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[aur-general] Disowning some pkgs
by DaNiMoTh 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Hello to all, I want to disown these packages: ktechlab, doesn't compile anyomore and it isn't maintained gpsim and gputils, needed by ktechlab and for some others pkg in unsupported. If anyone wants it, i will move these on unsupported. Thank you

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[aur-general] Gone for a bit.
by Loui 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

Hey everyone! I'll be gone for a little bit, I'll be returning some time in the second week of August (maybe the 11th or 12th). Cheers.

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[aur-general] TU Application.
by Daenyth Blank 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Geoffroy Carrier <geoffroy.carrier(a)koon.fr> wrote: > I am happy with this application. Thanks! > Could most of the arch-games packages come into [community]? Probably. I don't think there would be an issue with it really, just that there wasn't a TU interested.

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Re: [aur-general] TU Application
by w9ya＠qrparci.net 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

> I'm sorry, but i'm not going to do that. It was drama, it was a few > years ago when i was younger and stupider. It's no longer an issue > between myself and the parties involved so as i mentioned, i'm not > going to bring it up and i very much hope this will be the last of the > issue of if i was a Debian Developer or not. Let's just say i didn't > want my name affiliated with Debian anymore when i left and leave it > at that. Hey JD and the gang; No I am not intending to be "heaping it on" here, but alas I cannot let this go without comment. If you expected the TU community to not go and check your credentials then, as you can clearly see, it did not work. And since you brought this matter up without any prompting from any of us, it is NOT your position to expect the scrutiny OR the discussion in this matter to end now, (simply because you wish it to). Best regards; Bob Finch P.S. What I read below is beneath comment. It saddens me that you wrote this. More especially since it was in reply to your sponsor. A short observation -> IMHO adding someone who appears so willing to be confrontational is *NOT* doing the "right thing FOR THE COMMUNITY". > > Here's my honest, no BS opinion: There are currently only 27 TU's and > 36 developers in this project. I have the skills to be a very capable > TU. I more or less don't care if you vote for me to be a TU to be > perfectly honest. It's not going to plague me in the morning that i > didn't get enough votes. I only feel that i'd bring something useful > to a community with currently a lot of ground to cover (~9600 packages > in the AUR) and from what i can see, not enough people to cover it. > > Thanks > I hope you all do the right thing FOR THE COMMUNITY. > JD > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> > wrote: >> Jeff Horelick wrote: >>> >>> That would be a long story involving some "secretive" Debian Drama >>> (between me and 2/3 other people via email/IM) that i'd really >>> rather not pull into the mix. >>> >> But I'm afraid you are going to have to be a bit more specific about >> you being an ex Debian developer if you want anyone to vote for you. >> There is also no mention of you in the changelogs of gftp and conky. >> This experience was a primary factor in my choosing to sponsor you >> despite having few packages in the AUR. With that being questioned, >> your whole application is on very, very shaky ground, which is more >> than a bit embarrassing for me as your sponsor. >> >> Allan

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[aur-general] Haddock
by Ashok Gautham 27 Jul '08

27 Jul '08

I am the maintainer of the haddock package on aur. I was planning to update it in some time... by then I got a message from arch-haskell requesting a change in maintainership. Should I orphan it so that you can take over it?

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[aur-general] Resignation part 2 - List of packages
by Bjørn Lindeijer 26 Jul '08

26 Jul '08

Hello all, Here is the list of packages, most of them aren't updated often and probably still up to date. dumb-xmms empathy enet (dependency of tmw and cube) farsight gnome-art (candidate for removal, package is dead) gnome-splashscreen-manager (see gnome-art) gnonlin gstreamer-0.10-farsight guichan (out of date, but there is no patch out for tmw to build against the newer version, I'm working on pushing tmw 0.0.25 out soon though) jokosher jrtplib (gstreamer-0.10-farsight dependency) jthread (jrtplib dependency) kanatest libgrapple libmimic libtelepathy ltris mod_ruby nopaste physfs python-telepathy qbittorrent (apparently needs 64-bit rebuild) qmmp (out of date) qsvn qtm rake rb_libtorrent (should be renamed to libtorrent-rasterbar probably) ruby-amazon ruby-atk ruby-event-loop ruby-gconf2 ruby-gdkpixbuf2 ruby-gettext (out of date, but new version is a bit broken) ruby-glib2 ruby-gnome2 ruby-gnomecanvas ruby-gnomeprint ruby-gnomeprintui ruby-gnomevfs ruby-gtk2 ruby-gtkhtml2 ruby-gtkmozembed ruby-gtksourceview ruby-gtktrayicon ruby-libart ruby-libglade ruby-pango ruby-postgress ruby-rcairo ruby-rsvg ruby-scw ruby-shout ruby-sqlite3 (out of date) rubygame scw shackshag sofio-sip tablet-apps (for wacom) tapioca tapioca-xmpp tapiocaui (candidate for removal, old and broken) telepathy-butterfly telepathy-gabble (out of date) telepathy-glib telepathy-idle telepathy-inspector telepathy-mission-control telepathy-salut telepathy-stream-engine tetringo tmw tmwmusic visualboyadvance xdg-user-dirs Most of the Ruby Gnome related packages are from the same upstream source. Note that there is a whole group of packages related to Empathy and Telepathy, it would probably be best if this was picked up by the same TU. Link to AUR interface for convenience, sorted by votes: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=bjorn&SB=v&SO=d&PP=100&… Regards, Bjørn

