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[aur-general] Cross-compiler that installs in non-standard directories
by bardo 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi all. I've never seen an official cross-compiler package in arch, so I'm not sure if I'm breaking some rule here. I'm going to release to [community] in a short time a set of packages (binutils-avr, gcc-avr and avr-libc) which previously installed in /opt/avr. According to the guidelines I moved everything to /usr, but a couple non-standard directories are created. One is /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu, which should be fine, the other is /usr/avr, which contains its own lib and include directories. Obviously namcap complains, but this directory structure solves some conflicts: for example /usr/avr/include/ctype.h would overwrite /usr/include/ctype.h... Should I go for it? C.

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[aur-general] Replaced packages still in community
by Allan McRae 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Well avoiding doing work today, I noticed a few packages still in community that were replaced by other packages. In some cases this was long ago... Here is a possibly non-exhaustive list: lmctl (codemac - replaced by lomoco from v1.0-1 [2006-05-05]) ruby-qt (dsa - replaced by ruby-kde from v3.4.92-1 [2006-06-13]) em8300-cvs (swiergot - replaced by em8300 from v0.16.0_rc6 [2006-11-26]) python-ctypes (dsa - replaced by python from v2.5-3 [2007-03-18]) libgtk-java (sergej - replaced by java-gnome from v4.0.5 [2008-01-06]) Some of the older replacements only used "replaces" and not "provides" but anything requiring them should be updated by now. java-gnome uses the provides/replaces strategy. Is there any reason that these are still in the repository or can they be removed? Cheers, Allan

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Re: [aur-general] Replaced packages still in community
by Timm Preetz 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:10 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > libgtk-java (sergej - replaced by java-gnome from v4.0.5 [2008-01-06]) > > Is there any reason that these are still in the repository or can they > be removed? Not really. I'm pretty sure I told sergej. I will mail him again if he doesn't read that here.

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[aur-general] rb_libtorrent moved from community
by Sebastian Nowicki 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Hi, I was just packaging btg in order to move it to community, but I realised that rb_libtorrent is in unsupported. I looked at the details page[1] and it appears pressh moved it from community. Was there any reason for moving it back to unsupported? There's also a small annoyance with the libtorrent and rb_libtorrent packages - they conflict. The two packages provide different libraries, but conflict due to having the same paths. There is a package in unsupported called librtorrent [2] which resolves the issue. Since libtorrent already exists in community, the package, along with rs_rtorrent, should be either removed or the changes should be implemented in libtorrent. There was also some discussion about this conflict on the bbs [3], which provides more detail. It appears Debian is having the same problem [4]. Their solution is to rename the packages to libtorrent-rakshasa and libtorrent-rasterbar, which may be better package names than rb_libtorrent and librtorrent. I think it would be better if these packages wouldn't conflict, but excessive renaming of packages is probably unnecessary. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=14940 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=10572 [3] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=234044#p234044 [4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=402462

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[aur-general] Popular new Chinese fonts looking for TU adoption
by Qianqian Fang 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

hi all I am not sure if this is the right place to post an adoption request, if not, please advise me the appropriate mailing list. I am an upstream author of a set of popular Chinese fonts. My team and I spent the past 3.5 years developing high quality free fonts for CJK users, including the first manually fine-tuned multi-strike bitmap font with full coverage to GB18030 charset (WenQuanYi Bitmap Song), and the first open-source Hei Ti (sans-serif) vector font (WenQuanYi Zen Hei). These fonts are quite popular in the Chinese community, and widely distributed by Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu etc. Contributors also packaged these fonts for ArchLinux, with the hope of benefiting ArchLinux Chinese users. The links to these packages can be found at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=wqy The submitters of the packages recently contacted me and expressed their desires of pushing these fonts to "community", as both fonts got reasonable votes and popularity among the users. However, they have not yet been able to locate a TU to adopt these packages. So, we are looking for TU(s) who is able to take and help maintaining these Chinese font packages. The package submitters (CCed) and the upstream are willing to help and clarify things in the process of packaging. Please let us know if you are interested. thank you for your attention. Qianqian

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[aur-general] PlayOnLinux
by JaDa 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

I like start working on this cool application http://www.playonlinux.com/en/presentation.html has anyone work on this before? PlayOnLinux_2.0.7.tar.gz PlayOnLinux-DosboxSupport_2.0.7.tar.gz -- Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

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[aur-general] VOTE: Sebastian Nowicki (Xilon)
by Callan Barrett 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Whoops, sorry for being late to start this thread. This begins the 7 day voting thread for the addition of Xilon as a TU, don't forget to vote. You can see the discussion period here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-January/006694.html I vote YES. -- Callan 'wizzomafizzo' Barrett

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[aur-general] TU: Disown extract-xiso please
by Wes Brewer 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Could a TU please disown the extract-xiso package. It was added in April 2005 and has never seen an update. I would like to take over this package and I've tried to contact the contributer without success. Further investigation into this users packages reveals that 3 out of 4 of his packages are flagged out of date, all 4 of them were added in April 2005 and have never seen an update. Maybe it would be best to disown all of his packages as the contributer doesn't seem to be around anymore. At least then others could take over the PKGBUILD's. List of achlinux-nl's pacakges: cage, eggdrop, extract-xiso, gnuvd Thank You Wes,

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[aur-general] About ghc updates and cabalized packages
by Vesa Kaihlavirta 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Simo (and others who work on Haskell packages), Currently, every even minor ghc update breaks all packages that are registered via Cabal. This is not because of API incompatibilities but because the new version of ghc overwrites the Cabal db. This can be manually fixed by running all /usr/share/haskell/*/register.sh. I was wondering... could ghc do that itself in post_upgrade()? --vk

