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

[aur-general] Maintaining the mediathek package
by Soeren Koerner 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

Hi TUs, I can't contact the maintainer of mediathek [1], because his mail address is wrong/not working anymore. The last update is four months old. There has been two updates released, during this time. Can you drop the maintainer (linopolus), so that I can maintain this packege? Also the mediathekview package [2] is imho obsolete. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35359 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30264 Regards, soeren

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[aur-general] Duplicate package
by Clément DÉMOULINS 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, The new package "python-networkx" duplicate the package "networkx". Could you please delete the package. python-networkx - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38638 networkx - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15986 Thanks Clément Démoulins -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkww90oACgkQLXRXVt1R4Ch6OgCgmfFwvUjjfNPKHlDf/viQC25n tS0An0OitshaftQrgPBAC25j+FzrHKFE =Xs/y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] deletion request
by nblock 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

hi, please delete otrdecoder-x86_64 [1] as the otrdecoder-PKGBUILD now supports x86_64 as well. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15639 thx, -- bbs: nblock aur: notizblock

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[aur-general] recover password in aur site
by Antonio Lucas 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

Hi everyone, I forgot my password and can not see a link to recover it. I found a problem in a package (cuda-toolkit) and I wanted to report to the maintainer. thanks in advice. abracos Antonio Lucas

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Python-3.x transition with python-2.7 update
by Stefan Husmann 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

Am 05.07.2010 20:48, schrieb Damjan Georgievski: >> Python-2.7 has been releases and will be the last 2.x official release of >> python. So it is time to switch to python-3.x as our /usr/bin/python and >> python-2.7 as our /usr/bin/python2. See >> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Python_Todo_List for all >> the details about how to achieve this. > > What's the rationale for making Python 3.1 the "main" /usr/bin/python? > > A great deal of python modules still don't support 3.x, there's no > WSGI standard for 3.x either so you can't make web apps (and hope to > deploy them). Even less C modules are 3.x compatible, and then even > less applications. > > And 2.7 is here to stay for a long time. > > I think it would be wiser to stay with 2.7 as the main python for now. > And maybe switch after Python 3.3 comes out. > By that time the 3.x series should have enough improvements to > motivate people to port to 3.x > > > Hello, I absolutely agree. I do not expect to happen the switch of most upstream python projects to the 3-branch within next five to twn years, if ever. python3 may be an improvement over python2 in the sense of a clean language. But that is an academical argument. We should take into account for our distribution what people and upstream projects actually use, and that is the 2- branch of python. Regards Stefan

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[aur-general] TU application for Sven-Hendrik Haase
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

Hey everybody, I'd like to apply for TU. I tricked Daenyth into sponsoring me. Rocking since 1990 in Germany, I've been using Arch Linux for around two years now and since I seem to stick with it I thought I might as well become TU. I have past experience in Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and DSL as well as a few minor ones (mostly spin-offs). I currently have about 10 Arch installations in all kinds of forms, virtual, chroot, desktop, laptop, incandescent gas. Whenever I'm not busy trying to create another cdrkit vs. cdrtools flame fest on the mailing list I'm generally trying to be helpful on the wiki, forums, IRC and AUR. I like being pedantic about things like replaces() vs. conflicts() + provides() or $startdir/src vs. $srcdir. In AUR I currently maintain 66 packages. My most important packages are multimedia/game development related though I tend to package whatever I think it useful or fun. While I'm aware that many Archers consider games wasteful in terms of time investment and disk space, I think the number of votes on my packages still make some of them same valid candidates for [community]. See my awe-inspiring list of packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=Svenstaro I'm rather interested in Python and since PyPy might become more important in the future I will continue to take good care of that package. I'm somewhat involved or at least interested in the upstream development for some of my packages (SFML, Ogre3D, SFML, Gobby, Bullet, Box2D, -gallium). I like trying out new fancy things. I've used all major DEs and a bunch of WMs. I maintain my own live distribution closely based on Arch Linux and archiso (live.linux-gamers.net) and in the process of creating it wrote the archiso article for the wiki. I care about guidelines and consistency, though I am aware that my AUR packages aren't all fully consistent. Working on that. On LinuxTag 2010, I openly promoted my religion using my Arch shirt together with a fellow Archer. We tried our best to sound like the condescending Arch jerks that we are. Just kidding. We showed-off Arch to quite a few people who were interested, though. We met quite a few unrelated Archers on the fair as well but they didn't seem to have as much Arch-esteem as we did. Is it true that the secret TU tower is where all the girls are kept? -- Sven-Hendrik

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[aur-general] Can't upload a pkg without build function()
by s_stoakley＠hotmail.co.uk 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

Hi, I just tried to upload a pkg without the build() and couldn't, is there a fix in the pipeline? -- _ ( ) ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail X www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments / \ Registered Linux user #500376 www.counter.li.org/

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[aur-general] Inactive for a bit...
by Aaron Schaefer 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

I've got to go inactive for a bit...I'm moving from Illinois to Washington state and won't have the internet for a couple of weeks while I'm travelling. The only thing I have pending right now is an update to Tarsnap v1.27, and I plan on moving it into the community repo. I also have a couple packages still on the arch todo list that I'll take care of when I return. I've already updated the Trusted Users wiki page to show my status. Feel free to update whatever while I'm away...thanks! -- Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer

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[aur-general] Please remove one of my packages from the AUR
by merp boop 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

Hey AUR maintainers, I made an error in the PKGBUILD and I can't re-upload the same package like I used to be able to. If one of you guys would remove it, I will upload my new version! Thanks! The package is: kernel26-crusoe Max a.k.a. Synthead

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[aur-general] Request deletion of conky-forecast package
by Stijn Segers 03 Jul '10

03 Jul '10

Hello, I just adopted the conkyforecast package on the AUR (which was orphaned). Since the original uploader used a different name (conky-forecast) I uploaded a new package using the official name of the project, to avoid confusion (searching the AUR for conkyforecast will now show the stable version and the development one). Please delete the old conky-forecast package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20863 New package has been uploaded here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38642 Thank you Stijn

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