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[aur-general] pyportmidi is now python-portmidi
by Martti Kühne 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

hello calimero hello list pyportmidi [1] has been renamed to python-portmidi [2]. I guess it's up for deletion, since it doesn't even use the current python2 naming. CC goes to the owner of the package. cheers! mar77i [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35450 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46350

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by rafael ff1 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

lib32-acl - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10274 Reason: The package was adopted in Multilib, so no reason to have an AUR package.

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[aur-general] could anyone help me to upload newer vim-dirdiff?
by Daniel Lin 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

I want to update the aur package. I found the maintainer was unknown. But, I can not upload my package source there.

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[aur-general] Dublicate nx-common
by Sascha Kruse 19 Feb '11

19 Feb '11

Hello, I just stumbled upon nx-common ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32429 ) which seems to be a dublicate of nx-common in [extra]. greetings, Sascha

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[aur-general] Removal request
by arch＠krzd.net 19 Feb '11

19 Feb '11

Hello, the following packages, currently maintained by myself, are now in [gnome-unstable] and can therefore be deleted. gnome-control-center-dev: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40737 gnome-desktop-3.0: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40307 gnome-settings-daemon-dev: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44724 libcanberra-gtk3: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42689 libgnomekbd-dev: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44728 libnotify-dev: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44726 mutter: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27097 Also the package gnome-themes-dev is not required for gnome-shell, so it can be deleted including a dependency of it. gnome-themes-dev: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45512 gtk-engines-dev: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45513 Thanks Adam hani Schakaki

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[aur-general] Obsolete bin32 package
by Try Again 19 Feb '11

19 Feb '11

Hi, I merged bin32-psx[1] into psx, so the former is now obsolete. Please can you delete it ? Thanks in advance. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19491

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[aur-general] [Deletion request] autodocktools
by Michael Schubert 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Please delete autodocktools [1]. I am the maintainer and the package will be replaced by mgltools and/or python2-autodock. Regards, Michael [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46342

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[aur-general] Orphan perl-config-simple
by Phillip Smith 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Could someone please orphan perl-config-simple so I can adopt it? Several queries (including solutions) to the maintainer have gone unanswered trying to get it fixed to reflect the changes with removing 'current' path from @INC Thx, ~p

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[aur-general] Disown request
by rafael ff1 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

The packages below don't comply with Multilib and are built from Archlinux binaries, even after I provided the solution (in a src.tar.gz) to the maintainer. Also, I didn't get any reply. Can you please disown them so I can fix the PKGBUILDs? lib32-gdbm <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29642> lib32-allegro <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20892> lib32-devil <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20891> lib32-libxaw <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20894> lib32-zziplib <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20889> Thanks.

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Max Roder 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, please remove eiskaltdcpp-gtk-svn: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39546 I created eiskaltdcpp-gtk-git (they switched to git): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46384 In addition, I would like to adopt ripit: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12099 And jaolt-svn: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29109 I've sent an email to both authors as of 2011/02/05 and 02/07 - no reaction yet. Got working packages ready for upload. Thanks, Max -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk1by44ACgkQ3izE/HNrNdoq8wCgmqVYELXi9++/LYY0Q9W/rUhp GBgAnA4ZVJDHO5mAUYRVT56W3XhRzxZC =M0du -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Alessio Sergi 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

Hi TUs, please delete eclipse-classic [1] and eclipse-classic-galileo [2] because both packages have been replaced by eclipse-galileo [3]. Thanks in advance. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32314 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38457 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46573 -- Alessio Sergi

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[aur-general] Please delete python-py from AUR
by Felix Kaiser 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

Hi, can someone please delete python-py from AUR? It's unmaintained and outdated. There's an alternative package, python-pylib, which I maintain. It has been around longer and has got more votes, therefore I believe its better to keep python-pylib and delete python-py. Felix

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[aur-general] appinventor duplicate
by Pierre-Antoine Vanpe 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

Hi all, I noticed that appinventor has changed name upstream, the maintainer has dropped [1] appinventor-extras for [2] appinventor-setup. He asked in the comments of [1] to delete it

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[aur-general] gsettings-desktop-schemas moved to gnome-unstable
by Ionuț Bîru 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Hi, i just moved that and i would like to ask you not to update the package in community to 0.1.5. I would delete it once the gnome-unstable packages are moved to public repository. Also to inform all the other trusted users about this, i'm going to CC this to aur-general. -- Ionuț

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[aur-general] Cleanup request
by D. Can Celasun 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-general] Package deletion request
by Peter Lewis 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

On Monday 14 February 2011 13:02:54 Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > On 14 February 2011 13:43, D. Can Celasun <dcelasun(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I've adopted, updated and reuploaded the "ejecter"[1] package as > > "indicator-ejecter"[2] to follow the general naming convention regarding > > Ayatana packages [3] . Can someone please delete the original "ejecter" > > package? > > > > [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20493 > > [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46497 > > [3] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=99746&p=1 > > > > Thanks. > > Deleted ejecter. So were we both able to delete these simultaneously and the interface let us? Is this totally safe? Just a thought... Pete.

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[aur-general] Packages with update-desktop-database issues
by Matthias Dienstbier 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Hi, I recently found that wine doesn't run update-desktop-database (FS#22882) but that's not the only package with this issue. I tested all my installed packages with this command: for i in $(grep -Rl 'MimeType=.*/.*' /usr/share/applications/*); do pkg= $(LANG=C pacman -Qo "$i"); grep -L update-desktop-database /var/lib/pacman/local/$(echo $pkg | cut -d\ -f5)-$(echo $pkg | cut -d\ -f&)/install; done The result was that at least these packages don't run update-desktop-database although they install Mime associations: extra/chromium extra/evolution extra/mplayer extra/openjdk6 extra/qt extra/sound-juicer community/mplayer-vaapi community/shotwell community/virtualbox community/wine There are probably many more broken packages which I don't have installed. I tried to get these via pkgfile but didn't succeed. I really wonder why namcap doesn't do any checks on this. -- Matthias Dienstbier

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[aur-general] Request: Package Revision
by Bernardo Barros 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

Hi all, I don't know much about Java.. but I wanted to package this one because of SuperCollider and it seems a good sound editor anyway. Please people with experience with Java and Java packages revise this one: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46459 thanks! Bernardo

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[aur-general] Please help create package lib32-gobject-introspection
by rafael ff1 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

Hi all, I'm trying to build gobject-introspection for lib32 version for my Arch64, but it is failing in the "configure" command saying that Python headers were not found. This 32 bit library package seems to be dependecy (not sure, though) for some lib32 packages (afaik "at-spi", "gconf", "polkit", "gstreamer0.10"). Can someone please help as I really don't know how to solve this issue? Thanks! ( Sorry for the size of the email. I thought it would be good to add some log messages and didn't know if attachment is allowed. PLEASE remove some lines when reply!) *** My "configure" command in the PKGBUILD ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib32 --disable-static \ PYTHON='python2' CC='gcc -m32' *** See part of the output of it below: (...) checking for python2 version... 2.7 checking for python2 platform... linux2 checking for python2 script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.7/site-packages checking for python2 extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.7/site-packages checking for headers required to compile python extensions... not found configure: error: Python headers not found Aborting... *** Part of the "config.log" : (...) configure:13341: checking for headers required to compile python extensions configure:13356: gcc -m32 -E -I/usr/include/python2.7 conftest.c In file included from /usr/include/python2.7/Python.h:8:0, from conftest.c:45: /usr/include/python2.7/pyconfig.h:989:0: warning: "SIZEOF_LONG" redefined conftest.c:31:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition In file included from /usr/include/python2.7/Python.h:58:0, from conftest.c:45: /usr/include/python2.7/pyport.h:849:2: error: #error "LONG_BIT definition appears wrong for platform (bad gcc/glibc config?)." configure:13356: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h */ | #define PACKAGE_NAME "gobject-introspection" | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "gobject-introspection" | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "0.9.12" | #define PACKAGE_STRING "gobject-introspection 0.9.12" | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT " http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=glib&component=introspection " | #define PACKAGE_URL "" | #define PACKAGE "gobject-introspection" | #define VERSION "0.9.12" | #define STDC_HEADERS 1 | #define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1 | #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1 | #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1 | #define HAVE_STRING_H 1 | #define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1 | #define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1 | #define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1 | #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1 | #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1 | #define HAVE_DLFCN_H 1 | #define LT_OBJDIR ".libs/" | #define YYTEXT_POINTER 1 | #define HAVE_LIBDL 1 | #define SHLIB_SUFFIX "so" | #define GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_LIBDIR "/usr/lib32" | #define GIR_SUFFIX "gir-1.0" | #define GIR_DIR "/usr/share/gir-1.0" | #define SIZEOF_CHAR 1 | #define SIZEOF_SHORT 2 | #define SIZEOF_INT 4 | #define SIZEOF_LONG 4 | #define STDC_HEADERS 1 | #define HAVE_FCNTL_H 1 | #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1 | #define HAVE_STRING_H 1 | #define HAVE_MEMCHR 1 | #define HAVE_STRCHR 1 | #define HAVE_STRSPN 1 | #define HAVE_STRSTR 1 | #define HAVE_STRTOL 1 | #define HAVE_STRTOULL 1 | #define HAVE_BACKTRACE 1 | #define HAVE_BACKTRACE_SYMBOLS 1 | /* end confdefs.h. */ | #include <Python.h> configure:13361: result: not found configure:13363: error: Python headers not found (...)

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[aur-general] aur RSS down
by keenerd 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

http://aur.archlinux.org/rss.php has not updated since Feb 4. Thought someone here might want to know. -Kyle http://kmkeen.com

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Alessio Sergi 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

Hi TUs, please delete awn-extras-bzr [1] because it's superseded by awn-extras-applets-bzr [2]. Also, please delete awn-extras [3] because it's superseded by awn-extras-applets [4] in [community]. Thanks in advance, [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12603 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40511 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24760 [4] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/awn-extras-applets/ -- Alessio Sergi

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Alessio Sergi 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

Hi TUs, please delete libdesktop-agnostic-gconf [1] and libdesktop-agnostic-gnome-bzr [2] because both packages have been replaced by libdesktop-agnostic-bzr [3]. Thanks in advance, [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35295 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31432 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46451 -- Alessio Sergi

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[aur-general] Fwd: [arch-notifications] Community Sourceballs 13-02-2011
by Allan McRae 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

==> Failed to create source packages for [community]... -> qtfm-4.5-2.src.tar.gz The current PKGBUILD has the correct md5sums but there is the old tarball in /home/sourceballs/sources on sigurd. Can someone with the appropriate privileges delete that? Allan

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Marcel Korpel 12 Feb '11

12 Feb '11

Please delete these packages, as they are *very* old, unmaintained and/or there exists a more current one: kernel26zen 20090915-1 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13902 kernel26zenmm-git 20080913-8 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18272 kernel26zenmmotm-git 20080825-8 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19364 klibc-zen 1.5-3 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13906 Regards, Marcel

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[aur-general] Delete Request
by speps 12 Feb '11

12 Feb '11

Hi, please delete openoctave-midi-git ==> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28558 oom ==> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45905 they are duplicates of oomidi-git ==> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46388 oomidi ==> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46430 Just talked with openoctave devs, oomidi is the right name for distributing. Thanks - speps -

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Re: [aur-general] AUR & Copyright
by Thomas S Hatch 11 Feb '11

11 Feb '11

You raise a good point, I would think that we would need to post something on the submit page stating the copyright nature. My brothers are lawyers, I will check with them as to what the right thing to do is. -Thomas S Hatch On Feb 6, 2011 10:49 AM, "Xyne" <xyne(a)archlinux.ca> wrote: > Eric Waller wrote: > >> I am not a lawyer and I generally tune out all license flame wars. >> That said, PKGBUILDS generally do not contain copyright or license >> declarations. Unless I am mistaken, that means someone who comes into >> possession of a PKGBUILD does not have the right to republish it. >> >> As a minimum, I think Arch should get a nod from the creator of a >> PKGBUILD prior to absorbing it into the colective -- It might help >> avoid any misunderstandings. > > What is the legal status of files submitted to the AUR? I have always assumed > that anything uploaded to the AUR is automatically licensed under the GPL or > something similar, in the same way that content contributed to the wiki is. > > I can't find anything that states this on the AUR site, which is a potentially > calamitous legal oversight. > > The legal issue should be cleared up. If we needed to obtain explicit > permission from every contributor then the AUR would cease to be useful. You > would not be able to adopt and update PKGBUILDs without permission, and you > would need to enable users to delete their own PKGBUILDs when they decide to > withdraw permission. >

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[aur-general] delete streamtuner2-plugins
by widomaker2k7＠gmail.com 11 Feb '11

11 Feb '11

Hello, do you delete a package streamtuner2-plugins because the developer has changed site for sourceforge, the plugins don't exist. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39226

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[aur-general] Standardized CPAN Package Versions
by Xyne 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Hi, I have CC'd this to aur-general as this concerns all CPAN packagers on Arch. CPAN package versions are a mess on Arch Linux. It seems that many if not most CPAN packagers on Arch are unaware of how CPAN deals with versions and thus they do not correctly translate the CPAN version. Most of the time a naive translation is used instead, and this prevents Pacman from working correctly. To give an example, CPAN considers "1.15" to be a later version than "1.23.0", whereas Pacman will consider the latter version the newer version. This is because "1.15" is short for "1.150" on CPAN, whereas "1.23.0" is short for "1.023.0". This can be confirmed using the "version" module[1]. I have written a simple Perl script[2] that addresses this issue.* It accepts CPAN versions as command-line arguments and prints out standardized Pacman package versions. The package versions enable Pacman to correctly compare CPAN packages, e.g. when resolving minimal dependencies. I propose that the script be packaged and made an official tool for Perl package developers.** It should also be included on the Perl Package Guidelines wiki page[3]. I hope that this will be seriously considered as it addresses a real issue. Tools that generate CPAN packages for Pacman (e.g. Bauerbill) cannot work properly when there is no consistency in how Arch packages are versioned. Please note as well that this is completely separate from my previous (and continued) contention regarding the "provides" array of CPAN packages. Regards, Xyne [1]: http://search.cpan.org/~jpeacock/version-0.88/ [2]: http://xyne.archlinux.ca/scripts/pacman/ver_cpan2pacman [3]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Perl_Package_Guidelines * The script only depends on Perl. The name and license are preliminary. I will gladly change both to something more suitable. * I would be willing to maintain it, but an official tool should probably be included in [core] or [extra], not [community].

