February 2013 - 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 It is currently out of date, and you wont be able to update it without fixing this.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] Please delete minitunes
by Kevin Vesga 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Please delete minitunes [1] as the project's name has changed and a new package [2] has been made for it. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/minitunes/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/musique/

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[aur-general] Delete/Merge Requests
by Stefan Husmann 10 Mar '13

10 Mar '13

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[aur-general] disowning of winegame/winestuff
by Laurent Carlier 07 Mar '13

07 Mar '13

I have orphaned these packages i don't want to maintain anymore. The road to AUR is already traced..... https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/winestuff/ https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/winegame/

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[aur-general] Disown package: gtk-theme-evolve please
by Zhengyu Xu 06 Mar '13

06 Mar '13

Dear TUs, Please help me to disown the package: gtk-theme-evolve at [1]. This package has been flagged out-of-date for more than two weeks without any update. Even the original author (satya164) of the gtk-theme asked the maintainer to modify some contents of the package but did not receive any reply (see the comment on that page). Thanks in advance. Best regards, Z. Xu [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk-theme-evolve/

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[aur-general] qt4 replaces qt
by Andrea Scarpino 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

Hi all, a new qt4 package has hit [testing] and will replace the current qt package. qt4 doesn't provide 'qt'; you will need to rebuild EVERY package installed from AUR and replace qt with qt4 in the depends array. Also, I suggest to every maintainer in AUR to remove qt from the depends() array when there's qtwebkit or any package that needs qt: if you do that, this will require no rebuild as we updated every package in the official repositories to use qt4. Also, we ship the Qt 5.x series in [testing]. Qt 5.x is more modular than 4.x. This allow us to have these Qt 5.x packages: * qt5-base * qt5-declarative * qt5-graphicaleffects * qt5-imageformats * qt5-jsbackend * qt5-multimedia * qt5-quick1 * qt5-script * qt5-svg * qt5-tools * qt5-translations * qt5-webkit * qt5-xmlpatterns Generally you only need qt5-base. But, if you are a Qt developer or you want a full installation you can install the whole 'qt' group. When you install both qt5-base and qt4, qmake will refers to the 5.x version. To 'force' Qt 4.x, you can use the qmake4 symlink. There's also moc-qt4, uic- qt4 and rcc-qt4. We provide these symlinks as they are used by cmake and by the configure scripts to locate qt4. -- Andrea Arch Linux Developer

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[aur-general] [Disownment request] haskell-hashable
by hauzer＠gmx.com 02 Mar '13

02 Mar '13

haskell-hashable [1] hasn't been updated in over a year. I would like to take it over. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39917 ~ hauzer

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[aur-general] How to see the interest in a package (other than votes)?
by oliver 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Hello, is it possible to see the number of downloads of packages from AUR, so that it can be detected, how much interest in a package exists? Say, there are some users who do not have a AUR-login, and just would install the packages that are there... which are possibly outdated, but would nevertheless be interested in installing newer package, if possible. If the download number is high enough, even if there are not much votes (because some people may only install stuff but are not interested in package maintaining and so on), then at least interest of a package might be detected this way. I'm asking, because I think I can adopt some more packages, but would of course only pick those that I find interesting. They might be interesting (topic), even if I wil not use them by myself. So, from that standpoint, I would then select by my own interest and that of other people. For packages that I use by myself, of course my interest is clear, and I would pick such packages. But say there are 100 orphaned packages and 20 of them look interesting, but I would not use them by myself, then I would adopt those, who are wanted by many people. (And any package that I want to install myself.) I hope I could make ckear, why I'm asking. Say, there are 5 interesting packages, but 3 of them will not be used, because that stuff is not used any more (maybe because better projects are to prefer), then three don't need support I think. So, the tarball download numbers do matter in this respect. Is it possible to add them to the AUR-pages of a project? Ciao, Oliver

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[aur-general] Disown 389-ds-base
by 小龙陈 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Hi, Could a TU please disown the 389-ds-base package[1]? I've contacted the maintainer over a month ago and haven't received a reply. Thanks! Xiao-Long [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/389-ds-base/

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[aur-general] [Removal request] kdeplasma-applets-plaspool
by A Rojas 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kdeplasma-applets-plaspool/ Doesn't compile, abandoned upstream, superseded by kdeutils-print-manager

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