April 2012 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] disowning a couple of packages
by Thomas Dziedzic 12 Jan '14

12 Jan '14

Hi, I'm disowning sage-mathematics, sage-mathematics-spkgs(optdepends for sage-mathematics), fityk, and xylib(dependency for fityk). I will move them to the aur in a week if no TU adopts them in community. If you plan on adopting sage-mathematics, you should know that it is currently unbuildable on archlinux, and some other newer distros due to how it is built. It is currently out of date, and you wont be able to update it without fixing this. http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10572 (13 month old bug without recent comments) http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11391 (9 month old bug I filed without a sign of activity) If you plan on adopting fityk, note that it needs a development version of wxwidgets which I statically build in the same PKGBUILD. Cheers.

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[aur-general] Deletion request - my jack* packages
by alexander.r＠gmx.com 08 May '12

08 May '12

Please remove following packages: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57515 (jackeventcmd-git) https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57514 (jacklistener-git) https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57513 (jacknotifier-git) as jack (un)plug event handling is implemented in the latest acpid version. -- My AUR packages - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=AlexanderR

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[aur-general] deletion request
by Uli Armbruster 02 May '12

02 May '12

Hi, please delete sst https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50112 There are other packages in the AUR providing the same application (sstreck https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9931 and sstlinux https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50013) which have more votes. Maybe one of those two should be removed as well? Greetz

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[aur-general] TU application - speps
by speps 01 May '12

01 May '12

I postponed this task too many times in latest months. My application is an extract of the conversations between me and my sponsor, Thorsten Töpper, after his proposal in the end of 2011. - Introduction - I thought a lot of times about applying for becoming a TU before, and it would be surely a great experience and possibility for me. I'm really into free software, as in its principles, and I try contributing every day and in every form according to my possibilities as much as I can. Indeed, this would be the next step to let me contribute more efficiently. The AUR is a fascinating and innovative community driven project, that evolves a distribution development into a more bottom-up approach, letting users be part of it acting in a self learning machine. Keeping the AUR clean and productive so, has a central role in the Arch development and it would be great to cover. - About me - I'm a 26yo curious Italian guy with a more self driven than academic programming preparation who believes in and randomly contribute to free software, mainly by reporting bugs and submitting patches to upstream projects and of course maintaining a good amount of packages on AUR [1]. I'm an active Arch user/contributor/KISSophile since 4 years now, an half of my total Linux experience as my main and only OS. I'm interested in every form of mind and life expression exploration, and in any instrument that may grow up our knowledge about us and what's around us. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=speps - Resolutions - Since I'm involved into the Arch Audio project by submitting several build scripts and binary packages to its repository, I'd surely add the most popular in [community] (ex. supercollider, csound, pd, lv2 plugins), and I would help Ray Rashif maintaining the ones already there, of course. Being an out-of-the-box pro-audio ready distro (in terms of officially distributed packages) would be great for Arch, since the number of multimedia-oriented users, developers and projects using Arch as their main platform is growing day by day (LAC 2012 has been a testimonial ;)). Also, I would contribute adopting and maintaining orphans and of course taking care of bug reports. - Identity (WARNING: heavily verbose) - On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 22:24:20 +0100 Thorsten Töpper <atsutane(a)freethoughts.de> wrote: > Though due to the recent signature introduction a GPG Key is also > necessary and as I can't find your real name anywhere, this would also > be necessary, there were strong internal discussions because of Xyne > who can't reveal his identity. If that also a matter for you I fear > that you won't be accepted. I followed the whole discussion on ML, as it is of my interest, and I must admit the Xyne presence in the Arch team was always a good point for me to assert the possibility of contributing "officially" and "anonymously" at the same time, in the hope that is not just an exception. The meaning of identity on the Internet is still something not so defined to me through its limits, consequences and abuses. So, from the beginning of my Internet experience, I never referenced to myself through my real name/life, but using a nickname, a digital identity. This could be perceived as stupid or too paranoid for some, but for me is just a way to taste things without risking to be too much implied till the point of no return. I'm not referring to responsibilities, but to the possibility of having a choice. The adoption of GPG Keys for signing packages intention is to prevent malicious hijacking through mirrors and to certificate their provenance, and not to identify a packager in his real life. Also, even using a "real name" is not a way to assume a real existence, since hypothetically a real life identity could be easily faked too. As you can see I sign mails with my GPG Key, and I really do not see a real difference between mine and your or the one of another TU, since actually we do not personally know each others. I like to think that a digital identity just deals with the reputation that comes from the quality of the work done like from the behaviours in social relations, and a nickname is enough to cover its identification. This is just my point till now, not a way to convince someone else. I say "till now", cause this is the first time I was asked to reveal my real identity for being crucial in contributing or to be trusted. Differently, some years ago Giovanni Scafora asked my name for including it as a contributor in a [extra] PKGBUILD (cpufrequtils) after sending him a patch. In that case I took the decision of keeping on my way. I'll have to think about this since, as you say, probably another Xyne would be not allowed. My idea is, trying an application as simply "speps" and on a negative response taking the big decision. What do you think? Sorry again for the massive length of this mail, I can't be too synthetic in such cases :( Regards and thanks P.S.: the X-Face is my real eye ;) - speps -