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for ttf-linux-libertine 2.8.14-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for ttf-linux-libertine 2.8.14-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] Resignation
by Bjørn Lindeijer 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Dear all, Even since I got a full time job back in September 2007, my time for TU duties has been limited. A few months ago I switched to a different DSL provider (since the previous one couldn't get their act together), and they gave me a PPPoE modem instead of a router, which I couldn't get to dial in on Arch Linux, which basically forced me to switch to something else, Ubuntu in this case (pppoeconf had it done in seconds). From then on it just went downhill. I kept updating and sometimes rebuilding packages on an Arch Linux installed on VirtualBox at work. However on each Ubuntu kernel upgrade it broke down and recently it seems to have done its last breath since it no longer boots after Arch Linux ran out of harddrive space while upgrading the kernel. I decided this is where it ends. I've really enjoyed Arch Linux while it last, and I think it really rocks for those who want to be always up to date and also easily package their own stuff, allowing for a convenient and complete management of all system files. However, frequent breaks and security problems (no doubt mostly my own fault) had already made me prefer other distributions on my laptop and server. I'll post my list of packages in a separate email. Thanks for several enjoyable years! Regards, Bjørn Lindeijer

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[aur-general] Semi-inactivity
by bardo 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Hi all! Two days ago I had my last exam for the semester and promptly got on a train for a deserved (?) vacation. I have some connectivity to check how things are going and if there are any problems with my packages (in fact I'm planning to update everything I left behind because of these exams) but you never know. So if any TU or dev feels the need to tinker with my things, then just do it. Well, if you can wait a bit just drop an e-mail =) I'll be back on July, 1st. Have a great time while you impatiently wait for me ;-) Corrado

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for linux-uvc-svn 235-1! No new package supplied for guake 0.3.0-3! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] IRC shenanigans
by Aaron Griffin 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

Hey guys, I'm updating and fixing some things on IRC today, so I'm looking for a list of IRC usernames for those of you who need new cloaks. New developers, new TUs, things like that. Also, (sadly) I will be removing cloaks for people who have left our noble ranks. Please let me know when you can. Thanks, Aaron

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[aur-general] inactivity notice (vacation)
by Ronald van Haren 19 Jul '08

19 Jul '08

Hi devs/Tus, I'll be on vacation from 9th of August (tomorrow) until 29th of August. During this time I will probably not check my mail at regular intervals so don't expect quick respones from my side ;) Of course, feel free to update any of my packages if needed, or fix any new opened bugs. At the dev side I didn't adopt a lot of packages just yet for above reason so I suspect things to be quiet. On the TU side of things, I don't expect any major issues with any of my packages. Just keep an eye on bug reports that require just a simple rebuild. Btw I have already voted in the current running thread so you can count me in. See you on the other side! Regards, Ronald

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[aur-general] TU Vote: Anders Bergh (anders)
by Angel Velásquez 19 Jul '08

19 Jul '08

Hi TUs, This begins the 7 day voting thread for the addition of Anders Bergh (anders) as a TU. Please, dont forget to vote. You can see his introduction and the discussion period here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-July/008031.html You can vote using the web interface. Good Luck anders! -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Linux Counter: #359909 Arch Linux Trusted User

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[aur-general] Integrity Check i686
by Allan McRae 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

Hi TUs, I have run the repo integrity check script and filtered out the results for the community repo. Please have a look through the list and check if any of your packages are involved. One thing to notice is the missing PKGBUILDs are from packages that were removed from the repos. It appears that untagging the PKGBUILD removes the package from community repo but is not enough to remove the package from abs these days. I will look into fixing that... Allan Missing PKGBUILDs ------------------- /community/kde/kplayer/PKGBUILD (fixed) /community/system/mc-utf8/PKGBUILD (fixed) /community/system/endeavour/PKGBUILD (fixed) Duplicate PKGBUILDs --------------------- /community/lib/libotr/PKGBUILD vs. /extra/libotr/PKGBUILD (fixed) Missing Dependencies ---------------------- medit --> 'gcc-objc' flumotion --> 'gstreamer0.10-libpng' flumotion --> 'gstreamer0.10-vorbis' flumotion --> 'gstreamer0.10-theora' flumotion --> 'gstreamer0.10-ogg' flumotion --> 'twisted-web' jokosher --> 'gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs' gnustep-gui --> 'gcc-objc' kungfu --> 'gstreamer0.10-dvdread' kungfu --> 'gstreamer0.10-mpeg2dec' kungfu --> 'gstreamer0.10-libpng' kungfu --> 'gstreamer0.10-theora' exaile --> 'gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs' exaile --> 'gstreamer0.10-gconf' gnustep-base --> 'gcc-objc' qtemu --> 'qt4' gnustep-back --> 'gcc-objc' Missing Makedepends --------------------- pandoc --> 'haskell-mtl' pygoocanvas --> 'pygobject-doc' gensplash --> 'klibc-beyond' Unmet Dependency Provisions ----------------------------- fldigi-docs --> 'fldigi=2.10' eclipse-ve --> 'eclipse<3.3' Invalid Archs --------------- luasql-mysql --> ppc coxpcall --> ppc copas --> ppc premake --> ppc

