October 2011 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] Adding GPG keys to profile
by Allan McRae 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

Hi Devs and TUs, Can all those who have not already done so please go to their profile page (https://www.archlinux.org/devel/profile/) and add their GPG key? Thanks, Allan

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[aur-general] Orphan Request: eclipse-dltk-* packages maintained by emphire
by Shanto 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Ref: http://download.eclipse.org/technology/dltk/downloads/drops/R3.0/S-3.0.1-20… All eclipse-dltk-* packages are out of date since August/September. While I have flagged rest of them just yesterday, eclipse-dltk-python was flagged since 2nd October, 2011. These out-of-date packages, in addition to some comments posted, make it apparent that emphire is no more interested or too busy to maintain these packages any more (no offence). As I already maintain eclipse-platform and some related stuff, I am willing to adopt these packages if orphaned. In addition, I am thinking if bundling these packages under a single package (eclipse-dltk or eclipse-dltk-bundle) makes better sense. (see the all-in-one bundle and integration components in dltk download page) Knowledgeable/experienced Eclipse users and maintainers, please suggest. Thanks, Shanto

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[aur-general] Delete Request - wifidog-auth
by Phillip Smith 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

wifidog-auth has been renamed upstream [1], could someone please delete the package from AUR [2] and I will reupload under the new name. Thx, ~p [1] http://dev.wifidog.org/wiki/Download [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27219

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Re: [aur-general] Massive drop
by Jonathan Steel 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

I would be happy to adopt feh-gtk and tint2-themes. jsteel

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[aur-general] [Removal Request] racer-3d
by Stefan Wilkens 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Hello, I've maintained this package[1] for a while, but am now running intothe inevitable consequences of upstream development: there is none. The Linux version of this game hasn't been updated in years and nowbreaks on the latest version of the fmodex library. While it will runwith an older version, the game still segfaults for unknown reasons. With no source available, no debug symbols available... It may be timeto let this one go. Upstream only develops a windows version, their community suggests wine. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31357

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[aur-general] Removal request - mupen64
by Jonathan Steel 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Not been updated in over 6 years and superseded by mupen64plus. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=1169

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[aur-general] Removal request - tint
by Jonathan Steel 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Renamed to tint2 in 2009. This is an old version. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40739

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Re: [aur-general] Removal request - fceux-nogui
by Jonathan Steel 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

It states in the README-SDL file: ... You can disable it (GTK) at run-time by passing the --nogui 1 option, or disable it build time by setting GTK to 0 in the SConstruct file.

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[aur-general] Massive drop
by widowild＠myopera.com 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

Hello, I have less and less time to check my packages (I also have a life IRL), I think of giving up the packages: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=wido except: arch-wiki-docs-fr https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47648 oilrush https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47150

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[aur-general] Removal request - fceux-nogui
by Jonathan Steel 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

Obsolete; as of the latest version you can now compile with --nogui. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38760

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[aur-general] berlios is dying
by Stefan Husmann 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

Hello, this is merly an upstream issue, but it might be good to be aware of it: berlios will be closed with the end of this year. See http://www.berlios.de/ Projects hosted there will have to move elsewhere. In the repos the following packages will be affected: bmp-wma canorus codeblocks cuetools festvox-ru fetchmail freenx gimmage goldendict gpodder griffith gsmartcontrol hardinfo hatari iat lensfun libgringotts liborigin2 lincity-ng mapnik mdf2iso mirage mythes-es ngircd oolite parano pinot pygoocanvas qtiplot ruby-ncurses sdd slim slim-themes smb4k sonata soundconverter supertux transcode unpaper uqm wifi-radar winefish xfce4-artwork xfce4-battery-plugin xfce4-datetime-plugin xfce4-eyes-plugin xfce4-fsguard-plugin xfce4-mount-plugin xfce4-netload-plugin xfce4-notes-plugin xfce4-power-manager xfce4-quicklauncher-plugin xfce4-time-out-plugin xfce4-verve-plugin Regards Stefan

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[aur-general] SLiM up for adoption
by Gaetan Bisson 30 Oct '11

