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[aur-general] Deletion Request
by gadget3000 10 Sep '11

10 Sep '11

spcagui (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3420) is a dead project that uses a number of old kernel includes, such as linux/config.h, asm/semaphore.h, linux/videodev.h and media/v4l2-common.h. I've tried patching it with updated includes but I still can't get it to work. Gadget3000

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by rafael ff1 10 Sep '11

10 Sep '11

lib32-portaudio-pulse [1] is a redundancy of lib32-portaudio, as stated by the maintainer. Please delete. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=51584 Thanks in advance

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Re: [aur-general] VCS Packages
by gadget3000 10 Sep '11

10 Sep '11

I've had to remove the quotes of previous messages because the messages became too big to send to the mailing list without approval. * * *Dead repo due to dead project. I can't find any mirrors:* vim-markdown-preview-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49413) Was submitted and abandoned by the project author. python-ficcle-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32142) adb-nw-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22723) Was submitted and abandoned by the project author. mux-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27098) Moblin now exists as MeeGo but I can't find GTK widgets (http://meego.gitorious.org/) *Repo has moved:* parpg-svn (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26827) has been replaced by parpg-hg (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=51492) *Unmaintained repos: * caw-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29425) repo moved/was mirrored but it hasn't changed since 2009 ( https://github.com/milkypostman/caw) *Other requests:* fail0verflow-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45045) has been replaced by fail0verflow-ps3tools-git ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45061) thunar-actions-plugin-realgit ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36370) is an unmaintained duplicate of thunar-actions-plugin-git ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30184) Moblin now exists as MeeGo. The following packages all have meego-* replacements and are all orphans: moblin-cursor-theme-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27663) moblin-gtk-engine-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27087) moblin-icon-theme-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27088) moblin-menus-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27089) moblin-panel-applications-git ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29890) moblin-panel-myzone-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29893) moblin-panel-pasteboard-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29894 ) moblin-panel-people-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29895) moblin-panel-status-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29896) moblin-sound-theme-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27664) mutter-moblin-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27096) *(Just for reference). Repo has moved. Needs a replacement package before merging/deletion:* All mcabber-module-*-git packages have moved to mercurial. Some may also be built into mcabber-hg now as well. python-commons-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47324) now uses svn. thrift-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17977) now uses svn. phinix-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48443) Dead repo. I can't find a mirror but the repo died only between April and September so another may pop up soon. Gadget3000 P.S. Thanks for going through the last list, Thomas, and for letting me know about top posting. I'd never even heard of it.

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[aur-general] Kate Plugins Group
by Daniel Poulin 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

Hi everyone, I'm writing a PKGBUILD for a kate plugin and noticed there are a few other kate plugins in AUR. I also maintain a libreoffice plugin and noticed they are all part of a group (libreoffice-extensions). Should all of us kate plugin maintainers add the same group to our packages? Perhaps kdesdk-kate-plugins or simply kate-plugins?

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[aur-general] TU Application
by Alexander Rødseth 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

Hello, My name is Alexander Rødseth. I'm from Oslo, Norway, am 29 years old for two more months and have been using Arch for a couple of years. My first taste of Linux was a brief acquaintance with Red Hat over a decade ago, followed by Slackware and then Debian for a few years. Now I use Arch Linux both at home and at work, and it's my absolute favorite so far. My 62 AUR packages [1] have a total of 2519 votes, where 32% of the votes are for packages I submitted, while the rest are for previously orphaned packages, that needed a warm and caring home. I like how Arch tries to avoid fixing things behind your back, which I think is evident from the installation process, the package manager and the love for simplicity I've found in Arch users and developers alike. I enjoy programming in Go, Haskell, Python and C, try to contribute to open source projects with bug reports and the occasional patch (here is one for Blender [2] and one for Firefox [3]). When I was younger, I wrote a program for drawing icons and animating sprites. [4] I have a wacky homepage where I experiment with HTML5 and upload small CLI programs as I see fit. [5] I'm currently employed in Hue AS [6], a company that (roughly explained) sells a software engine for converting sound to 3D-graphics. I mainly work with developing and maintaining the internal systems for keeping track of licenses, builds and issues with the code (mostly written in Python). Luckily, I only program a minimum of C++. ;) I started working with programming before studying computer science, and I am on a lifelong track of continuing to learn stuff on my own. At least one of my AUR packages has been moved to [community] (lib32-libasyncns, moved by Jan Steffens in 2010, only have the e-mail as reference) and I've contributed to at least one package in [extra] [7]. I hang out and answer questions on #archlinux as often as I can. My goal with becoming a TU is first and foremost to help out with maintaining packages for the distro that I love and use. If I can find a bug to fix or a feature to add to pacman, or any other arch-centric application, I would like to do so. (Could an option for pacman to list all system-files that are not owned by a package be something?) I am grumpy before the first cup of coffee in the morning, other than that I'm generally happy, helpful and benevolent. I try to get a minimum of exercise and I'm in a stable relationship. I like the game of Go and creating music with jack, MIDI-synths and Arch, of course. Evangelos Foutras was kind enough to sponsor me for applying to become a TU. -- Humble regards, Alexander Rødseth (xyproto on IRC, trontonic on AUR) [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=trontonic&PP=128&SO=d&O=0&SB… [2] http://www.3dmodellering.no/beckmann/ [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78414 (ctrl-f, "patch") [4] http://burn.sf.net [5] http://roboticoverlords.org [6] http://hue.no [7] http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/crypto%2B%2B/trunk/

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[aur-general] Please post any unmaintained AUR packages here
by Matej Ľach 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

I now have several hours a day of spare time and I would like to give them back to Arch users. I would also like to learn more about building packages for AUR by practice... So, if anyone saw an unmaintained AUR package or does no longer wish to maintain his/her package for whatever reason, I would be glad to try and maintain those packages. Please let me know if you know about any (useful), unmaintained AUR package and I will contact its current maintainer to see about its situation - or if you currently own an unmaintained package and would like me to take care of it, please let me know here or at [1]. Thanks, I hope that I am not violating any rules by posting this... [1] - contact(a)matej-lach.net -- Support Free and Open Source Software! - www.fsf.org - -- I am an Arch Linux user on my desktop and an Android one on my smartphone. Use Linux/BSD and reduce your costs + get more from your PC! -- Web-- - www.matej.lach.net - -- Twitter -- - @MatejLach - -- Google+ -- - https://profiles.google.com/104570776118769922700 -

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[aur-general] Please delete pgxn-client package
by Marti Raudsepp 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

Hi, The pgxn-client package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48578) should be deleted, because the upstream has renamed to "pgxnclient" The new package name is already present here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48673 PS: The misleading "Your message to aur-general awaits moderator approval" message should be changed to tell me I need to subscribe. I already sent this email in May 2011 and naively hoped it would make it to the list. Regards, Marti

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[aur-general] prune_bin - deletion request
by Jozef Riha 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

please delete https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24227 from aur. reasons are mentioned in comments. thank you, jose (maintainer)

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[aur-general] Delete request
by rafael ff1 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

lib32-scim - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21523 The install file is missing, lib folder is not correct, source file is all "scim" binaries from Arch and, last, this package is wrong for more than 1 year. Thanks

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[aur-general] Deletion request : terminator-dropdown-bzr
by Jekyll Wu 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

This package is orphaned, as its submitter said : " The branch has been merged into the main branch, so there is no reason to keep this package." So it should be deleted. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40624

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