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[aur-general] TU application
by Jonathan Steel 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

Hi, I'm interested in becoming a TU. I've been using Arch for nearly 4 years (Linux for 7) and recently started getting involved maintaining packages in the AUR. I would love to see some of these in community, help more in the AUR, extend my Arch knowledge and get to know other Arch users. I would be interested in helping out wherever I can; I already spend a good hour every day or two messing around with my Arch setups so instead of tweaking not-so-necessary things I can do something more helpful. I would enjoy the learning curve and experience and I'm quick to pick things up. A little info about me: 26, male, UK, IT manager, Christian, husband/father, retro gamer, sense of humour, perfectionist. Many thanks, jsteel

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[aur-general] Dropping packages
by Jelle van der Waa 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

Hi TU's! I'm planning to drop a few packages, some other TU's might be interested in maintaing it. Else I will put listen in AUR. * listen ( Latest release a year ago, almost 2 years now in March 2012.. ) FS#25906 * exaile ( no bugs open, works, but i don't use it ) * wifi-select ( don't use netcfg) I already disowned them on archweb. -- Jelle van der Waa

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Re: [aur-general] TU application
by Jonathan Steel 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

>Any reason you didn't send removal requests for those packages to >aur-general? >... you never sent any mail to the mailing lists >How long have you been maintaining your AUR packages for? It was just a few months ago I started adopting and updating packages. I wasn't sure how involved I could get with other people's packages (removals, changes etc.) and assumed I needed to be a TU to get more involved. I wasn't sure how likely that would be, but I thought I would at least let you know there was interest and that help was available if needed. I've learned I can already get more involved through this mailing list so I'm sure you will now hear from me from time to time regardless of the outcome of this application. >Just out of interest, where in the UK are you based? (I'm in Birmingham.) Quite far away; South Buckinghamshire. >Looking at what we have, I have a few suggestions Thanks for the tips, I will begin tidying these up. Should any change of the PKGBUILD justify a new release (pkgrel)? Or only if it alters the end package?

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[aur-general] [delete-request] bin32-zsnes
by Anton Larionov 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

bin32-zsnes https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19167 duplicate multilib/zsnes -- Regards, Anton Larionov

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[aur-general] Abandonware in the AUR
by Karol Blazewicz 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

We have a discussion on the forums [1] about Arch's policy towards what packages can be provided in the AUR with the focus on abandonware. User megadriver found a couple packages [2] that provide a means of downloading games for free (as in beer) even though those games can be bought. Apps can go in and out of the abandonware status as their availability changes: now you can buy them, now you can't. Do we care about this or is it up to the user to check if the stuff he installs is legal? Should we set up a bot to scan for potential 'warez' stuff? [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=128832 [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1008451#p1008451

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[aur-general] Request to add a rule
by Christopher luna 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

This is (again) about forbidding urls to warez on pkgbuilds on AUR. probably you people have seen the discussion on the forum. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=128832 But is not going anyware. Now, I think ewaller, hitted the nail in the head when said: "If you don't have explicit permission to copy and distribute, you may not copy and distribute. Period." I think something as easy like that would solve it all. So I am requesting a rule like that (it can be different, it doesn't have to be those words) to be added to the aur user guidelines. maybe here, on sharing packages? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_User_Guidelines#Sharing_packages Thanks.

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[aur-general] Orphan request
by Max Roder 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Hi, on October 9th, I mailed nofxx [1] and asked wether he still has the time to update his packages (some of them are out-of-date/404). I would like to adopt and update some of them. As I did not recieve any reaction, I'm asking you to orphan his packages. Thanks, Max [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account.php?Action=AccountInfo&ID=6641

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Re: [aur-general] virtualbox wiki page
by Emilio Miralles 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Hello, I took a first stab at restructuring Virtualbox <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Virtualbox>. I brought in the content from Arch_Linux_VirtualBox_Guest<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_VirtualBox_Guest>, and offloaded a bunch of stuff to VirtualBox_Extras<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox_Extras>. Discussion of the changes on Talk:VirtualBox#Page_overhaul_by_dev_request<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:VirtualBox#Page_overhaul_by_dev_r…> . Emilio

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[aur-general] Please rename "virtualbox_bin_beta" to "virtualbox-beta-bin"
by Det 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Please rename "virtualbox_bin_beta" to "virtualbox-beta-bin": https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27339

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[aur-general] Deletion Request
by Christopher luna 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Please delete the package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33036 Is doom II, which is copyrighted and Id software does not give permission for redistribution. The download link is dead, so in teory is not piracy. but the package can be adopted by someone and get "fixed" with a working link. just for the record, is not a trial/shareware version; there is not shareware version of that game. (by mistake I send this message from a different email address too, sorry)

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