30 Oct '11

Hi devs, Hi TUs, I am orphaning SLiM (login manager): upstream is dead, patches keep piling up, and I actually stopped using that package a while ago. As far as I know, our current package has only one unfixed bug: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/26579 Anyhow, I will move that package to the AUR in a week or so unless a dev or a TU wishes to adopt it. Cheers. -- Gaetan

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[aur-general] outdated package: "jpegtran" flagged as outdated since 2011-08-02
by oliver 30 Oct '11

30 Oct '11

Hello, the package "jpegtran" is flagged outdated since 2011-08-02 and I want to use it. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20176 Can the maintainer be triggered to update, or can the package maintainer be changed? if the maintainer don't want to update it, I could adopt it. Ciao, Oliver

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[aur-general] [Removal Request] rinse
by Michael Manley 30 Oct '11

30 Oct '11

Although I'm not the maintainer or original submitter, I'd ask for rinse to be removed. The package hasn't been maintained since 2009, flagged out of date, and the comments are from 2011 asking for updates and the maintainer or submitter has not responded (Comments coming from June). I actually want to maintain it as I have created an updated PKGBUILD and want to submit it but unable due to it already existing. So I ask for it to be removed so I can submit the updated version. Thanks, Michael

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[aur-general] deletion request: xf86-video-geode-latest
by Calimero 30 Oct '11

30 Oct '11

Hello, The package xf86-video-geode-latest[1] I submitted long ago is no longer needed, as the one in [extra] is perfectly working and up to date. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29916 All the best

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[aur-general] deletion request
by Axilleas P 30 Oct '11

30 Oct '11

I made a typo in the package name, so please delete pyhon2-gitissius[1] as I have uploaded the correct one. Thanks. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=53353 -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.)

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[aur-general] Orphan request
by D. Can Celasun 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

Can someone please orphan phpstorm [1]? The maintainer hasn't updated any of his packages since January. I have an updated PKGBUILD and I'm willing to maintain it. Thanks. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45651

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[aur-general] TU application
by Jonathan Steel 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

Hi, I'm interested in becoming a TU. I've been using Arch for nearly 4 years (Linux for 7) and recently started getting involved maintaining packages in the AUR. I would love to see some of these in community, help more in the AUR, extend my Arch knowledge and get to know other Arch users. I would be interested in helping out wherever I can; I already spend a good hour every day or two messing around with my Arch setups so instead of tweaking not-so-necessary things I can do something more helpful. I would enjoy the learning curve and experience and I'm quick to pick things up. A little info about me: 26, male, UK, IT manager, Christian, husband/father, retro gamer, sense of humour, perfectionist. Many thanks, jsteel

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[aur-general] Dropping packages
by Jelle van der Waa 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

Hi TU's! I'm planning to drop a few packages, some other TU's might be interested in maintaing it. Else I will put listen in AUR. * listen ( Latest release a year ago, almost 2 years now in March 2012.. ) FS#25906 * exaile ( no bugs open, works, but i don't use it ) * wifi-select ( don't use netcfg) I already disowned them on archweb. -- Jelle van der Waa

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Re: [aur-general] TU application
by Jonathan Steel 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

>Any reason you didn't send removal requests for those packages to >aur-general? >... you never sent any mail to the mailing lists >How long have you been maintaining your AUR packages for? It was just a few months ago I started adopting and updating packages. I wasn't sure how involved I could get with other people's packages (removals, changes etc.) and assumed I needed to be a TU to get more involved. I wasn't sure how likely that would be, but I thought I would at least let you know there was interest and that help was available if needed. I've learned I can already get more involved through this mailing list so I'm sure you will now hear from me from time to time regardless of the outcome of this application. >Just out of interest, where in the UK are you based? (I'm in Birmingham.) Quite far away; South Buckinghamshire. >Looking at what we have, I have a few suggestions Thanks for the tips, I will begin tidying these up. Should any change of the PKGBUILD justify a new release (pkgrel)? Or only if it alters the end package?

