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[aur-general] TU Application - Sebastian Nowicki
by Sebastian Nowicki 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hi, my name is Sebastian Nowicki. You may know me as Xilon from IRC, the bbs, AUR, or even the bug tracker. I am a 19 year old Computer Science and Internet Computing student. I have been using Archlinux for just over a year. I have been supporting other Archlinux users over the past year on the IRC channel, where I am now an operator. For the past 4 months I have also been coding AUR2, which some of you may know. I maintain 13 package in unsupported, and have had one package (powertop) taken to community. I also maintained gtkdc and dclibc, but due to the projects dieing upstream, I recently orphaned them. Having an AMD64 processor I will be able to compile both i686 and x86_64 packages. I have already setup the necessary chroots in order to do so. As a TU I would initially move the following packages to community: * btg * dbhub * dina-font * grc * screenwm * subtle These packages aren't very active upstream in terms of development, so I will probably be able to take on more packages from unsupported, or even from sergej ;). Callan mentioned that he would sponser me.

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[aur-general] Gnome package guidelines
by Roman Kyrylych 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Hi! I've seen an increasing demand for this, so... I've just made a public copy of JGC's excellent guidelines for Gnome packages here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gnome_package_guidelines This applies not only to Gnome packages but also to Xfce and some pure Gtk packages as well (not sure about KDE/Qt packages) - basically anything that use gconf, .desktop, hicolor icon theme etc. and is intended for usage in a desktop environment. (e.g. there's no need for Sauerbraten to use desktop-file-utils *just* because it includes .desktop file (it can be run a server only)). There is a collector bugreport for this: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9217 -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[aur-general] man pages move
by Roman Kyrylych 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

Hi! All AUR contributors, please note that "Man pages *should* be installed to /usr/share/man from here on out. The new makepkg (3.1) will no longer move man pages to /usr/man. This will begin our slow-but-steady phase in of FHS compliant man pages." Packages which EXPLICITLY use /usr/man in the PKGBUILD (perhaps through a configure option) should be fixed. TUs please take a look at http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9189 -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[aur-general] testing/extra
by Abhishek Dasgupta 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

I wish to use testing to try out KDE 4, however if I do that then the packages I'll be building for [community] will be compiled against [testing] libs, which will cause a problem. Is there a way in which I can safely try out testing, while also making sure that the packages I compile are built against libs in [extra]? -- Abhishek Dasgupta

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for pygobject-docs 2.14.1-1! No new package supplied for pygtk-docs 2.12.1-1! No new package supplied for xen 3.1.2-2! -- 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] Borked AUR/Community repo/cvs
by w9ya＠qrparci.net 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

Both Wizzo and myself have noticed that the 'communitypkg' package is "hanging" and requires a 'ctrl-c' to continue. The PKGBUILD seems to upload BUT the tarball does not. ALSO: the aur web interface does NOT record the new PKGBUILD either. Wizzo guesses that 'tupkg' is not connecting to 'aur'. In any event, I am guessing that someone who deals with this stuff, should look into this. Thanks for reading this.... Very best regards; Bob Finch Liviu Librescu - În veci pomenirea lui. (May his memory be eternal.)

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[aur-general] TU Vote: Abhishek Dasgupta (abhidg)
by Varun Acharya 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Hi TU's, Following the discussion period for Abhishek, (abhidg), now starts the 7 day voting period. Please lets avoid past issues of being unable to reach quorum. Abhishek's introduction is here http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2007-December/006473.html Obviously a +1 from me, since I was the sponsor. Varun

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[aur-general] TU Application - Allan McRae
by Allan McRae 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hello, I'm Allan McRae and go by the imaginative username "Allan" on the AUR, forums and bug tracker. I maintain around 25 packages in the AUR (although around half of these are perl-modules) and have had a package moved to community (sunbird). If you elect me to be a TU, I will initially move several of my packages (xmltv + dependencies, desemume, colordiff) to community as well as a couple of other popular packages I use often that are fairly popular (jabref, possibly notecase). I am currently unable to build x86_64 packages as my 64bit desktop has been dead for the last three months (from a power surge I think) and I have given up on fixing it but will probably buy a new one in the coming months. I have been using Linux since Red Hat 8.0 was released (late 2002?). I shuffled from Fedora to Ubuntu to Debian before building a Linux From Scratch system. I discovered Arch when I was looking at finding a package manager to use in LFS and installed it "temporarily" to build my new LFS system. That was about a year and a half ago... I now have Arch installed on two servers, a (broken) desktop and a laptop. As an Arch user, I am fairly active on the forums and like to go bug squashing occasionally. I have also contributed a couple of patches to pacman. I have written a script for maintaining R libraries but I think no-one but me actually uses it. A bit about me personally. I am 27 years old, a New Zealander currently living in Brisbane, Australia. I work as a statistical geneticist for a large medical research institute. Apart from computers, my major hobbies include martial arts and watching anime. I have Roman lined up to sponsor me. Cheers, Allan

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[aur-general] AUR CVS access and more
by Ronald van Haren 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

After I did send the output of htpasswd -n to simo, I was reading in the arch-dev mailing list, and it appears he is on a vacation untill the 14th of January. Is there someone else who can give me (and probably also Timm (?)) access to AUR cvs now he is away, and also can someone update my AUR account ? Also Eric is set as inactive, so my forum account will not be updated in a while (though this is not a major issue I guess). thank you :)

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[aur-general] Applying to become TU.
by Mateusz Herych 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hello. I`am Mateusz Herych, from Poland. I`am 17 years old and I started with Linux 3 years ago (with Arch 2 years ago). I registrered in AUR in December 2006, partition is my login there. One of my packages has been moved to [community] repo (skype-staticqt). Now I`am maintainer of 15 PKGBUILDs there. Most of them I using by myself. I have some knowledge with C, C++, PHP and bash. I have experience with other project (SCXD - http://scxd.info) where I was a developer. My English is average (I have few gramatical problems, but I understand all). Why I want to become Trusted User? Currently I`ve installed Arch on more than 20 machines (many of them are at my school, unfortunately all of them are x86 :( ). I want to give something to this distribution. When I become TU I will move many of my packages to [community] repo, but I will adopt some packages like ircii-pana or idesk. Yes, I know that there are no new versions of them, but many people are using it yet. I`am trying to help other people on IRC (mostly on Polish channels and networks, but I talking on #archlinux@FreeNode too. My nick is Part` there.). I translated some news from http://archlinux.org to http://archlinux.pl. I promote Arch Linux in my community. So, I`am looking for someone want be my sponsor. Feel free to ask, if you want. Regards, Mateusz.

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