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[aur-general] AIDE out-of-date
by Tony C 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Hi, AIDE has been flagged out-of-date since July of 2010. I went ahead and tidied up the PKGBUILD for the most recent version of AIDE. Please update this in AUR. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22591 Kind Regards, -- Tony

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[aur-general] Please delete gimp-save-for-web
by Marcel Korpel 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Hi, Can someone please delete gimp-save-for-web [1], as it is a duplicate of gimp-plugin-saveforweb [2] (though it has a nice package ID ;). Thanks! Regards, Marcel [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20000 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13473

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[aur-general] How to handle installers in PKGBUILDs
by Michael Schubert 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Hi, I am already maintaining a couple of PKGBUILDs and wanted to add one for CellDesigner, which is used to model biochemical pathways. The download is only available as binary package with its own installer. Now, I thought that I could use the installer inside a PKGBUILD with $pkgdir as root. However, the installer cross-references some files in others with absolute paths, i.e. when the package is installed it still links to the build dir instead of the system dir. Because of the way the cross-refs are inserted, simple sed'ing these does not work. The obvious solution would be to use fakeroot/chroot in the $pkgdir and use to to emulate a root directory structure. My question now is: (1) am I on the right track and (2) is there any standard way to do this in PKGBUILDs? I couldn't find any sample PKGBUILDs concerning this issue and the ArchWiki contains no information either. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Michael

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[aur-general] Deletion Request
by Fergus Symon 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Hi, The package latex-minted (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45813) is provided by texlive-latexextra, and I believe the author wants it deleted. Thanks, Fergus

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Re: [aur-general] How to handle installers in PKGBUILDs
by jesse jaara 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

On 9.2.2011 14.08, "Michael Schubert" <mschu.dev(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am already maintaining a couple of PKGBUILDs and wanted to add one > for CellDesigner, which is used to model biochemical pathways. The download > is only available as binary package with its own installer. > > Now, I thought that I could use the installer inside a PKGBUILD with $pkgdir > as root. However, the installer cross-references some files in others with > absolute paths, i.e. when the package is installed it still links to the > build dir instead of the system dir. Because of the way the cross-refs are > inserted, simple sed'ing these does not work. > > The obvious solution would be to use fakeroot/chroot in the $pkgdir and use > to to emulate a root directory structure. My question now is: (1) am I on > the right track and (2) is there any standard way to do this in PKGBUILDs? > > I couldn't find any sample PKGBUILDs concerning this issue and the ArchWiki > contains no information either. > Any help would be appreciated. > > Cheers, Michael Usually the installers are shell acripts with a binary tar.gz blob in the end of the file. This can be cat:ed from the file and piped to tar. This is what the installer does Open it and you see how to cat the contents and what else might ne needed

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Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community
by Nicky726 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Hi, fellow Archers, I feel a need to express my support to the opinion stated by Greg Imreh and Thomas Hatch. There is an unique relation between the contributor/maintainer and the PKGBUILD. This relation calls for respect. So please TUs/devs act as people and show it by letting first the contributor/maintainer know, that you are about to adopt a PKGBUILD to the binary repo. Surely adoption in the repo by itself is greater good for the package and Arch and therefor goal of every maintainer, so there hardly will be objections from the maintainer, but just taking it without a word is very rude. There would be no package to adopt, if there was not for the AUR contributor/maintainer. To Angel Velasquez: the nature of the relation is not like an ownership, but more like an authorship. Is it that much to show your respect to the author by a polite question? After all we are people, not mindless machines nor animals. Nicky -- Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone (Joni Mitchell)

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[aur-general] Please delete mcabber-module-streams-git
by Patrice Peterson 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Hey, Could you please delete mcabber-module-streams (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35176)? It's a dependency for mcabber-modules-si-git (which was deleted earlier), and it's superseded by mcabber-module-jingle-git as well. Thanks in advance, Patrice.

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[aur-general] Status of virtualbox_bin{, _beta, -1, -2, -3} and virtualbox-sun
by Lukas Fleischer 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Hey, folks! In consequence to recent deletion requests concerning the pre-built VirtualBox packages in the AUR, I decided that we should agree on what to do with them in consensus. The status quo is that the PUEL (Personal Use and Evaluation License) edition of VirtualBox is gone as of release 4.0, since people can now use additional features with "virtualbox" from [community] and a closed-source extension pack [1]. Instead, Oracle provides a pre-built VirtualBox package as the "successor" of the PUEL edition which, however, is exactly the same thing as the package in [community]. Afaik, the only difference is that the [community] package is compiled by us whereas the binary package is built by Oracle. We currently have at least six source tarballs based on that pre-built version in the AUR: - virtualbox_bin [2] - virtualbox_bin_beta [3] - virtualbox_bin-1 [4] - virtualbox_bin-2 [5] - virtualbox_bin-3 [6] - virtualbox-sun [7] virtualbox_bin-{1,2,3} are legacy packages. They still have a considerable number of votes. Following points emerged during earlier discussions: Pro deletion: - There shouldn't be any packages in the AUR that provide exactly the same stuff as another package in the official repos. - The [community] package is preferable to the AUR packages as it is maintained by some Arch dev and contains Arch-specific patches. People might also be confused by the high number of votes on virtualbox_bin. Against: - Why delete them? These packages still have AUR maintainers, upstream's still active, they don't break things, they ain't real dupes. - The binary packages can be used to check for upstream faults in case the official virtualbox package breaks. Any further opinions? [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44761 [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9753 [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27339 [4] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19613 [5] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27853 [6] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44826 [7] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31996

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[aur-general] Please delete mcabber-module-si-git and mcabber-module-streams-git
by Patrice Peterson 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Hey all, Please delete the following two packages: mcabber-module-si-git http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35175 mcabber-module-streams-git http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35175 They aren't maintained anymore and are superseded by the mcabber-module-jingle-git package. Thanks! Regards, Patrice.

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[aur-general] lib32-libvdpau moved in multilib
by Ionuț Bîru 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Hi, now that adobe released as stable the flash version that supports vdpau, i needed your build to bring the support to multilib. Thanks for the build. -- Ionuț

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Krzysztof Raczkowski 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Hi, The following packages: - openxencenter (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34398) - openxencenter-svn (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36074) are replaced by openxenmanager-svn (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45800) as upstream switched name from openxencenter to openxenmanager. Why not clear AUR from obsolete ones? Cheers, -- Krzysztof Raczkowski raczkow(a)gmail.com

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Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community
by Martti Kühne 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

> Not that I wouldn't mind the credit but it was Lukas Fleischer who > implemented the official repo checking code and not me. He is also > hosting the git repository for his branch of the AUR. Oops, yeah, I saw this too at some point. > Your idea sort of sounds like "retiring" a package to me. That seems > like an interesting idea but I am not sure the benefits are worth the > work involved. The benefits that I can see are: Well, a "retired" AUR package isn't much retiring in my notion, but more active than ever before, due to the fact that it is officially part of Archlinux at that point. The thing is that the intention behind this is to basically insert a cheery error page that would iron out the complaints from AUR maintainers that seem to come up frequently. It would improve the communication with TUs when there's a mailto address to the guy displayed, which does the package now. > + keeping a backup of the source package (for whom? are they that valuable?) > + keeping a backup of the comments, which hardly anyone can see (the > original author? TUs?) <displace-by-topic-coverage> > - what sort of design on the web could be used to show old retired > package comments? you can't hide a package and show its comments. who > is the end-user for old musty comments anyways? The backup of the source package is unnecessary, as well as the comments to the point, that maybe said maintainer wants to look at it for a last time. So that could be, like some static you-might-be-looking-for-this-data-but-probably-not kind of way. Nice to have, no must-have, anyways. Just for the sake that I did read ppl complaining about that as well... > Just to be specific, a TU clicks the "Retire" button on a package to > retire it. A retired package is hidden from the general user. Only the > original author can see it. I suppose TU or devs could see it as well, > in a special swanky section of the site. Problems I brainstormed: > - what happens if the original author disowns his invisible retired > package? does he lose it never to found again? would anyone care? There should no more be a way to disown that package. The intention is really just a bite more than the "database entry not found" surprise people now have. The only thing that can be done by that former owner and only that former owner is to approve, and when approved, it's going to be deleted. > Anyways there you go. If I were the one expected to spend time > programming this (for free) I would say that it's not worth the > effort. That's more nicely said than unsubscribing this list, but you would remember by the fifth time this flame awakes as a zombie... :-D Let's see... cheers! mar77i

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Re: [aur-general] TU Resignation
by Seblu 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Andrea Scarpino <andrea(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Hi TUs, > it's my time to leave the [community] repo. > > I orphaned more packages in the last year and now I orphan the rest: > - choqok > - quoauth > - oxygen-gtk > - rekonq > - wtf > > Has been an honour to work with all you guys. > Thank you all. As a simple user, thanks you for your advices and your work in community. -- Sébastien Luttringer www.seblu.net

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Re: [aur-general] AUR & Copyright
by Nicky726 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Angel Velasquez wrote: > Why you didn't reply on the thread ? :S now this thread is splitted > without reason Sorry, Re: somehow slipped out from Subject line. :-( Nicky -- Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone (Joni Mitchell)

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[aur-general] new aur mirror
by keenerd 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Hi all. I am now mirroring the AUR continuously, and am starting to open it up to public access. It is not a perfect byte-for-byte clone, as I felt like adding a few features :-) For now, there is an enhanced RPC database. It's got everything from the original RPC calls, plus some extra fields that people always seem to want. Access it through http://aur.kmkeen.com/rpc/name_of_package Yes, it is 100% static. This was the only way my little VPS could keep up with the beastly Sigurd machine. I've also got all the tarballs mirrored, but forgot to add the links to the RPC info (mirror/pkgname/pkgname.tar.gz). Will fix that shortly. There are also search indexes prepared for description, depends and required-by but the regex search is not open to the world yet. Maybe after I get some sleep. Much thanks goes to Falconindy for ideas, encouragement and patience. I am currently taking feature requests. Go wild. -Kyle http://kmkeen.com

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[aur-general] AUR PKGBUILD Deletion Request
by Slash 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Greetings, The following packages need to be deleted: 1) ezquake-skins: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7069 2) ezquake-textures: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7068 These packages have a bunch of random, out of date, some no longer relevant assets, which should never have been bundled together in the first place. In addition, they are not directly related, nor depend on ezquake, so they should not have been named as such. I have created a new proper package to take the place of these two, with the work from the Quake Retexturing Project (QRP), quake-qrp-textures ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45791 ). I posted a comment on the two aforementioned packages to warn users ahead of time. Thank you in advance, Slash

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[aur-general] Delete Request
by Sara Fauzia 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Please remove fbpdf: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46240 I've replaced it with fbpdf-git: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46304 I uploaded the package as fbpdf, but it is a git package, so to fix my mistake, I created the fbpdf-git package. Sara -- "Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature." ~Michael Faraday

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[aur-general] Disown request
by rafael ff1 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Hi there. I tried to have the maintainer of *lib32-gtk-engines* and *lib32-libidl2* to fix the PKGBUILDs to comply Multilib, but got no answer by email for 10 days now. I got it ready to upload. Please disown these 2 packages? Thanks

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[aur-general] Moving packages to Community
by Martti Kühne 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Hello official and inofficial maintainers and AUR devs. Following the discussion in aur-general, I think some automation could solve many issues at once here. Justin Davis' community-blacklist patch is an approach in about the right direction.... although in relation to the discussion concerning these prevailing [more-official repo] adoption issues, it seems that it does not yet go far enough at the moment. There should be a redirection or at least a [we're-now-official] error page showing sort of "congratulations and sorry for the late notice" to the yet uninformed aur maintainer, if his package is not reachable any more because it was adopted in said [more-official repo] - along with this could be displayed the comments of the former package. As well, it could just become invisible in the package's search, and marked with a "I saw this" button in the former AUR maintainer's package list. When that button is clicked, the package would sink quietly into the official repo without anyone needing to complain. The only hurdle remaining is, that a package isn't up for deletion any more when it gets adopted to [more-official repo], because that could just be automated by the repo's backend maybe? I'm probably going to download the aur source inclusively Justin's approach to look into this a bit further. Even though my development skills aren't exactly in line with such a task, and if someone feels more confident, one may look into it h{im,er}self. I'd like to hear your comments on this well. cheers! mar77i

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Re: [aur-general] TU Resignation
by Peter Lewis 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Hi Andrea, On Monday 07 February 2011 19:25:03 Andrea Scarpino wrote: > Hi TUs, > it's my time to leave the [community] repo. Ah! Well, thanks for all your work. More time to focus on KDE in [extra], eh? :-D > I orphaned more packages in the last year and now I orphan the rest: > - choqok > - quoauth > - rekonq I'm happy to take over these, since I occasionally use / build them anyway. Cheers, Pete.