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[aur-general] [delete-request] bin32-zsnes
by Anton Larionov 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

bin32-zsnes https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19167 duplicate multilib/zsnes -- Regards, Anton Larionov

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[aur-general] Abandonware in the AUR
by Karol Blazewicz 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

We have a discussion on the forums [1] about Arch's policy towards what packages can be provided in the AUR with the focus on abandonware. User megadriver found a couple packages [2] that provide a means of downloading games for free (as in beer) even though those games can be bought. Apps can go in and out of the abandonware status as their availability changes: now you can buy them, now you can't. Do we care about this or is it up to the user to check if the stuff he installs is legal? Should we set up a bot to scan for potential 'warez' stuff? [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=128832 [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1008451#p1008451

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[aur-general] Request to add a rule
by Christopher luna 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

This is (again) about forbidding urls to warez on pkgbuilds on AUR. probably you people have seen the discussion on the forum. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=128832 But is not going anyware. Now, I think ewaller, hitted the nail in the head when said: "If you don't have explicit permission to copy and distribute, you may not copy and distribute. Period." I think something as easy like that would solve it all. So I am requesting a rule like that (it can be different, it doesn't have to be those words) to be added to the aur user guidelines. maybe here, on sharing packages? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_User_Guidelines#Sharing_packages Thanks.

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[aur-general] Orphan request
by Max Roder 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Hi, on October 9th, I mailed nofxx [1] and asked wether he still has the time to update his packages (some of them are out-of-date/404). I would like to adopt and update some of them. As I did not recieve any reaction, I'm asking you to orphan his packages. Thanks, Max [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account.php?Action=AccountInfo&ID=6641

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Re: [aur-general] virtualbox wiki page
by Emilio Miralles 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Hello, I took a first stab at restructuring Virtualbox <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Virtualbox>. I brought in the content from Arch_Linux_VirtualBox_Guest<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_VirtualBox_Guest>, and offloaded a bunch of stuff to VirtualBox_Extras<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox_Extras>. Discussion of the changes on Talk:VirtualBox#Page_overhaul_by_dev_request<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:VirtualBox#Page_overhaul_by_dev_r…> . Emilio

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[aur-general] Please rename "virtualbox_bin_beta" to "virtualbox-beta-bin"
by Det 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Please rename "virtualbox_bin_beta" to "virtualbox-beta-bin": https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27339

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[aur-general] Deletion Request
by Christopher luna 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Please delete the package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33036 Is doom II, which is copyrighted and Id software does not give permission for redistribution. The download link is dead, so in teory is not piracy. but the package can be adopted by someone and get "fixed" with a working link. just for the record, is not a trial/shareware version; there is not shareware version of that game. (by mistake I send this message from a different email address too, sorry)

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[aur-general] TU application
by Jonathan Steel 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

> Thanks for applying. Do you have a link to your AUR packages and > possibly a sponsor? I see the link has been given. I have also contributed to a few other packages (fakenes for one) but if I do not plan to use them much myself I have disowned them in case someone else has more interest (but I keep an eye on them). I have also created some PKGBUILDs for packages I wanted to try (not already in AUR) but after finding better (existing) alternatives I did not decide to upload them. I have also come across packages that look like they should be removed, so would be interested in the tidy-up procedure. I don't have a sponsor.

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[aur-general] Dynamically evaluating md5sum value in PKGBUILD
by Maciej Sitarz 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

Hi all, I'm maintaining hunspell-pl AUR package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44331) The problem with the package is that the maintainer of the source provides only the latest(daily) tarball snapshot. The md5sum of the tarball changes daily and the old files are removed. The packages is very often marked as 'outdated' and I'm asked to update it, both via comments and email. Some users propose to use dynamic values for pkgver= and md5sum=, but I think it's not a good way. Current PKGBUILD is: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hu/hunspell-pl/PKGBUILD Proposed PKGBUILD: http://pastebin.com/bQCafYGt What would you suggest to do? I think the best way would be to include the package in extra, but I'm not sure if it has enough votes. Thanks Best regards -- Maciej Sitarz

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Re: [aur-general] Forgotten AUR username
by Ross McDonald 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

Please could you send my username to me, I have forgotten it. Ross <ross0mcdonald(a)gmail.com>

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[aur-general] Orphan request
by minimalist 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

perl-http-parser-xs is out of date and the maintainer has not responded to any pokes and emails. I would like to take over the package maintenance. Thanks.

