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

[aur-general] TU resignation
by bardo 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

It's with great sadness that I feel the need to leave my position as a Trusted User in Arch. In the last few months I haven't been able to keep up with my duties, and I feel that resigning is the best thing I can do at the moment, since real life is taking much more time than there is in a day and I can't keep up with the high standards that Arch deserves. I'd like to thank each and everyone at the Arch team, this has been a fun ride and I learned a lot in these years. Hopefully I'll be back contributing someday, maybe not in the same way, but whatever. Surely I'll stick around, however, as much as my free time allows me. At the moment I own a few dozens of packages in [community], and since I'd like to make the transition as smooth as possible, a little report follows, I marked as OOD the ones which need to be updated, adopt the ones you like. I hope this is helpful. Take care, Corrado = AVR packages = The AVR family is badly in need of some love. The wonderful djgera did all the grunt work (see http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2010-March/008369.html), now someone just has to take these little guys and update them. As with every toolchain, though, there's quite a bit to catch up with, and a whole lot to learn. Not for the faint of heart. * avrdude (OOD) * avr-libc (OOD) * binutils-avr (OOD) * gcc-avr (OOD) = PulseAudio & friends = These are really popular and still hope to go in [extra], because a lot of [extra] software could depend on them. The pulseaudio PKGBUILD needs some time to become friends with, not mentioning the package configuration, but if you stick to "stable" releases and refuse to patch the hell out of it as its author does in RedHat, you'll be fine. One open bug: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18527 * pulseaudio * gstreamer0.10-pulse * libao-pulse * libasyncns * padevchooser * paman * paprefs * pavucontrol * pavumeter * rtkit * xmms-pulse = Eclipse Plug-Ins = Mostly low-maintenance packages, they usually just need a relbump thanks to my super-unreadably-duper-perfectly-working PKGBUILDs. * eclipse-emf: needs to be ported to -any * eclipse-gef (OOD) * eclipse-mylyn (OOD) * eclipse-phpeclipse * eclipse-subclipse (OOD) * eclipse-ve = {G,W}ammu = A couple of programs to manage cell phones. Not always the easiest of builds but it's been stable for quite some time now. * gammu * wammu = Gmusicbrowser = My favorite music player, a tricky PKGBUILD (read: do everything by hand) but the developer is very friendly and helpful, and incredibly fast to reply. Optdepends hell. * gmusicbrowser * flac123 * perl-gstreamer * perl-gstreamer-interfaces (OOD) * perl-gtk2-mozembed = Musepack = Upstream releases are rare and not exactly packager-friendly. * musepack-tools * libcuefile * libreplaygain = Beast = Hasn't seen a release in ages, but it returned active upstream a few months ago. Usually needs patches. * beast * bse-alsa = Other = * acerhk: small kernel module, i686-only, no new releases, hassle free, just relbump * freemind: unvaluable mind-mapper, still waiting for the much anticipated 0.9.0, which will most likely arrive with Godot. Easy. * gnormalize: how to kill the unix do-one-thing-n-do-it-well paradigm in one shot. Optdepends hell #2 * gourmet (OOD): a recipe manager. Not that I can cook. * mldonkey: a p2p app for the edonkey network, gave me a few head scratches for the rc script. * opcion: a nice font viewer written in java, unmaintained but working very well. * rss-glx: 3d screen-savers, usually gives a few problems with .desktop files. See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18300 * scite (OOD): small text editor with some nice features, could be more friendly. * solfege (OOD): piece of cake! Frequent point releases, the development branch is stable, but I don't remember why I switched to it back in the day. * stress (OOD): small unix utility, clean and easy. * timidity-freepats: hasn't seen a release in ages and probably will be around forever. Zero maintenance, nice to have in repos. Could be ported to -any. * vlock: small unix utility, clean and easy. * wavegain: small util, optdepend for gnormalize * xsensors (OOD): X11 sensor viewing util

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] gmp-5.0 rebuild list
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