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Re: [aur-general] TU Resignation
by Ike Devolder 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Op maandag 7 februari 2011 20:25:03 schreef Andrea Scarpino: > Hi TUs, > it's my time to leave the [community] repo. > > I orphaned more packages in the last year and now I orphan the rest: > - choqok > - quoauth > - oxygen-gtk > - rekonq > - wtf > > Has been an honour to work with all you guys. > Thank you all. > > thx for the great packages you've been delivering us also for the support given to us when we were in trouble greetz Ike ( aka BlackEagle )

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[aur-general] TU Resignation
by Andrea Scarpino 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Hi TUs, it's my time to leave the [community] repo. I orphaned more packages in the last year and now I orphan the rest: - choqok - quoauth - oxygen-gtk - rekonq - wtf Has been an honour to work with all you guys. Thank you all. -- Andrea

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[aur-general] Moving packages to Community
by Gergely Imreh 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Hi, Recently a couple of my packages have been moved to Community but the process feels a little uneasy to me. My impression is that AUR is treated as a "second class" source of packages compared to the official repos. Not surprising, of course, so many packages have problems. This is also underlined by the fact that yaourt and other AUR managers are not allowed in the official repos, as "not to give the impression that AUR is official" (paraphrasing what I've read before). If there is indeed this divide, it feels more than little weird, that popular packages are just taken in to Community without even asking the current managers. It gives me the message that "AUR has no value, except when we say it has, at which time thanks for your work but now bugger off". I beg your pardon, if it comes through too harsh. I wouldn't have objected to have those packages moved. I, however, object to unilateral decisions. My proposition is: could it be a policy to check with the maintainer first before initiating a move? If someone wants to keep a package then they should be able to, especially since they could not have been doing such a a bad job if their package has become popular. Cheers, Greg

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[aur-general] Orphaned ruby packages
by Massimiliano Torromeo 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

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[aur-general] AUR & Copyright
by Nicky726 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

If I may add my two cents, I would go for GPL for PKGBUILDs, as it ensures stuff remains OSS. Though some broader discussion/voting may be good. And a compromise in form of selection from OSS licences when uploading, defaulting to one could not be that hard to implement. Nicky -- Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone (Joni Mitchell)

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[aur-general] License installation
by rafael ff1 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Hi there. I read Licenses <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Licenses> and PKGBUILD<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD>pages at Archwiki and I've been wondering: case a software's license is one the common ones (ex: GPL), if the PKGBUILD should do some kind of reference (symlink) from /usr/share/licenses/common/GPL/ to /usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/ or.. do nothing, maybe? Thanks

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[aur-general] deletion request
by Seven Seven 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Please delete kde`s pkg: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19552 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36568 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46070 Thanks

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[aur-general] [Remove] pngout-static
by Lou 06 Feb '11

06 Feb '11

Yarr. Yet Another Removal Request. pngout-static http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38726 I adopted this package yesterday, but uploaded a new one simply called "pngout". Thanks. Hail Arch.

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Re: [aur-general] Errors on submission: Invalid name: only lowercase letters are allowed
by Thomas S Hatch 06 Feb '11

06 Feb '11

You can get around the split package bug this way: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42514

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[aur-general] Errors on submission: Invalid name: only lowercase letters are allowed
by andrew thomas 06 Feb '11

06 Feb '11

I tried adopted this package (kernel26-yi) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37895 But when I tried to upload an updated PKGBUILD. I got rejected with "Invalid name: only lowercase letters are allowed" I used makepkg --source to generate a file named kernel26-yi-2.6.37-1.src.tar.gz. Why am I receiving this error? Thanks. andrewthomas

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[aur-general] deletion request
by KESHAV P.R. 06 Feb '11

06 Feb '11

Can someone please delete efibootmgr http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11899 . It was moved into 'extra' repo http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/efibootmgr/ by tpowa about 2 days back. Thanks in advance. - Keshav

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[aur-general] Moving packages to Community
by Maxime Wack 06 Feb '11

06 Feb '11

I had the same "problem" a few weeks ago, when the polipo package I was maintaining was moved to [Community] without any notice. I got aware of this when yaourt told me my version of polipo was not the same as in the repos… imagine my surprise when I didn't find my package on AUR anymore. Not that I particularly care about that package, or that I didn't want it to be in [Community], in fact it's for the best, less work for me ! But what I didn't like was that it was done without any comment or notice. Don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely not implying that it was MY precious package and that it felt like stealing, or that he had to wait for my approval. It's just that talking about a community-driven repository, the least you could expect from any user (and even more from a *trusted* user) would be to communicate about what he's doing, so that everything goes clear, acknowledged and understood. After discovering this, I emailed Jelle van der Waa (who adopted the package), on 01/21, writing : >Hello, I'm SataMaxx on AUR and was maintaining the polipo package. >I've seen that you adopted and ported it to [Community] and be assured that I really don't mind about this, however I think it would have been nice to notify me, just as a matter of good communication practice. > >Thank you, have a nice day ! " And I didn't get any answer…

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[aur-general] Introduce kernel26-tools
by Seblu 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Dear Arch Users/Dev/TUs, I read some times ago on this mailing list words about shortly introducing new cool packages. I'm starting. >From some times now, I discovered the power of a kernel embeded tools named perf, which is really useful to get information about your kernel performances and hunt performances issues. Something really awesome is to see perf of a guest kvm kernel inside the host kvm. Famous mode you can test are: perf top perf bench perf record perf kvm A link :https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page#Perf_tools I push a PKGBUILD into AUR to easily install this tool from kernel sources: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46188. Name of the package come from debian (http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/linux-tools-2.6.32) Regards, -- Sébastien Luttringer www.seblu.net

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Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community
by Maxime Wack 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Le -10/01/-28163 20:59, Hilton Medeiros a écrit : > > Now, that is outrageous. Stealing your package is already a very nasty > thing to do, but not replying to your email is unforgivable! > > From today onwards we shall call him: Jelle, the Soulless. > Wow, I didn't expect to be trolled on aur-general… Let's just shorten everything to one question : what is a community without communication ?

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Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community
by Nicky726 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Hi Angel, > This is opensource world dude, can you see it?, so forget those > "autorship" and "license" of those PKGBUILD, plus, in many cases, many > of the packages went from one people to another. Btw I don't know why > people refers to packages when we are talking about aurballs > containing PKGBUILD, this is different from a package. I feared the "authorship" word may get too much of attention. Its a sad result of ugly missuse of todays. The authorship I meant -- and sorry for not making myself clear the first time -- is a relation of one who creates to the thing created, or of all who create that is too. No licence fees, nor revenues, nor copyright needed, nor asked for. Just simple A (+ B) created this PKGBUILD/package -- the difference now is unimportant. > As Ioni said, he kept the Contributor tag, I don't see the point of > whining if your work as a maintainer is recognized on that PKGBUILD > but I don't see the point of contributing expecting recognition, we > are humans, I know, but what can make you happier than the fact that > your work evolved and now you have opportunity to evolve with it too > (i.e maintaining new PKGBUILD and then applying to be a TU). I also think that keeping the contributor tag is right. And I also am happy when my PKGBUILD gets promoted to repo. Though I'd be happier if I heard from the TU first (than finding out some day accidentaly that the PKGBUILD is not in the AUR anymore but now in the [community] as mentioned somewhere here). It is not as much of my own happiness -- though it motivates one if he hears it from the TU not just finds out accidentaly -- as also of bothsides politeness. > We eventually show our respect to the author to notice him that we do > will move your package, Now with this I would be maximaly fine. > but it's arrogant and too stupid to pretend > that a TU or Dev have to `ask you for permission` I guess I see your point. This is too strong. Though there should be some kind of inner `I have to ask him` comming from one's human politenes. Like `I want to move foo to community, is it ok with you? By the way good job maintaining it.` Most of the time the answer would be `yes` of course, but this motivates one to contribute. And sometimes one would answer `I am planning to become TU soon and would like to maintain this, so would you wait with the adoption till my becoming TU is resolved?` Now that does motivate too, doesn't it? > <--- THIS IS > MADNESS, you aren't the owner of that PKGBUILD ! even if you wrote it > from scratch! the next thing after from asking for permission will be > "please pay me" .. so hell no. For myself I contribute to Arch because I feel in a way obliged to, as it is a great distro which gave me much. So I hope stuff I put into AUR makes Arch better and help others. I want no money for it, just polite human comunication of what is going on. By the way, thanx for baring with me, Nicky -- Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone (Joni Mitchell)

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[aur-general] Orphan request: gnome-paint
by György Balló 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Please orphan gnome-paint package [1], because it's outdated for a while, and my e-mail to the maintainer was rejected (the address is not exists). [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32487 -- City-busz

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[aur-general] Request removal: pngout-static-athlon, pngout-static-pentium4
by Lou 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

I just adopted and updated pngout-static, but there are some additional pngout-static packages available that are old, outdated, and orphaned. Nobody cares about these and nothing depends on them either. pngout-static-athlon http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38727 pngout-static-pentium4 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38728

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[aur-general] deletion request: dino-git
by masutu 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Hi TUs, can you please delete dino-git ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33598)? I'm the maintainer of this package and want it to be deleted because a) PKGBUILD is broken, outdated and i can't get current git versions to compile (neither master branch nor Branch_0_2) b) dino is not very popular, dino has 3 votes, dino-git 0 votes, so i think, we can live without the git package masutu

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[aur-general] [community], [unsupported] and AUR
by Xyne 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Hi, A post on the forum[1] brought my attention to the Official Repositories wiki page[2]. A recent note by Louipc states: "Technically, both the [community] and [unsupported] repos make up the AUR.". Is this really still true? The AUR website is completely independent of [community] now and I believe that all technical ties between [community] and [unsupported] have been severed. AUR pages on the wiki clearly refer to [unsupported] in many contexts, e.g. the main AUR article[3] contains the following snippets: "The Arch User Repository (AUR) is a community-driven repository for Arch users. It contains package descriptions (PKGBUILDs) that allow you to compile a package from source with makepkg and then install it via pacman." "[community], unlike AUR, contains binary packages" I also believe that most users immediately think of [unsupported] and only [unsupported] when speaking of the AUR. Furthermore, both are repositories in their own right, so it is a misnomer to refer to them as a singular "Arch User Repository". What is the point of claiming that [community] is part of AUR? It seems like an unnecessarily confusing vestige of [community]'s origins. [1]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=887426 [2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_Repositories [3]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR

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[aur-general] 2 packages for Lyx 2.0
by Bernardo Barros 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Lyx beta3 has two packages in AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37964 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45798 no idea which did it better. :-)

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[aur-general] poppler rebuilds will soon move - one buggy pkg in Community
by Andreas Radke 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Just a small note that we will move poppler rebuilds right after the MySQL move. So far I only know of one broken pkg in community where a fix is available: epdfview - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22734. Can somebody with community access test it and fix the bug? -Andy

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[aur-general] Unactive user
by François Boulogne 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Hello, I found that the package [1] is out of date and in the mean time, I realized the maintainer is not really active. I sent him an email several days ago, no answer. I think some packages should be removed, especially beta ones, or packages like [2] (the title does not respect the aur policy) Another point: [3] is marked as a dev package (which is the last stable version) and [4] is titled as a stable version which is out of date. Well, many things should be cleaned up. Cheers. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28835 deja-dup [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35144 deja-dup-new [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43709 gwibber-dev [4] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24544 <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24544> <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24544> -- François Boulogne. Membre de l'April - Promouvoir et défendre le Logiciel Libre - http://www.april.org Un jour, ils sauront qu'il existe un univers libre. http://sciunto.wordpress.com/

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[aur-general] Please Delete: perl-archlinux-messages
by Justin Davis 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

Please delete perl-archlinux-messages. I renamed the module from Archlinux::Messages to Archlinux::Term and uploaded a new package (perl-archlinux-term). Here is the link to the old perl-archlinux-messages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36397 -- -Justin

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[aur-general] Review my PKGBUILDs
by Adam Weiss 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

Hey all, I've been lurking for quite a while and recently decided to take the plunge and maintain a couple packages. Please give me some feedback on them since I probably missed some things: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34191 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45976 Also, this is the first time I've tried posting from Gmail, so let me know if something looks funny. Thanks, -Adam

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[aur-general] lib32-portaudio forgotten... :'(
by rafael ff1 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

Hi all, I need *lib32-portaudio* package complying to Multilib standards in order to install PCSX2 emulator (ex: *pcsx2-svn*), but the maintainer seems to be missing, busy, in outer space or whatever and doesn't reply requests in comments or emails. And I already have the PKGBUILD ready for it! So, can someone please make this package *orphan* so I can adopt it and fix the PKGBUILD to Multilib standards? Thanks in advance!

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Re: [aur-general] Add pyopencl to [community]
by Ray Rashif 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

On 4 February 2011 04:21, Andrea Scarpino <andrea(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On Thursday 03 February 2011 13:49:26 Stéphane Gaudreault wrote: >> * Add pyopencl to [community] (I will use a better name, something like >> python2-pyopencl) > python2-opencl sounds better IMHO. It's all good but one thing: there either needs to be a provision for pyopencl or inclusion of the upstream module name in the description, so that the package naming doesn't hamper searches and common knowledge (i.e people would know 'pyopencl' only). I see the same issue with pyqt. Didn't we already have some discussion about the module naming convention during the major python transition?

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[aur-general] Add pyopencl to [community]
by Stéphane Gaudreault 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

Dear Tus, I would like to add pyopencl [1] to [community]. I maintain this package in AUR and it has 14 votes. Pyopencl depends, among other, on libcl (OpenCL library, provided by either nvidia-utils or amdstream [2]) and a package that provides OpenCL C/C++ headers. Here is my plan : * Add pyopencl to [community] (I will use a better name, something like python2-pyopencl) * Tidy up and add opencl-headers [3] (66 votes) to [community] [4]. * Leave amdstream in AUR The opencl-headers package provides headers from the Khronos group. It could also be possible to use a different source to get *exactly* the same headers (Nvidia for example). Any comment or objections in adding these packages to the [community] repository? Stéphane [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31416 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21933 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35367 [4] I contacted hsyl20 (maintainer of opencl-headers). He has no objection if I take his package.