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[aur-general] virtualbox wiki page
by Ionut Biru 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

Hi, with the linux 3.1 package we took another approach about handling external modules. Because of that, i want to add back the old virtualbox-modules package that includes the host modules. Now comes the tricky part. I want to replace all the post_install/upgrade messages that we have now in virtualbox and guest additions for arch and replace them with a wiki link. The wiki is a total mess and includes details that doesn't matter for virtualbox on arch. Help me to clear the wiki a bit before adding the link to the package. My idea is to have in virtualbox wiki page this: 1) how to install it 2) what modules to add in rc.conf and a short description of modules functionality 3) how to run it 4) how to run guest additions on arch(as a section rather than a new page like is it now) That's it. I don't care about sharing functionality, tips and tricks for openbsd. Just plain arch functionality. -- Ionuț

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[aur-general] Replacing nexuiz with xonotic
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

I'd like to see nexuiz replaced by xonotic in [community]. Problem is that nexuiz is still a fairly popular package despite being dead upstream. xonotic devs recommend dropping nexuiz in favor of xonotic. Technically, xonotic does not replace nexuiz because its gameplay is somewhat different. I'd like some opinions on this.

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[aur-general] TU Resignation
by Brad Fanella 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

*sigh* I dreaded having to write this message. If anyone has noticed, I've been inactive in the Arch community for at least two or three weeks now, and my TU duties haven't been fulfilled in at least as long, if not more. With the start of the academic year, I was hopeful for enough spare time to continue what I enjoy (TU-ing, hobbies, both computer and non-computer related) ~ looks like I was sorely mistaken. Operating on the minimum amount of sleep that a human can survive on is not enjoyable, in case you were wondering. All laziness and time-lacking aside, both of my production machines have been fried due to power surges (which components, I yet don't know), and are now reduced to nothing more than fancy metal boxes. This leaves me with an old Thinkpad, but that's not even running Arch at the moment (/heresy), and it's a P4, so trying to manage multicore packages from there would be a no-go. It's just a very frustrating time, and I don't feel that I'm capable of being an active package maintainer considering the circumstances. Hopefully I can reapply sometime in the future if things fall back into place. My packages are, as far as I know, *mostly* up-to-date, although a month's absence can create a bit of mayhem. I will try my best to contribute and close out any open bug reports that I may be assigned to, but I can't make any definite promises. It's been a nice run guys, I hope to see you 'round. Sincerely, Brad p.s. there were some personal issues as well, but I don't really feel the need to get into those here ~ we can let Xyne speculate with one of his riveting stories

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[aur-general] Request for removal
by Jesse Juhani Jaara 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

Please remove my package [1]cpupowerutils There is pkg with better name been uploaded, wich also builds from source archive instead of git. [1]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47310

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[aur-general] Removal Request
by Simon Perry 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

Please remove perl-icontrol. Author has renamed the module and re-based the version (I have a new PKGBUILD ready). Cheers. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52207 -- Simon Perry (aka Pezz)

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[aur-general] Please remove kernel26-crusoe
by merp boop 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

Hey guys, Word has it that the newest glibc was compiled without long noops (nopl), which makes my kernel26-crusoe package obsolete. If this is true, would someone please remove it? I have a backup :) Thanks! -Max

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[aur-general] Orphaning mediatomb
by Jonathan Conder 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

Hi TUs, In a few days I will be orphaning my package mediatomb, and will delete it too unless anyone is interested in maintaining it. It has been unmaintained upstream for over a year, and currently I don't have enough time to deal with the issues that keep cropping up because of this. At the moment it isn't even installed on my main computer. Thought I'd just let people know first, in case anyone else is interested in maintaining it, and to give my reasons for dropping it. Thanks, Jonathan

