March 2013 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] Remove request for stepmania-svn
by Michael Kogan 03 Mar '13

03 Mar '13

Hello, list! I'm the current maintainer of stepmania-svn ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/stepmania-svn/) which builds the SVN version of the old Stepmania 4 branch. Since there already exist packages for the HG version of Stepmania 5 ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sm-ssc-hg) as well as for the last beta version of Stepmania 4 (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/stepmania-beta), I think, there is no need for stepmania-svn any more. Also, currently the package doesn't build due to a compilation error of an old ffmpeg revision which is so old that I wouldn't really want to investigate the issue. Thanks, Michael

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[aur-general] Deletion request: python3-argparse
by Aaron DeVore 03 Mar '13

03 Mar '13

Misnamed and unnecessary package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python3-argparse/

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[aur-general] Putting bumblebee and friends into [community]
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 03 Mar '13

03 Mar '13

Hi, I'd like to gather some opinions on this. I was thinking about putting bumblebee, primus and bbswitch into [community] as it doesn't look as though nvidia is going to fix this properly in their driver any time soon. I know about the GPL symbol drama and the supposed fix that is in mainline now but how long until nvidia releases a working driver that makes use of all that? Until then, I think bumblebee is an ok fix. For laptops with optimus, bumblebee is pretty much a necessity if you want any kind of battery life and acceptable sound levels. I have a laptop with optimus and use bumblebee all the time and I think it would make sense to have it in [community]. The sad fact is that bumblebee is currently the only working solution for optimus. Normally I wouldn't ask the mailing list for something mundane as moving packages but as bbswitch is a kernel module and as bumblebee is not very highly regarded as a good solution even by its developers, I thought it'd make sense to ask here first before people got angry.

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[aur-general] Merge pyodbc into python2-pyodbc
by Robert Knauer 02 Mar '13

02 Mar '13

Hello, the package pyodbc[1] is flagged out of date for over a year, has the wrong name and depends on python, but it's for python2. I've uploaded two new packages, python2-pyodbc[2] for python2 and python-pyodbc[3] for python3. pyodbc[1] should get merged into python2-pyodbc[2]. Thanks in advance, Robert [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pyodbc/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-pyodbc/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-pyodbc/ PS: Sorry for writing to arch-general, I accidently wrote to the wrong list. -- GnuPG-Key: EDC67BBA Fingerprint: D5F0 BC03 3F6D 521C 6F2D 40C8 DDBA 25D9 EDC6 7BBA

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[aur-general] Remove request
by Xavier Corredor Llano 02 Mar '13

02 Mar '13

Hi remove this packages: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/babiloo/ (development is inactive, the developers recommend use goldendict instead) https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jaziku-dev/ (was renamed to jaziku_dev) thanks -- Xavier Corredor Llano

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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] orphan request: mycraft
by Limao Luo 02 Mar '13

02 Mar '13

There's a package in the AUR called mycraft [1] that currently doesn't follow AUR guidelines, specifically the guideline about not putting stuff in the source package that can be downloaded from an outside source. Among the files in the source package is a png file that can be simply extracted from a jar file that is among the sources. Originally the jar was in the source package. After I notified the maintainer (makz) about 5 weeks ago about the jar and png, and included instructions based on my feedthebeast [2] package on how to extract the png, makz uploaded a new version with only the jar located externally; however, the png is still needlessly in the source package. makz last uploaded the PKGBUILD on Feb 13, and I emailed them a second time a couple days later with no response. As a result, I am requesting orphaning of mycraft [1]. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/my/mycraft/PKGBUILD [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fe/feedthebeast/PKGBUILD

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[aur-general] Signoff report for [community-testing]
by Arch Website Notification 02 Mar '13

02 Mar '13

=== Signoff report for [community-testing] === https://www.archlinux.org/packages/signoffs/ There are currently: * 14 new packages in last 24 hours * 0 known bad packages * 0 packages not accepting signoffs * 0 fully signed off packages * 38 packages missing signoffs * 0 packages older than 14 days (Note: the word 'package' as used here refers to packages as grouped by pkgbase, architecture, and repository; e.g., one PKGBUILD produces one package per architecture, even if it is a split package.) == New packages in [community-testing] in last 24 hours (14 total) == * dgen-sdl-1.32-2 (i686) * libextractor-1.0.1-4 (i686) * opencc-0.4.0-1 (i686) * packagekit-0.7.6-5 (i686) * vdrift-2012.07.22-4 (i686) * virtualbox-modules-4.2.8-2 (i686) * virtualbox-modules-lts-4.2.8-2 (i686) * dgen-sdl-1.32-2 (x86_64) * libextractor-1.0.1-4 (x86_64) * opencc-0.4.0-1 (x86_64) * packagekit-0.7.6-5 (x86_64) * vdrift-2012.07.22-4 (x86_64) * virtualbox-modules-4.2.8-2 (x86_64) * virtualbox-modules-lts-4.2.8-2 (x86_64) == Incomplete signoffs for [community] (36 total) == * boinc-7.0.53-1 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * cdfs-2.6.27-38 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * dgen-sdl-1.32-2 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * libextractor-1.0.1-4 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * llvm-amdgpu-snapshot-20130219-1 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * ndiswrapper-1.58-2 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * open-vm-tools-modules-1:9.2.2-6 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * opencc-0.4.0-1 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * packagekit-0.7.6-5 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * r8168-8.035.00-5 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * rt3562sta-2.4.1.1-24 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * shapelib-1.3.0-1 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * tp_smapi-0.41-15 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * vdrift-2012.07.22-4 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * vhba-module-20120422-18 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * virtualbox-modules-4.2.8-2 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * virtualbox-modules-lts-4.2.8-2 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * xvba-video-open-0.8.0-2 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * boinc-7.0.53-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * cdfs-2.6.27-38 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * dgen-sdl-1.32-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * libextractor-1.0.1-4 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * llvm-amdgpu-snapshot-20130219-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * ndiswrapper-1.58-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * open-vm-tools-modules-1:9.2.2-6 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * opencc-0.4.0-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * packagekit-0.7.6-5 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * r8168-8.035.00-5 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * rt3562sta-2.4.1.1-24 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * shapelib-1.3.0-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * tp_smapi-0.41-15 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * vdrift-2012.07.22-4 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * vhba-module-20120422-18 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * virtualbox-modules-4.2.8-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * virtualbox-modules-lts-4.2.8-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * xvba-video-open-0.8.0-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs == Incomplete signoffs for [unknown] (2 total) == * apitrace-3.0-1 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * apitrace-3.0-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs == Top five in signoffs in last 24 hours == 1. eric - 6 signoffs 2. dan - 3 signoffs 3. guillaume - 2 signoffs 4. foutrelis - 1 signoffs

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[aur-general] Remove request
by xenom 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Could you please remove these packages: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gambatte/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gambatte-qt/ Project move from subforge to github and does not provide archives anymore. Thanks

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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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