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Martin Peres 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

Hi, I've just spent a couple of minutes looking at the orphan packages on AUR and some of them should be deleted as their previous maintainers said they are useless but forgot to send the deletion request on the ML: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35080 qtcreator-cpphelper-plugin-git https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39744 aften-svn https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28626 blender-simphys https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19607 texi2html-cvs This one is strange: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33092 gold-cvs Heftig, why do you want to keep this package for reference? Any news about the "Deletion request" button in the AUR website? By the time it is implemented, it would be cool to add a warning when people press the orphan button that they may want to send a mail to this ML for deletion. Martin

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[aur-general] Delete request
by Anton Larionov 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

mahjongforunix http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22225 Duplicate extra/mahjong -- Regards, Anton Larionov

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[aur-general] Disown request
by H.Gökhan SARI 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Hello, Please disown package uget* so that i can adopt and update it. I dropped a comment for maintainer to update package but (s)he doesn't seem to be responding. uget: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25887 <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25887>Thanks, -- H.Gökhan SARI hsa2(a)difuzyon.net

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Xavier D. 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Hey hey, Please delete pyst (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18003) as it's redundant with python2-pyst (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45981) Thanks

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[aur-general] Deletion reques
by forauronly＠gmail.com 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Please delete kde-svn pkg: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14811 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10681 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14812 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10687 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10679 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36282 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10682 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10695 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10691 Reason:switched to git. Thanks.

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[aur-general] Please remove packages from aur
by whites11＠gmail.com 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

please, can someone remove from aur the following packages, because related projects are discontinued and sources are not available anymore http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35691 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35485 thanks

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[aur-general] duplicate
by Nathan Owens 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

It appears that my package of fossil-scm https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30182 is the same as https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44774 mine has been around longer and only difference I see in the the later package from lavandero is that he/she added "make -j1 bld bld/headers"

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[aur-general] Delete Request
by kevku 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Req. removal of esteid-browser-plugin-hg-svn http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42553 replaced with esteid-browser-plugin-svn http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45977

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[aur-general] poppler 0.16 rebuild
by Ionuț Bîru 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Hi, the rebuilding is almost over and was already moved from staging to testing in the morning, the only package that doesn't build is openscenegraph and is not related to poppler api breakage. Sergej can you look at it and try to fix it? -- Ionuț

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[aur-general] Moving avr-gdb from aur to community
by Ivan Sichmann Freitas 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Hi, Could the package avr-gdb, from aur, be moved to community? There are already many avr-* packages there (like gcc-avr, avr-libc and binutils-avr). I've talked to djszapi, it seems that it hasn't been moved because he was maintaining it on aur. It is currently out-of-date, but removing the patch and changing the version to 7.2 builds a working package. Regards, Ivan -- Ivan Sichmann Freitas Linux user #509059

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Re: [aur-general] Updating libevent to 2.0.10
by Martti Kühne 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Brian Troutwine <brian(a)troutwine.us> wrote: > Hi all, > > I apologize, but my package was deleted from AUR without so much as an > explanation. Unless I'm very much mistaken, I broke no packaging > guidelines. I'll likely not be working to update libevent, after all. > > Thanks for you time. > Brian Troutwine > Hello people, Forgot bugging this list as well. What's the issue with having 2.0.10 in unsupported? It's not in *-testing either, so there was no reason for this? regards mar77i

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[aur-general] Deletion Request: xchat-transparent-svn
by Skyalmian Alcyone 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Own package, deprecated given recent changes to SVN source code structure. Was nice while it lasted...

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Clément Démoulins 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Hello, Could a TU please delete the package arandr. I forgot, it is in community repository now. Thanks Clément Démoulins [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45951]

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[aur-general] Please delete lib32-printproto
by merp boop 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Unless you all see a better reason, I think it should be deleted. It would be pulling the same files as the x86_64 version (as they're both from "any"), so any package in reference to this one should use printproto instead, even if the package is a 32-bit binary blob on a 64-bit system. -Max

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[aur-general] Temporary Inactivity
by Jonathan Conder 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Hi everyone, I'm off to the beach again and won't be back until Monday. This time there is something on my todo list, which is to move the mythplugins-* packages from community-testing into community once libmysqlclient is updated. If this happens while I'm away it would be great if someone could do that for me. If not, it doesn't matter that much because the only package it will break is mythplugins-mythzoneminder, which I doubt is used by many people. Thanks, Jonathan

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[aur-general] Delete AUR Package Request
by Bernardo Barros 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Please delete the following packages. Reason: I changed their pkgnames to more appropriate. I wasn't aware of fonts convention at the time. For the supercollider plugin I omitted "ugen", since all 'plugins' in supercollider parlance are 'UGens'. supercollider-dfm1ugen http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45930 concreta-font-ttf http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44856 controla-font-ttf http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44854 electronica-font-ttf http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44857 -- The New Ones (do not delete!): supercollider-dfm1 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45931 ttf-acoustica http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44905 ttf-concreta http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44906 ttf-controla http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44907 ttf-electronica http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44908

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[aur-general] Request removal: ffmpeg-amr, ffmpeg-amr-svn
by Lou 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

ffmpeg-amr http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18501 ffmpeg-amr-svn http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15908 Both are recently orphaned and not required by any other package. Obsoleted by ffmpeg in Extra.

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[aur-general] TU Application - Seblu
by Seblu 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

Hello, Tonight I decided to propose me as TU. My sponsor is Peter Lewis. My name is Sebastien Lutttringer, i'm a 26 years old french system and network engineer who lives in Paris. I'm gradued from EPITA a french computer school and i work in a private company for 4 years. My day to day job is done on Linux Debian and 99% of our servers are on Debian. We work mainly with open technologies and we love challenges with technology that we control/understand. As far as i recall, my first meet with linux, was in 2001/2002 (i don't remember exactly) with slackware and later with debian woody, it was just some test (not my main system) In 2005, i choose my grad school, in another for its hard Unix spirit. I wanted to become a unix power user. So, 2005 was my switching year to linux. I tested some distro and i choose debian as desktop station. In 2007, i changed my main distro to gentoo until 2010 (and my new laptop) where i switched to Arch. I never really took the time to get involved to my distro and since a long time i want it. Arch philosophy and simplicity, remember me slackware and makes me want to take the plunge. Regarding my skills I use a lot of linux technology in my work to design solutions to our problems (network operator, file transfer platform, streaming/cdn) or to maintain our critical systems. I also have skill in coding in C/C++, Python, Perl, lua, php, shell and some others. Regarding to arch, i maintain packages in AUR and fill bug report. I also plan to propose some patch in some times. As a TU, i would start by maintaining packages i use and which are not in community. To start i think to: arptables awesome conntrack-tools ebtables ferm fstrim lsscsi mtr-cli nload opera scsiadd ulogd vconfig After, I hope have enough time to more contribute to the distro and perhaps become a dev. Maybe working on pacman i've some ideas of improvment. Regards, -- Sébastien Luttringer www.seblu.net

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[aur-general] orphan request: cdu
by masutu 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

Hi, can you please orphan the package cdu ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34752) As you can see (forwarded message), the current maintainer does no longer want to maintain this packages, I'd like to adopt it. masutu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Igor Hlina <srigi(a)srigi.sk> Date: Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 6:27 PM Subject: Re: update request: arch aur cdu package To: masutu <masutu.arch(a)googlemail.com> Hi masutu, I'll be very appreciated if you adopt package. I don't have energy/time to maitain package. THX and regards, srigi alias Igor Hlina :) On 01/30/2011 06:12 PM, masutu wrote: > Hi srigi, > > could you please update this package: > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34752. It's out of date, the > current version is 0.37. If you don't want to maintain this package any > more, let me know, i'd adopt it. > > Best regards, > > masutu >

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[aur-general] Deletion request: nouveau-drm-snapshot
by Calimero 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

Hello, The package nouveau-drm-snapshot makes no more sense, for nouveau's DRM now is in the kernel26 package. Can a TU delete it ? http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29602 Thank you !

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[aur-general] Deletion requests
by David Campbell 29 Jan '11

29 Jan '11

Please delete the follow packages for which I made python2 versions named python2-modulename, but don't have any python3 version yet. python2-paste: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45848 python2-paste-deploy: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16883 python2-paste-script: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45880 python2-webhelpers: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45846 Please also delete python-pylons, which after updating, I renamed pylons, since that is how the other web frameworks are named. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16886 -- David Campbell

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[aur-general] Python AUR tarball naming
by David Campbell 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

I am updating some python tarballs in the AUR which appear to have been abandoned with the python switchover and don't have python3 versions. I created some python2 versions, named python2-foo, as this is what I thought was the correct practice, but found out the main(core, extra) python packages are not being renamed until python3 versions are available. So what is the correct practice? Should the old python tarballs be deleted and replaced by python2-foo versions or should the python tarballs just be made to work with python2? References: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=875851 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22636?events[0]=2&fromdate=&todate=&event_n… -- David Campbell

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[aur-general] Package removal request
by Limoto 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

Please delete fatrat-opensubtitles-git package, it was renamed to fatrat- subtitlesearch-git. Thanks

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[aur-general] deletion request: kernel-man-pages
by solsTiCe d'Hiver 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

the kernel-man-pages http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21782 package *seems* to be a duplicate of the kernel26-manpages already present in [extra] repo please delete it

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[aur-general] Removal request (perl-poppler-datapatch-git)
by Jakob Nixdorf 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

Hello, could someone please remove the package 'perl-poppler-datapatch-git' [1] the patch i wrote was committed upstream, so it is not longer needed and is fully replaced by 'perl-poppler-git' [2]. Thanks, Jakob Nixdorf [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45725 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45828 -- Mail: flocke(a)shadowice.org Jabber: flocke(a)user-helfen-usern.de PGP: 0654C07F (hkp://pgp.mit.edu:11371) Web: http://shadowice.org Powered by archlinux ... and a lot of coffee

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[aur-general] AUR cleanup
by Dave Reisner 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

So, on the subject of cleanup, I've come across a list of 530 packages on sigurd that aren't accessible from the web interface. Judging from some of the names, I'd wager that these are packages which were deleted but something went wrong, etc etc. In total, it's about 20mb of space that would be freed. Any reason these shouldn't just be purged by someone with root privs? dave

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[aur-general] Delete request for perl-test-exception.
by Justin Davis 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

I uploaded perl-test-exception while in a hurry. Please delete it because the same version is already in [community]. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11000 Thanks, juster / aurperl

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[aur-general] Request removal: vlc-3gp and vlc-legacy
by Lou 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

vlc-3gp http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16612 Orphan, not required by any other package. Obsoleted by VLC in Extra. vlc-legacy http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21402 Orphan, not required by any other package. Who wants to use a VLC from 2008-09? That's what Debian is for.

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[aur-general] Proposal for the reinstatement of AUR Cleanup Day.
by Thomas Dziedzic 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Hello fellow Users/TUs, I have come across a rather old wiki entry [1] which was used for AUR Cleanup Day. It seems like we haven't had this day in quite some time, so I would like to have another AUR Cleanup Day where the community along with the TUs participate to clean things up in the AUR. We would use the wiki link to keep track of progress after cleaning it up a bit since the last time it was used. If I have enough people on board with this, I would like to make it an "AUR Cleanup Weekend" so that they can contribute whenever they have time. I would like to stress that this wouldn't be limited to only TU participation. Anyone would be able to see if there are broken packages, and list them on the wiki to have a TU look at it. I would like to make AUR Cleanup Weekend either this or next weekend. What do you think? [1] - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Cleanup_Day

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[aur-general] duplicates of tmux vcs...
by Martti Kühne 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

at the moment there are three vcs packages of tmux on aur. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=tmux tmux-cvs is my package. tmux-git is a tmux developer's synchronisation which doesn't use a separate build directory, but may come in handy because it's git and the commit history is present. tmux-cvs-windowstatus is a patch for an obviously outdated cvs repo, because... the patch is for cmd-set-option.c - though right now the file containing that data is called options-table.c and the patched content has been issue to further changes afaict (being no more window-status-bell-* but window-status-alert-* instead for example). Guess it does not build. The third one may be deleted imho. And you know what, scratch mine as well... tmux-git is just fine. cheers!

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[aur-general] Duplicate package: libpam_mysql
by Firebird347 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

libpam_mysql (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25249) is a duplicate of the package 'pam_mysql' in community. Thanks, Cody Maloney Random side note: pam_mysql should depend on libmysqlclient not mysql. Every client doesn't need to have MySQL installed.

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[aur-general] TU Bylaws Amendment (SVP Section): Discussion Period
by Xyne 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

The following is a proposed replacement for the current SVP section of the TU bylaws: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Bylaw_Amendment&oldid=124557 The changes address several issues recently brought up on this list. Briefly, these include: * enabling a vote to pass in the absence of quorum when more than 50% of active TUs have voted YES * enabling a vote to fail in the absence of quorum when 50% or more of active TUs have voted NO * clarifying the text to eliminate ambiguities Please see Kaiting's "[aur-general]Amendment" thread and Loui's "[aur-general][PATCH]tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure" thread for more details. This message marks the beginning of the 5-day discussion period before the amendment is put to a vote.

