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

10 Oct '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for panda3d 1.5.3-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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Re: [aur-general] Where to put your name when you adopt an AUR package (was: TU Application)
by Henning Garus 09 Oct '08

09 Oct '08

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis(a)gmail.com> wrote: > stefan-husmann(a)t-online.de wrote: >>> >>> What should I add myself as, when adopting a package, if not using the >>> Maintainer tag? "Contributor" maybe? >>> >> >> Yes! > > Actually, I just read a wiki entry[1] on this which clears things up. > > # Maintainer: the maintainer responsible for this pkg in the official > repositories > # Contributor: the person who wrote the first PKGBUILD for this package > > So I shouldn't add myself at all to packages I adopt. :o > /me goes to update his adopted packages. > > ---------------- > [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS_PKGBUILD_Explained > It does make sense, at least to me, to have your name and email address in a PKGBUILD you currently maintain in AUR, even if you didn't create it. However, I don't think there is any policy about this. I have seen some "custom" tags, which I can't remember exactly and of course much misuse of the maintainer tag - I am guilty of that one myself. What one could do to prevent further misuse of the Maintainer tag would be introducing a new tag like AUR-Maintainer and put it in the wiki. Notice that this is just an example, I wouldn't be against calling this different. It wouldn't stop the "Maintainer Tag problem" all at once, but it might help reducing it.

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[aur-general] TU Application
by Evangelos Foutras 09 Oct '08

09 Oct '08

Hello, My name is Evangelos Foutras. I'm 20 years old and currently a student of Informatics at the University of Piraeus in Athens, Greece. I had my first taste of GNU/Linux a few years back with Mandrake 9.0 (if I remember correctly) that came with a magazine I bought. I didn't know much about computers back then and gave up quickly. Since then, I used Windows (2000 and then XP) pretty much until 2007. At that time I discovered Ubuntu and started messing around with it, setting my system to dual-boot XP and Ubuntu. I gradually increased the time spent on Ubuntu especially during the summer of the same year, and finally dumped Windows all together on Oct 20 2007. I've never looked back since. During this one and a half year, I've tried several distributions, including Fedora and Debian; they were alright. I really liked that Fedora shipped with very up-to-date software and I still use Debian for server environments. My first Arch installation was done this spring but for some reason I can't recall, I went back to Ubuntu the following day. My next Arch encounter I owe to Alex Cartwright, founder of TangoCMS[1]. He had recently switched to Arch himself and urged me to give it another try. This time I got to understand and love the Arch Way, so I didn't bounce. "Love at second sight", I guess. Currently, I maintain 8 packages in AUR. Two of them feature (crappy) software I've authored, two others are new contributions and the rest are orphans I've adopted. I'm somewhat experienced at C, Python, PHP and Bash, skills which have aided in handling issues that arise when packaging a piece of software. Let me say that I'm amazed at the quality of the distribution as a whole, and the tools that have been developed for it. The community is wonderful as well, composed of smart and skillful people who enjoy being of assistance to others. I'd like to get more involved in Arch and help wherever I can; therefore I'm applying for TUship. Daenyth has offered to be my sponsor and I sincerely thank him for that. :) Feel free to ask me any questions you might have. Kind regards, ------------ [1] http://www.tangocms.org/

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[aur-general] homepages not found
by Abhishek Dasgupta 09 Oct '08

