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[aur-general] PHP 5.2 in [community]
by Evangelos Foutras 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

Hi fellow TUs, Would you mind if I brought php52 [1] to [community]? While backward incompatible changes in PHP 5.3 are limited, last time I tried switching a server to it, it broke a Drupal site (due to some parameters being passed by value to functions that were expecting them to be passed by reference). It also seems that the PHP 5.2 branch is still maintained upstream, with a new version (5.2.12) currently in testing. Any objections to the move? :) ---- [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30384

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[aur-general] Unable to submit package
by edogawaconan 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

After 'cleaning up' a package I'm maintaining (nginx-unstable), and verifying it can be built and works fine, AUR rejected the package. Reverting to old version (with updated version) works fine. error message: "Missing build function in PKGBUILD." package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18036 Problematic version attached. -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

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[aur-general] Trusted User Application
by Ranguvar 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

Hello Archers, This is Devin Cofer, aka Ranguvar. I'm writing because I have been thinking for a while about applying to become a Trusted User, and I feel that now I have enough basic knowledge of C, Bash, sed, and Perl to apply. I maintain quite a few<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=Ranguvar>packages, and I'm very fast at updating them, if I may say so, going so far as to provide my own i686 builds for use by bin32-wine<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7915>when [extra] is taking a long time between updates :) The firefox-pgo <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22296> and firefox-pgo-beta <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22919> packages are not mine, but they were completely rewritten by me, as you can see from the comments there. I do officially maintain firefox-pgo-minefield<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32030> . I have sometimes contributed to [extra] and [community] work; I sent an initial mail<http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-October/007004.html>to aur-general about updating LLVM to 2.6, and worked on the PKGBUILD for it. Also, I filed a bug <http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16165> for the speedup of Vim package building, and wrote a new script to handle fetching patches, which was much faster than the original (until another user used a better idea to make a far better package :p). Lastly, I have commented on other packages many times and suggested improvements (recent example being autoconf-compat<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7224>), and I submit regular bug reports and duplicate packages -- and I'm very active on the forums <http://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=18355>. As a TU, I will continue to try to improve the quality of AUR PKGBUILDs as a whole, commenting and offering suggestions, deleting duplicates, and orphaning long-out-of-date packages. As for packages I bring into [community], I will probably end up focusing on development tools. Xyne has kindly agreed to sponsor my application; he will likely reply to this soon. Thanks very much for considering me as a possible addition to the TU team! -- Ranguvar

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[aur-general] Remove package
by David Dupin 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

Hi, I do a mistake when creating my AUR teecomp package and do an accidental revival of teeworlds AUR entry. Can you remove it please because teeworlds is in official arch depo for long time now. I apologize for this. Regards.

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[aur-general] Application as a Trusted User
by Thorsten Töpper 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 Hello, I've been playing for a while with the thought to apply as a Trusted User, but I never really had the courage to do so, well now I try it. About my person: I'm a 1990 born student from the south of Germany, I study Computer Science(first semester) and use Arch as my main system now since two years and 4 days. I'm mainly active in the german part of the community as the international forums and IRC are too lively for me to actively participate a lot, so I mostly only read the topics, but don't post in the threads. However I read nearly every mail at the mailing lists (except for the ones concerning problems of Users with software I haven't used in years e.g. KDE), but as my opinion was often already stated I don't feel that I have to repeat what's already been said, so I mail rarely to the lists too. About my skills: I'm programming in C since a few years, though I mostly review code in order to learn more, I'm also capable of the basics with python 2.5, several BASIC dialects, C++, Objective C, Java and of course shell scripting. Whereas the focus for the next years lies upon C and Java as they're both needed by my study. About my packages: I maintain 10 packages in AUR[1], whereby I also participate in the development of the i3 window manager to whom's project family 6 of these packages belong(3 projects, each as stable and git package), the other four are the git package of the newsbeuter feedreader and the cococpp package which is a build dependency for the previously named, structorizer which is a Java program to design structograms (or Nassi- Schneiderman diagrams) and a mecurial package for objfw which is a portable framework for the Objective C language, not one of them was adopted. If you want to see their history, I also keep them in a git repository at github.com[2]. About my Application: I asked Stefan Husmann if he would like to sponsor me and he agreed to do so. I have two Arch systems, my laptop running an i686 installation and my desktop machine running a x86_64 installation, both run without the testing repository. As I have to use Java and corresponding util- ities for my study I'd take care of orphanages of the Java development segment, but also orphans in the topics I'm mainly interested in(window managers, development and networks). And as I check my mail whenever it's possible I'd also help with the request of users regarding the administration of the AUR. If you want to search for me, my nick at Arch related sites is Atsutane. Regards Thorsten [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=Atsutane [2] http://github.com/Atsutane/packages - -- Jabber: atsutane(a)freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAksIGCkACgkQOeTxfyla+/QIXgDgq6vF0HVT5ab9E2eMNjcRvxzw MLDlK0b2ILDHugDeLTJMdLx609Qhnh5Z87jPEDohZiLX0i4Cd/0HZQ== =uTIK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] tablet waltop, linuxwacom 0.8.4-9 patch for waltop
by andrew james 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