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[aur-general] A duplicate
by François Boulogne 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

Hello, Please, could you remove [1], it is a duplicate of [2]. I pushed this PKGBUILD by mistake. Cheers. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45689 [2] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/perl-uri/ -- François Boulogne. Membre de l'April - Promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre http://www.april.org

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Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Seblu
by Seblu 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Ronald van Haren <pressh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Seblu <seblu(a)seblu.net> wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Ronald van Haren <c> wrote: > Some pointers > > - cairo-xcb is broken and unmaintained by upstream http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/log/ i see several commit from this january about xcb. Reading changelog, the backend does not seem abandoned. i see activity on ml: http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2010-December/thread.html http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2010-November/thread.html http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2010-October/thread.html i see patched on last release changelog: http://cairographics.org/news/cairo-1.10.2/ > - cairo-xcb is known to cause X crashes and rendering issues Crawling arch bugtracker is not really revelent of this. I don't find many bugs around this issue (maybe not detected as corollary). RedHat bug is not really accurate. I also use cairo-xcb from aur everyday and i don't see issues. > - crashes and redering issues will probably appear in other > applications than awesome Sure! This is to avoid. > - people don't know that they are using something that is unsupported > (at least by upstream) Upstream speak about experimental feature, not unsupported (see README). By our bleeding edge point of view, we enable a lot of experimental feature (in particular in linux kernel). Experimental "tag" is not always a synonym of unstable (or unsuported) but more like really Bleeding edge. > - it is generally a bad idea to support something which is encouraged > not to by upstream I agree. But i'm wondering why debian include it by default in next release (squeeze) http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/cairo.git;a=blob;f=debian/rules;h=927… I see in configure, they include --enable-xlib and --enable-xcb. _Maybe_ we can enable the two to have the best of both worlds. This need more investigation. > So unless you want to fix all issues in cairo-xcb, it is probably not > a good idea to support it. In case you will, upstream is also looking > for a maintainer of the xcb backend if I'm not mistaken. I don't see the job offer :) > But then > again, you may need to first fix all issues before you bring it in :-) > I see the point. I would contact cairo debian maintainers about that. To have their point of view. -- Sébastien Luttringer www.seblu.net

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[aur-general] Please orphan python-wtforms
by Felix Kaiser 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

Dear TUs, can someone please orphan python-wtforms [1]? The PKGBUILD is heavily outdated, it hasn't been modified for over a year and doesn't even build anymore. Another user (FSX) said in the comments that he has emailed the current package maintainer (welterde) a while back but never got a reply. Thank you very much! Felix [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26120

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[aur-general] deletion request ffmpeg-svn
by Christian Scharkus 22 Jan '11

22 Jan '11

Hi :) I would like ffmpeg-svn to be deleted because it's out-of-date and the ffmpeg svn repository won't receive any more updates by reason of the ffmpeg project switching to git. So it would be kind of misleading to have two development packages in aur and one of them frozen. thanks raubkopierer

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Seblu 22 Jan '11

22 Jan '11

Hello, ipset4 is "out-of-date", duplicate of ipset and orphan. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34078 Regards, -- Sébastien Luttringer www.seblu.net

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[aur-general] Please settle 'base' in 'depends' for all
by Kaiting Chen 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

Okay everyone, every time I ask I get a different answer. According to Dziedzic and Allan 'glibc' does *not* belong in 'depends'. Also Dziedzic votes that *no* package in 'base' should be in 'depends'. Can we settle once and for all what the correct policy is? And then can we update the wiki page and all of these packages http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/i686/glibc/so that they reflect the policy? --Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/

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[aur-general] Python 3
by Xyne 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

Andrea Scarpino wrote: > Hi AUR maintainers, > I did a change in the pyqt package to add Python 3 support to it and to allow > everyone to install both the Python2 and the Python3 version. > Every package now need to depends on python2-qt (or python-qt if uses Python > 3) instead of pyqt. > The packages in [extra] and [community] have been updated, please do the same > with your packages in AUR. > > Also, the packages which depend on sip have to be fixed with the right > dependence: python2-sip (or python-sip if the package uses Python 3). > > Thank you! > > -- > Andrea I'm replying because this is tangential... why don't we specify "python3" instead of "python" as a dep to make packages future-proof? Even if Python 4 doesn't come out for a decade or more, it just seems that it would be logically consistent.

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-general] Please settle 'base' in 'depends' for all
by Pierre Chapuis 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:25:15 +1000, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > The problem is that the transitive closure can not be assumed to be > correct. > > e.g. At the time A is built: > > A -> B,C,D,E > B -> C,D,E > C -> D,E > > Then B is updated and > > B -> C,D,E,F. > > Now the assuming a transitive closure for the dependency list for A > is incorrect. Installing the listed dependencies of A with the > equivalent of -Sd would result in F not being installed which would > break A through broken B. > > So either: > 1) we require a largely unnecessary rebuild of A > 2) we always check the dependencies of uninstalled dependencies. > > Note #2 is less burden on packagers and is more efficient in the > examples given above if both B and D are installed (two checks vs > four), and that will be the case for most system updates. When none > of A - E are installed, they are probably equally efficient. Yes, I agree with that: dependencies will always have to be checked at package install time. That means that any approach based on a "transitive closure" at packaging time is useless. What could also happen is that C is updated and no longer needs E. Then, with a "transitive closure", A would still install E, which would be useless for the user. So the only way to be safe is not to be clever and to specify real dependencies, eg: Real deps --------- A -> B,D B -> C C -> D,E Transitive closure ------------------ A -> B,C,D,E B -> C,D,E C -> D,E Current Arch way ---------------- A -> B B -> C C -> D,E What should be done ------------------- A -> B,D B -> C C -> D,E -- Pierre 'catwell' Chapuis

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Re: [aur-general] TU Application -Thomas Hatch: Voting period
by Thomas S Hatch 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Andrea Scarpino <andrea(a)archlinux.org>wrote: > On Thursday 20 January 2011 17:16:41 Peter Lewis wrote: > > Congratulations Tom! Welcome aboard the good ship TU! > We was waiting Xyne here, anyway your accounts on AUR/BBS/Flyspray are > updated > since yesterday ;) > > Welcome aboard. > > -- > Andrea > Thanks Andrea, I noticed yesterday when I logged into the AUR, I have already deleted some packages :) I wonder where Xyne is? -Tom

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[aur-general] Any workaround/fix for broken qtile-git?
by Angus 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

I really want to try out qtile, but qtile-git in AUR or a dependency of it is broken (and seems to have been so for at least a while). Specifically, running qtile results in: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libqtile/drawer.py", line 138, in __init__ self.height, TypeError: pycairo was not compiled with xpyb support Two of its dependencies are flagged out of date... Anyone know more about the status of this? Should I instead attempt to build from source myself?

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[aur-general] Any TU feel like maintaining eric5 in extra/community?
by Angus 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

eric is a feature rich IDE (mainly) for python. eric4 is for use with python2 and is packaged in extra as "eric". eric5 is for use with python3. Both branches seem to be equally stable. eric5 is currently available in the AUR, but now that its python3 related dependencies (python-qscintilla/python-qt/pyqt/python-sip) have all become available in extra it should be straightforward to maintain eric5 in extra as well. (I'm not the AUR maintainer, just a thankful yet whiny user.)

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[aur-general] TU Application -Thomas Hatch
by Thomas S Hatch 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

Hello, ArchLinux Tus Xyne has agreed to sponsor me as a TU. I am very excited at the potential opportunity to become more directly involved with the development of ArchLinux. I atteneded Southern Utah University (SUU) where I studied Computer Science. While at SUU I set up one of the first American ArchLinux mirrors, a mirror which is still in operation – locke.suu.edu. At SUU I also worked as a research assistant and developed a (now defunct) Linux distribution based on Arch called Axiom Linux for rediculously parallel compute clusters. It was based on Larch and involved a modified Arch installer, (this was before the aif days). Since then I have worked as a trainer for Red Hat, then a systems software developer for a United States DOD contractor and I am presently employed as a Sr Systems Engineer at Beyond Oblivion. My contributions to Arch so far have been: Created and maintained a working puppet package for Arch, and updated the existing puppet pacman code. Ported libguestfs to Arch, this involved working with the libguestfs developers to create a build port specific to Arch since the build process requires the creation of a specialized Arch Qemu Vm image. Set up MooseFS support for Arch – This is a VERY cool project that I strongly recommend people take a look at : moosefs.org I have been working on standardizing the Ocaml packages for Arch and currently maintain about 25 Ocaml packages. I am the author of the Varch Project: http://code.google.com/p/varch/ My packages and project staging repo is at: http://code.google.com/p/enterprise-archlinux/ I am working on a project that I hope will greatly benefit Arch called quarters: http://code.google.com/p/quarters/ It is still sparse, I just started a re architect And my packages for you to look over: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=thatch45 All in all, I am deeply passionate about open source and Linux, I believe in the pragmatic approach to Linux and have continued to find Arch as one of, if the the, superior Linux distribution out there today, not only in principal, but also in engineering. My hope is to assist in bringing ArchLinux further into the forefront of the overall Linux community and to continue to port enterprise grade software to Arch. Hopefully my current contributions suffice to allow me to work as a TU, if there is anything in my contributions or packages that needs improvement, or if there is anything else I can do to improve my standing, please let me know so I can make my application as spotless as possible. -thatch45 -Thomas S Hatch

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[aur-general] delete request
by jonathan 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

please delete http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22403 as I am not developing it, and it is redundant to pkgfile. thanks, Jonathan "wide-eye'

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[aur-general] Request removal: ffmpeg-vp8-svn, servicemenu-kvm-kde4, winff-corrected
by Lou 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

ffmpeg-vp8-svn http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37297 Orphan. Does not compile. FFmpeg in extra now has libvpx encoder making this package useless. servicemenu-kvm-kde4 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36180 Orphan. Uses depreciated options that will not work with ffmpeg from extra. Upstream has been inactive for nearly 2 years. winff-corrected http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31348 Source is 404. Maintainer said, "do whatever you want. I do not use Linux anymore."

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[aur-general] delete request
by Gergely Imreh 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

Please delete python3-pyke http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45332 I uploaded a new package, python-pyke to follow the name convention of Arch for Python packages. Cheers, Greg

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[aur-general] Request removal: emoc, myencoder, hypervideoconverter
by Lou 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

These are all old and orphaned packages that are encoding GUIs to ffmpeg. emoc http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34109 Doesn't work. Just sits there and does not actually convert any videos. myencoder http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31640 Source does not pass the validity check. Upstream states, "MyEncoding development has been scaled back" on 2010-06-20. hypervideoconverter http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21735 Flagged out of date. Upstream not updated since 2008-11-17 and its settings appear not to be compatible with ffmpeg in repository.

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[aur-general] Warning: PyQt change
by Andrea Scarpino 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

Hi AUR maintainers, I did a change in the pyqt package to add Python 3 support to it and to allow everyone to install both the Python2 and the Python3 version. Every package now need to depends on python2-qt (or python-qt if uses Python 3) instead of pyqt. The packages in [extra] and [community] have been updated, please do the same with your packages in AUR. Also, the packages which depend on sip have to be fixed with the right dependence: python2-sip (or python-sip if the package uses Python 3). Thank you! -- Andrea

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[aur-general] Package removal request
by H.Gökhan SARI 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

Hello, Can you please remove my package 'light-themes-maverick' package ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41743) because there are enough light themes packages :) -- H.Gökhan SARI hsa2(a)difuzyon.net

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[aur-general] orphan request
by György Balló 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Please orphan the following packages, because they are outdated/broken, and the maintainers not responded to my mail for a week: * dates * postr * tasque * gwibber-bzr -- City-busz

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[aur-general] deletion request
by György Balló 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Please delete the following packages: python-gconf - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25558 - same as python2-gconf in [extra] python-gtkspell - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36586 - same as python2-gtkspell in [extra] libflickrnet - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40680 - same as in flickrnet in [extra] google-gdata-sharp - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35354 - same as gdata-sharp in [extra] evolution-python - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12134 - newer version (python-evolution) in [extra] gcm - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45226 - same as gnome-connection-manager tao - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=4402 - renamed to taoframework ttf-magyarlinuxlibertine - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44423 - renamed to ttf-linux-libertine-g python-snakefood - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10964 - releases no longer available, snakefood-hg can be used instead -- City-busz

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Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Seblu
by Martti Kühne 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:44:10PM +0100, Seblu wrote: >> Yes great. I'm not paid by package i maintain. >> Do not misunderstand my intentions, this package is more often used >> without gtk (subjective). >> It's a really useful package for debugging network issues and got it >> in a server is a plus. >> Server => no gtk => no user repository packages. This was my reasoning. > I find this a really good idea, there is no reason for mtr to require X to be running. So I suggest moving mtr-gtk into aur and having a "sane" mtr package using the cli interface (on which ARCH users are so keen :-P -- ). mar77i

