October 2008 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] the future of empathy, libtelepathy..
by M. Rawash 13 Oct '08

13 Oct '08

now that empathy/telepathy and their deps are officially part of gnome, shouldn't they be removed from AUR (assuming they get added to extra soon)? Regards M. Rawash (gwash)

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[aur-general] Orphaning request of znc package
by Mick＠ël 12 Oct '08

12 Oct '08

Hi, the znc package hasn't been updated for a while, and the maintainer's email is not working (Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: bas(a)it-core.org) Could you please orphan the package so I can update it ? Thanks

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[aur-general] Package removal requests (asdf-clisp, asdf-install-clis)p
by joyfulgirl 12 Oct '08

12 Oct '08

Hi, Would somebody mind removing asdf-clisp and asdf-install-clisp from AUR? I'm their former maintainer, and a couple of months ago uploaded packages more in line with other distros' Common Lisp package naming conventions. Currently (and for the past couple of months, as a transitional period), the old packages have just been PKGBUILDS that depend on the new ones and do nothing else. Thanks a lot, and sorry for making things difficult! -- If I Am Ever A Heroine... 49. If I am offered two explanations for a phenomenon, one that makes sense and the other a load of claptrap, I will accept the sensible one.

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[aur-general] Removal request: juploadr64
by Carl Mueller 11 Oct '08

11 Oct '08

Can someone remove this package from AUR? juploadr64 I'm the maintainer of juploadr, and I submitted juploadr64 before I knew how to combine both arches into a single package. Thanks, Carl

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 11 Oct '08

11 Oct '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for openoffice-sh 3.0.0rc4-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for panda3d 1.5.3-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for panda3d 1.5.3-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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Re: [aur-general] Where to put your name when you adopt an AUR package (was: TU Application)
by Henning Garus 09 Oct '08

09 Oct '08

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis(a)gmail.com> wrote: > stefan-husmann(a)t-online.de wrote: >>> >>> What should I add myself as, when adopting a package, if not using the >>> Maintainer tag? "Contributor" maybe? >>> >> >> Yes! > > Actually, I just read a wiki entry[1] on this which clears things up. > > # Maintainer: the maintainer responsible for this pkg in the official > repositories > # Contributor: the person who wrote the first PKGBUILD for this package > > So I shouldn't add myself at all to packages I adopt. :o > /me goes to update his adopted packages. > > ---------------- > [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS_PKGBUILD_Explained > It does make sense, at least to me, to have your name and email address in a PKGBUILD you currently maintain in AUR, even if you didn't create it. However, I don't think there is any policy about this. I have seen some "custom" tags, which I can't remember exactly and of course much misuse of the maintainer tag - I am guilty of that one myself. What one could do to prevent further misuse of the Maintainer tag would be introducing a new tag like AUR-Maintainer and put it in the wiki. Notice that this is just an example, I wouldn't be against calling this different. It wouldn't stop the "Maintainer Tag problem" all at once, but it might help reducing it.

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[aur-general] TU Application
by Evangelos Foutras 09 Oct '08

09 Oct '08

Hello, My name is Evangelos Foutras. I'm 20 years old and currently a student of Informatics at the University of Piraeus in Athens, Greece. I had my first taste of GNU/Linux a few years back with Mandrake 9.0 (if I remember correctly) that came with a magazine I bought. I didn't know much about computers back then and gave up quickly. Since then, I used Windows (2000 and then XP) pretty much until 2007. At that time I discovered Ubuntu and started messing around with it, setting my system to dual-boot XP and Ubuntu. I gradually increased the time spent on Ubuntu especially during the summer of the same year, and finally dumped Windows all together on Oct 20 2007. I've never looked back since. During this one and a half year, I've tried several distributions, including Fedora and Debian; they were alright. I really liked that Fedora shipped with very up-to-date software and I still use Debian for server environments. My first Arch installation was done this spring but for some reason I can't recall, I went back to Ubuntu the following day. My next Arch encounter I owe to Alex Cartwright, founder of TangoCMS[1]. He had recently switched to Arch himself and urged me to give it another try. This time I got to understand and love the Arch Way, so I didn't bounce. "Love at second sight", I guess. Currently, I maintain 8 packages in AUR. Two of them feature (crappy) software I've authored, two others are new contributions and the rest are orphans I've adopted. I'm somewhat experienced at C, Python, PHP and Bash, skills which have aided in handling issues that arise when packaging a piece of software. Let me say that I'm amazed at the quality of the distribution as a whole, and the tools that have been developed for it. The community is wonderful as well, composed of smart and skillful people who enjoy being of assistance to others. I'd like to get more involved in Arch and help wherever I can; therefore I'm applying for TUship. Daenyth has offered to be my sponsor and I sincerely thank him for that. :) Feel free to ask me any questions you might have. Kind regards, ------------ [1] http://www.tangocms.org/