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[aur-general] orphaned packages in community
by Ronald van Haren 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hi all! I just took a look at the orphaned packages in community. I must say, they are quite a few (68, I added the full list at the end of this mail). If any of these belong to you and you did forget to adopt it after uploading, please do so now. If you did upload one of these and lost interest in it, please move it either to unsupported or post it in this thread so someone else can adopt it. In about a week time I will post the remaining list of orphaned packages at that time, so anyone interested (or needed as a dep) can adopt one of those. The rest I will move to unsupported a week or so after that. If you think the time schedule I mentioned is too short, please let me know so I can change it. Best regards, Ronald The full list of 68 orphaned packages in community: aoeui 1.0.0-1 the lightweight, unobtrusive, Dvorak-optimized editor basilisk 1.0-4 A free, portable Mac II emulator with JIT compiler bitterbpp 1.6-4 A program to backup DVDs to matroska byzanz 0.1.1-4 A desktop recorder that records to GIF childsplay 0.85.1-2 A suite of educational games for young children childsplay-plugins 0.85.2-1 Additional games for childsplay codeine 1.0.1-2 A simple, smart xine video player for KDE cowbell 0.2.7.1-3 An elegant music orgainzer divx4linux 6.1.1-1 DivX libraries (nonfree) e 0.16.999.039-1 Enlightenment Window Manager, Development Release 17 ecore 0.9.9.039-1 Event Abstraction and Modular Convenience Library edb-devel 1.0.5.007-4 Database Convenience Library wrapped around the Berkeley DB edje 0.5.0.039-1 Interface Abstraction Library and Toolset eet 0.9.10.039-1 Distribution Container Library and Tools efreet 0.0.3.004-1 An implementation of several specifications from freedesktop.org intended for use in Enlightenment DR17 (e17) and other applications using the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) embryo 0.9.1.039-1 Embeddable Scripting Language emotion 0.0.1.006-1 Video Smart-Object Library for Evas entice 0.9.3.004-4 Image Viewer using Enlightenment Foundation Libraries entrance 0.9.0.010-1 Enlightenment Display Manager epeg 0.9.0.009-1 JPEG Thumbnailing Library epsilon 0.3.0.009-1 Thumbnailing Library compliant with Freedesktop.org Standard esmart 0.9.0.009-1 A Collection of Evas Smart Objects etk 0.1.0.004-1 Etk is a toolkit based on the EFL evas 0.9.9.039-1 Enlightened Canvas Library ewl 0.5.1.009-1 Enlightenment Widget Library e_dbus 0.1.0.001-1 Wrappers around dbus to ease integrating dbus with EFL based applications freetype1 1.3.1-4 TrueType font rendering library fvwm-themes-devel 0.7.0-3 Development themes for fvwm gimpshop 2.2.11-4 A modified Gimp that features menu layouts and naming conventions similar to those in Photoshop. glitz 0.5.6-1 OpenGL image compositing library gnomesu 0.3.1-5 A program that allows a user to su to root in a Gnome environment. gourmet 0.13.4-2 A simple but powerful recipe-managing application gpsdrive 2.10pre4-1 A car (bike, ship, plane) navigation system gtk2+extra 2.1.1-1 GtkExtra is a useful set of widgets for creating GUI's for the Xwindows system using GTK+ gtk2hs 0.9.12.1-1 A GTK+2 binding for Haskell (prerelease) gtubeclock 0.9.1-3 A nixie tube style clock for X. haskell-binary 0.2-1 Efficient, pure binary serialisation using lazy ByteStrings for Haskell imlib2-devel 1.4.0.001-2 Image Rendering and Manipulation Library imlib2_loaders 1.4.0.001-1 Image Loaders for Imlib2 kdedecor-crystalgl 0.8.1-1 Transparent window decoration theme with a simple design and OpenGL-based effects kdenlive-svn 1727-1 A video editing GUI for KDE using the MLT video framework. last-exit 5-1 A last.fm player libconfig 1.1.3-1 C/C++ Configuration File Library libggi 2.2.2-1 GGI graphics library libgii 1.0.1-2 GGI input handling library libpq++ 4.0-2 C++ bindings for PostgreSQL lirc-xmms-plugin 1.4-1 XMMS LIRC plugin metakit 2.4.9.7-1 MetaKit is an efficient database library with a small footprint mowitz 0.3.1-1 This is the Mowitz (More widgets) library mxml 2.3-1 A small XML parsing library nautilus-audio-convert 0.1-2 An extension of Nautilus that provides a user-friendly way to convert several audio files nautilus-share 0.7.1-1 Share files through Samba with Nautilus nextaw 0.15.1-4 neXtaw is a replacement library for the Athena (libXaw) widget set opcion 1.1.1-4 A font viewer written in java perl-gtk2-sexy 0.02-3 Perl/CPAN Module Gtk2::Sexy php-gtk2 2.0.0beta-1 PHP bindings for gtk2 pydb 1.22-2 Pydb - Extended Python Debugger pyglet 1.0beta3-1 A pure python multimedia and game library pygoocanvas 0.9.0-1 GooCanvas python bindings qmmp 0.1.2-1 an qt4 based audio-player, rage 0.2.0.003-1 A media center designed mostly for use on a television hooked up to your pc via a remote control shapelib 1.2.10-3 simple C API for reading and writing ESRI Shapefiles shorewall-perl 4.0.5-1 perl compiler for shorewall firewall siag-office 3.6.1-4 Siag Office is a tightly integrated, free office package visualboyadvance 1.7.2-5 An emulator for Gameboy and Gameboy Advance systems. warzone 2.0.7-1 3D realtime strategy game on a future Earth winki 0.4.5-1 Aims to be the easiest program for video encoding zaptel 1.4.6-1 Zapatel Drivers for Asterisk

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