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

[aur-general] Adoption request for google-musicmanager
by Matej Ľach 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

Hallo everyone, I would like to request adoption of Google Music beta Desktop Manager [google-musicmanager] PKGBUILD[1]. it doesn't seem to be updated anymore by its creator. I will be doing my best to keep the package up-to-date if I will be allowed to adopt this package. Thank you, Matej Lach, [1] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50891

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[aur-general] Removal Requests
by gadget3000 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

netmaze (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=1842) - Very old (1996) unfinished multiplayer game. 2 votes, no maintainer, PKGBUILD not updated since 2005. fxsudoku (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=Merge/4053<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=4053>) - Dead project, dead source link. Mirrors exist but it only has 2 votes, no maintainer and the PKGBUILD hasn't been updated since 2006. Lastly, what is the 'policy' around old games and putting a link to the actual game data? Some people would class it as abandonware but if it is still sold then surely it isn't abandonware and is just piracy. For example hmm2 (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33015) doom2 ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33036) and dune2 ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33037) all have a source link to the rar-ed game data at oldgames.ru.

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[aur-general] skype Segment fault and lib32-gconf
by rafael ff1 24 Aug '11

24 Aug '11

Hi all, I'm running into segment fault when starting skype (from [multilib]). After some tests, I notice that when i uninstall lib32-gconf, it seems to solve the problem. Can someone reproduce the error for me? Basically 1- Have installed skype and lib32-gconf 2- Run skype (error expected) 3- Uninstall lib32-gconf 4- Run skype (success expected) Thanks -- Rafael

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Re: [aur-general] Python packaging newbie
by Fabien Devaux 24 Aug '11

24 Aug '11

Heh, sorry for that, after my answer that is quite hilarious... Sorry for that.

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[aur-general] Fwd: aur-general Digest, Vol 82, Issue 24
by Fabien Devaux 24 Aug '11

24 Aug '11

If that is all your questions then this is the wrong place to ask. In fact, it would then be wrong to even ask. It is only correct to read: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Python_Package_Guidelines Don't worry, I'm not _that_ newbie, I was just talking about arch, not IT... Thanks for pointing that document btw, it's (badly) covering one of the questions I had. 1) Why is this "template" not used by most packages I've seen ? 2) What is the main difference between build() & the optional package() function ? (appart the error handling) 3) Why most packages I've seen are splitting build() and package() operations ? (build for .py? building & package for install part) 4) What is the recommended way to remove files from package ? (files that may be required at "setup.py build" step) Thanks for your kind support...

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[aur-general] Orphan Request
by Thomas Weißschuh 24 Aug '11

24 Aug '11

The package evilvte[1] has been out of date for a month and even the maintainer announced in the comments that he doesn't want to maintain it anymore. Trying to mail him failed at his nonexisting mail address. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16727 Regards

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[aur-general] Orphaning out-of-date packages
by Lukas Fleischer 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

Andrea suggested this about two months ago [1] - it's time to take the gloves off. I just created a list of packages that have been flagged out-of-date for almost 6 months now and still have a maintainer [2]. If you maintain any of these packages, feel free to update it. I will re-generate that list and mass orphan affected packages in a week's time. [1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2011-June/014792.html [2] http://sprunge.us/SNGT

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[aur-general] Python packaging newbie
by Fabien Devaux 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

Hi! I'm new to arch & his packaging techniques and I have some questions on how things should be for python2/3 and build() vs package() things as well... Is this the good place to ask ? Thanks, Fabien Devaux.

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[aur-general] gwibber duplicates
by Balló György 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

Hi, please delete the following duplicates of gwibber and gwibber-dev: gwibber-dev-updated - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47745 gwibber-light - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47233 gwibber-new - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48086 gwibber3 - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49306 Thanks

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[aur-general] Merge of virtualbox_bin into virtualbox-bin
by Seblu 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

Hello, Can you merge virtualbox_bin into virtualbox-bin ? The reason are those requested by josephgbr in https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9753 <quote> The reason I'm asking this is that every time I update my packages with "yaourt -Syua", the package "virtualbox-ext-oracle" is listed first than this package ('-' come first than '_') and I always have to reinstall again after virtualbox_bin in order to work. Thanks in advance. </quote> Regards, -- Sébastien Luttringer www.seblu.net

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