Please try to keep the discussion in one thread and don't start a new one for every question you get. Besides that, you misspelled my name ;) Besides that I took a quick look at some of your packages (started in alphabetical order I came to dia-svn if someone wants to check further). Some remarks: - The # $ID line has no use for packages in unsupported. If you adopt a package which has been dropped into unsupported you can safely remove that line on the first update you do. - aumix needs a conflicts and provides field with aumix-gtk in community. Besides that the comment that is still there from the time it was in extra is a bit confusing. - '# Adopted by:' is no valid field. See for example autoaur - A lot of packages have only arch=('i686') set. Please try to verify if it also works on x86_64. - In biblatex you can create the directories with one install command like install -d $pkgdir/opt/texlive/texmf-local/{bibtex,doc/biblatex,tex/latex/biblatex} Same yields for biblatex-dw. - In biblatex, LPPL is a custom license, so the license field should read license=('custom: LPPL'). Same for biblatex-dw - Don't use the replaces field in bibledesktop-devel. For these cases conflicts and provides is enough (see man PKGBUILD) - try to follow the cvs guidelines in the build part of bluefish-cvs - in bmeps: license field should read license=('BSD') not custom:BSD - concordance: don't use echo inside the build function. If you don't know the license, use license=('unknown') or something. - Try to avoid using cp for copying one file. Use install instead in ctwm. - don't use the replaces field in dia-svn. Regards, Ronald On 8/19/08, Ronald van Haren wrote:

On 8/19/08, stefan-husmann@t-online.de wrote:

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At the time I maintain 108 packages in AUR. Not all of them were written my me, but some of them I made after package requests on archlinux.org. Also I am active in the forums at archlinux.org and archlinux.de.

I haven't checked them yet, I'll do so later. I see a lot of these packages have few votes, I assume you don't plan to move them all to community?

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I consider myself still being in a learning phase. Two months or so I was not able to do a proper patching of packages, now I am. So packaging is a hobby to me now.

I only own a i686 computer, have no experience with the x86_64 architecture. Building packages for both arches seems a lot of work to me, especially if you are bound to a remote machine. So as a TU I would have to concentrate a bit more on really important packages. But on the other hand it is hard for me to see orphaned packages lying around, an often I pick them. :)

It is not really a lot of work to build on a remove machine. It only takes little more time compared to building on your local machine. Just take as many packages as you can do, but please try to build them for both architectures at times that there is a build machine available. Are you willing to do so?

You said you want to concentrate on really important packages. That brings up the million dollar question: what are really important packages in your eyes?

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In the forums i act under my real name, in AUR I have a nick, haawda. I can change that if you mind.

It does not really matter, though it may be convenient if people do not use too many different names ;)

Ronald

-----Original Message----- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:19:37 +0200 Subject: Re: [aur-general] Applying for TU-ship From: Loui To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)"

Yeah. The replaces array is meant for when a package is renamed. Like gaim being renamed to pidgin.

I see.

Hah I just realised Stefan changed his nick to StefanHusmann!

There are no spaces allowed in AUR nicknames. Regards Stefan