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[aur-general] TU resignation
by Roman Kyrylych 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi all! I was thinking about this for a long time, and now finally got to this announcement. I've been inactive recently, due to troubles with internet, seeking new job, moving to the new city, and this will continue as I won't have a laptop and Internet here for at least 1 week. In the meantime, I have a lot of unread bugtracker notification threads in my gmailbox (844 at this moment), and this will be my top priority for the next months. In addition, I want to concentrate more on fixing bugs in Core/Extra packages (my plan is to lower the number of open bugreports to <400 by the end of this year). I can still continue maintaining some packages in community/unsupported, if noone will want to maintain them. I won't be following TU discussions actively anymore though. Thank you all for the nice time I spent as part of the TU group. Health and growth to the group! P.S.: the list of my packages is large enough, so I will post it in a separate message later today. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[aur-general] pkg_diff location
by Allan McRae 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

For those TUs who don't follow the arch-dev-public list (you really should...), the pkg_diff pages has not been updated in a while because Andy is moving and has no internet connection. Pierre has come up with a nicer looking version: http://www.archlinux.de/?page=ArchitectureDifferences From that list, you can see that community64, as always, needs some attention. I will do my part when I finish work. Allan

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[aur-general] drpython package and shrinkta
by Jordi Cerdan 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi, I would like to update drpython package ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6419 ) because its maintainer ( http://aur.archlinux.org/account.php?Action=AccountInfo&ID=591 ) does not respond to e-mails and does not update it since May 2007. Could someone orphan it please? On the other hand, I have created a PKGBUILD for shrinkta ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17343 ) and I think it's almost well done, but I can't find the dependencies nedded for this package (only found libdvdread). How can I discover the dependencies needed by a package? I could not find nothing on the wiki about that... Regards, jcerdan

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[aur-general] Deleting packages in AUR
by Allan McRae 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi all, At the moment anyone can delete a package they maintain from the AUR. This seems to be being exploited by an evil minority to remove packages that have been orphaned. e.g. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=373831 I thought that it may be better if we restricted the deleting to only devs/TUs so this con no longer happen. (see bug http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10527) The question is, how often do packages get deleted from the AUR and thus how much work would this generate? I guess it would be in similar volume to what we already get from orphan requests but this is just a guess. Anyway, pressh suggested I post this here so all TUs would see it. Allan

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for gnome-vfs-docs 2.22.0-2! -- 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] Can't upload package
by Biru Ionut 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Hi, Somebody has deleted *-ubuntu packages and i wanted to adopte and maintain them. But i have a minor problem. I can't upload 2 of 4 packages: fontconfig-ubuntu and libxft-ubuntu. It gives me that error: You are not allowed to overwrite the fontconfig-ubuntu package. You are not allowed to overwrite the libxft-ubuntu package. Can somebody fix that problem?

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[aur-general] Trusted User Application
by Loui 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Hello Trusted Users! I'd like to formally express my interest in becoming a Trusted User. My name is Loui Chang and I've been using Arch Linux for about a year and a half. My alias is louipc in aur/wiki/bugs/bbs/freenode. I'm the current developer of aurbuild and I've also submitted many patches to help improve AUR. I'm generally interested in improving the ways that we build, distribute and manage packages. To be honest, I maintain few packages in unsupported. Most packages I need already seem to be taken care of, so I don't plan on bringing many new packages to community. Here's what I have submitted to AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=louipc&SeB=s Mostly what I offer is this: - Helping to clean up and administer AUR and community. - Help squashing bugs. - Continue developing AUR with the added perspective of a Trusted User. - Take on some packages that are already in community or packages that get dropped from the official repos. Some of my big goals are: - Develop a new system for sharing PKGBUILDs. - Give TUs more direct access and control of that system. - Get every single darn bug closed. I greatly appreciate if you can see a benefit in appointing me as a Trusted User. You guys already seem to do a very good job though. If anyone has packages that they don't really use, please let me know and maybe I can take care of them. :D Cheers!

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for screenlets 0.1.1-1! -- 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] Finally updating my packages
by rabyte 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Just wanted to let everyone know that I'll update (most) of my outdated packages within the next 24 hours. I'd like to thank everybody for their patience, read: not taking all those lovely pkgs away from me ;-) Special thanks go to Anders for taking over my webkitgtk-svn pkg, saving me hours of compile time. Yep, I'm serious :-)

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[aur-general] Inactivity notice (07/05/08 - 14/05/08)
by Sebastian Nowicki 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hi, I flying over to the USA for Apple's World Wide Developers Conference '08, so I'll be inactive from the 7th June to the 14th. I have some outdated packages, which I hope to update before I fly out, but I currently have exams. The packages usually aren't that active upstream so it shouldn't be a big deal. I'll update them when I get back.

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