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[aur-general] homepages not found
by Abhishek Dasgupta 09 Oct '08

09 Oct '08

Hi all, I wrote a script to find out the packages whose homepages cannot be found. An HTML version of this list is at: http://abhidg.mine.nu/arch/urlcheck-fail Most of this list comprises Perl packages, whose URL can be fixed (usually) by prefixing a ~ before the username, like: http://search.cpan.org/RHOOPER/HTTP-Lite to http://search.cpan.org/~RHOOPER/HTTP-Lite ------------------------------------------------------ # List of packages whose homepage # could not be spidered using the command: # wget --spider --tries=1 --timeout=30 $url # All results were then manually checked. # started: Thu Oct 9 05:29:34 GMT 2008 # finished: Thu Oct 9 07:07:07 GMT 2008 daemons/hula emulators/qemu-launcher games/blobwars games/chromium games/hex-a-hop gnome/gnome-ppp gnome/nautilus-audio-convert gnome/nautilus-share kde/kdvdauthorwizard kde/mtaskbar lib/net6 lib/obby lib/perl-algorithm-annotate lib/perl-algorithm-diff lib/perl-app-cli lib/perl-authen-sasl lib/perl-cgi lib/perl-cgi-session lib/perl-class-methodmaker lib/perl-color-calc lib/perl-convert-asn1 lib/perl-crypt-blowfish lib/perl-crypt-simple lib/perl-curses-ui-poe lib/perl-data-hierarchy lib/perl-data-structure-util lib/perl-datetime-event-ical lib/perl-datetime-event-recurrence lib/perl-datetime-format-ical lib/perl-dbd-sqlite2 lib/perl-dbi-shell lib/perl-file-path-expand lib/perl-file-type lib/perl-file-which lib/perl-finance-quote lib/perl-freezethaw lib/perl-graphics-colornames-www lib/perl-gssapi lib/perl-gtk2-trayicon lib/perl-html-highlight lib/perl-html-tagfilter lib/perl-html-template lib/perl-html-template-expr lib/perl-http-lite lib/perl-ical-parser lib/perl-io-tee lib/perl-ipc-shareable lib/perl-lingua-preferred lib/perl-mail-box-parser-c lib/perl-mail-transport-dbx lib/perl-math-base85 lib/perl-net-ipv4addr lib/perl-net-ipv6addr lib/perl-net-jabber lib/perl-net-subnets lib/perl-net-telnet lib/perl-net-xmpp lib/perl-object-multitype lib/perl-paranoid lib/perl-parse-plainconfig lib/perl-parse-yapp lib/perl-poe-component-client-dns lib/perl-poe-component-client-http lib/perl-poe-component-client-keepalive lib/perl-regexp-shellish lib/perl-string-crc32 lib/perl-svn-mirror lib/perl-term-animation lib/perl-term-progressbar lib/perl-term-readline lib/perl-test-differences lib/perl-text-charwidth lib/perl-text-diff lib/perl-text-markdown lib/perl-text-vfile-asdata lib/perl-tie-cphash lib/perl-time-format lib/perl-time-human lib/perl-tk-tablematrix lib/perl-www-curl lib/perl-x11-protocol lib/perl-xml-smart lib/perl-xml-stream lib/perlio-eol lib/perlio-via-dynamic lib/pykde lib/python-numarray lib/taglib-rcc lib32/lib32-libart-lgpl lib32/lib32-qt lib32/lib32-qt3 modules/xchat-systray-integration multimedia/gkrellmpc multimedia/gnomebaker multimedia/gtvg multimedia/kungfu multimedia/rexima network/ajaxterm network/ajaxterm-utf8-svn network/gproftpd network/sniffit office/addresses office/ec-fonts-mftraced office/gnuconcept office/gobby system/9base system/alunn system/pinfo system/shaman system/unshield x11/855resolution x11/magickthumbnail x11/terminus-font x11/ttf-inconsolata x11/ude x11/xmove -- Abhishek Dasgupta <http://abhidg.mine.nu> GPG 67972DOF pgp.mit.edu

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