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

[aur-general] TU application - Kyle Keen
by keenerd 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Xyne wrote: > What? You were his original choice for sponsor? I feel so used and cheap. > > How many more were there, Kyle? Tell me! There was only you. Always only you. Ionut was a giddy bit of foolishness, brought on when Falconindy convinced me to apply. I know not why I sought such a ménage à trois, but cooler heads did prevail and Ionut gracefully turned down my feckless advance. I never forgot your suggestions on the BBS, nor our lofty plans for the AUR, nor the long nights testing pkgbuild2json. I've missed working with you on such grand projects and hoped with my most secret of hearts that this Application would be the first step towards rekindling those old adventures. If you wish to spurn me now, I will accept that lonely fate. But please - let your motive be driven by your dreams for the future and not by petty jealousies of the past. Assiduously yours, Kyle

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[aur-general] [Orphan Request] [pytyle2-hg]
by Andrew Gallant 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Hello, Could pytyle2-hg be orphaned? It can be found here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42541 The current maintainer used a "10 Minute Mail" address, so he cannot be reached. (I'm the developer of pytyle--I'll take over the package, as it is currently broken.) Thanks! - Andrew

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[aur-general] New Orphans
by Qadri 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Hello all, I've been realizing lately that I have less and less time to spend on updating my Arch machine, having had a couple 1 or 2 gig updates involving hundreds of packages. So I just checked, and at least one of my packages in the AUR had been marked out-of-date and apparently I completely glossed over it. I'm no longer using any of the packages I was maintaining, so I'm emailing in case anyone wants to grab them before they fall into complete disrepair. MAQ. Packages: julius voxforge-am-julius sphinx4beta opengazer vxl-svn psad

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[aur-general] TU Application: Dave Reisner
by Dave Reisner 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Greetings! Please consider this my application to become a Trusted User. My name is Dave Reisner, and I'm 27 years old, currently residing in the New York City area. Ionut Biru has graciously offered to sponsor this application. I'm a self-taught programmer, computer enthusiast, an occasional IT consultant, and I enjoy brutal sarcasm & dry wit. During the daytime, I star as a QA website tester, writing automated test scripts with the Selenium framework. At night, I prefer Bash & C, but I also dabble in Go, Java, Ruby, and Python. Although I've only been using Arch for a little over a year now, I've become very much appreciative and endeared to its simplistic style and offer of freedom in administration. I quickly settled into a CLI setup featuring DWM, mutt, ncmpcpp, tmux, etc and filled in any missing gaps with Bash and C programs of my own design. In particular, I wrote cower and burp, which interface with the AUR to do clean and fast downloading and uploading (respectively) from the AUR. Please feel free to visit my Github repositories [1]. I also consider myself to have been an active contributor to the Arch community. I advocate the testing repo (which I use on all the boxes I maintain), I diligently file and follow up with bug reports, providing patches or other solutions whenever possible, and I've made a few (though somewhat minor) code contributions to pacman. Over the course of the past year, I've picked up a number of packages in the AUR [2]. While many of these aren't very popular, I would like to make an effort to bring Systemd into community to make it more accessible. I believe that while it does not necessarily fall directly in line with the "true spirit" of Arch, it's an excellent project and there are many people interested in its offerings within the Arch community. I've been following its development since a month after Lennart made his initial announcement, and I have been the major provider of Systemd packages on the AUR. In addition, I've spoken with Daniel Griffiths and I offered to relieve him of some of his packaging duties (given his hectic schedule), and we agreed on: asciidoc, html2text, and rsnapshot. Eventually, as I become more comfortable with the role, I would like to take on more packages to help insure that our repos stay fresh and full of useful software. Since the recent cleanup. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Thanks for taking the time to consider my application. Dave. [1] http://github.com/falconindy [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=falconindy

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[aur-general] Fwd: [arch-dev-public] Help on maintaining LXDE packages wanted
by Ionuț Bîru 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

maybe this was missed. Does any TU wants to maintain this? LXDE needs a maintainer to fit together all the pieces and currently is in bad shape. I don't want to push fixes that i can't test and i don't want to touch them anymore. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [arch-dev-public] Help on maintaining LXDE packages wanted Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:11:29 +0200 From: Jürgen Hötzel <juergen(a)hoetzel.info> Reply-To: Public mailing list for Arch Linux development <arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org> To: arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org Hi, anyone wants help out on this topic? I personally don't use LXDE anymore. Jürgen

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[aur-general] orphan request
by Philipp 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

fim - Highly customizable and scriptable framebuffer image viewer based on fbi. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15407 It seems to be out-of-date since 2009 and the PKGBUILD is lacking to say the least. I can't promise to fix/maintain it, but the current maintainer doesn't seem to maintain it. There are comments from March that seem to have gone unnoticed.

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[aur-general] Delete request
by Renato Garcia 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Hi, There are a package python3-docs < https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23989> in AUR. It is duplicated from python-docs on communit. Regards, Renato Garcia

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[aur-general] Delete packages: libmp3splt, mp3splt and mp3splt-gtk
by Denis A. Altoé Falqueto 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Gentlemen, Please, delete these packages. I uploaded them thinking they didn't exist in our repositories, but the search I made was wrong. I searched with 'mp3split' but the packages are mp3splt, without that i, so I ended up creating the packages and uploading. Just noticed after the fact. Sorry for the trouble. -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto Linux user #524555 -------------------------------------------

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[aur-general] orphan request
by jib 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Please orphan humanity-icons http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30460 There is a bug in the PKGBUILD, and the maintainer hasn't replied comments and emails in more than two weeks. Thanks in advance.

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[aur-general] Please delete picard-qt
by Kevin Vesga 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

This package is simply an old version of Picard (in community) and is not special: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10232 If you think it should not be deleted at least change its name to picard09 or something. Picard is natively a Qt application so the name picard-qt makes no sense.

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