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[aur-general] mistake in packaging guidelines
by hollunder＠lavabit.com 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Please have a look here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards#Submitting_Pac… It says: Please add a comment line to the top of your PKGBUILD file that follows this format. Remember to disguise your email to protect against spam: # Contributor: Your Name <address at domain dot com> This is wrong and should read: # Maintainer: Your Name <address at domain dot com> This is apparently missleading new and not so new AUR packagers, I just had an argument about it. Imho somewhere on this page it should be mentioned that previous maintainers and other contributors should be kept in the PKGBUILD file as contributors as this also seems to be not very well known. Regards, Philipp

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[aur-general] Policy on abandoned projects?
by Erik Johnson 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

What is the policy with regard to projects that appear to have been abandoned? For instance, no matter what distribution I run, I find myself compiling spellutils for its excellent "newsbody" program, which I use in mutt to feed aspell only the body of the message instead of the full message (including quoted replies, headers, etc). However, for some time now the homepage of this project has been defunct, and the developer has been unreachable. The project does not have a sourceforge/github/etc location from which the source code can be retrieved, I was only able to find the source code myself thanks to a couple different source code archives, which I am not sure if I can rely on 100% to keep the source available. What can I do to get this project into the AUR? I have no problem writing a PKGBUILD, I just need to find an acceptable way of making the source available, and I'm not sure if there's a protocol for this that AUR package maintainers typically follow. Many thanks, -- -Erik "For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." --Carl Sagan

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[aur-general] Package removal request
by Christos Nouskas 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hi, Can some TU please remove my (nous) gpu_md5_crack package? (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33643) It's a duplicate of gpu-md5-crack, which I created to better follow the naming convention used in AUR. -- X.

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[aur-general] perl vs libperl
by H.Gökhan SARI 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hello everyone, There is a package 'libperl' in AUR[1]. I think this package is already provided in perl from [core]. In addition to this, it looks like AUR package is not maintained anymore. Shouldn't it be removed? [1]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26653 -- H.Gökhan SARI hsa2(a)difuzyon.net

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[aur-general] My first package, esperanto locale for glibc
by Guillaume Brunerie 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hi, I did my first package, and wanted to post it here before submitting it to AUR. It is a package which adds the esperanto locale for glibc, and I didn’t found similar packages in ABS or AUR, so I don’t know if I use the PKGBUILD and .install files the good way. I have a few other questions : - The locale file doesn’t mention any license and makepkg say that there should be a licence= line in the PKGBUILD. What should I do? - I echo some text in the post_install function. Can I use UTF-8 encoded chars (like ’ or “”) or should I stick to 7-bit ASCII only ? Thank you for your comments :) Fractal ;)

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[aur-general] Request deletion
by José Valecillos 17 Jan '10

17 Jan '10

Hi everybody, can any TU please delete dosbox-cvs package, it's has been replaced with dosbox-svn since CVS repository is deprecated and isn't mantained anymore. -- José Valecillos

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[aur-general] question about 'notify' column
by masutu Subric 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

Hi! Sorry for this question, but i'm new to AUR. What's the meaning of the 'notify' column in my package listing? It's `Yes' or empty, what does that mean? Thanks in advance, masutu

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[aur-general] Request the removal of the package.
by egik 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

Hi! Can someone from TU to delete my package named eisklatdc-svn (page in aur -> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32113)? it package was created from my mistake. -- Eugene Petrov aka dhampire

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[aur-general] Deletion request: ppasskeeper-{kde, gnome}-{, svn} and qdevelop-svn
by Martin PERES 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

Hi, Can a TU delete my(mupuf) packages called : ppasskeeper-kde ppasskeeper-kde-svn ppasskeeper-gnome ppasskeeper-gnome-svn Theses packages are not needed anymore as the upstream project has switched from Autoconf to CMake. Now, a single package generates all the plugins supported by the user. Please also delete qdevelop-svn, I don't use/maintain it anymore. Also, the project seems to be dead as http://qdevelop.org/ doesn't exist anymore. Thanks in advance, Martin aka MuPuF

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[aur-general] Orphan request
by Marcin Karpezo 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

Hi! Can someone oprhan git-git AUR package for me? It's quite outdated and looks like unmaintained. I've tried to contact with it's maintainer but his email adress doesn't exist any more (there was an email delivery failiture). -- Pozdrawiam/Regards, Marcin

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