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

[aur-general] Putting mariadb into community
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

Hi, Due to Oracle's recent and absolutely unforeseeable new plans with MySQL, I thought it might be a good opportunity to put mariadb into community for those that depend on MySQL. Mariadb is designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL and as such I wondered whether it would make sense if mariadb replaced MySQL. Mariadb also conflicts with MySQL files which at least necessitates installing them to an alternative path. I'm willing to maintain mariadb in community. I'd like opinions on this. -- Sven-Hendrik

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[aur-general] [Delete request] wmfs-stable
by Anton Larionov 30 Sep '11

30 Sep '11

'wmfs-stable' duplicate 'wmfs' https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52100 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26923 -- Regards, Anton Larionov

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[aur-general] Deletion Request: webfonts
by George Brooke 30 Sep '11

30 Sep '11

Hi, I just noticed that there's an AUR package called webfonts [1] which is the same as the pre-existing ttf-google-webfonts. The submitter noticed his mistake the same day (see the package comments) but despite prompting has apparently (since the package still exists) not requested deletion here. As the package was uploaded and the comments made in July it seems the submitter is unlikely to make the request themselves, so I've taken it upon myself to request the deletion, I've also CC'ed the submitter in case they're not subscribed to the list. Thanks George B [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50586

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[aur-general] Orphan request: wdfs
by SanskritFritz 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

I'm willing to maintain the wdfs [1] package. The current owner has not responded to requests for over a year now, I've sent him an email 10 days ago, there is no reply. Please orphan the package. Thanks in advance. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14476

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[aur-general] TU Application
by Bartek Piotrowski 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

Hi, Part (Mateusz Herych) decided to sponsor my TU application. My name is Bartłomiej Piotrowski. I live in Szczecin (Poland). I learn and work here. I'm a Linux user since 2005 when I bought Suse 9.3 on 4 CDs. My hardware was too cheap to run it comfortably, so I gave up. I changed my computer in 2008, and after a year with Ubuntu and Debian I decided to install Arch. Arch is a perfect distro for me for many reasons - it has clean dependencies, it's bleeding edge and I don't need to compile anything (but if I want, it's not a problem). I forgot to mention KISS and the great community. It's just obvious to me. ;) I maintain 21 packages in AUR[1]. Only 3 were submitted by me, and the rest was orphaned and/or untidy - corrected by me, now they follow packaging guidelines. Every package has some votes and is tested on my machines. One of them, mplayer2[2] was taken to [community] by Stéphane Gaudreault. I was also contributing to it from time to time. I'm a coordinator and (the only one) Polish translator of Arch projects in Transifex[3]. Pacman translation is not ready for the 4.0 release yet, and I hope it will be done in some time. I had to skip dev/TU specific strings in my AUR translation - it's hard to translate something without knowledge about context. I help people from the Polish community board. When Polish Wiki works (now it doesn't), I translate small articles. I know basics of C, C++ and Perl, but I'm not a programmer. I juggle between school and sysadmin job in a small hosting[4]/shell[5] company. (We currently work on the website.) I (co)administer 5 machines, 4 Debian ones (2x hosting, Nagios, and Xen) and 1 Gentoo one (shell). If I become a TU I would be interested in adopting simple-scan and mpdscribble in [community]. That's all, I hope I mentioned everything. Bartek Piotrowski [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&L=2&K=Barthalion [2] https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk?h=packages… [3] https://www.transifex.net/accounts/profile/Barthalion/ [4] http://host.org.pl/ [5] http://shell.org.pl/

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[aur-general] [merge] python-gflags into python2-gflags
by Ike Devolder 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

i've just renamed python-gflags to python2-gflags since the name reflects more where it can be used thx for merging python-gflags: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41480 python2-gflags: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52767

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by archlinux-aur-general＠gst.priv.at 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

mrjob - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52761 Please remove. I've just created this package, before figuring out that python2-mrjob is probably a better name.

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[aur-general] Removal request
by Max Roder 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

Hi, please remove python-libchamplain https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40969 It was needed by kismon only, but is not anymore. As 0.6.1, the latest version supporting python is outdated and pretty old (0.12 is out), it should be removed I think. Thanks, Max

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[aur-general] Removal request
by Pierre Bourdon 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

Hi, The package "minted" [1] does not build and minted.sty is actually provided by texlive-latexextra. Another package called "latex-minted" was actually deleted in March for the same reason [2]. Thanks in advance! [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52466 [2] http://www.linux-archive.org/archlinux-user-repository/243058-deletion-requ… -- Pierre "delroth" Bourdon <delroth(a)gmail.com> Student at EPITA (Paris, France) http://code.delroth.net/

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[aur-general] Remove request
by Aníbal Pacheco 26 Sep '11

26 Sep '11

package: scrapy-hg Because a new package named scrapy-git has been submitted. Thank you.

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