October 2014 - 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in the comments for ttf-google-webfonts[1], this has caused all sorts of confusion and messages about the package being out-of-date or having invalid checksums.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] package review
by Jeremy Audet 18 Jan '15

18 Jan '15

Hi, Would anyone be so nice as to review my libgroove package? The current package [1] and proposed package [2] are both on GitHub. The package is for a C library, and I am hoping to add a pkg-config config file (libgroove.pc) to the package. I've never written one of these before, and am worried about accidentally trashing users' systems. [1] https://github.com/Ichimonji10/PKGBUILDs/tree/master/libgroove [2] https://github.com/Ichimonji10/PKGBUILDs/tree/libgroove-pkgconfig/libgroove — Jeremy "Ichimonji10" Audet

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[aur-general] Compiz package naming
by Rob McCathie 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

Hello AUR general & Compiz package maintainers. There was some discussion about Compiz packages a little while ago, i don't think that much came of it. I'd like to re-open the discussion. My opinions/suggestions: Calling the 0.8 series "compiz" and the 0.9 series "compiz-devel" is no longer correct, it hasn't been for quite some time. All information on this page: http://www.compiz.org/ is completely wrong and out of date, like 5 years out of date, and should not be used as a reference for anything. Tracking of the state of Compiz should be done from here: https://launchpad.net/compiz Development of the 0.8 series is as close to being dead as it could be. Unless you count 2 tiny commits 5 months ago, nothing has been done in 16 months, and even that 16 month old commit was a minor change just to get it working with KDE 4.10, with the commit prior to that being an additional 5 months back. http://cgit.compiz.org/compiz/core/log/?h=compiz-0.8 My suggestion is pretty simple, "compiz" becomes the 0.9 series, the 0.8 series becomes "compiz-legacy". Any 0.9 series packages that have "core" in their name should have it removed, since the concept of Compiz being split up has been dropped since the 0.9 series. The 0.9 series doesn't have a "core" component, it's just "compiz". Some examples: martadinata666's "compiz-core" package would become "compiz-legacy-core" dev_rs0's "compiz-core-devel" package would become simply "compiz" Chazza's "compiz-core-bzr" package would become "compiz-bzr" flexiondotorg's "compiz-core-mate" package would become "compiz-legacy-core-mate" My "compiz-gtk-standalone" package would become "compiz-legacy-gtk-standalone" All the "compiz-fusion-plugins-*" packages would become "compiz-legacy-fusion-plugins-*" ...and so on. What are everyone's thoughts? -- Regards, Rob McCathie

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[aur-general] Moving opensc from community to AUR
by Sébastien Luttringer 28 Nov '14

28 Nov '14

Hello, I'm not using opensc anymore, is there a Dev/Tu interested by taking care of it? I will move it to AUR if nobody is interested. Cheers, -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://seblu.net | Twitter: @seblu42 GPG: 0x2072D77A

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[aur-general] mysql-workbench: result grid
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby 10 Nov '14

10 Nov '14

Hi all, Using AUR mysql-workbench, I dont have the result grid. If I go to the "form editor", I see the results can be edited. It means then that tha data are present but the grid is not showed. Have you the same problem? Just for the record, I buit with yaourt but also tried with manual makepkg. Thanks for your help. Note: I'm currently installing mysql-workbench-gpl and the result grid doesnt show either...

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[aur-general] TU application
by Antonio Rojas 09 Nov '14

