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[aur-general] Stable (and obsolete) CrystalHD package in the AUR
by Stijn Segers 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

Hello, Broadcom's CrystalHD drivers has two development trees online - an SVN one (maintained by Davilla, an Xbmc developer), and a git one, which seems to have some of Broadcom's people on board. Davilla periodically syncs with the git tree. There is a package on the AUR simply called 'crystalhd' which points to the git tree in its package info, but is in fact built from the original Broadcom release tarball [1], which, by now, is obsolete, and hasn't been updated by its maintainer in quite a while, despite being flagged out of date; there is a new tarball available from July 2010, which is out of data as well; furthermore, the driver is included in staging. I would like to upload a stable package based on the SVN tree (which has release tags), and think simply naming 'crystalhd' - since it's a stable release tagged as such by the Xbmc developer - would best, but I'm not sure. Calling it crystalhd-svn might be more appropriate, especially to differentiate it from the crystalhd-git tree, but it might confuse people as well (e.g. a crystalhd-svn-3.8.0-1-i686.tar.xz package looks kinda bizarre). Either way, I think the package [1] can be safely deleted, so I would like to request that, and have opinions on the best name for the new stable package based on the svn sources. Thanks B [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34193

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[aur-general] deletion request - ocamlgraph-withoutfindlib
by Thomas S Hatch 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

There was a triple duplicate package of ocamlgraph, I have been working with the other 2 maintainers to come to a consensus as to how it should be packaged. A consensus has been reached, please delete the last duplicate! https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31755 -Tom Hatch

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[aur-general] Duplicate package
by Thomas S Hatch 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41219 Is a duplicate of community/python-pexpect This should be deleted right?

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[aur-general] Package deletion request
by Thomas S Hatch 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21687 is a duplicate of the correctly named ocaml-ocamlgraph, please delete it. -Tom Hatch

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[aur-general] Time to Step Down
by Aaron Bull Schaefer 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Fellow Trusted Users, After almost 4 years of being a TU, I've had less and less time to dedicate toward maintaining my packages, and so I think it's finally time for me to step down. Arch users definitely deserve a better response time than what I've been able to provide lately, and unfortunately, my priorities have shifted elsewhere. Most of my packages should be pretty straight forward to maintain, but feel free to poke me if you have any questions on them. I do have two open bugs (one for woof and one for pv) that I've updated with what info I know. Thanks for everything you've taught me over the years...it's been an honor working with you all to maintain this fantastic distro, and rest assured that I'll always be involved in the community in one form or another. Keep up the great work! -- Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer

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[aur-general] Orphan Request
by speps 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Hi, can you please orphan libircclient? ==> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14047 The package is not outdated, but it does not build and install any shared lib, also it installs headers into a no proper path according to ==> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/amd64/libircclient-dev/filelist Last maintainer action go up to july 2010, also one of his packages (ibus-handwrite) is outdated since November 2010 with a user PKGBUILD proposal in the comments. I have also sent him an e-mail without responses Thanks

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[aur-general] Renaming package
by Sebastien Duthil 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Hi, I'd like to know how to rename an AUR package. In this case, I must rename gplanarity to gplanarity-svn. Is it possible ? Can I do it or does anyone else have to do it ? Or shoud I create a new package ? In this case, should the old one be removed ? I didn't find anything about that case ... Thank you ! Sebastien Duthil

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[aur-general] qt3 backend in python-matplotlib
by Stéphane Gaudreault 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Dear TUs, I am preparing an update of python-matplotlib to version 1.0.1. This package supports multiple backends for rendering graphics and plotting windows. So far, our PKGBUILD supported QTAgg which requires the old qt3. Considering that qt3 has no future, I wonder if it is still necessary to provide this backend. Any objections if I drop it ? I will also set the default backend to QT4Agg (user will still be able to change the default in the matplotlibrc file or in their scripts). Stéphane

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[aur-general] Please delete ttf-consolas
by Marcel Korpel 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Hi everyone, Same as yesterday, but now regarding ttf-consolas: can someone please delete that package [1]; it has no maintainer and ttf-vista-fonts [2] provides the same font (including other variants). Regards, Marcel [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35124 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10408

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[aur-general] lysdr-git, while we're talking about new packages
by Gordon JC Pearce 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Okay, since there was a bit of discussion about new packages, I thought I'd maybe make some noise about one of mine. I've written a software-defined radio receiver called lysdr, and (so far) I don't think there's anything like it in AUR ;-) What is it? Well, it's a radio receiver, of sorts. Ideally you should use it with a special receiver plugged into the soundcard, but you can use it with prerecorded files too. The documentation assumes you know a little about how it all works, so what I'll do is describe how to get it set up and working, and you can be the guinea-pigs for helping me write better documentation. I recommend reading the Wikipedia page on software-define radio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio here) if you want to learn more about the technology behind it. Okay, first - a screenshot. Here it is: http://www.gjcp.net/~gordonjcp/lysdr.jpg (1032x310px, 60kB) A little to the right, you can see the tuning cursor with its red tuning "needle" and yellow filter strip. You'll notice that the red tuning line is just a wee fraction right of the 7.061MHz scale marking, and the frequency display below indicates that we're tuned to 7.0618MHz. The broad bright line that the filter strip is on is actually the spectrum of someone's voice! It's a Polish station, SP5BL - "See-Eh-Rah Pah-Pah Senk Pah-Pah Brah-voh", you can actually see the syllables. Off to the left side of the screen we have some data modes including CW (Morse code), RTTY (radio teletype) and PSK31 (phase-shift keying). The three fat fuzzy blobs a little left of the middle are probably a digital mode called PACTOR that transfers data relatively quickly with a lot of error correction - "relatively" in that it's still only about 100 characters per second. You can install it by your favourite method of brewing AUR packages - I use clyde. Naturally, any comments on how to improve the packaging (or the software) will be welcomed. It will require (and should pull in) jack, fftw and gtk+ (if you haven't got these already) and requires Python for the build process and git to download. Once you've built and installed it, grab http://www.gjcp.net/~gordonjcp/sdr.flac - don't listen to it though, unless you have a taste for the avant-garde. If you play it back, you'll just hear a high-pitched hiss and some scratchy chittering noises, it won't blow your speakers or make you see The Ring or anything. Don't compress it with any lossy compression format, or convert it to mono to save space - it must have its two channels perfectly in phase for the receiver to work! It's not really left and right signals like stereo, it's actually real and imaginary samples. Unless you know what this means already, don't bother looking it up on Wikipedia. I have a rough idea what it means; I don't need to know how to build a chicken to cook an egg. Now, start up jack (it'll start automatically, possibly with less-than-wonderful settings, so check the Arch wiki on how to do this) then start lysdr with "lysdr --co -f 7056000" (--co is "Connect outputs", -f 7056000 is "Centre frequency is 7056kHz). Now, start mplayer with "mplayer -ao jack:port=lysdr sdr.flac" and you should start to see stuff scrolling up the screen. You can use any other media player, as long as it can play flac files and output to jack. Stuff scrolls up the screen, you drag the cursor bar across the waterfall to tune, and you drag the edges of the yellow filter strip to change the filter bandwidth. Clicking "WIDE" or "NARROW" picks preset filter bandwidths suitable for speech or data modes. LSB is "Lower Sideband", and means that the wanted signals are below where we're tuned to - again, Wikipedia will tell you plenty about that. So, try it out, and see what you can hear. Bonus prize for finding the Windows error "bong"! 73s, Gordon MM0YEQ

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