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[aur-general] Deletion request: vte-text-shadows
by Jekyll Wu 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

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[aur-general] TU application - ConnorBehan - results
by Sergej Pupykin 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

Hello, voting is closed. Results: Yes - 8 No - 5 Abstain - 8 Total - 21 I don't know who is responsible for next actions.

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[aur-general] PKGBUILD review request
by Bernhard D 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

Hi, I wrote a PKGBUILD for the driver package from TBS (www.tbsdtv.com) for their dvb cards. I split packaging for modules and firmware and patched the sources to install the modules to /lib/modules/kernelversion/updates and the firmware to /lib/firmware/updates to avoid overwriting existing files. It's the first time I'm building kernel modules and there are two things I'm not sure about: - Are the files under /lib/firmware/updates found and do they have precedence? - Is "depmod -a" after install, upgrade and removal the right approach to rebuild the module dependencies? Regards, Bernhard

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[aur-general] Removal request
by Schala Zeal 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

Please remove https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57783 The download link is not only no longer valid, but the preset config files it would fetch seem to be gone entirely without an updated version.

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[aur-general] Removal Request: pyflakes-svn
by N30N 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

Hi there, Please remove my old pyflakes-svn package. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15061 Thanks and best regards, N30N.

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[aur-general] Signoff report for [community-testing]
by Arch Website Notification 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

=== Signoff report for [community-testing] === https://www.archlinux.org/packages/signoffs/ There are currently: * 0 new packages in last 24 hours * 0 known bad packages * 0 packages not accepting signoffs * 0 fully signed off packages * 25 packages missing signoffs * 0 packages older than 14 days (Note: the word 'package' as used here refers to packages as grouped by pkgbase, architecture, and repository; e.g., one PKGBUILD produces one package per architecture, even if it is a split package.) == Incomplete signoffs for [community] (20 total) == * ecryptfs-utils-96-2 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * open-vm-tools-2012.03.13-3 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * pam-krb5-4.5-2 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * pam_mysql-0.7RC1-6 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * pam_pwcheck-3.9-4 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * php-geoip-1.0.8-2 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * php-memcache-3.0.6-3 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * php-memcached-2.0.1-4 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * virtualbox-modules-4.1.14-2 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * xdebug-2.2.0RC2-1 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * ecryptfs-utils-96-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * open-vm-tools-2012.03.13-3 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * pam-krb5-4.5-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * pam_mysql-0.7RC1-6 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * pam_pwcheck-3.9-4 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * php-geoip-1.0.8-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * php-memcache-3.0.6-3 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * php-memcached-2.0.1-4 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * virtualbox-modules-4.1.14-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * xdebug-2.2.0RC2-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs == Incomplete signoffs for [unknown] (5 total) == * vicious-2.0.4-2 (any) 0/2 signoffs * awesome-3.4.11-4 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * mariadb-5.5.23-3 (i686) 0/2 signoffs * awesome-3.4.11-4 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * mariadb-5.5.23-3 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs == Top five in signoffs in last 24 hours == 1. dan - 12 signoffs 2. tomegun - 10 signoffs 3. allan - 4 signoffs 4. bisson - 2 signoffs 5. foutrelis - 1 signoffs

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