October 2012 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] disowning a couple of packages
by Thomas Dziedzic 12 Jan '14

12 Jan '14

Hi, I'm disowning sage-mathematics, sage-mathematics-spkgs(optdepends for sage-mathematics), fityk, and xylib(dependency for fityk). I will move them to the aur in a week if no TU adopts them in community. If you plan on adopting sage-mathematics, you should know that it is currently unbuildable on archlinux, and some other newer distros due to how it is built. It is currently out of date, and you wont be able to update it without fixing this. http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10572 (13 month old bug without recent comments) http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11391 (9 month old bug I filed without a sign of activity) If you plan on adopting fityk, note that it needs a development version of wxwidgets which I statically build in the same PKGBUILD. Cheers.

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[aur-general] TU Application - Felix Yan
by Felix Yan 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

Dear archers, I was looking for a sponsor in August 2012 [1], and thank Jonathan Steel for contacting me right after he became a new TU. He helps me a lot and I'm keeping clean up and improve my PKGBUILDs in AUR with his suggestions. I think I can do more than as a user, so I am now applying to become a Trusted User, after some knowledge & skills preparing in the last few weeks. Bartłomiej Piotrowski has kindly sponsored me (just today :P and thanks a lot). I love Arch mainly because of the PKGBUILD. Never could I find another great and simple-enough to write description file of an easy-to-use package manager. I never created a successful package in .deb although I was a Ubuntu and PPA user for more than two years(Hmm, my lack of knowledge in bash & English should also be a problem at that time). When I began to use Arch, I was impressed deeply by pacman(A lot of points are in "ILoveCandy", although :P) and that's why I switched all my workspaces to Arch. I have been an Archer only for one year and a half but 4 for the Linux world. I submitted my first package by the end of last year, and maintain more and more during the last a few months (61 for now [2], with a total of 460 votes). I am eager to maintain packages that loved and needed by Chinese users as I am one too, such as input methods(fcitx-*, ibus-*, sunpinyin, libpinyin, rime, etc), internet supplicant in Chinese universities(mentohust/ruijieclient), chat tools qq related(linuxqq, webqq, libqq*, etc) and popular proxy tools (sshuttle, goagent, etc). As I am a python programmer and maintaining more than 20 python libraries I use for now, I'm also ready for some popular python libraries. I'll take those orphans in [community] (or possibly [extra] if approved and moved) in these cases, too. I am also a good user in keeping active in reporting and following issues upstream, such as pidgin-lwqq [3]. As I looked after more and more packages on AUR I found many users not so convenient to install so many packages in AUR, so I joined archlinuxcn's community repository project [4] to provide popular packages in binary. But this is not good for user to involve in (such as flag out-of-date, report bugs, etc). It could be a lot better if I could move the most popular ones into [community] so users does not need to manually add a (not fully-trusted) third-party community repository. I am also an IT manager in work, and maintaining several Arch servers. I only use x86_64 architecture but keep an eye on i686 as some of the old hardwares are not ready for 64-bit. I have several popular WM/DEs installed but using XFCE mostly. I am a wine user and keep an eye on its fresh news. Although I am not using any wine programs too much, I sometimes play osu! or TESV: Skyrim under wine. Some more info about me: 21, male, Wuhan in China, working in a startup, not very good at C and English, but trying to keep them in a package-ready level :P A classical music lover, and also accept some of the NewAge. Thank you for your time in reading my application. [1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2012-August/020104.html [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=felixonmars&do_Search=Go&detai… [3] https://github.com/xiehuc/pidgin-lwqq/issues?page=1&state=closed (Chinese) Kind regards, Felix Yan Twitter: @felixonmars Wiki: http://felixc.at

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[aur-general] Deletion request for downpour and storm
by Aaron DeVore 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

downpour: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48759 downpour-svn: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48820 The downpour project is dead. Its web site is down, along with the tarballs that are necessary to build it. I am the maintainer for downpour and downpour-svn is orphaned storm: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12624 The Storm project is packaged under python2-storm. Someone accidentally made the "storm" package. I have moved some packages away from a dependency on "storm". Downpour{,-svn} are the last packages. -Aaron DeVore

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[aur-general] Deletion request: systemd-arch-units-git
by Jason St. John 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

systemd-arch-units-git[1] needs to be deleted because the GitHub page for it has been deleted. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47603

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[aur-general] Deletion request for bridge-gtk2-theme
by Mike Swanson 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=62376 No longer needed since GTK+ 3.6 has appeared in the main repos.

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[aur-general] AsciiDoc version of the TU bylaws
by Lukas Fleischer 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

Hi! I converted our TU bylaws to AsciiDoc and imported he converted document into a Git repository that I temporarily hosted on [1]. Maybe we can eventually move that to one of the Arch Linux servers. Benefits of the new version: * Much less noise in bylaw patches (HTML patches were unreadable). * History of bylaw amendments. * AsciiDoc style that we use in a couple of other places already. Kyle and me will probably also send one or two patches to the content, so if there's anything else that you would like to add/amend, now would be a good time to do that. I also temporarily hosted a preview of the new HTML document on [2]. Opinions? Any objections to the AsciiDoc conversion? [1] http://git.cryptocrack.de/tu-bylaws.git/ [2] http://cryptocrack.de/tmp/tu-bylaws.html

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[aur-general] Deletion request: hpl1-engine
by Jason St. John 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

I'm requesting that hpl1-engine[1] be deleted. The description is very unhelpful, and the source doesn't download (`makepkg -g` fails due to an HTTP 403 error). [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37211 Thanks!

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[aur-general] [Oct 31] deletion request
by Limao Luo 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

Delete: zsh-bauerbill: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38747 It's useless; the PKGBUILD doesn't build, and bauerbill has been discontinued [1]. anki-beta: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=61309 Was useful when there was a beta version, but now essentially functions as a fork of community/anki (since there is no beta version atm). Merge: helixplayer-nightly-bin into helixplayer: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21834 into https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16847 No more nightly releases, so I might as well just release helixplayer's final build as the final version of the package. [1] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2012-June/019410.html

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[aur-general] [Package Removal Requests]
by Diogo Bento 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

Greetings, I'd like to ask for the removal of the following AUR packages: slim-nock (as current slim from [extra] doesn't use consolekit): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=59448 udisks2-mount (as current udisks2 version from [extra] is also up-to-date and similar to the one I've on AUR): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=59456 Cheers,D.B.

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[aur-general] Merge request (limbo and limbo_wine)
by D. Can Celasun 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

Greetings, I'm the maintainer of "limbo" [1] and the maintainer of "limbo_wine" [2] approached me and wants to merge our packages, which is fine by me. Can someone please merge both packages under the name "limbo" but using the tarball and having the maintainer of "limbo_wine"? Thanks, Can [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=59673 [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=59799

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