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for poedit 1.4.1-2! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] secondlife need help
by Amanai 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 secondlife i686 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18446 you can play this game, but there are several small bugs to fix. looks like this Wiki is out dated http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Compiling_the_viewer_(Linux) I orphan this package and hope someone will fix the last things. THx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkh9l2MACgkQ+IsChyUV2oFiEgCgjilKj29PJSRttyLqIvPuDPrN I7cAnj/Qq4FxILMm3C8RuDkWtpkDZ7aN =qZw2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for python-lxml 2.1-1! Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for copas 1.1.3-2! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] google-perftools
by Amanai 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Can one of the TU please orphan the package google-perftools http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7785 looks like the owner don't update it anymore. Thx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkh9hhEACgkQ+IsChyUV2oHprwCgjL9//ej7ehTCn37yLntCfhus Q40An1uspkxmEpHOX1ck1FO44M/YYPoi =0dpD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] sancho-gtk removal from [community]: discussion thread
by bardo 15 Jul '08

15 Jul '08

Hi fellow TUs, devs and archers! I'm writing this long e-mail to discuss the current situation about sancho-gtk, a [community] package I'm maintaining. I inherited sancho-gtk, a front-end for mldonkey, when mOLOk resigned from his TU position, and some time ago I checked if everything was ok with it. In the PKGBUILD I found an ugly hack to download the software, which is hosted on Sourceforge but isn't available at the traditional download location. It is rather distributed through a direct link in its homepage (http://sancho-gui.sourceforge.net/) but that link changes every few minutes: because of this came the ugly hack. The whole thing, I discovered, was done on purpose by its author, whom I contacted for explainations. He pointed out that the download page page states "no redist/pkging/mirrors pls". I don't like forwarding private e-mails, so here's a summary of what I found out and some of my assumptions. * The author doesn't like his software to be repackaged because he doesn't want users complaining upstream for distribution-level bugs. * He doesn't really care if his user base drops to near-zero because his software isn't easily available and integrated in linux distributions. * I wasn't able to find the application's source code (the GTK version, at least) on his site, so I assume it is a closed source app. When the author was asked to clarify his position, include a license and, in case of a free one, the corresponding source code, he didn't answer. * The author thinks software inclusion in a linux distro is "opt-in" (his words), and states he never asked for it. When I pointed out that free software has nothing to do with opt-in, he stopped answering my e-mails. * The author never clearly stated (even though I asked) if we are infringing any license by redistributing the software. * An important phrase I think i just have to report is "I don't think a license has ever written any software", referring to his preference of distributing his software only through the homepage. I want to drop this software from our repos. Not because he asked for it, but because it looks like this person doesn't really understand what free software and a community are, and that we are persons, too, with our rights. He's not the kind of person I want to deal with. I also think he is in violation of Sourceforge terms, since he's maintaining what looks like proprietary software on their servers. What do you think about the whole thing? I already decided to drop both sancho-gtk and mldonkey (its development seems to be stalled), but there are more questions. Should I notify him to Sourceforge in case he is infringing? Should I drop the package to [unsupported]? Should I delete it? Should I hand it to another maintainer? I wouldn't want to see another ion3, but I don't think it's very different. Should we try to define special policies for cases like these? Corrado

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[aur-general] TU reminder: set PACKAGER variable in makepkg.conf
by bardo 15 Jul '08

15 Jul '08

(This is also valid for some devs.) Please, remember to set the PACKAGER variable in all your build machines. It really helps being able to know who built a package through pacman -Qi or -Si. Thanks, Corrado

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[aur-general] offline for a bit
by Aaron Schaefer 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

Ahoy all...both the NICs on my Arch box got fried during a thunderstorm last week, so my machine has been without teh intertubes. I have a couple of packages flagged out of date and one bug report (which I am most likely just going to update the package to the development version to solve). Anyway, I've got to order a new NIC to get back up and running, but wanted to inform you that I'm not just slacking off :-) I should be back up and running early next week I would guess... -- Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 10 Jul '08

10 Jul '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for hedgewars 0.9.5-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] Adding MAINTAINER comment box
by james toy 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

AUR, I think we should try to implement a comment box above the general comment box that can be edited ONLY by the package maintainer -- this is important for updates and information about more complex packages -- for example -- kernel26zenmm-git does not automatically have nvidia support built in and can be supplemented by the xf86-video-nvidia (i think thats the package name i'm just doing it from memory now) -- this is useful information that should not get lost in the main comments box -- i just wanted to throw this out there -- never too many documents -- especially when there are caveats -- hope everyone is well respectfully, -- jt

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for cherrypy 3.1.0-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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