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[aur-general] Is there a way to mark 300(!) AUR packages out-of-date?
by Peter Simons 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Hi guys, last October, Don Stewart stepped down as maintainer of the Arch Haskell project. Ever since then, I have been the primary maintainer of the PKGBUILD database that he left behind. Now, a group of volunteers has combined forces to provide the Arch Haskell ABS tree, which is a collection of Haskell packages that we distribute as a binary repository. Its availability was recently announced here: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2011-January/088165.html As you know, the 'arch-haskell' user on AUR owns some 1,990 packages. Since our attention has shifted to HABS, those packages are no longer maintained. We do try to keep some of them up-to-date when we have the chance, but it's not a primary concern. A more complete description of the situation is available here: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.arch-linux/246 As of today, about 300 packages are known to be out-of-date. A complete list is attached below. Now, I reckon that it would be polite to mark those packages out-of-date, so that AUR users are aware of this fact. I have no idea how to accomplish that in an efficient fashion, though. Does anyone know a script that can do that? Or could you guys maybe do that for us using some mad low-level database interface? Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Take care, Peter Out-dated 'arch-haskell' packages on AUR: |------------------------------------+---------------+--------+------------------------------| | Package name | Version | AUR ID | Available Updates | |------------------------------------+---------------+--------+------------------------------| | cabal-sort | 0.0.2 | 39666 | 0.0.2.1 | | clevercss | 0.2.3 | 17475 | 0.2.4 | | cpsa | 2.1.2 | 40695 | 2.2.0, 2.2.1 | | derive | 2.3.0.2 | 20739 | 2.4, 2.4.1 | | flower | 0.6.3 | 23557 | 0.6.5 | | ghc-mod | 0.4.4 | 38486 | 0.5.1 | | haddock | 2.8.1 | 7651 | 2.9.0, 2.9.1 | | haskell-ad | 0.45.0 | 39746 | 0.46.0, 0.46.1, 0.46.2 | | haskell-amqp | 0.2.5 | 34053 | 0.2.6, 0.2.7 | | haskell-ansi-wl-pprint | 0.5.1 | 19517 | 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 0.6.3 | | haskell-appar | 0.1.2 | 39756 | 0.1.3 | | haskell-applicative-extras | 0.1.6 | 18749 | 0.1.7, 0.1.8 | | haskell-archiver | 0.1 | 41598 | 0.2 | | haskell-asn1-data | 0.2.2 | 40633 | 0.3.0, 0.4.0, 0.4.1 | | haskell-atom | 1.0.7 | 26278 | 1.0.8 | | haskell-attojson | 0.5.8 | 40168 | 0.5.9 | | haskell-attoparsec-enumerator | 0.2 | 40114 | 0.2.0.1, 0.2.0.2, 0.2.0.3 | | haskell-attoparsec-iteratee | 0.1.1 | 37391 | 0.1.2 | | haskell-augeas | 0.3.3 | 24350 | 0.3.4 | | haskell-authenticate | 0.7.2.1 | 26376 | 0.7.2.2, 0.7.2.3, 0.8.0 | | haskell-autoproc | 0.1.1 | 29290 | 0.1.2 | | haskell-benchpress | 0.2.2.3 | 19010 | 0.2.2.4 | | haskell-berkeleydb | 0.8.1 | 21104 | 0.8.2 | | haskell-bibtex | 0.0.5 | 33738 | 0.0.6 | | haskell-binarydefer | 1.2 | 22440 | 1.2.1 | | haskell-bindings-dsl | 1.0.7 | 33700 | 1.0.8 | | haskell-bindings-glib | 0.1.4 | 33709 | 0.1.5 | | haskell-bindings-gobject | 0.2.1 | 37433 | 0.3 | | haskell-biobase | 0.0.2.1 | 41575 | 0.1.0.0 | | haskell-biobasetypes | 0.0.2.1 | 41576 | 0.0.2.2 | | haskell-bktrees | 0.3 | 17541 | 0.3.1 | | haskell-blaze-builder | 0.2.1.3 | 39850 | 0.2.1.4 | | haskell-blaze-html | 0.2.4.0 | 38971 | 0.3.1.0, 0.3.2.0, 0.3.2.1 | | haskell-bson | 0.0.4 | 39732 | 0.1, 0.1.1, 0.1.2 | | haskell-buildbox | 1.2.1.0 | 40212 | 1.3.0.0, 1.3.0.1 | | haskell-bytestring | 0.9.1.7 | 17970 | 0.9.1.8, 0.9.1.9 | | haskell-bzlib | 0.5.0.0 | 17520 | 0.5.0.1 | | haskell-cabal | 1.8.0.6 | 25443 | 1.10.0.0 | | haskell-certificate | 0.3.2 | 40678 | 0.4.0 | | haskell-checkers | 0.2.7 | 21099 | 0.2.8 | | haskell-chxhtml | 0.1.3 | 39721 | 0.1.4 | | haskell-citeproc-hs | 0.2 | 19920 | 0.3.0 | | haskell-clash | 0.1.2.1 | 39715 | 0.1.2.2 | | haskell-clock | 0.1.2.1 | 27797 | 0.2.0.0 | | haskell-cmdargs | 0.6.5 | 30061 | 0.6.6 | | haskell-concurrent-extra | 0.6 | 39675 | 0.6.0.1 | | haskell-containers | 0.3.0.0 | 19697 | 0.4.0.0 | | haskell-control-event | 1.2.0.0 | 17539 | 1.2.1.0 | | haskell-control-monad-failure-mtl | 0.7.0 | 33931 | 0.7.0.1 | | haskell-control-monad-free | 0.5.0.1 | 19353 | 0.5.2, 0.5.3 | | haskell-contstuff | 0.5.0 | 40857 | 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.1.0, 1.2.0 | | haskell-convertible-text | 0.3.0.6 | 34179 | 0.3.0.7, 0.3.0.8 | | haskell-copilot | 0.25 | 41013 | 0.26, 0.27, 0.28, 1.0 | | haskell-crypto-api | 0.2.1 | 40679 | 0.3, 0.3.1 | | haskell-cryptocipher | 0.2 | 40615 | 0.2.1, 0.2.2 | | haskell-crypto | 4.2.2 | 17492 | 4.2.3 | | haskell-cryptohash | 0.6.1 | 39879 | 0.6.2 | | haskell-cuda | 0.2.2 | 39775 | 0.3.2 | | haskell-curl | 1.3.5 | 17457 | 1.3.6 | | haskell-curry-base | 0.2.7 | 30394 | 0.2.8 | | haskell-curry-frontend | 0.2.9 | 31118 | 0.2.10, 0.2.11 | | haskell-data-accessor | 0.2.1.4 | 17736 | 0.2.1.5 | | haskell-data-accessor-template | 0.2.1.5 | 19120 | 0.2.1.6 | | haskell-data-category | 0.3.0.1 | 37639 | 0.3.0.2 | | haskell-data-default | 0.2 | 17830 | 0.2.0.1 | | haskell-data-object | 0.3.1.5 | 29292 | 0.3.1.6 | | haskell-data-object-json | 0.3.1.4 | 35371 | 0.3.1.5 | | haskell-data-object-yaml | 0.3.3.1 | 34228 | 0.3.3.2, 0.3.3.3 | | haskell-data-ordlist | 0.4.3 | 28719 | 0.4.4 | | haskell-data-reify | 0.5 | 26214 | 0.6 | | haskell-dbus-client | 0.4.0.2 | 34043 | 0.4.0.3 | | haskell-delimited-text | 0.1.7 | 21467 | 0.2.0 | | haskell-derivation-trees | 0.7.2 | 39852 | 0.7.3 | | haskell-diagrams | 0.2.2 | 17739 | 0.2.2.1, 0.2.2.2 | | haskell-directory | 1.0.1.2 | 25399 | 1.1.0.0 | | haskell-disassembler | 0.1.0 | 39920 | 0.1.0.1 | | haskell-dns | 0.1.0 | 39757 | 0.1.1, 0.1.2 | | haskell-enumerator | 0.4.4 | 40023 | 0.4.5 | | haskell-epic | 0.1.5 | 34008 | 0.1.7, 0.1.8 | | haskell-eprocess | 1.5.0 | 33702 | 1.5.1 | | haskell-epub-metadata | 1.0.2 | 39646 | 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2 | | haskell-expat-enumerator | 0.1.0.2 | 40322 | 0.1.0.3 | | haskell-explicit-iomodes | 0.6 | 34072 | 0.6.0.1 | | haskell-explicit-iomodes-text | 0.1.0.4 | 39863 | 0.1.0.5 | | haskell-explicit-sharing | 0.7 | 24374 | 0.8 | | haskell-extcore | 0.9.2 | 30669 | 1.0 | | haskell-fclabels | 0.9.1 | 23716 | 0.11.0, 0.11.1, 0.11.1.1 | | haskell-feed | 0.3.7 | 17474 | 0.3.8 | | haskell-fibonacci | 0.1.0.0 | 39944 | 0.2.0.1 | | haskell-file-embed | 0.0.3 | 29301 | 0.0.3.1 | | haskell-filepath | 1.1.0.4 | 21717 | 1.2.0.0 | | haskell-flock | 0.2 | 18119 | 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.2.3, 0.2.4 | | haskell-forkable-monad | 0.1 | 39558 | 0.1.1 | | haskell-formlets | 0.7.3 | 18750 | 0.8 | | haskell-gd | 3000.5.0 | 17821 | 3000.6 | | haskell-generic-deriving | 0.3 | 40590 | 0.3.1, 0.4 | | haskell-gf | 3.1.6.2 | 39561 | 3.2 | | haskell-ght | 0.3.0 | 39567 | 0.3.1 | | haskell-glob | 0.5 | 23565 | 0.5.1 | | haskell-glut | 2.1.2.1 | 17899 | 2.2.0.0, 2.2.1.0, 2.2.2.0 | | haskell-gnome-keyring | 0.2.2.3 | 33731 | 0.2.2.4 | | haskell-gnuidn | 0.1.1.2 | 39792 | 0.2 | | haskell-gnuplot | 0.4.0.1 | 20788 | 0.4.0.2, 0.4.1 | | haskell-gps | 0.5.3 | 27753 | 0.5.4 | | haskell-graphalyze | 0.10.0.1 | 20396 | 0.11.0.0 | | haskell-graphviz | 2999.10.0.1 | 18343 | 2999.11.0.0 | | haskell-graph-wrapper | 0.2 | 39878 | 0.2.1 | | haskell-grempa | 0.1.0 | 40585 | 0.1.1, 0.1.2 | | haskell-hakyll | 2.4 | 35992 | 2.4.1 | | haskell-happstack-server | 0.5.0.3 | 23713 | 0.5.0.4 | | haskell-happstack-state | 0.5.0.3 | 23715 | 0.5.0.4 | | haskell-harpy | 0.4.2 | 18128 | 0.4.3.0 | | haskell-has | 0.4.0.1 | 39595 | 0.5.0.0, 0.5.0.1 | | haskell-haskell98 | 1.0.1.1 | 19698 | 1.1.0.0 | | haskell-haskelldb | 2.0.1 | 23936 | 2.0.1.1, 2.1.0 | | haskell-haskelldb-hdbc | 2.0 | 23937 | 2.1.0 | | haskell-haskelldb-hdbc-odbc | 2.0 | 23938 | 2.1.0 | | haskell-haskelldb-hdbc-postgresql | 2.0 | 23939 | 2.1.0 | | haskell-haskelldb-hdbc-sqlite3 | 2.0 | 23940 | 2.1.0 | | haskell-haskelldb-th | 2.0 | 26130 | 2.1.0 | | haskell-haskellnet | 0.2.3 | 27472 | 0.2.4 | | haskell-haskell-src-exts | 1.9.6 | 18129 | 1.10.0, 1.10.1 | | haskell-haskell-src-meta | 0.2 | 22451 | 0.3 | | haskell-haxr | 3000.7 | 19960 | 3000.8, 3000.8.1 | | haskell-hdaemonize | 0.4.3 | 24314 | 0.4.4 | | haskell-hdbc-odbc | 2.2.3.0 | 17654 | 2.2.3.1 | | haskell-hdbc-postgresql | 2.2.3.1 | 19755 | 2.2.3.2 | | haskell-heist | 0.2.4 | 37394 | 0.3.0.0, 0.4.0.0, 0.4.0.1 | | haskell-hemkay-core | 0.1.2 | 33996 | 0.1.3 | | haskell-hexpat | 0.19.4 | 17594 | 0.19.5 | | haskell-highlighting-kate | 0.2.7.1 | 17656 | 0.2.8.1 | | haskell-hint-server | 1.2.0 | 33703 | 1.2.1 | | haskell-histogram-fill | 0.3.0.1 | 30322 | 0.3.1 | | haskell-hledger-lib | 0.12.1 | 39807 | 0.13 | | haskell-hlint | 1.8.3 | 34172 | 1.8.4 | | haskell-hmatrix | 0.10.0.0 | 17644 | 0.10.0.1, 0.10.0.2 | | haskell-hmk | 0.9.7.1 | 31113 | 0.9.7.2 | | haskell-hpc | 0.5.0.5 | 17922 | 0.5.0.6 | | haskell-hsc3-process | 0.3.1 | 21752 | 0.4.0 | | haskell-hsdns | 1.4.3 | 17745 | 1.5 | | haskell-hslogger-template | 1.1.1 | 25019 | 1.1.2 | | haskell-hsndfile | 0.4.0 | 17839 | 0.5.0 | | haskell-hsopenssl | 0.8.0.2 | 17661 | 0.9 | | haskell-hsp | 0.5.2 | 18135 | 0.6.0 | | haskell-hstringtemplate | 0.6.5 | 17841 | 0.6.6 | | haskell-hsxenctrl | 0.1.1 | 17724 | 0.2.0 | | haskell-hsx | 0.7.0 | 18137 | 0.9.0 | | haskell-htf | 0.5.0.1 | 17663 | 0.6.0.0, 0.6.0.1 | | haskell-http-enumerator | 0.2.0.4 | 41807 | 0.2.1.4, 0.2.1.5, 0.3.0 | | haskell-hyena | 0.1 | 27802 | 0.1.0.1 | | haskell-iconv | 0.4.0.2 | 17727 | 0.4.1.0 | | haskell-improve | 0.1.2 | 39881 | 0.2.0, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.2.3 | | haskell-interpolatedstring-perl6 | 0.5 | 28942 | 0.6 | | haskell-iteratee | 0.5.0.0 | 24576 | 0.6.0.1, 0.7.0.0 | | haskell-iteratee-parsec | 0.0.4 | 34792 | 0.0.5, 0.0.6 | | haskell-jmacro | 0.3.2 | 28762 | 0.4.1, 0.4.2 | | haskell-kmeans | 0.1.1 | 24787 | 0.1.2 | | haskell-language-c | 0.3.2 | 19082 | 0.3.2.1 | | haskell-language-dot | 0.0.5 | 29797 | 0.0.6 | | haskell-lastik | 0.6.4 | 27999 | 0.7.0 | | haskell-lattices | 1.2 | 39861 | 1.2.1 | | haskell-lenses | 0.1.3 | 29826 | 0.1.4 | | haskell-libxml-enumerator | 0.4.0.2 | 40165 | 0.4.0.3, 0.4.0.4 | | haskell-libzip | 0.2.0 | 40581 | 0.2.0.1 | | haskell-listlike | 1.1.0 | 17671 | 2.0.0, 2.0.1 | | haskell-logict | 0.4.1 | 17762 | 0.4.2 | | haskell-maccatcher | 1.0.0 | 20382 | 1.0.1 | | haskell-memcached | 0.2 | 24940 | 0.2.1 | | haskell-mime-directory | 0.5 | 21105 | 0.5.1 | | haskell-monad-coroutine | 0.6 | 37655 | 0.6.1 | | haskell-monad-parallel | 0.5.1 | 37654 | 0.5.2 | | haskell-monadrandom | 0.1.5 | 17675 | 0.1.6 | | haskell-monad-stlike-io | 0.2.1 | 34285 | 0.2.2 | | haskell-mongodb | 0.8.1 | 33942 | 0.9, 0.9.1 | | haskell-mps | 2010.5.29 | 19805 | 2010.11.28 | | haskell-mueval | 0.8 | 17848 | 0.8.1 | | haskell-neither | 0.1.0 | 38977 | 0.2.0 | | haskell-netstring-enumerator | 0.1 | 40320 | 0.1.0.1 | | haskell-network-protocol-xmpp | 0.3.2.3 | 27997 | 0.3.2.4 | | haskell-nntp | 0.0.3 | 27775 | 0.0.4 | | haskell-oeis | 0.2.2 | 14336 | 0.2.2.1, 0.3.0 | | haskell-old-time | 1.0.0.5 | 25400 | 1.0.0.6 | | haskell-opengl | 2.2.3.0 | 17677 | 2.3.0.0, 2.4.0.0, 2.4.0.1 | | haskell-pandoc | 1.6 | 19804 | 1.6.0.1 | | haskell-parsimony | 1.0.1 | 29465 | 1.1 | | haskell-pbkdf2 | 0.3 | 21910 | 0.3.1 | | haskell-persistent-postgresql | 0.3.0 | 39801 | 0.3.1, 0.3.1.1 | | haskell-persistent-sqlite | 0.3.0 | 38976 | 0.3.0.1 | | haskell-pointedlist | 0.4.0 | 23357 | 0.4.0.1 | | haskell-polyparse | 1.4 | 17607 | 1.4.1, 1.5 | | haskell-pretty | 1.0.1.1 | 21720 | 1.0.1.2 | | haskell-process-leksah | 1.0.1.3 | 39586 | 1.0.1.4 | | haskell-process | 1.0.1.3 | 21465 | 1.0.1.4 | | haskell-random | 1.0.0.2 | 21721 | 1.0.0.3 | | haskell-ranged-sets | 0.2.1 | 17682 | 0.3.0 | | haskell-rdtsc | 1.1.1 | 17612 | 1.1.3, 1.1.3.1 | | haskell-reactive-glut | 0.1.9 | 21108 | 0.1.10 | | haskell-redis | 0.9 | 39007 | 0.10 | | haskell-regex-pderiv | 0.0.8.2 | 39569 | 0.0.9 | | haskell-regex-tdfa | 1.1.6 | 18227 | 1.1.7 | | haskell-regular-extras | 0.2.1 | 33639 | 0.2.2 | | haskell-regular-xmlpickler | 0.1.1 | 33692 | 0.1.2 | | haskell-replib | 0.2.2 | 27529 | 0.3 | | haskell-rsagl | 0.4.0.2 | 17684 | 0.4.0.3 | | haskell-satchmo-backends | 1.8.0 | 26165 | 1.8.1 | | haskell-satchmo | 1.8.0 | 25394 | 1.8.1 | | haskell-scc | 0.6 | 17685 | 0.6.1 | | haskell-secure-sockets | 1.0.1 | 40589 | 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1 | | haskell-shell-escape | 0.0.0 | 40893 | 0.1.1 | | haskell-shpider | 0.0.7 | 25012 | 0.1.0, 0.1.1 | | haskell-sized-types | 0.1 | 30933 | 0.2.7.20101112 | | haskell-snap-core | 0.2.15.1 | 37390 | 0.2.16, 0.3.0 | | haskell-snap-server | 0.2.15.1 | 37392 | 0.2.16.2, 0.3.0 | | haskell-sox | 0.2.0.1 | 26157 | 0.2.0.2 | | haskell-sphinx | 0.2.1 | 18443 | 0.3.6, 0.3.7, 0.4.0, 0.4.0.1 | | haskell-srcloc | 0.1 | 41610 | 0.1.1 | | haskell-ssh | 0.1 | 41662 | 0.2.1, 0.2.3, 0.2.4, 0.2.5 | | haskell-starling | 0.2.0 | 33925 | 0.3.0 | | haskell-statistics | 0.8.0.3 | 29954 | 0.8.0.4 | | haskell-stm-io-hooks | 0.6.0 | 23409 | 0.7.0, 0.7.1 | | haskell-storable-endian | 0.2.3 | 44806 | 0.2.4 | | haskell-stream-monad | 0.3 | 23552 | 0.4, 0.4.0.1 | | haskell-stream | 0.4.1 | 15446 | 0.4.2 | | haskell-stringsearch | 0.3.2 | 17629 | 0.3.3 | | haskell-strptime | 0.1.6 | 33622 | 0.1.7, 0.1.8, 1.0.0 | | haskell-suffixarray | 0.0.1 | 39710 | 0.0.2 | | supercollider-midi | 0.1.1 | 20341 | 0.1.3, 0.2 | | haskell-svgfonts | 0.2 | 25505 | 0.3 | | haskell-svgpath | 1.0 | 41601 | 1.0.1 | | haskell-svm | 1.0.0 | 40779 | 1.0.0.1 | | haskell-syb | 0.2.2 | 21263 | 0.3 | | haskell-syb-with-class | 0.6.1 | 17857 | 0.6.1.1 | | haskell-symbol | 0.1 | 41573 | 0.1.1 | | haskell-system-uuid | 1.3.0 | 21395 | 1.3.1 | | haskell-template-haskell | 2.4.0.1 | 19699 | 2.5.0.0 | | haskell-template | 0.2.0.1 | 17633 | 0.2.0.2, 0.2.0.3, 0.2.0.4 | | haskell-test-framework-quickcheck2 | 0.2.8 | 29413 | 0.2.9 | | haskell-texmath | 0.4 | 28111 | 0.5 | | haskell-text-icu | 0.6.3.0 | 24269 | 0.6.3.1 | | haskell-th-lift | 0.5.2 | 39714 | 0.5.3 | | haskell-threads | 0.3.1 | 39733 | 0.4 | | haskell-thrist | 0.1.2 | 19310 | 0.2 | | haskell-tls | 0.3.1 | 41599 | 0.3.2 | | haskell-triemap | 0.5.4 | 29358 | 0.7.2, 1.0.0, 1.5.0 | | haskell-typehash | 1.4.0.0 | 22433 | 1.4.0.1 | | haskell-ui-command | 0.5.3 | 39566 | 0.5.4 | | haskell-unix | 2.4.0.2 | 21722 | 2.4.1.0 | | haskell-unixutils | 1.27 | 19227 | 1.28, 1.29, 1.34, 1.35 | | haskell-usb-enumerator | 0.2 | 40773 | 0.2.0.1 | | haskell-usb-safe | 0.11 | 34003 | 0.11.0.1 | | haskell-usb | 0.6.0.4 | 33992 | 0.6.0.6, 0.6.0.7, 0.6.0.8 | | haskell-useful | 0.0.5 | 37601 | 0.0.6 | | haskell-uuagc | 0.9.29 | 34001 | 0.9.34, 0.9.35, 0.9.36 | | haskell-uu-parsinglib | 2.5.5.1 | 26182 | 2.5.5.2, 2.5.6, 2.5.6.1 | | haskell-vcard | 0.1.3 | 22148 | 0.1.4 | | haskell-vector-algorithms | 0.3.4 | 37382 | 0.4 | | haskell-vty | 4.4.0.0.1 | 17640 | 4.6.0.1, 4.6.0.2 | | haskell-wai-extra | 0.2.4.2 | 35368 | 0.3.0 | | haskell-wai-handler-devel | 0.1.1 | 40855 | 0.1.1.1, 0.1.1.2 | | haskell-wai-handler-fastcgi | 0.2.2 | 39820 | 0.3.0 | | haskell-wai-handler-snap | 0.0.0.1 | 39819 | 0.1.0 | | haskell-wai | 0.2.2.1 | 35369 | 0.3.0 | | haskell-web-encodings | 0.3.0.3 | 27427 | 0.3.0.4, 0.3.0.5, 0.3.0.6 | | haskell-webkit | 0.12.0 | 37498 | 0.12.1 | | haskell-webserver | 0.4.2 | 37632 | 0.4.3, 0.4.4 | | haskell-websockets | 0.1.2.3 | 41648 | 0.1.2.5, 0.2.0.1 | | haskell-wumpus-basic | 0.12.0 | 39853 | 0.13.0, 0.14.0 | | haskell-wumpus-core | 0.37.0 | 39649 | 0.40.0, 0.41.0 | | haskell-wumpus-microprint | 0.11.0 | 39854 | 0.12.0, 0.13.0 | | haskell-wumpus-tree | 0.10.0 | 39855 | 0.11.0, 0.11.1, 0.12.0 | | haskell-wxfruit | 0.1.2 | 24107 | 0.1.2.1 | | haskell-xcb-types | 0.5.1.1 | 18094 | 0.6.0 | | haskell-xhb | 0.3.2009.6.28 | 23765 | 0.4.2010.12.26 | | haskell-xss-sanitize | 0.2.4 | 41735 | 0.2.5 | | haskell-yajl-enumerator | 0.2.0.3 | 40183 | 0.2.0.4, 0.3 | | haskell-yajl | 0.3.0.4 | 39749 | 0.3.0.5 | | haskell-zeromq-haskell | 0.4.1 | 37628 | 0.4.2 | | haskell-zmidi-core | 0.1.0 | 39833 | 0.2.0 | | hledger | 0.12.1 | 20762 | 0.13 | | hoogle | 4.0.7 | 17616 | 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3 | | hscurses-fish-ex | 1.3.0 | 39560 | 1.3.1 | | ideas | 0.6 | 39548 | 0.7 | | ip6addr | 0.3.2 | 27668 | 0.3.3 | | jarfind | 0.1.0.1 | 23080 | 0.1.0.2 | | json2yaml | 0.2.2 | 28330 | 0.2.3 | | kit | 0.4.4 | 39828 | 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 0.6.3 | | mighttpd | 0.4.2 | 39644 | 0.4.3 | | nptools | 0.3.0 | 39559 | 0.4.0, 0.4.1 | | pointfree | 1.0.3 | 26107 | 1.0.4 | | roguestar-engine | 0.4.0.2 | 17697 | 0.4.0.3 | | roguestar-gl | 0.4.0.2 | 19154 | 0.4.0.3 | | rpf | 0.2.2 | 39842 | 0.2.3 | | satchmo-examples | 1.4.1 | 25397 | 1.8.1 | | she | 0.1 | 28002 | 0.2, 0.3 | | sourcegraph | 0.6.1.1 | 20519 | 0.7.0.0 | | spaceinvaders | 0.4.1 | 17699 | 0.4.2 | | supercollider-midi | 0.1.1 | 20341 | 0.1.3, 0.2 | | threadpool | 0.2 | 23354 | 0.3, 0.3.1 | | timeplot | 0.2.3 | 39829 | 0.2.13, 0.2.14, 0.2.15 | | yst | 0.2.3.2 | 29313 | 0.2.4 | | ztail | 1.0 | 21547 | 1.0.1 | |------------------------------------+---------------+--------+------------------------------|

