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[aur-general] Please remove my AUR package "box2d-groundzero-svn"
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

My AUR package "box2d-groundzero-svn" (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30593) was a temporary solution which is now obsolete due to upstream changes. Please remove it :). -- Sven-Hendrik

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[aur-general] partially inactive
by Ronald van Haren 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

Hey guys, Coming Monday I'll get the key of my new apartment where I'll be living together with my girlfriend. That's all fine and such but before I can move our stuff I have to do quite a bit of work in the new apartment. This all means that I'll still be around and try to keep up with package releases (I'll make sure everything is up to date before Monday) during that period, but I won't be able to quickly respond to urgent matters or quickly fix bugs. I'll be checking my e-mail regularly though so I'll be able to ask for help if needed. Sometime I also have to arrange an internet connection there but I hope to have this arranged before I move. I'm not too sure how long this will take but I hope to be living there in ~1 month. Feel free to fix any of my packages during that period if you see necessary. Ronald

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[aur-general] TU Resignation
by Paulo Matias 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

Hi all, Besides loving Arch, a few reasons made me leave it as my main distribution. I could surely adapt Arch to my new personal needs, due to its simplicity and flexibility, but due to lack of time and real life pressure, it would not be possible anytime soon. So I'm resigning as a Trusted User. I'd like to thank you all for giving me this outstanding opportunity and experience. Special thanks to hdoria, angvp, bardo, wonder, foutrelis, ornitorrincos, stefanhusmann, sergej, pierre and all you that helped me or worked with me on a package. I have a few packages at community. I hope you can adopt some of them. In special, I'd like to ask that if some TU uses OSS frequently, he adopts it, as this package may require some special care, being a driver package. Most of the users that ask help in the OSS IRC channel are Arch users, so we should have a good amount of OSS users. Regarding packages in unsupported, it would be nice if some TU could adopt virtualbox_bin. This package needs some care and it would be nice to merge bdheeman's dkms work (virtualbox-sun package) so the duplicates can be removed. Also it would be nice if someone could contact the VirtualBox developers (there is even an irc channel - #vbox) and offer to make this package official. I mean, they have a repository for debian-based and for redhat-based distributions, so maybe they could make an archlinux repository and offer directly there an official ready-to-install package if some help is offered to them. I will list below my community and unsupported packages to ease adoption. [community] - oss-related (oss, skype-oss) - djvu-related (djview4, pdf2djvu -> pstreams) - lua-related (luadoc, luafilesystem, luajit, lualogging) - netsurf-related (netsurf -> hubbub, libnsbmp, libnsgif, libparserutils) - latex-related (texmaker) [unsupported] - vbox-related (virtualbox_bin) - oss-related (xulrunner-oss) - electronics-related (alliance, chipmunksystem, logisim) - lua-related (iup, cd, im, gnuplot-luaterm) - ion3-related (ion-3, trayion) - djvu-related (gsdjvu) - irc-related (kvirc-svn, qirssi) - driver stuff (samsutools) - other stuff (chestnut-dialer, eresi-svn, python-mpmath, uspnet) By the number of votes, some of them can even go to community if some TU is interested. Packages virtualbox_bin-1, virtualbox_bin-2, virtualbox_bin-3_0 are legacy stuff requested by users to be left out. The netcfg-rt73 and qc-usb packages are legacy stuff that are probably useless nowadays, unless someone uses an old custom kernel. Best regards, Paulo Matias

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[aur-general] Perl packing guidelines discussion
by Xyne 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Could all Perl packagers please take a look at the following forum discussion: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=89752

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[aur-general] Warning 2/2: removing kde-unstable; KDE 4.4 in testing
by Pierre Schmitz 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hi DEVs and TUs, I am about to move the first wave of KDE 4.4 RC3 packages into testing. These will be x86_64 at first; i686 packages might follow later this evening. There won't be any l10n packages. (they are not needed for testing and rebuild and we'll save disk space and bandwidth this way) The same Information about kde-unstable now apply to testing: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:KDE#Users Note that the kde- unstable repository will be removed soon. If you update you have to use the following commands as pacman is not able to resolve the dependencies otherwise: % pacman -Sy --asdeps qt % pacman -Su All developers and TUs should check their Qt or KDE related packages. Even if they still work you might want to adjust the dependencies. There are some like phonon etc. which are no longer covered by Qt. In general you want at least depend on kdebase-runtime for most apps. (use namcap but don't trust it ;-)) Greetings, Pierre PS: I have problems with akonadi and mysql 5.1.43. Downgrading to mysql 5.1.42 solves the problem. Can anybody confirm this issue? (test with "akonadictl start") -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[aur-general] Removal request for lib32-kernel-headers
by Mikhail Vorozhtsov 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

lib32-kernel-headers[1] is obsoleted by lib32-linux-api-headers[2] to reflect changes in the core. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31544 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34216

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[aur-general] orphaning oregano
by Imanol Celaya 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

oregano seems to be upstream abandoned(last release is from 2007) and I'd like to orphan it and move it to the aur(unless some TU wants to adopt it in community). So, anyone interested?

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[aur-general] Partial Inactivity
by Angel Velásquez 30 Jan '10

30 Jan '10

Hi, Since I am still moving (now to a new apartment), I have not internet connection there, I am getting it but I don't know when they will install me the connection (people says that if I am lucky it will be a week, but I really don't know) I have internet connection on the job (a decent one) and I could bring my laptop to do some updates or something, but eventually my response time won't be short (1 day or more). So I decided to mark myself as away (or Andrea a.k.a bash will send an e-mail asking for my deletion haha :P) but eventually I hope to handle this situation. Sincerely -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com

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[aur-general] visualboyadvance rebuilds
by Daenyth Blank 30 Jan '10

30 Jan '10

When trying to rebuild visualboyadvance for the new jpng stuff, I run into errors compiling. I believe it may be related to the gcc patch not being present in SVN. I don't know how to access the CVS history any more. Can anyone give advice? http://omploader.org/vM2JqNQ - PKGBUILD http://omploader.org/vM2JqMg - build errors

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[aur-general] TU Resignation abhidg
by Abhishek Dasgupta 30 Jan '10

30 Jan '10

Hi all, So long ... Real life has been getting busier and busier lately, with my final year in university coming up. I've not been able to devote much time to Arch in the last month at all; thus I'm resigning as a Trusted User. I've a few packages in [community], many of them are scientific packages which I used once. I hope someone will take them up, otherwise they can move to unsupported. Arch was my first exposure to open-source contribution and it's been a great two years! Thanks to everyone (Hugo, Aaron, Allan, and others who have helped me) and also Varun, thanks to whom I could become a part of this community. PS I really hope someone makes a stable distro out of the Arch core (Starch? :) ). One of the main reasons for quitting is that I don't have a reliable internet connection where I'm most of the time, and can't keep up with a rolling release any more. PPS The zsi package has a missing dep (python-setuptools). Could someone fix it? Thanks! Regards, Abhishek Dasgupta

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