On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Dicebot <public@dicebot.lv> wrote:
Long story short - I am insterested in becoming a Trusted User and taking care of packages related to D programming language. Nice to see someone apply since the last fail.
I have been using Arch Linux for last ~5 years but that does not really matter as I have never spent any considerable time maintaining packages.
Do you use Arch as your main computer OS? On servers ? On testing vm ?
I have been maintaing reference D compiler package (dmd2) in AUR before its inclusion into main repositories and kept contacting Sven-Hendrik with various improvement proposals after. At some point in the relatively long mail thread he has suggested to make a TU application so that I can take over those packages and maintain them directly - which is the primary motivating reason behind this mail.
What's about you? Where are you from? What's your name? Do you ride horses?
As my general competence level as a packager relatively low I am planning to solely focus on domain I am proficient with - D compilers, libraries and notable applications. Also contacting with D maintainers in other distros to ensure reasonable consistency.
I quickly looked your packages in AUR and they seems good. If I may formulate small advices: - Your quoting of $srcdir and $pkgdir is missing. Those variables can have space ; - No need to "cd $srcdir" at the beginning of package() ; - It's bertter to use install instead of mkdir and cp ; - Try to avoid versionned dependencies (like 'dmd>=2.063' ). Cheers, and good luck. -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://www.seblu.net GPG: 0x2072D77A