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[aur-general] [broadcom-wl] kernel panic
by Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

Hi, Just a heads up to all users of broadcom-wl: a lot of people (myself included) have been reporting kernel panics at boot time after upgrade to current version, so if you're planing to upgrade, be sure to have a live cd around to chroot into your system. There are still no known workarounds other than blacklisting the wl module (thus disabling wireless board) or removing the package. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19514 Good luck! Vitor

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[aur-general] Duplicate version of blinks-darcs in the AUR
by merp boop 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Hey all, Before I sound like anything I'm not! - I don't really care about politics - I hate drama - I try my best to conform to standards in contributed work - I appreciate everyone that contributes to Arch - I understand that one can become emotionally invested in their efforts That being said, another user created a package in the AUR called 'blink', which is basically a copy of my package, 'blink-darcs'. This wouldn't cause any issues if 'blink' built from an archive of sources and didn't use darcs to pull the sources, but that's not the case. What's your opinion on this? How should this be handled? -Max

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[aur-general] Aur error: Invalid name: only lowercase letters are allowed.
by Ondřej Kučera 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Hello, I'm trying to upload and updated PKGBUILD for my package spring-framework but I'm getting the error message "Invalid name: only lowercase letters are allowed.". I've never seen this before and also this is the first PKGBUILD with package splitting I've ever tried to upload so I guess it may be related (makepkg doesn't complain though). The significant parts of PKGBUILD look as follows: pkgname=('spring-framework' 'spring-framework-doc') pkgbase='spring-framework' pkgver=3.0.6 pkgrel=1 ... build() { ... } package_spring-framework() { ... } package_spring-framework-doc() { ... } Am I doing something wrong? Ondřej -- Cheers, Ondřej Kučera

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[aur-general] merging request: python-suds
by Michael Schubert 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Dear TUs, please merge python-suds into python2-suds. Both have the same contents, yet the latter the correct naming. Thanks Michael

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[aur-general] Removal request: kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement-l10n
by A Rojas 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52062 The [extra] package contains the translations now

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[aur-general] Deletion request: glib-docs
by Aljosha Papsch 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Please delete glib-docs[0]. It is a duplicate of community/glib2-docs. [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19974

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Re: [aur-general] aur-general Digest, Vol 84, Issue 23
by Jristz Random 22 Oct '11

22 Oct '11

Please orfan samba4 4.0.0A16-1 [1], I emailed the maintainer the 15 of october and no reseiv any response the package is outdated (the alfa17 is out by 2 moth ago aprox.) [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40043

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[aur-general] tuxtype2 duplicate of tuxtype
by Philipp 22 Oct '11

22 Oct '11

It seems tuxtype2 is a duplicate of tuxtype, currently tuxtype2 is an older version and the tuxtype PKGBUILD has a couple of problems. tuxtype: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22661 tuxtype2: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21441 tuxtype is clearly the better name, tuxtype2 is misleading. Another confusing aspect is that the name of the software is actually Tux Typing or TuxTyping, although the executable is tuxtype, so I guess that's ok. Anyway, I suggest the removal of tuxtype2 and hope that the maintainer of tuxtype will tidy up his package.

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[aur-general] Deletion request: gnome-shell-extension-ibus-panel
by Jekyll Wu 22 Oct '11

22 Oct '11

I am the maintainer of this package[1]. AFAIK its features have been merged back into ibus-gjs-git[2] and the development has stopped. It does not work with gnome-shell-3.2.1 from [extra] so please delete it. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50598 [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48085

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Re: [aur-general] Replacing nexuiz with xonotic
by Samual Lenks 22 Oct '11