09 Oct '08

Hi all, I wrote a script to find out the packages whose homepages cannot be found. An HTML version of this list is at: http://abhidg.mine.nu/arch/urlcheck-fail Most of this list comprises Perl packages, whose URL can be fixed (usually) by prefixing a ~ before the username, like: http://search.cpan.org/RHOOPER/HTTP-Lite to http://search.cpan.org/~RHOOPER/HTTP-Lite ------------------------------------------------------ # List of packages whose homepage # could not be spidered using the command: # wget --spider --tries=1 --timeout=30 $url # All results were then manually checked. # started: Thu Oct 9 05:29:34 GMT 2008 # finished: Thu Oct 9 07:07:07 GMT 2008 daemons/hula emulators/qemu-launcher games/blobwars games/chromium games/hex-a-hop gnome/gnome-ppp gnome/nautilus-audio-convert gnome/nautilus-share kde/kdvdauthorwizard kde/mtaskbar lib/net6 lib/obby lib/perl-algorithm-annotate lib/perl-algorithm-diff lib/perl-app-cli lib/perl-authen-sasl lib/perl-cgi lib/perl-cgi-session lib/perl-class-methodmaker lib/perl-color-calc lib/perl-convert-asn1 lib/perl-crypt-blowfish lib/perl-crypt-simple lib/perl-curses-ui-poe lib/perl-data-hierarchy lib/perl-data-structure-util lib/perl-datetime-event-ical lib/perl-datetime-event-recurrence lib/perl-datetime-format-ical lib/perl-dbd-sqlite2 lib/perl-dbi-shell lib/perl-file-path-expand lib/perl-file-type lib/perl-file-which lib/perl-finance-quote lib/perl-freezethaw lib/perl-graphics-colornames-www lib/perl-gssapi lib/perl-gtk2-trayicon lib/perl-html-highlight lib/perl-html-tagfilter lib/perl-html-template lib/perl-html-template-expr lib/perl-http-lite lib/perl-ical-parser lib/perl-io-tee lib/perl-ipc-shareable lib/perl-lingua-preferred lib/perl-mail-box-parser-c lib/perl-mail-transport-dbx lib/perl-math-base85 lib/perl-net-ipv4addr lib/perl-net-ipv6addr lib/perl-net-jabber lib/perl-net-subnets lib/perl-net-telnet lib/perl-net-xmpp lib/perl-object-multitype lib/perl-paranoid lib/perl-parse-plainconfig lib/perl-parse-yapp lib/perl-poe-component-client-dns lib/perl-poe-component-client-http lib/perl-poe-component-client-keepalive lib/perl-regexp-shellish lib/perl-string-crc32 lib/perl-svn-mirror lib/perl-term-animation lib/perl-term-progressbar lib/perl-term-readline lib/perl-test-differences lib/perl-text-charwidth lib/perl-text-diff lib/perl-text-markdown lib/perl-text-vfile-asdata lib/perl-tie-cphash lib/perl-time-format lib/perl-time-human lib/perl-tk-tablematrix lib/perl-www-curl lib/perl-x11-protocol lib/perl-xml-smart lib/perl-xml-stream lib/perlio-eol lib/perlio-via-dynamic lib/pykde lib/python-numarray lib/taglib-rcc lib32/lib32-libart-lgpl lib32/lib32-qt lib32/lib32-qt3 modules/xchat-systray-integration multimedia/gkrellmpc multimedia/gnomebaker multimedia/gtvg multimedia/kungfu multimedia/rexima network/ajaxterm network/ajaxterm-utf8-svn network/gproftpd network/sniffit office/addresses office/ec-fonts-mftraced office/gnuconcept office/gobby system/9base system/alunn system/pinfo system/shaman system/unshield x11/855resolution x11/magickthumbnail x11/terminus-font x11/ttf-inconsolata x11/ude x11/xmove -- Abhishek Dasgupta <http://abhidg.mine.nu> GPG 67972DOF pgp.mit.edu

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Re: [aur-general] Orphans in community part II
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

Hello, I had a look at Angel's list and that is what I found: dvd-slideshow 0.8.0-4 taken by me :) eclipse-mylyn 3.0.0-1 is already outdated (3.0.2 is out), two votes, can be moved to unsupported if noone wants it gambas 1.0.19-1 there also is release 2.8.2, which is stable. Why this one? glib2-docs 2.18.0-1 taken by sergej gtk2+extra 2.1.1-1 dependency for gpsim, maybe the maintainer wants to take it kdvdauthorwizard 1.4.6-4 ? ktechlab 0.3.6-1 depends on gpsim openlh-server 0.1-4 openlh-client is maintained opensips 1.4.2-4 taken by sergej qmc2 0.2.b4-1 ? qstardict 0.12.9-2 taken by sergej sarg 2.2.3.1-1 taken by sergej scilab 4.1.2-4 taken by sergej sofia-sip 1.12.7-1 taken by sergej telepathy-glib 0.7.10-1 ? wqy-bitmapfont 0.9.9-4 Is there any chinese-speaking TU around? wqy-zenhei 0.6.26-1 Is there any chinese-speaking TU around? xgl 0.0.1.20080407-1 does not build for me IMHO the wqy fonts should be preferably maintained by someone who at least has some basic knowledge of chinese language. If there is no TU, they should be moved to unsupported. Regards Stefan