I want this patch included in the package. It works with the tablet, WALTOP International Corp. Slim Tablet, two pen buttons are errored currently (both work like mouse middle click ?button 3?), but pressure and button 1 at pen tip work. The patch is one line to include the WALTOP vendor id, written generically at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wacom#WALTOP_tablet_support_by_the_Waco… Another AUR package has this patch but the package failed to get the controllers from linuxwacom. awx was maintainer. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28999 I think other users may like the convenience of this patch included for their tablet. I wrote the patch for the current package linuxwacom 0.8.4-9. It is attached, to include it in the PKGBUILD add something like, #patch to work with tablet WALTOP # tested WALTOP International Corp. Slim Tablet patch -Np1 -i ${srcdir}/linuxwacom-0.8.4_3-waltop.patch || return andrew diff -aur a/src/xdrv/wcmUSB.c b/src/xdrv/wcmUSB.c --- a/src/xdrv/wcmUSB.c 2009-09-16 21:54:04.000000000 +0200 +++ b/src/xdrv/wcmUSB.c 2009-11-06 03:40:27.904101443 +0200 @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ ioctl(local->fd, EVIOCGNAME(sizeof(id)), id); /* vendor is wacom */ - if (sID[1] == 0x056A) + if (sID[1] == 0x056A || sID[1] == 0x172f) { common->tablet_id = sID[2];

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[aur-general] Orphaning request (pidgin-hotkeys)
by Lukas Fleischer 29 Nov '09

29 Nov '09

Hi, pidgin-hotkeys is out-of-date for more than two years (0.2.4 has been released on 2007-06-22). Although this plugin doesn't seem to be developed actively anymore, I still use it and would like to see it maintained in the AUR (using a hotkey to switch to the next window with activity - just like Meta-a in irssi's default config - is quite useful). However, pidgin-hotkeys needs to be patched to work with pidgin>=2.2.0. The author didn't react on AUR comments for about 9 months and didn't respond to a detailed mail I wrote one week ago. Could you please orphan this package, so that I can adopt it and upload a working PKGBUILD? Best regards, Lukas Fleischer

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[aur-general] Bunch of deletion candidates
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

openoffice (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24413) This package is plainly named "openoffice" when it seems to provide a -dev version of some kind and it also appears to duplicate the effort of the packages in [extra]. Personally I think it is confusing even though the package appears to be maintained. Your call. go-oo-bin-base (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19457) This package also seems to duplicate the package of the same mission in [extra]. I know that the difference is that this one uses the provided rpm packages instead of compiling by itself. Your call again. go-oo-{calc,draw,impress,math} These are outdated and at best match the go-oo-bin-base package. We however already have the functionality in [extra]. Also I'd like box2d-svn (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24278) orphaned for me to pick up. The maintainer didn't show any effort to communicate or fix the package. -- Sven-Hendrik

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[aur-general] Orphaning request
by Raphael Scholer 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hello TUs, could you please orphan vim-snipmate, since it needs an update to work with current vim versions. I posted a comment regarding this problem, nearly two months ago in aur, but the maintainer didn't reply/or update the PKGBUILD. I tried today to reach him via e-mail, but the given adress in his aur profile doesn't seem to be active anymore. Regards, Raphael Scholer

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Laszlo Papp 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hello TUs, kermit[1] seems to be a duplicate of ckermit[2]. It installs the same version of kermit project like ckermit. The Maintainer of kermit didn't react for the comments which were taken nearly 3 years ago. I've checked it won't hurt any other package on AUR, because this package is not the dependency of other package. I've checked which name is better to be in AUR, but after a small researching ckermit is better according to the official site/project, and other distribution (like Ubuntu, Gentoo) use ckermit too instead of kermit. [1]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3385 [2]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14006 Best Regards, Laszlo Papp

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