March 2011 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-dev-public] Unreachable this week
by Gaetan Bisson 27 Mar '11

27 Mar '11

Dear all, I have been quiet lately as things are rough at work. This week, it is going to be worse: I will be on vacation with no Internet access from Tuesday (March 29) to Monday (April 4). During that time frame, feel free to upgrade my packages, fix all their bugs, etc. :) The work frenzy should be over in a few weeks, and I look forward to have more time to contribute then. Cheers. -- Gaetan

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[arch-dev-public] New initscripts mailing list
by Thomas Bächler 26 Mar '11

26 Mar '11

I want to create a new mailing list for initscripts development discussion, patches and pull requests. Should we keep this list for initscripts only, or for more projects? And what would the name be?

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[arch-dev-public] New dbscripts and devtools releases
by Pierre Schmitz 26 Mar '11

26 Mar '11

Hi all, I have just updated dbscripts and devtools. The new epoch variable intrduced in pacman 3.5 is now supported and $repo.files databases are now in sync with the actual repo db. Devtools now optionally uses btrfs snapshots to create a build environment and also works better with multiple users. Archbuild has now to be run directly via sudo. See http://projects.archlinux.org/devtools.git/log/ for more details. And thanks to everybody envolved. Let me know if anything does no longer work as expected. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[arch-dev-public] [namcap] Released version 3.0.3
by Rémy Oudompheng 26 Mar '11

26 Mar '11

Hello, I have released and packaged namcap 3.0.3. It includes Dan's patches for the PKGBUILD analysis and a fix for the dangling symlink detection. I hope this will be the last bugfix release before the move from [testing] to [extra]. Regards, Rémy.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.37.5-1
by Tobias Powalowski 26 Mar '11

26 Mar '11

Upstream update. This package is NOT in testing (2.6.38 currently resides there), but at: http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/kernel26/ please signoff for both arches. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] binutils-2.21-5
by Allan McRae 26 Mar '11

26 Mar '11

New CVS snapshot from the 2.21 branch. No changes in testsuite output. This rebuild is mainly because I wanted to see if it fixes some of the testsuite issues I am having with gcc-4.6 prereleases, but there are some nice fixes on that branch that are worth having anyway. Signoff both, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] Report from rebuilding [core] repo
by Allan McRae 26 Mar '11

26 Mar '11

Hi, FYI, I rebuilt the entire [core] repo to check if everything currently builds as is. I got the following build failures: FAIL: coreutils FAIL: crda FAIL: flex FAIL: gcc FAIL: grub FAIL: ndiswrapper FAIL: udev FAIL: vi This was all done by rebuilding <pkg>/repos/core-{x86_64,any} with extra-x86_64-build. So that explains the grub failure... Seven failures out of 175 packages is not bad! I will rebuild the rest with logging to look for the actual issues and file bug reports as necessary. Allan

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[arch-dev-public] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice
by Andreas Radke 26 Mar '11

26 Mar '11

LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos. First my time is limited. I've asked so many times for help in the Office packaging area and nobody stepped in. Then there's the poor distribution support Oracle spends on the distributions. They almost do not care about custom distribution builds and their interest. They break the build against system libs every now and then and it takes ages to contact the relevant devs to fix their bugs. Development is only driven by the profit interests of Oracle... You can put in here all the arguments the Document foundation has given at its birth. So don't expect any efforts to fix bugs in Oracle packages anymore. As soon as they will break due to a .so name bump or something like this I'll remove all the packages from our repos if nobody else is willing to maintain them. Any objections to add "replaces=('openoffice-base') " to the next LibO pkg? -Andy

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] mdadm-3.1.5-1
by Tobias Powalowski 26 Mar '11

26 Mar '11

Hi guys, latest upstream release, - fixed CFLAGS #22437 - fixed email sending on breakage #20937 please signoff both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] b43-fwcutter-014-1
by Tobias Powalowski 26 Mar '11

26 Mar '11

Hi guys, latest upstream release, please signoff both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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