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

[aur-general] package for the gui of mkvmerge from mkvtoolnix (mmg)
by Uli Armbruster 09 Jul '11

09 Jul '11

Hi guys Since the PKGBUILD of mkvtoolnix now has the additional option --disable-gui, I want to create a package in the AUR which provides this gui, which is called mmg (MkvMergeGui). Right now I have it up here https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49992 but I'm not sure about some things: - Is it good or bad to only provide mmg (and its manpage, desktop file and icons of course) in the package and add mkvtoolnix as a dependency, because mmg depends on mkvmerge (which is in mkvtoolnix)? You see in the comments, that others want me to make a package, which provides all the mkvtoolnix package contains PLUS mmg => they want a package which is exactly like that one which has been in the repos until recently. In my opinion it makes more sense to make this package depending on mkvtoolnix, for some reasons: - People don't have to compile everything, the build process is faster and packages depending on mkvtoolnix remain dependent on an official package, which is always recommended in my opinion. - It's possible to install the gui for mkvmerge AND / OR the gui for mkvinfo (which I want to upload to the AUR as well later today or tomorrow). If I provide everything in that package, that's not possible, except of course if I create 3 packages, one which includes the one gui, one which includes the other gui and one which includes both guis (the fourth possibility, no gui, is already in the repos). So the way I want to do it makes more sense, right? - I'm struggling with the naming of the package. Right now I called it mkvtoolnix-gtk, because for some reason I thought, that in mkvtoolnix's source there's one gtk gui for mkvmerge and a qt gui for mkvmerge. But that's wrong, there's the gtk gui for mkvmerge and a qt gui for mkvinfo. So right now I'd say, I name mkvmerge's gui mkvmerge-gui or mmg and mkvinfo's gui mkvinfo-gui or whatever the executable is called. I think that makes more sense. Do you agree? So what I'm asking is, what would you recommend? I'd like to make the package(s) as good as possible for all Arch users, not just for me. So if my approach makes no sense to you guys, I'll bow to the majority and change it (or let someone else take care of it ;D ) Cheers Army

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[aur-general] Delete rtorrent-color?
by Axilleas P 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

Is there any point in having both rtorrent-extended[1] and rtorrent-color[2]? rtorrent-extended includes patch for rtorrent-color and besides that the maintainer just disowned the package. So, I think it's safe to remove [2]. [1]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33756 [2]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31956 -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.)

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[aur-general] Removal request for xfce-menu-edit
by Heiko Baums 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

xfce-menu-edit is obsolete. It doesn't compile anymore, doesn't work with Xfce 4.8 anyway and is orphaned. So I guess it should be removed from AUR. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39370 See also the last maintainer's comment in AUR. Heiko

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[aur-general] deletion request: e17-full-svn
by Calimero 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

Hello, Could you remove e17-full-svn? It has become absolutely impossible to maintain. It needs to be linked to several libraries that are included in the package itself, so a hundred of silly hacks are necessary. I have lost an entire day on it to finally think that it wasn't worth so much effort (and maintainability would be horrible too). All the best

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[aur-general] Delete: mod_bw and mod_macro
by Phillip Smith 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

Could someone please delete "mod_bw" and "mod_macro" as I have renamed them to have the "apache-" prefix. Thx, ~p

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[aur-general] Package Guidelines: Naming of Apache mods
by Phillip Smith 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

Hi all, My Google-fu has turned up nothing on this this. Is there a preferred standard for naming packages of Apache mods? I see everything in [extra] is just "mod_name" but some AUR packages are "apache-mod_name" Personally I prefer the "apache-mod_name" form, but I take the format of [extra] to be the official word? It doesn't seem to have been discussed before (as best I can find in my searching) so thought I would raise it. I have packages in AUR using both formats and I want to bring them in line with "the right way", whichever that is ;) Cheers, ~p

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[aur-general] Remove gnome-panel-no-limit-places-menu
by Simon Legner 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

Please consider to remove gnome-panel-no-limit-places-menu [1] as it is completely out-dated. Thanks! [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39415

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[aur-general] pyopengl packages
by Michael Schubert 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

Dear TUs, Currently, there are 3 pyopengl packages in community and AUR: [1] python-opengl (python2): http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/python-opengl/ [2] python-pyopengl (python3): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7798 [3] python3-pyopengl (python3): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45322 I just adopted and updated python-pyopengl without realizing that there is a python3 version already in AUR. As the package itself is called "OpenGL", I think that the correct name in community would be python2-opengl and the one in AUR python-opengl (according to the naming standards). Either way, there are now 2 packages for python(3)-opengl in AUR, please delete whatever you think is the better choice. Thank you. Michael

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[aur-general] Provide update in AUR to extra package as a dependency of my package?
by Leif Warner 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

Hi, I'm the maintainer of the 4store package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33807 It's been blocked from being upgraded for a while now by a lack up upgrades to the rasqal package in extra. Would it be permissible to provided an updated rasqal version on AUR for people who want to run a recent version of 4store? Another of its dependencies, raptor, which is maintained in step with rasqal, was updated from raptor1 to raptor2 a while ago, and both are installed concurrently, but there's no similar update for rasqal. -Leif Warner

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[aur-general] Please remove aur/virtualenv3
by Evan LeCompte 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

aur/virtualenv3 1.3.4.2-1 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37437 Description: "A version of virtualenv for Python 3, using the new Distribute module from Tarek Ziadé." Out-of-date version and python-virtualenv for Python 3 is already available in Extra. -- Evan LeCompte

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