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

[aur-general] [flock] drop to AUR
by Ronald van Haren 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

Hey guys, I'd like to drop flock [1] (some social web browser) to AUR soon, if any of you want to continue to support it in community, be my guest. The reason I want to remove it is that I'm fed up with the company developing it. For years communicating with them hasn't been a pleasure. E-mails don't get answered, forum posts only if you ask something they like to answer. A few years ago they removed the source code only to add it to some svn server which they did not document and it took quite some time for somebody to tell me where I could find the source. Then all of a sudden they disabled public svn access and put some source tarballs up somewhere, of course agains without documentation and you have to hunt the link down somewhere in their forum in a reply to someone. They also removed the developer portal from their site. Need more reasons? Last month they released a brand new deprecated version based on the firefox 3.0 unmaintained code. Security anyone? Of course the source was only made available quite some time after the binaries were released. Their next upcoming browser, which they indicated would be based on firefox 3.5/3.6 for the last year, will suddenly be based upon chromium and is currently available in beta for windows and mac osx coming sometime later this month as they say. I have no idea if they will ever release a binary i686 linux version, nor if they will be releasing the source code anytime soon (if they are required to do so based upon the chromium license?). So even if they release the source code I'm not sure if it will be even remotely compatible with our libs or requires massive patching. I suppose I could go on, but that's the main reason I'd like to drop it. Ronald [1] http://www.flock.com/

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[aur-general] Please delete bin32-wine-stable from AUR
by Leonardo Damián Barberón 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

Hi guys, please delete bin32-wine-stable [0] from AUR, because bin32-wine is in Community and wine-1.2 is now stable. [0]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24026 Salutes!

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[aur-general] Pleade delete gnewblogging from AUR
by Frikilinux 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

Hi, please delete pkg whith wrong name gnewblogging http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39052 Sorry and thanks -- GPG Key ID: 3AA76426 F2CA 440D CA72 FC9C FC67 3946 557F DBEB 3AA7 6426Hi,

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[aur-general] Orphan request: guvcview
by Renato Garcia 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

Please, disown the package guvcview[1]. It is outdated, at 24 Jun the user Jesses has posted a PKGBUILD to the current version. At 14 Jul I sent an email to Synthead requesting him to update or disown, and he don't answer. Regards, Renato Garcia [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16521

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[aur-general] Please delete pdfjam from AUR
by Leonardo Damián Barberón 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

Hi guys, please delete pdfjam [0] from AUR, because it is now part of texlive- bin. [0]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2737 Salutes!

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[aur-general] delete splashy-creator
by Ike Devolder 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Hi, i was the last maintainer of splashy-creator, i dropped my commitment to it a while ago, so has de developer now its also not the most usefull app since splashy themes are easy to make without a special editor http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16781 best regards Ike

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[aur-general] remove texlive-dot2texi from community
by Firmicus 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Please remove texlive-dot2texi from community, as it is already provided by texlive-pictures in extra. No need to move it to AUR: just delete it! Thanks, F

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[aur-general] Removal request (dmenu-vertical, dmenu-vertical-xft)
by Lukas Fleischer 18 Jul '10

18 Jul '10

Hi, please remove dmenu-vertical [1] and dmenu-vertical-xft [2] since dmenu supports vertical list mode out of the box since the last release (about one month ago, just check the package's latest comments). [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20063 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27334

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[aur-general] moving winw-wow64 into community
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 18 Jul '10

18 Jul '10

The package-magician heftig managed to put together a wine-wow64 package which is currently in AUR and enables users to not only run 32bit Windows application on x86_64 Arch like bin32-wine but also 64bit Windows applications. Basically, it contains a 32bit and 64bit Windows environment to do this, a lot like native 64bit Windows installations do, in fact. We'd like to see this package replace bin32-wine in community. It is currently rather untested and before moving we'd like to ask the Arch community to test it first. Before we ask for the test though we first wanted to hear the dear opinions of this mailing list's fine gentlemen. Sadly, using it also implies moving a bunch of lib32s and the cross32 chain into community. This will be a problem for some people. To summarize: wine-wow64 is like bin32-wine but with the ability to run 64bit applications. -- Sven-Hendrik

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[aur-general] Delete kmod-mkiss please
by Gordon JC Pearce 18 Jul '10

18 Jul '10

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31732 It doesn't work, and is fundamentally flawed. The short explanation is that enabling mkiss has further implications than just building a couple of modules, and really requires the kernel to be rebuilt. The long explanation might be better discussed with a kernel packager ;-) Gordon MM0YEQ

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