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

[aur-general] ttf-google-webfonts{,-distilled,-git,-hg} mess
by Jason St. John 19 Jun '19

19 Jun '19

I am the current maintainer of the AUR package ttf-google-webfonts-hg[4], and I'm bothered by the mess of various packages there are for Google's Web Fonts project. It's not at all KISS in its current state. There are currently four different AUR packages[1][2][3][4] that essentially supply the same files, and all four packages conflict with each other. Around August of 2012, the package named ttf-google-webfonts[1] was orphaned, and user w0ng created a GitHub repository[5] that mirrors the Mercurial repository[6] on Google Code (why?). Then, the new maintainer changed the original ttf-google-webfonts package from a VCS-type package that simply lacked "-hg" in the name to a package that pulls tarballs from w0ng's GitHub repo[5]. As you can see in the comments for ttf-google-webfonts[1], this has caused all sorts of confusion and messages about the package being out-of-date or having invalid checksums. To get around these issues, user epinephrine created the package ttf-google-webfonts-git[3] that clones w0ng's GitHub repo[5] instead of pulling tarballs from it, which significantly reduces the maintenance required on the package. Then, user Gently created a package named ttf-google-webfonts-distilled[2] that pulls a tarball from w0ng's GitHub repo[5] and only installs a small subset of the fonts therein. Shortly after ttf-google-webfonts[1] was changed from being a Mercurial-based package and not liking the direction that the package was taking, I reuploaded the original ttf-google-webfonts package as ttf-google-webfonts-hg[4] for people that simply wanted the old package back that uses the actual Google Web Fonts repository to download the files. To clean up this mess, I propose that ttf-google-webfonts-distilled[2] and ttf-google-webfonts-git[3] be deleted outright, for what should be obvious reasons. I also propose that ttf-google-webfonts[1] be deleted because of how frequently the Web Fonts project is updated and because the project lacks version numbers. If people really feel strongly about keeping that maintenance nightmare, then let them have it, but I really don't see what advantage it provides over the original ttf-google-webfonts-hg[4] other than one less makedepends. I apologize for the huge email, but this situation really is a mess. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-webfonts/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-webfonts-distilled/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-webfonts-git/ [4] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-webfonts-hg/ [5] https://github.com/w0ng/googlefontdirectory [6] https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/ Jason

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[aur-general] Copy.com dueling packages
by Jonathan Arnold 01 May '14

01 May '14

There are 2 packages for the Copy.com client software package: copy - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/copy/ copy-agent - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/copy-agent/ I think both have PKGBUILD problems, from dependencies (the Copy.com software uses Qt4, not Gtk, for instance) to poorly formed PKGBUILDs (one has just a package() method and one has just a build() method). I'm not really sure how this should be resolved, mostly because I wouldn't pick one over the other right now. Any one with more PKGBUILD confidence want to step in? Also, if you're interested, sign up with this link and we both get an extra 5gb(!) of cloud storage on copy.com: https://copy.com?r=NXWnIn -- Jonathan Arnold Webstream: http://hieronymus.soup.io Talent wins games, but team work and intelligence wins championships. Michael Jordan

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[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] Removal requests: dkms-rt8192cu
by N30N 29 Sep '13

29 Sep '13

Hi, This package has become dated and I would like it be removed: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dkms-rt8192cu/ Thanks and best regards, N30N.

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[aur-general] Is it OK to package oneliners?
by Karol Blazewicz 17 Sep '13

17 Sep '13

Are we OK with packages like https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/last-git/ ? Unless I'm missing something it's just https://raw.github.com/vanceza/last/master/last BTW, I don't understand what does it do & /usr/bin/last-line doesn't seem to work. $ echo 1 2 3 1 2 3 $ history 2 | head -n1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f"4-" 1 2 3 $ cat foo cat: foo: Is a directory $ history 2 | head -n1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f"4-" foo

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[aur-general] Orphan request: reciteword-books and reciteword-dicts
by hbdee.arch 12 Sep '13

12 Sep '13

Hello, The reciteword-{books,dicts} packages are unmaintained and broken. They build but don't package any files and haven't been updated since 2010. I posted a comment to both packages with a link to working PKGBUILDS, but there's been no reply from the maintainer, who appears to no longer be active. Could someone please orphan these for me: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/reciteword-books/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/reciteword-dicts/ Thank you, hbdee

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[aur-general] [tu-bylaws] [PATCH 0/2] TU bylaws amendment
by Lukas Fleischer 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

Ok, sending this before the voting period for Xyne's proposal is over since it is already clear that it will be accepted. More than 65% of all TUs voted "yes" and there are zero "no" votes so far :) The first patch is a follow-up to Xyne's proposal and is something he simply forgot when writing the patch. The second patch adds some information on how to submit patches for TU bylaws amendments. It answers following questions and solves following issues: * Where is the official bylaws Git repository? * Proposals with bad formatting that are hard to comment on. * How to submit formatting changes and actual changes at once without creating messy patches. Let the discussion period begin. Lukas Fleischer (2): Add note on when the number of TUs is recorded Add details on patch submissions tu-bylaws.txt | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -- 1.8.4.rc3.500.gc3113b0

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[aur-general] Delete request
by Julien Nicoulaud 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

Hi, Please delete freerdp-awakecoding-git - upstream fork has been merged into freerdp. Regards, Julien

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[aur-general] Delete requests
by Jerome Leclanche 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-requests-0.9.3/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-requests-0.10.0/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-requests-0.14/ All very old versions of community/python2-requests J. Leclanche

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[aur-general] Signoff report for [community-testing]
by Arch Website Notification 31 Aug '13

31 Aug '13

=== Signoff report for [community-testing] === https://www.archlinux.org/packages/signoffs/ There are currently: * 16 new packages in last 24 hours * 0 known bad packages * 0 packages not accepting signoffs * 0 fully signed off packages * 16 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 (16 total) == * bbswitch-0.7-12 (i686) * nginx- (i686) * r8168-8.036.00-9 (i686) * rt3562sta-2.4.1.1-42 (i686) * tomoyo-tools-2.5.0.20130406-2 (i686) * tp_smapi-0.41-33 (i686) * vhba-module-20130607-12 (i686) * virtualbox-modules-4.2.16-9 (i686) * bbswitch-0.7-12 (x86_64) * nginx- (x86_64) * r8168-8.036.00-9 (x86_64) * rt3562sta-2.4.1.1-42 (x86_64) * tomoyo-tools-2.5.0.20130406-2 (x86_64) * tp_smapi-0.41-33 (x86_64) * vhba-module-20130607-12 (x86_64) * virtualbox-modules-4.2.16-9 (x86_64) == Incomplete signoffs for [community] (16 total) == * bbswitch-0.7-12 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * nginx- (i686) 0/1 signoffs * r8168-8.036.00-9 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * rt3562sta-2.4.1.1-42 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * tomoyo-tools-2.5.0.20130406-2 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * tp_smapi-0.41-33 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * vhba-module-20130607-12 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * virtualbox-modules-4.2.16-9 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * bbswitch-0.7-12 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * nginx- (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * r8168-8.036.00-9 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * rt3562sta-2.4.1.1-42 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * tomoyo-tools-2.5.0.20130406-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * tp_smapi-0.41-33 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * vhba-module-20130607-12 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * virtualbox-modules-4.2.16-9 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs == Top five in signoffs in last 24 hours ==

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