09 Nov '14

Hello Arch Linux community, This is my application to become an Arch trusted user. My name is Antonio Rojas, I'm a mathematician and professor from Spain. Andrea Scarpino has kindly encouraged me to apply and agreed to sponsor my application. I started using Linux in grad school in 1999 (Red Hat). I quickly got to like it, but since it was preinstalled I was missing all the fun of installing and configuring it. Around 2004 I finally decided to install it in my own computers, first in virtual machines and then as the main OS. After trying a few distros I settled with Mandriva, and kept using it until the company started going downhill. Then I moved briefly to Fedora, until I discovered Arch around 2008 and I haven't left since then. It requires the perfect ammount of fiddling to make it work (for my taste) and I love always having the latest software available. In the last few years I've been an active user in the forum [1] (mostly helping people with KDE issues) and bug tracker [2], both in Arch and in upstream KDE. Despite not being a programmer, I've occasionally sent small patches to fix some issues. I've been maintaining packages in AUR for a few years, some of them have been moved to the repos. Currently I maintain close to 200 packages [3], most of them KDE related. I maintain the git versions of KDE Frameworks and Plasma, and created and maintained the first version of the Plasma 5 packages that were moved to [extra] last week. I think the next few months are going to be very exciting in the KDE world, with apps being ported to Frameworks and new apps popping up that could be moved to [community] when they become popular. Among the KDE apps that I would like to maintain in community are some that were dropped in the past but are still maintained upstream, like partitionmanager or kmplayer, some addons for Plasma 5 like sddm-kcm or kde- gtk-config (they are very recent so don't have many votes yet, but their KDE4 version is quite popular), and other ones like bangarang or zanshin which were unmaintained upstream for a while but have seen very active development in the last few weeks. I could also maintain some orphan KDE/Qt packages in community: rekonq, kcm-touchpad, texmaker. Besides KDE, my other interest is mathematical and scientific applications in general. Those tend to be quite specialized, so not many of them satisfy the requirements to be moved to [community]. What I would like to do however (if arcanis agrees, of course) is try to package sage-mathematics "properly". That is, instead of shipping the monolithic monster that upstream provides, with private copies of many system libraries (which sometimes cause conflicts with system libs, like it happened with the last major bash upgrade), package all missing dependencies and build the Sage library against them. This is a big task, since Sage has a huge number of dependencies, but Fedora and Mandriva (before it died) already do it this way since a few years ago, so it could be used as a model. Besides the obvious advantages in terms of disk space and runtime memory savings, this would also provide the individual components by themselves in the repos, so those interested could use them without having to install a 2.5 GB package. I looked into it when I was maintaining Sage in AUR, but I decided it wouldn't be practical to make people compile lots of different packages, now that it's in the repos it's a different story. Some other packages that I would like to move to the repos: clipgrab, speedcrunch, some libreoffice-latex extensions (writer2latex and texmaths), opensc (dropped recently for lack of TUs interest). I would also consider moving the LXQt desktop, the port of lxde to Qt5 and KF5, which has seen its first stable release recently. Thank you all for considering my application. Regards, Antonio [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=53078 [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/user/5403 [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=arojas

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[aur-general] Differences between AUR and AUR-Mirror
by Lex Black 01 Nov '14

01 Nov '14

Hi Checking an outdated and orphaned PKGBuild I stumbled across this: http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/tree/bouml-4.23 On the mirror is a PKGBuild named bouml-4.23 to built a specific bouml version. But this PKGBuild doesn't appear on the webinterface (or searches using the RPC interface) ~ $ cower -s bouml aur/bouml 6.6-1 (87) A free UML 2 modeler with C++, Idl, Java, PHP and Python code generation aur/bouml-5.1.2 5.1.2-1 (0) A free UML 2 modeler with C++, Idl, Java, PHP and Python code generation aur/douml 1.07b4-2 (2) UML diagram editor, fork of Bouml 4.22 So I suppose it was removed some time ago, but remained in the mirror. Should such cases be reported or is there a script checking for such things from time to time? Best regards Lex

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[aur-general] Signoff report for [community-testing]
by Arch Website Notification 31 Oct '14

31 Oct '14

=== Signoff report for [community-testing] === https://www.archlinux.org/packages/signoffs/ There are currently: * 0 new packages in last 24 hours * 0 known bad packages * 0 packages not accepting signoffs * 0 fully signed off packages * 9 packages missing signoffs * 3 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.) == Incomplete signoffs for [community] (4 total) == * eric-5.5.0-1 (any) 1/2 signoffs * freevo-1.9.0-14 (any) 0/2 signoffs * uwsgi-2.0.7-6 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * uwsgi-2.0.7-6 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs == Incomplete signoffs for [unknown] (5 total) == * eric-i18n-5.5.0-1 (any) 1/2 signoffs * gmtp-1.3.8-1 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * packagekit-qt-0.9.2-2 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * gmtp-1.3.8-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * packagekit-qt-0.9.2-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs == All packages in [community-testing] for more than 14 days (3 total) == * freevo-1.9.0-14 (any), since 2014-08-27 * packagekit-qt-0.9.2-2 (i686), since 2014-09-29 * packagekit-qt-0.9.2-2 (x86_64), since 2014-09-29 == Top five in signoffs in last 24 hours == 1. foutrelis - 7 signoffs 2. thomas - 4 signoffs 3. arcanis - 2 signoffs 4. bisson - 2 signoffs

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[aur-general] merge python2-dialog into python2-pythondialog
by Daniel Milde 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

Hi, please merge python2-dialog into python2-pythondialog as it better reflects the name of the upstream. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-dialog/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-pythondialog/ Thanks Daniel

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[aur-general] rename python2-dialog
by Daniel Milde 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

Hi, please rename python2-dialog to python2-pythondialog as it better reflects the name of the upstream. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-dialog/ Thanks Daniel

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