22 Oct '11

On Oct 21, 2011 11:30 AM, "Sven-Hendrik Haase"<sh at lutzhaase.com <http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aur-general>> wrote: >/ As it stands, it looks like xonotic devs would be a lot happier if I replaced nexuiz and eventually players would be too. AUR sounds like a fine place for nexuiz. />/ />/ -- Sven-Hendrik / Coming from an external (user) perspective, I think some confusion may have been derived from the use if the term "replace" in this thread. If my understanding is correct you are suggesting that xonotic would "replace" nexuiz in the sense that xonotic moves to community and nexuiz drops to the aur. Not that xonotic gets marked as replaces=("nexuiz") such that nexuiz users are moved to xonotic on their next upgrade. >/ From an end-user perspective I see very little loss, and a potential /considerable gain from this move. Given that the nexuiz package has not been update in nearly 2 years (the data package even longer), and upstream is effectively dead, the user will not likely have to build it more than once. Neither are existing users likely to miss an update because it moved. Xonotic on the other hand has been updated within the last month and and is likely to continue to be update, so significant time and effort could be saved for the users with not having to build each update. More frequent updates with xonotic will mean more bandwidth usage however, so if this is the bigger concern then perhaps it is best to leave things as they are, or even drop nexuiz to aur anyway to free up the space with little loss. Just my humble 2¢ -- Sean Bogie ------------------------------ Hey, this is Samual (one of the contributing developers of Nexuiz, and now one of the founders/core team members of Xonotic) - I see three points here i'd like to talk about... Firstly, Xonotic is on the rise and we're constantly bringing older Nexuiz players over (plus we're getting many new players), and eventually Nexuiz will die as the community doesn't even have a forum or such to rely on anymore. There has not been any new good maps for Nexuiz in over 2 years, plus the development for Nexuiz is totally dead.. Also, we're already planning another release (and will continue to do so often, probably in 3-6 month periods) so yes we do have more to come.... Clearly, with respect to which project is more important/promising to keep for the future, Xonotic wins. Secondly, considering gameplay... The gameplay actually is very much so similar to Nexuiz, with the same basic concepts/fast gameplay behind it -- we just have major improvements to the balance (weapons/player settings) and physics (movement/strafing) over Nexuiz (though again still similar) -- Most public players probably won't even notice a difference between the games other than that Xonotic looks better, which means the majority would have absolutely zero problems with switching. Thirdly, regarding bandwidth and disk usage... This is one of the main reasons I suggested removing Nexuiz as well in the first place. Xonotic currently takes about 950mb for a single install, however there are ways to make it smaller (e.g. more compressed sounds/music or more compressed textures) if needed.. Still, 950mb is not really that bad. Either way Sean, removing Nexuiz *AND* not having Xonotic just to save space is simply terrible :P Okay, lets just remove ALL the games.. THAT'LL SAVE SPACE FOR EVERYONE! In the end it comes down to this I think: Xonotic is the better, actually maintained and newer version of Nexuiz. Xonotic has a future (support, developers, new releases), Nexuiz does not. Nexuiz has a dwindling playerbase, Xonotic has an ever-increasing playerbase. Really though, whether or not Nexuiz should go is something which maybe should be decided later (like in a few months after our next release) -- However, Xonotic certainly should get in. Thanks, regards, -- Samual Lenks.

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[aur-general] crossfire-client package updated
by David McIlwraith 22 Oct '11

22 Oct '11

Hi, I have updated the AUR "crossfire-client" package at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12639 - details to be found in comments, repeated below; I am not sure if the current maintainer is still active or not. "http://www.archaios.net/archlinux/crossfire-client/1.60.0/PKGBUILD http://www.archaios.net/archlinux/crossfire-client/1.60.0/crossfire-curl-rm… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/crossfire/crossfire-client/1.60.0/… Updated to latest version, includes x86_64 support and a patch to fix broken build in relation to curl headers." Regards, - David McIlwraith <archaios(a)archaios.net>

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Alexis Mousset 22 Oct '11

22 Oct '11

Hi, Can someone delete these packages, I am the maintainer and there are now two parallel development versions, so I changed the naming scheme. - geogebra-beta : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39200 - geogebra-beta-maxima : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49105 - geogebraprim-beta : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49799 and the following which is renamed to a more consistent name ( kde-thubnailer-geogebra : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=53335 ) - geogebra-thumbnail-kde : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39295 Thanks in advance.

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