April 2020 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] Account suspension?
by Tom Hale 28 Jun '20

28 Jun '20

Heya all, When logging in as "Ataraxy" at: https://aur.archlinux.org/login The site says: "Account suspended" Can somebody tell me why my account is suspended, and if in error, reactivate? Thanks, -- Tom Hale

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[aur-general] Proposal: Mark packages that require significant computational power to build
by Nick Shvelidze 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

Hello everyone, as you know, some packages on AUR take many minutes to build on all but very powerful machines. I think it would be helpful to have an optional bit of metadata that will mark these packages, or possibly even a general thing that will describe approximately how intensive the package is to build. Writing this as freecad-git melts my laptop.

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[aur-general] Package needed: xcalib
by Kristian N. 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

Hello. I'm going to be a new Arch user soon and there is an important package I need called xcalib. I need it to adjust my screen due to some vision problems. It is currently in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xcalib/ Would any developer be willing to adopt it to the official repositories? I can use the AUR, but this one thing is missing that I need from the repository and it would be very convenient to have it there too. It's a very small and simple program that will not need much upkeep work for the maintainer.

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[aur-general] adoptable packages
by Joseph Carta 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

Hi All, I added these packages for an application in the aur that no longer requires them, so there is no need for them to exist anymore. If anyone want's to adopt them, let me know, as I'm going to orphan or request delete them soon. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python37-wxpython/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python37-six/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python37-pillow/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python37-gobject/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pygobject37-devel/

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[aur-general] Spam account - barryie
by Marcin Wieczorek 25 Apr '20

25 Apr '20

Hello, A comment has been posted under gitkraken package in AUR: > I have got the idea of your product but not everyone can get that idea. > So please give some more description so that your clients can excess > you faster which I visit <redacted> to find out quality work. I hope to > see a little more description very soon. I don't know if this is a single event or something massive, but should be checked. Package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gitkraken/ Account link: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/barryie Best regards, Marcin Wieczorek

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[aur-general] Append latest commit link to package update notification
by Amin Vakil 20 Apr '20

20 Apr '20

Arch Linux Wiki has said explicitly that they don't have any responsibilities about what a package in AUR does and they also say that it's mandatory to read and understand PKGBUILD (or any other file or patch that a installation requires) before installing any package. But when a package gets updated and those who have enabled notifications want to update the package, they should (I would say everyone must) click on package page, view changes, and click on latest commit to see what has changed. So appending latest commit link "helps" and "encourages" people to check latest update and I don't think in any possible way has a downside except for a little more text to email which I assume it's OK.

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[aur-general] Deletion Request
by Diab Neiroukh 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

I accidentally pushed a new package to "kayan-gtk-theme-git" instead of "krayan-gtk-theme-git" this morning (now both exist and I will only update the latter) and would like to request it's removal. Apologies for the disturbance. Thanks, Diab Neiroukh

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[aur-general] User deletion request
by Giusy 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

I've been banned from AUR, but I keep getting notification of package I maintained on my email and that's annoying. Please delete my user. Thanks.

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