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[aur-general] Pls delete package
by YUP 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

Hi, Please delete lxde-common-svn http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28204, lxde project moved to git some time ago and all lxde packages from svn are unusable. Thanks! YUP (knedlyk)

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[aur-general] AUR comment spammer
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

I'd like to report "diblidabliduu" (http://aur.archlinux.org/account.php?Action=AccountInfo&ID=17924) who spammed the yaourt comments (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=5863) quite a bit (most of which is now deleted). I'm getting enough email spam already. -- Sven-Hendrik

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[aur-general] Please disown hasciicam
by Jakob Gruber 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

Hi, please disown hasciicam. I've flagged it out of date (+ comments on how to fix the PKGBUILD) in Nov 2009 with no response from the maintainer. Last Updated: (unknown) First Submitted: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 12:51:25 +0000 Thanks, schuay

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[aur-general] Duplicate packages/Orphaning request (go-openoffice-XX)
by Adam Hani Schakaki 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

Hello, Here are some duplicate packages in AUR: go-oo-bin-base: in official repo go-oo-ru: new package is named go-openoffice-ru go-openoffice-es: new package is name go-openoffice.org-es go-openoffice-sv-lang: duplicate to go-openoffice-sv Further I request for orphaning go-openoffice-es, go-openoffice-pt-br and go-openoffice-sv, the maintainer aren't updating it, and just the filename of the downloads changed and you cannot say that this is much work. So I would update it, if it will be orphaned. Thanks in advance Adam Hani Schakaki

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Re: [aur-general] Orphaning request for go-openoffice-de
by Adam Hani Schakaki 17 Mar '10

17 Mar '10

Hi again, Will it be orphaned or why not? Thanks >Hello, >go-openoffice-de had no updates a long time and it is updated. The >maintainer didn't manage it to update, as he said. >I couldn't reach the maintainer by comment or email, so I created a new >one (go-openoffice-de-lang), which works. So I request orphaning and may >be refactoring go-openoffice-de-lang to go-openoffice-de. >Thanks in advance >Adam Hani Schakaki

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[aur-general] orphan request molly-guard
by Moritz Rudert 17 Mar '10

17 Mar '10

Hi TUs, could one of you please orphan the package molly-guard http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24349? He didn't respond to my comment as you can see. Best Regards, Moritz <helios> Rudert

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[aur-general] package removal request for rst2pdf
by solsTiCe d'Hiver 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

hi. there is python-rst2pdf http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19398 and rst2pdf http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31535 one of these must go away. the author of rst2pdf acknowledge that "No it's a duplicate I hastily created when I could not find rst2pdf in the aur." in the comment so rst2pdf could be deleted, I think. cheers

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[aur-general] How to name package?
by Dave 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

I would like to create a new package for lightning, which is the calendar extension for Thunderbird. I currently manage lightning-nightly for 32-bit systems, but for 64-bit systems (which I'm using now), I have to build the extension from source. This process initially downloads a lot of files, so if I created a package for this, it would take an hour to download and build a 1.2MB extension. Thus, I was going to build the extension on my computer and upload the XPIs to a server. However, I'm not sure what I should name the package and keep track of the versions. The process is: use mercurial to clone the comm-central code, then run a python script which will update the source with cvs. After that, I can run make to build the lightning extension, upload it to a server, and then allow anyone to download it. To update, I need only to run the python script and rebuild. Any suggestions on how the package should be named? Maybe -hg or -src? I'm also not sure which package version to use (since I may only update the XPI itself once a week/month).

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[aur-general] Package Removal Request: dzlad-git
by lolilolicon 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Hi, I've orphaned the dzlad-git package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33881 Since the dzlad package now pulls from git, there's no need for this package any more, so please delete it from AUR, thanks!

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[aur-general] Newcomer
by Érico Nunes 14 Mar '10

14 Mar '10

Hello, I'm a newcomer to this list. I've been using Arch for about a year and today I decided to learn what it takes to make an Arch package. I took a simple app I had developed in C++/OpenGL, learned how to use autotools to compile and install it. Had been using handcoded Makefiles before. Then, I followed the guidelines to write a PKGBUILD for it and went about making my package installable/uninstallable via pacman. Took a couple hours to grasp it right, but now that I understand how it works, I love Arch even more. I feel like helping the community and I think maintaining packages would be a starting point. How do I go about starting it, shall I just search for orphans/out of date that should/could be fixed, take them and thats it? :) Érico de Morais Nunes Engenharia de Computação Universidade Federal do Pampa Campus Bagé

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