January 2011 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] AUR cleanup
by Dave Reisner 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

So, on the subject of cleanup, I've come across a list of 530 packages on sigurd that aren't accessible from the web interface. Judging from some of the names, I'd wager that these are packages which were deleted but something went wrong, etc etc. In total, it's about 20mb of space that would be freed. Any reason these shouldn't just be purged by someone with root privs? dave

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[aur-general] Delete request for perl-test-exception.
by Justin Davis 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

I uploaded perl-test-exception while in a hurry. Please delete it because the same version is already in [community]. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11000 Thanks, juster / aurperl

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[aur-general] Request removal: vlc-3gp and vlc-legacy
by Lou 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

vlc-3gp http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16612 Orphan, not required by any other package. Obsoleted by VLC in Extra. vlc-legacy http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21402 Orphan, not required by any other package. Who wants to use a VLC from 2008-09? That's what Debian is for.

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[aur-general] Proposal for the reinstatement of AUR Cleanup Day.
by Thomas Dziedzic 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Hello fellow Users/TUs, I have come across a rather old wiki entry [1] which was used for AUR Cleanup Day. It seems like we haven't had this day in quite some time, so I would like to have another AUR Cleanup Day where the community along with the TUs participate to clean things up in the AUR. We would use the wiki link to keep track of progress after cleaning it up a bit since the last time it was used. If I have enough people on board with this, I would like to make it an "AUR Cleanup Weekend" so that they can contribute whenever they have time. I would like to stress that this wouldn't be limited to only TU participation. Anyone would be able to see if there are broken packages, and list them on the wiki to have a TU look at it. I would like to make AUR Cleanup Weekend either this or next weekend. What do you think? [1] - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Cleanup_Day

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[aur-general] duplicates of tmux vcs...
by Martti Kühne 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

at the moment there are three vcs packages of tmux on aur. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=tmux tmux-cvs is my package. tmux-git is a tmux developer's synchronisation which doesn't use a separate build directory, but may come in handy because it's git and the commit history is present. tmux-cvs-windowstatus is a patch for an obviously outdated cvs repo, because... the patch is for cmd-set-option.c - though right now the file containing that data is called options-table.c and the patched content has been issue to further changes afaict (being no more window-status-bell-* but window-status-alert-* instead for example). Guess it does not build. The third one may be deleted imho. And you know what, scratch mine as well... tmux-git is just fine. cheers!

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[aur-general] Duplicate package: libpam_mysql
by Firebird347 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

libpam_mysql (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25249) is a duplicate of the package 'pam_mysql' in community. Thanks, Cody Maloney Random side note: pam_mysql should depend on libmysqlclient not mysql. Every client doesn't need to have MySQL installed.

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[aur-general] TU Bylaws Amendment (SVP Section): Discussion Period
by Xyne 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

The following is a proposed replacement for the current SVP section of the TU bylaws: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Bylaw_Amendment&oldid=124557 The changes address several issues recently brought up on this list. Briefly, these include: * enabling a vote to pass in the absence of quorum when more than 50% of active TUs have voted YES * enabling a vote to fail in the absence of quorum when 50% or more of active TUs have voted NO * clarifying the text to eliminate ambiguities Please see Kaiting's "[aur-general]Amendment" thread and Loui's "[aur-general][PATCH]tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure" thread for more details. This message marks the beginning of the 5-day discussion period before the amendment is put to a vote.

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[aur-general] A duplicate
by François Boulogne 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

Hello, Please, could you remove [1], it is a duplicate of [2]. I pushed this PKGBUILD by mistake. Cheers. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45689 [2] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/perl-uri/ -- François Boulogne. Membre de l'April - Promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre http://www.april.org

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Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Seblu
by Seblu 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Ronald van Haren <pressh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Seblu <seblu(a)seblu.net> wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Ronald van Haren <c> wrote: > Some pointers > > - cairo-xcb is broken and unmaintained by upstream http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/log/ i see several commit from this january about xcb. Reading changelog, the backend does not seem abandoned. i see activity on ml: http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2010-December/thread.html http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2010-November/thread.html http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2010-October/thread.html i see patched on last release changelog: http://cairographics.org/news/cairo-1.10.2/ > - cairo-xcb is known to cause X crashes and rendering issues Crawling arch bugtracker is not really revelent of this. I don't find many bugs around this issue (maybe not detected as corollary). RedHat bug is not really accurate. I also use cairo-xcb from aur everyday and i don't see issues. > - crashes and redering issues will probably appear in other > applications than awesome Sure! This is to avoid. > - people don't know that they are using something that is unsupported > (at least by upstream) Upstream speak about experimental feature, not unsupported (see README). By our bleeding edge point of view, we enable a lot of experimental feature (in particular in linux kernel). Experimental "tag" is not always a synonym of unstable (or unsuported) but more like really Bleeding edge. > - it is generally a bad idea to support something which is encouraged > not to by upstream I agree. But i'm wondering why debian include it by default in next release (squeeze) http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/cairo.git;a=blob;f=debian/rules;h=927… I see in configure, they include --enable-xlib and --enable-xcb. _Maybe_ we can enable the two to have the best of both worlds. This need more investigation. > So unless you want to fix all issues in cairo-xcb, it is probably not > a good idea to support it. In case you will, upstream is also looking > for a maintainer of the xcb backend if I'm not mistaken. I don't see the job offer :) > But then > again, you may need to first fix all issues before you bring it in :-) > I see the point. I would contact cairo debian maintainers about that. To have their point of view. -- Sébastien Luttringer www.seblu.net

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[aur-general] Please orphan python-wtforms
by Felix Kaiser 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

Dear TUs, can someone please orphan python-wtforms [1]? The PKGBUILD is heavily outdated, it hasn't been modified for over a year and doesn't even build anymore. Another user (FSX) said in the comments that he has emailed the current package maintainer (welterde) a while back but never got a reply. Thank you very much! Felix [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26120

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