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[aur-general] TU Resignation
by Sebastian 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

Hi, With the heavy university load I will have this semester, I don't think I'll manage to keep up with the mailing list and updating packages. I have mostly stopped using Linux altogether, and the install that I do have is a bit of a mess, so maintaining packages has become more of a nuisance than something I enjoy. I wanted to become a TU mainly to learn the workflow of a TU and generally just find out how the AUR works from the perspective of a TU, in order to develop AUR2. I think I have mostly done that, but AUR2 development has ceased. Hopefully I (or someone else ;) ) will pick it up and finish it off. I just don't have the time right now. Luckily I don't have many packages in community. I didn't really get around to moving the ones I wanted from unsupported to community. The ones that are there are free for the taking, if anyone wants them. If not, I can move them to unsupported and try to keep maintaining them, or orphan them. I will try to maintain the ones in unsupported, they don't get updates very frequently (or at all). The packages in community are: dbhub dina-font offlineimap

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Re: [aur-general] galaxium package ownership
by rabyte 08 Aug '08

08 Aug '08

Fact is, I don't think I ever orphaned these packages... Thanks to you both for your help :-) -- Follow The White Rabyte . . .

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[aur-general] galaxium package ownership
by rabyte 08 Aug '08

08 Aug '08

There's some strange issue with the galaxium package actually maintained by myself (previously). I mainted it until last week or so and can't remember having orphaned it. Then I found it to be "taken over" by somebody else, namely ekerazha. I mailed him asking what happened, no response. So I really don't know what happened, but I'd be grateful if I got it back :-) -- Follow The White Rabyte . . .

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[aur-general] galaxium package ownership + libanculus-sharp
by rabyte 08 Aug '08

08 Aug '08

The same goes for the libanculus-sharp pkg :-) -- Follow The White Rabyte . . .

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[aur-general] GID reservation request for vlock
by bardo 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

Since the last few versions vlock requires a 'vlock' group, or another group that it is configured to use at build time. Vlock is a security program, so it would be better for it to have its own group, but I could also use an existing one, if someone can share a suggestion. Corrado

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[aur-general] TU Application.
by Daenyth Blank 03 Aug '08

03 Aug '08

Hey all! I'm applying for a TU position, hopefully you'll consider me. My sponsor is Anders Bergh (anders). I go by the name Daenyth, and I've been using Linux for several years. I started on Slackware and switched to Arch about a year and a half ago. I'm 20, and I work as a sysadmin/tech support/office monkey at an ESL school in Boston. During my free time, I love listening to tons of music, chilling on IRC, and playing video games, among other things. I especially love playing around with pretty much anything Linux related. Right now I only maintain a handful of packages in the AUR[1], but I plan to expand what I have. One of my goals is to package lots of new software for Arch. I want Arch to be _the_ distro people talk about for package selection. I love the way Arch is designed, and the KISS philosophy, and I want to give back to the community that's been so wonderful to me. Currently my most popular package is "pkgtools". It's a bundle of things that I've written relating to arch packages. After collaborating with another author, I'll be including spec2arch, which is a tool aimed at helping developers provide basic PKGBUILD files from rpm .spec files. I also maintain a few Perl related packages, and hope to increase their number. I am one of the co-maintainers for the arch-games project[2]. For those who don't know, it's a user repo to provide binary packages for all the games in AUR, so that our users can more easily install them (many have long compile times or are otherwise annoying). Thanks for your consideration, --Daenyth [1] - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=daenyth&SeB=m [2] - http://arch-games.twilightlair.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

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[aur-general] easytag-devel deleting request
by Артем Смирнов 03 Aug '08

03 Aug '08

Hi! Please, delete my PKGBUILD easytag-devel, because extra repository provides development version of easytag now. -- Artyom

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[aur-general] prepare on KDE 4.1 move to [extra]
by Pierre Schmitz 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

Hi TU, KDE 4.1 will be moved to [extra] tonight or tomorrow. If you maintain packages in [community] which depend on KDE3 you might want to read this: * Look for a new upstream release which can be used with KDE 4. * If there is no new version change deps to kdelibs3 and try recompiling. * try sourcing qt3.sh and kde3.sh from /etc/profile.d/ * If configure fails try adding --without-arts. * Don't trust namcap saying there would be no dependency to kdelibs3. :-) * If the build still fails with some undefind references, try biulding in a clean environment without kdelibs-4 * If nothing helps your package might depend on stuff from kdebase or other KDE packages. You might think about removing it from [community] then. Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre(a)jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de

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[aur-general] Holidays
by DaNiMoTh 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

I'm going to the Italian Swimming Championship, then I'll go on holidays ( finally ) until... until... I don't know. Many things are changed from my application as a TU; I think I never come back, but who knows? So, this time is only for my absence. I know that there is a limits ( 3 months, am I right? ). I hope before November I take my decision... if not, I will be dropped automatically. Feel free to take any of my packages from now, don't wait. But I would like that compiz goes to extra. Maybe Monday ( the last day that I have internet here ) I could help to move some useless packages to unsupported. Finally, many thanks to ( random order ): - tpowa, the first that answer to my noob questions ( I know, those was other day, when the main reply wasn't: " Patch welcome " ); - molok and voidnull, that help me when I need help; - Italian #archlinux channel on Azzurra Network, I won't forget the time we have passed togheter ( maybe I will join, sometimes.. ); - Simo, Dan for the great arrogance that they use; - All the person who contribuiting with comments or bugreport to my packages. Maybe I forget someone; in this case, don't worry, I will remember you in the future, and I will repair with a beer :D Good luck to all.

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[aur-general] Orphaning request
by rabyte 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

I'd hereby like to request the orphaning of all packages uploaded by funkyou. There's two packages flagged as outdated, He doesn't respond to comments and I tried to contact him via Jabber to no avail. -- Follow The White Rabyte . . .

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