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[aur-general] TU Vote: Imanol 'ornitorrincos' Celaya
by Ángel Velásquez 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Hi TUs, The voting period for Imanol Celaya (a.k.a ornitorrincos) it's over. By my counts we have reached quorum and ornitorrincos is now a TU, so Congratulations, ornitorrincos!!. Now, please, follow the steps described here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/New_Trusted_User_Checklist Congrats and Welcome to the team!. -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Trusted User (TU) http://www.angvp.com

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[aur-general] AUR CleanUp Day v2
by Ángel Velásquez 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Hi all, This idea was originally sent in this thread: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-May/007539.html At the end, we didn't decide a final day, but the work was done, so I propose another CleanUp Day following the model that we used the last time. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_CleanUp_Day --> here you can obtain information and put suggestion, ideas, etc. What do you recommend to maintain a more efficient thread?, a post on the forum ? and what do you suggest for the Day that we will do the clean.?. Opinions are open!. -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Trusted User (TU) http://www.angvp.com

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[aur-general] Orphans in community part II
by Ángel Velásquez 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Hi fellas, there is a new list of packages which are orphans, many of them, could be dependences of other packages which are adopted, if this is the case, please TUs adopt all dependencies of their packages. The following list are the packages which i am talking about: dvd-slideshow 0.8.0-4 eclipse-mylyn 3.0.0-1 gambas 1.0.19-1 glib2-docs 2.18.0-1 gtk2+extra 2.1.1-1 kdvdauthorwizard 1.4.6-4 ktechlab 0.3.6-1 openlh-server 0.1-4 opensips 1.4.2-4 qmc2 0.2.b4-1 qstardict 0.12.9-2 sarg 2.2.3.1-1 scilab 4.1.2-4 sofia-sip 1.12.7-1 telepathy-glib 0.7.10-1 wqy-bitmapfont 0.9.9-4 wqy-zenhei 0.6.26-1 xgl 0.0.1.20080407-1 Many were maintained by DaNiMoTh, since his resign we adopt many of his packages, but the rest still orphans, please new TUs adopt some of them if you consider able to maintain it, else I want to propose an date for move these packages to unsupported. 21/10/2008 (two weeks) sounds good to me. Opinions are open. -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Trusted User (TU) http://www.angvp.com

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[aur-general] libnetfilter_conntrack and conntrack-tools orphan request
by Alessandro Sagratini 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Hi, I would like to adopt these packages form aur. They no longer updated from months and the actual maintainer is not responding to any mail... Could anyone orphan them? Thank you, Alessandro Sagratini _________________________________________________________________ Tutto il mondo MSN a portata di clic! http://toolbar.msn.com/overview.aspx?loc=it-it

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[aur-general] Apology
by Robert Emil Berge 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

Hello everybody, I write this to apologise for my sudden disappearance several months ago. There's really no excuse for a TU to do such a thing, and I wish I had been able to tell you before I went away. This is not an excuse, just me saying I'm sorry, and that you'll probably see me around a bit again. A short explanation. Don't read on if you're not interested :) My work and studies, which aren't computer related, was very demanding for a while, and I used my Linux hobby to run away and not get anything done. So, when my email configuration got destroyed, I used that as a chance to force myself to concentrate on my work. I just didn't re-configure and actually cut myself off from the internet for a few months. Things are much calmer now, and I appreciate using and experimenting with Arch Linux very much, so I have decided to re-connect. Robert Emil Berge (filoktetes)

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