January 2010 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] Removal of the last-exit player from [community]
by bardo 23 Jan '10

23 Jan '10

Hi fellow TUs, the last-exit package needs to be rebuilt, but now that the streaming isn't free anymore it doesn't work with most accounts. Furthermore it is dead upstream and their domain was just squatted. If nobody wants to maintain it I'd drop it to the AUR. If nobody answers I'll move it in three days. Corrado

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[aur-general] Inactivity notice
by bardo 23 Jan '10

23 Jan '10

Hi fellow TUs, I'm in the process of changing ISP. Theoretically the Italian law says you should have almost no downtime during the switch, in practice my old ISP was disconnected yesterday morning and the new one still hasn't taken over the line. I'm at the window writing this e-mail with a connection I... borrowed... from a kind neighbour. So, until further notice consider me as totally inactive, hopefully not for a long time, and feel free to take whatever action you feel appropriate with my package. If you do anything more complex than a bump+release it'd be nice to send me an e-mail, which I'll read later. Thanks to all, Corrado

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[aur-general] can someone remove inxi 1.3.1 from aur
by Joshua Noname 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

ive got the updated 1.3.2 straight from the dev himself ready to upload

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[aur-general] can someone remove inxi 1.3.1 from aur
by Joshua Noname 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

ive got the updated inxi 1.3.2 straight from the developer himself cant post duplicates

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[aur-general] ISP issues, possible unavailability
by Evangelos Foutras 20 Jan '10

20 Jan '10

Hi TUs, I'm having trouble with my ISP which should be resolved very soon, but you never know. (This afternoon they said it was going to be fixed within an hour, but that was some 7 hours ago.) If you need to perform any action on any of my packages, feel free to do so. Take care. :)

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[aur-general] Thanks to Ghost1227 and wonder
by Allan McRae 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Hi all, We should give a big cheer to Daniel (Ghost1227) and Ionut (wonder) for all the work they have done on the [community] bug tracker recently. Over the last week, the number of bugs has shrunk from ~120 to 17. That is a massive effort! Thanks, Allan

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[aur-general] Deletion request: gloobus-bzr & nautilus-simplified-gloobus
by Alessio Sergi 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Hi, can a TU please delete these packages: gloobus-bzr nautilus-simplified-gloobus They've been replaced by gloobus-preview-bzr and nautilus-elementary. Thanks in advance -- Alessio 'alexwizard' Sergi

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[aur-general] [orphan request] burpsuite
by Florian Preinstorfer 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Hi, Could you please orphan burpsuite[1]? The package is outdated.The maintainer did not respond to my mails. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15192 Thanks, -- nblock

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[aur-general] mistake in packaging guidelines
by hollunder＠lavabit.com 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Please have a look here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards#Submitting_Pac… It says: Please add a comment line to the top of your PKGBUILD file that follows this format. Remember to disguise your email to protect against spam: # Contributor: Your Name <address at domain dot com> This is wrong and should read: # Maintainer: Your Name <address at domain dot com> This is apparently missleading new and not so new AUR packagers, I just had an argument about it. Imho somewhere on this page it should be mentioned that previous maintainers and other contributors should be kept in the PKGBUILD file as contributors as this also seems to be not very well known. Regards, Philipp

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[aur-general] Policy on abandoned projects?
by Erik Johnson 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

What is the policy with regard to projects that appear to have been abandoned? For instance, no matter what distribution I run, I find myself compiling spellutils for its excellent "newsbody" program, which I use in mutt to feed aspell only the body of the message instead of the full message (including quoted replies, headers, etc). However, for some time now the homepage of this project has been defunct, and the developer has been unreachable. The project does not have a sourceforge/github/etc location from which the source code can be retrieved, I was only able to find the source code myself thanks to a couple different source code archives, which I am not sure if I can rely on 100% to keep the source available. What can I do to get this project into the AUR? I have no problem writing a PKGBUILD, I just need to find an acceptable way of making the source available, and I'm not sure if there's a protocol for this that AUR package maintainers typically follow. Many thanks, -- -Erik "For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." --Carl Sagan

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