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Re: [aur-general] TU Resignation
by Peter Lewis 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Hi Andrea, On Monday 07 February 2011 19:25:03 Andrea Scarpino wrote: > Hi TUs, > it's my time to leave the [community] repo. Ah! Well, thanks for all your work. More time to focus on KDE in [extra], eh? :-D > I orphaned more packages in the last year and now I orphan the rest: > - choqok > - quoauth > - rekonq I'm happy to take over these, since I occasionally use / build them anyway. Cheers, Pete.

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Re: [aur-general] TU Resignation
by Ike Devolder 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Op maandag 7 februari 2011 20:25:03 schreef Andrea Scarpino: > Hi TUs, > it's my time to leave the [community] repo. > > I orphaned more packages in the last year and now I orphan the rest: > - choqok > - quoauth > - oxygen-gtk > - rekonq > - wtf > > Has been an honour to work with all you guys. > Thank you all. > > thx for the great packages you've been delivering us also for the support given to us when we were in trouble greetz Ike ( aka BlackEagle )

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[aur-general] TU Resignation
by Andrea Scarpino 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Hi TUs, it's my time to leave the [community] repo. I orphaned more packages in the last year and now I orphan the rest: - choqok - quoauth - oxygen-gtk - rekonq - wtf Has been an honour to work with all you guys. Thank you all. -- Andrea

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[aur-general] Moving packages to Community
by Gergely Imreh 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Hi, Recently a couple of my packages have been moved to Community but the process feels a little uneasy to me. My impression is that AUR is treated as a "second class" source of packages compared to the official repos. Not surprising, of course, so many packages have problems. This is also underlined by the fact that yaourt and other AUR managers are not allowed in the official repos, as "not to give the impression that AUR is official" (paraphrasing what I've read before). If there is indeed this divide, it feels more than little weird, that popular packages are just taken in to Community without even asking the current managers. It gives me the message that "AUR has no value, except when we say it has, at which time thanks for your work but now bugger off". I beg your pardon, if it comes through too harsh. I wouldn't have objected to have those packages moved. I, however, object to unilateral decisions. My proposition is: could it be a policy to check with the maintainer first before initiating a move? If someone wants to keep a package then they should be able to, especially since they could not have been doing such a a bad job if their package has become popular. Cheers, Greg

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[aur-general] Orphaned ruby packages
by Massimiliano Torromeo 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

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[aur-general] AUR & Copyright
by Nicky726 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

If I may add my two cents, I would go for GPL for PKGBUILDs, as it ensures stuff remains OSS. Though some broader discussion/voting may be good. And a compromise in form of selection from OSS licences when uploading, defaulting to one could not be that hard to implement. Nicky -- Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone (Joni Mitchell)

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[aur-general] License installation
by rafael ff1 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Hi there. I read Licenses <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Licenses> and PKGBUILD<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD>pages at Archwiki and I've been wondering: case a software's license is one the common ones (ex: GPL), if the PKGBUILD should do some kind of reference (symlink) from /usr/share/licenses/common/GPL/ to /usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/ or.. do nothing, maybe? Thanks

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[aur-general] deletion request
by Seven Seven 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Please delete kde`s pkg: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19552 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36568 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46070 Thanks

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[aur-general] [Remove] pngout-static
by Lou 06 Feb '11

06 Feb '11

Yarr. Yet Another Removal Request. pngout-static http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38726 I adopted this package yesterday, but uploaded a new one simply called "pngout". Thanks. Hail Arch.

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Re: [aur-general] Errors on submission: Invalid name: only lowercase letters are allowed
by Thomas S Hatch 06 Feb '11

06 Feb '11

You can get around the split package bug this way: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42514

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