On 03/09/2010 07:57 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > Hi, > > I just added a rebuild list gmp-5.0 to the TODO lists. Note > [community] needs scanned (libgmp.so). > > gmp-5.0 is labeled as a "performance release" while gmp-4.x is the > "stable release". I still think upgrading to 5.0 is the Arch thing to > do as "stable release" in this case means that the 4.x series is dead > and all new features are in 5.0. > > This will not be happening for at least a week due to lack of time on > my end to do the needed toolchain update/rebuild. > > Allan > > Acording to my lists (generated at 20100225) [#1], here is the list for [community]: [community] alex-2.3.1-1 aqbanking-4.2.4-1 beast-0.7.1-2 cabal-install-0.8.0-1.1 classpath-0.98-2 cross-arm-elf-gcc-base-4.4.3-1 freetalk-3.2-3 gcc-avr-4.4.1-1 gnunet-0.8.1-2 haskell-http-4000.0.9-3 lilypond-2.12.3-1 mailutils-2.1-1 mingw32-gcc-4.4.0-1 mingw32-gcc-base-4.4.0-1 parrot-2.1.0-1 php52-5.2.12-3 xmobar-0.9.2-1 xmonad-0.9.1-2 [#1] http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/pkgdyn/out/i686/core/gmp-4.3.2-1 | http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/pkgdyn/out/x86_64/core/gmp-4.3.2-1 -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D

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[aur-general] removal of package mit-scheme-docs
by craven＠gmx.net 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

hello :) i have taken over the packages mit-scheme and mit-scheme-doc. the package mit-scheme now includes the docs, would you please remove the package mit-scheme-docs? thanks! peter

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[aur-general] delete request
by paterbrown＠silberhelme.de 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Hi, sorry, i forgot the subject, Now, the same again. Please remove two packages... 1) please remove the package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34772 (elementary-icon-theme) this package already exists as: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30610 (elementary-icons) 2) please remove the package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31379 (gnome-colours) this package already exists as: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20691 (gnome-colors-icon-theme) Thanks

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[aur-general] (kein Betreff)
by paterbrown＠silberhelme.de 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Hi, please remove two packages... 1) please remove the package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34772 (elementary-icon-theme) this package already exists as: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30610 (elementary-icons) 2) please remove the package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31379 (gnome-colours) this package already exists as: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20691 (gnome-colors-icon-theme) Thanks

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[aur-general] packages with lots of docs?
by Chris Brannon 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Hi, I'm maintaining ipython in [community]. Right now, the PKGBUILD just removes all the docs. I can see the reasoning. The compressed package size grows nearly five-fold when they are included. I have several options. I can keep on stripping docs, I can include the docs in the ipython package, or I can generate a split package. I wrote a PKGBUILD that produces the split packages ipython and ipython-doc. I noticed that koffice from [extra] has its docs split. But nobody seems to be doing that for anything in [community]. So should I go ahead and commit my split PKGBUILD? -- Chris

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[aur-general] Orphan Request
by arcpp.zju＠gmail.com 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

Hi, there I am the author of ibus-sogoupycc (http://code.google.com/p/ibus-sogoupycc/ ). These package are currently in AUR: 'ibus-sogoupycc' and 'ibus-sogoupycc-svn' and are seriously outdated, currently maintained by another person. I tried to notify that person by email, but no response for several days. Please orphan these packages, so I can maintain these packages. Links: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32200 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31920 Thanks.

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[aur-general] I would adopt uae...
by Martti Kühne 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

hello list Uae hasn't been updated for qute a while, and though I can't say how long it was flagged out of date now, I guess it's been a while as well. I'll do it for the time being, have a look at the pkgbuild and see if anything needs some pkg::polish. =) mar77i

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[aur-general] Request for removal of some packages.
by anonymous anonymous 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

I think that the following should be removed: json-wheel - has been renamed to ocaml-json-wheel http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29860 mupad - isn't available from the company anymore (see last comment) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3315 mupad-packages - same reason as mupad http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13128 pyyaml-python - has been renamed to python-yaml http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27758 skype_video_hijacker - has been renamed to gstfakevideo http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13956 libpsychrometric - project seems to be abandoned (download link still works though) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13206 ww2d - seems to have been discontinued and when I ran it on my computer, it seems to be a 32bit only java binary? http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3451 ww2d-extra - the maps aren't offered any where anymore. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3461

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[aur-general] moving an optdepend to [community]
by Chris Brannon 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

Hi all, I want to move python-foolscap [1] to [community], since it is an optdepend for ipython. It satisfies the guidelines for packages entering [community]. Any objections? -- Chris [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35278

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