at https://dev.archlinux.org/devel/ > > In order to do this, I need to go through and add accounts for you all. > > So I would like you to send me an email (private) containing: > Real Name > Alias > Email address > jabber/IRC nicks > Website URLs > Occupation > Year of Birth > Geographic Location > Languages Known > General Interests > Favorite Distros > A picture if you have one > (See http://www.archlinux.org/developers/) > > With this info, I will begin the slow process of adding accounts. > After I add each one, I will send you an email with your password > which you will need to change. > > From here, you will be able to adopt packages from the web interface > (you will need to use dev.archlinux.org to do this), and get out of > date notifications > > Additionally, we have setup a private notification list for orphans > which are out of date, as well as the integrity check and cleanup > emails. This is not fully complete, but I will point you to this list > when I send the password. The reason it is a private list is that "out > of date" notifications contain private email addresses, and we don't > want them indexed. All the people who have sent me their info now have accounts on the main dev site and can begin adopting packages. Additionally, you should have access to out-of-date notifications for orphans, and a place on the developers page: http://www.archlinux.org/developers/ Usernames are (or should be) the same as on sigurd. For those of you who haven't sent me their info, please do so as per above. For those I added when the new-user form was broken (and injected a wrong password), shoot me an email and I'll fix your password. Side note: I'm planning on moving the aur email off of gerolde onto sigurd, so you guys can manage it like the devs do - my putting an email address in ~/.forward on that machine. Due to this, I set the public email on the developers page to your sigurd username.aur.archlinux.org

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[aur-general] out-of-date notifications
by Abhishek Dasgupta 20 Aug '09

20 Aug '09

Is it possible to have out-of-date notifications to be Cc-ed to the maintainer? Then I can check arch-notifications web interface for the other notifications and still get out-of-date notifications for my packages. Abhishek

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[aur-general] Request: Renaming stasks-manager-plasmoid
by Panos ! 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

Hello to everyone ;) I'm "Flamelab" from AUR. Can a TU, please, rename my package from "stasks-manager-plasmoid" to "smooth-tasks-plasmoid" ? That happens because it has been renamed upstream and because, after installation, it is referred as "Smooth Tasks" in "Plasmoids" in KDE, instead of "Stasks" I think that if I try to rename it, a new package entry will be generated in AUR (and my package will not be renamed), so I think a TU can do it. Regards, Panos

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