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[aur-general] Request removal of 3gpconverter
by Lou 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Upstream script is dead and has not been updated for 4 years. Uses ffmpeg but the commands are outdated and will not work. 3gpconverter http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14562

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[aur-general] Changing AUR development infrastructure.
by Loui Chang 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

Recently I've had the idea that I should move the 'main' AUR git repo, which I have been the caretaker of to the community server where all other community and AUR development is done. This would also mean we would have to run a git daemon, and should also install a web interface like cgit to browse the repo. I'm hearing that there is some opposition to this. I'd like to start a discussion to hear the reasons behind that. Here are the reasons I have for moving the repo: * The Trusted Users will have more control over the AUR development since it will be on their own server. * We can use the new infrastructure to host other TU and community projects. * We don't need to create superfluous shell accounts on gerolde to for push access to those repos. Those accounts already exist on sigurd. The AUR and community development infrastructure used to all be hosted on the main Arch Linux server, but we moved the community portion when a new server was donated by sevenl.net. I think it makes a whole lot of sense to also move the rest. Cheers!

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[aur-general] Remove cdparanoia-devel package
by Michal Hybner 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

Hello, I would like to remove cdparanoia-devel[1] package. It was useful in days when stable release was long ahead and this devel version solved problem with new drives which caches audio. Now when stable version is out and in Arch extra repo, there is no need for that, because there are no development versions of cdparanoia anymore. Thank you, best regards Michal Hybner [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6632

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[aur-general] Delete request
by Simon Stoakley 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

Can you please delete my powder-toy-beta pkg, it no longer has any use in this world as it available from git. Thanks Simon [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40597 --

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[aur-general] Delete request for perl-scalar-util
by Justin Davis 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

Please delete perl-scalar-util: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26539 I adopted it long ago and noticed it recently. The package should be called perl-scalar-list-utils (which already exists) and is generally not needed because it is included with perl. Thanks, juster / aurperl

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[aur-general] Is it okay to mark broken packages out-of-date on AUR?
by Peter Simons 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

Hi guys, the AUR user palmfron has recently flagged the package "haskell-haskcore" out-of-date, because the PKGBUILD is broken. It cannot be compiled, because it depends on other packages that no longer exist: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20383 Now, there is disagreement among the members of the ArchHaskell team about whether it's okay to flag that package out-of-date. Some argue that the package is *not* out-of-date, because the published version 0.1.0.4 is the latest one available, so the package cannot be updated to a newer version. These people argue that flagging a package out-of-date just because it's broken is not alright. Others say that it's perfectly alright to flag that package out-of-date, because it's *broken*, so clearly the PKGBUILD does need updating to be useful. Is there some sort of consensus among AUR maintainers how to deal with that kind of situation? If an AUR package is current, so to speak, but it doesn't compile, then what should be done with it? This issue is of some importance for us, because the 'arch-haskell' user has published an approximated 500 packages on AUR that are broken, i.e. these packages cannot be built because of unsatisfiable dependencies: https://github.com/archhaskell/habs/issues#issue/4 I'd appreciate any advice that you could offer. Take care, Peter

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[aur-general] Stable (and obsolete) CrystalHD package in the AUR
by Stijn Segers 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

Hello, Broadcom's CrystalHD drivers has two development trees online - an SVN one (maintained by Davilla, an Xbmc developer), and a git one, which seems to have some of Broadcom's people on board. Davilla periodically syncs with the git tree. There is a package on the AUR simply called 'crystalhd' which points to the git tree in its package info, but is in fact built from the original Broadcom release tarball [1], which, by now, is obsolete, and hasn't been updated by its maintainer in quite a while, despite being flagged out of date; there is a new tarball available from July 2010, which is out of data as well; furthermore, the driver is included in staging. I would like to upload a stable package based on the SVN tree (which has release tags), and think simply naming 'crystalhd' - since it's a stable release tagged as such by the Xbmc developer - would best, but I'm not sure. Calling it crystalhd-svn might be more appropriate, especially to differentiate it from the crystalhd-git tree, but it might confuse people as well (e.g. a crystalhd-svn-3.8.0-1-i686.tar.xz package looks kinda bizarre). Either way, I think the package [1] can be safely deleted, so I would like to request that, and have opinions on the best name for the new stable package based on the svn sources. Thanks B [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34193

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[aur-general] deletion request - ocamlgraph-withoutfindlib
by Thomas S Hatch 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

There was a triple duplicate package of ocamlgraph, I have been working with the other 2 maintainers to come to a consensus as to how it should be packaged. A consensus has been reached, please delete the last duplicate! https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31755 -Tom Hatch

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[aur-general] Duplicate package
by Thomas S Hatch 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41219 Is a duplicate of community/python-pexpect This should be deleted right?

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[aur-general] Package deletion request
by Thomas S Hatch 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21687 is a duplicate of the correctly named ocaml-ocamlgraph, please delete it. -Tom Hatch

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[aur-general] Time to Step Down
by Aaron Bull Schaefer 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Fellow Trusted Users, After almost 4 years of being a TU, I've had less and less time to dedicate toward maintaining my packages, and so I think it's finally time for me to step down. Arch users definitely deserve a better response time than what I've been able to provide lately, and unfortunately, my priorities have shifted elsewhere. Most of my packages should be pretty straight forward to maintain, but feel free to poke me if you have any questions on them. I do have two open bugs (one for woof and one for pv) that I've updated with what info I know. Thanks for everything you've taught me over the years...it's been an honor working with you all to maintain this fantastic distro, and rest assured that I'll always be involved in the community in one form or another. Keep up the great work! -- Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer

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[aur-general] Orphan Request
by speps 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Hi, can you please orphan libircclient? ==> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14047 The package is not outdated, but it does not build and install any shared lib, also it installs headers into a no proper path according to ==> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/amd64/libircclient-dev/filelist Last maintainer action go up to july 2010, also one of his packages (ibus-handwrite) is outdated since November 2010 with a user PKGBUILD proposal in the comments. I have also sent him an e-mail without responses Thanks

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[aur-general] Renaming package
by Sebastien Duthil 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Hi, I'd like to know how to rename an AUR package. In this case, I must rename gplanarity to gplanarity-svn. Is it possible ? Can I do it or does anyone else have to do it ? Or shoud I create a new package ? In this case, should the old one be removed ? I didn't find anything about that case ... Thank you ! Sebastien Duthil

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[aur-general] qt3 backend in python-matplotlib
by Stéphane Gaudreault 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Dear TUs, I am preparing an update of python-matplotlib to version 1.0.1. This package supports multiple backends for rendering graphics and plotting windows. So far, our PKGBUILD supported QTAgg which requires the old qt3. Considering that qt3 has no future, I wonder if it is still necessary to provide this backend. Any objections if I drop it ? I will also set the default backend to QT4Agg (user will still be able to change the default in the matplotlibrc file or in their scripts). Stéphane

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[aur-general] Please delete ttf-consolas
by Marcel Korpel 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Hi everyone, Same as yesterday, but now regarding ttf-consolas: can someone please delete that package [1]; it has no maintainer and ttf-vista-fonts [2] provides the same font (including other variants). Regards, Marcel [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35124 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10408

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[aur-general] lysdr-git, while we're talking about new packages
by Gordon JC Pearce 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Okay, since there was a bit of discussion about new packages, I thought I'd maybe make some noise about one of mine. I've written a software-defined radio receiver called lysdr, and (so far) I don't think there's anything like it in AUR ;-) What is it? Well, it's a radio receiver, of sorts. Ideally you should use it with a special receiver plugged into the soundcard, but you can use it with prerecorded files too. The documentation assumes you know a little about how it all works, so what I'll do is describe how to get it set up and working, and you can be the guinea-pigs for helping me write better documentation. I recommend reading the Wikipedia page on software-define radio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio here) if you want to learn more about the technology behind it. Okay, first - a screenshot. Here it is: http://www.gjcp.net/~gordonjcp/lysdr.jpg (1032x310px, 60kB) A little to the right, you can see the tuning cursor with its red tuning "needle" and yellow filter strip. You'll notice that the red tuning line is just a wee fraction right of the 7.061MHz scale marking, and the frequency display below indicates that we're tuned to 7.0618MHz. The broad bright line that the filter strip is on is actually the spectrum of someone's voice! It's a Polish station, SP5BL - "See-Eh-Rah Pah-Pah Senk Pah-Pah Brah-voh", you can actually see the syllables. Off to the left side of the screen we have some data modes including CW (Morse code), RTTY (radio teletype) and PSK31 (phase-shift keying). The three fat fuzzy blobs a little left of the middle are probably a digital mode called PACTOR that transfers data relatively quickly with a lot of error correction - "relatively" in that it's still only about 100 characters per second. You can install it by your favourite method of brewing AUR packages - I use clyde. Naturally, any comments on how to improve the packaging (or the software) will be welcomed. It will require (and should pull in) jack, fftw and gtk+ (if you haven't got these already) and requires Python for the build process and git to download. Once you've built and installed it, grab http://www.gjcp.net/~gordonjcp/sdr.flac - don't listen to it though, unless you have a taste for the avant-garde. If you play it back, you'll just hear a high-pitched hiss and some scratchy chittering noises, it won't blow your speakers or make you see The Ring or anything. Don't compress it with any lossy compression format, or convert it to mono to save space - it must have its two channels perfectly in phase for the receiver to work! It's not really left and right signals like stereo, it's actually real and imaginary samples. Unless you know what this means already, don't bother looking it up on Wikipedia. I have a rough idea what it means; I don't need to know how to build a chicken to cook an egg. Now, start up jack (it'll start automatically, possibly with less-than-wonderful settings, so check the Arch wiki on how to do this) then start lysdr with "lysdr --co -f 7056000" (--co is "Connect outputs", -f 7056000 is "Centre frequency is 7056kHz). Now, start mplayer with "mplayer -ao jack:port=lysdr sdr.flac" and you should start to see stuff scrolling up the screen. You can use any other media player, as long as it can play flac files and output to jack. Stuff scrolls up the screen, you drag the cursor bar across the waterfall to tune, and you drag the edges of the yellow filter strip to change the filter bandwidth. Clicking "WIDE" or "NARROW" picks preset filter bandwidths suitable for speech or data modes. LSB is "Lower Sideband", and means that the wanted signals are below where we're tuned to - again, Wikipedia will tell you plenty about that. So, try it out, and see what you can hear. Bonus prize for finding the Windows error "bong"! 73s, Gordon MM0YEQ

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[aur-general] first package -- luagraph
by Philipp Gesang 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Hello archers, for my own use I made a pkgbuild of luaGRAPH[1] and I’d like to share it via aur. As this will be my first contribution I guess it can’t hurt to have it reviewed here by more experienced users before submitting. Thanks for your opinion, Philipp [1] http://luagraph.luaforge.net/ http://luaforge.net/projects/luagraph/

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[aur-general] Wrote Small AUR Helper
by Nathan Owens 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

I wrote a little AUR helper in C++, though currently it only downloads the tarball if the package name is valid. I am new to C++ and wanted to know if you thought the code was good. I was thinking about putting it in AUR, but figured I would asked for opinion first. Here is the url for the code: http://pastebin.com/aSW1awD4

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[aur-general] Please delete ttf-ms-extrafonts
by Marcel Korpel 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Hi everyone, Can someone please delete ttf-ms-extrafonts [1]; it has no maintainer and as mutlu_inek said in the comments his ttf-vista-fonts [2] provides the same fonts and has a more liberal license. Regards, Marcel [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35297 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10408

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[aur-general] Please remove the incorrectly named "netbeans-se" package
by Xavion 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

The "netbeans-se" package should have been called "netbeans-javase", since NetBeans is about more than just Java. For this reason, I've just uploaded a "netbeans-javase" package to AUR. The "netbeans-se" package was orphaned by its original maintainer, so I adopted it temporarily. Please don't screw this up and remove the wrong one! The "netbeans-se" package needs deleting.

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[aur-general] libnl 2.0 rebuild
by Thomas Bächler 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

So, libnl 2.0 was declared stable in October as I just learned. These packages are compatible with libnl 2.0: - crda - iw - wpa_supplicant - hostapd These packages don't as far as I can see: - libpcap - networkmanager These I didn't check: - kismet - net-snmp - knemo - libvirt - simh Can the respective maintainers find out whether there are patches for libnl 2.0 support? I'd like to do the rebuild on the weekend. If we can't fix all packages, we could put a libnl1 package to [extra]. (If there are no patches, it seems that porting to libnl 2.0 is not that difficult, so we could do it ourselves and submit it)

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[aur-general] Package review : gPlanarity
by Sebastien Duthil 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

Hi, I'd like to submit this package to the AUR but, as it's my first package, I'd like some reviews of the package before I send it. Thanks ! Sebastien Duthil

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[aur-general] Please delete evolution-added-plugins
by Ng Oon-Ee 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

I uploaded it [1] then realized it would be better to follow the way Debian packages it. For background, Gnome Evolution has some 'experimental' (read: unmaintained) plugins in its source which are not installed by default. Package [1] was my initial attempt to compile them, and was meant as a replacement for evolution in [extra]. I realized though that the Debian package was only a few kb (only containing the plugin), so I uploaded [2] which follows the same name as Debian/Ubuntu and only contains the plugin, with a versioned dependency on evolution. So in conclusion, [2] replaces and is better than [1], please delete [1] =) [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45345 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45346

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[aur-general] Please delete syncevolution-bin
by Ng Oon-Ee 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

Maintainer of [1] request that [2] be used instead. [2] is the proper way to install syncevolution and use it. Please delete [1]. I asked the maintainer to request it himself but no reply in almost 2 weeks. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38320 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19876

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[aur-general] Community Cleanup 2011.
by Thomas Dziedzic 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

I would like to propose moving all of the orphans in [community] to the aur by this Friday if no one has adopted them by then. If one of your packages needs an orphan as a dependency, you must adopt it. Orphans really deserve a maintainer and I would be more comfortable with the package having a maintainer in the aur then being an orphan in [community]. Community orphans: http://tinyurl.com/29lp5r6 Thanks and let the discussion begin!

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[aur-general] Packages up for adoption
by Gary Wright 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

Hello to everyone on the AUR mailing list. Sadly, my job doing desktop support has evaporated (along with most of the tech jobs around town), leaving me with much, much less time to tend over my packages. Its back to the menial retail life for me. But my loss is your gain! I was watching over a few packages in the AUR, but now am forced to disown them, due to lack of time and energy. (and a constant SSH connection to my boxes at home!) Here is a list of PKGBUILDS followed by how many votes they have: archdark-gdm-theme 0.2-2 120 baobab 2.4.2-2 254 gnomebaker 0.6.4-1 238 monkey 0.11.0-1 9 monkey-git 20100415-1 0 mt-daapd 0.2.4.2-6 36 win7multi-gdm-theme 10 By the time this email hits the repeater, they should be disowned. Feel free to contact me at wriggary at gmail if you have any questions about these packages. -Gary

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[aur-general] Package removal
by Mathieu Pasquet 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

Hi, Could you please remove: - poezio-svn (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34633) (moved to hg yesterday, so it’s useless) - testalgo (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30407) because it’s useless, in java, and I added it on the aur only because several of my comrades (also Arch users) needed this - python-sleekxmp-patched-git (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41168) because the patch that was needed in this branch has been merged. Thanks in advance.

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[aur-general] delete request
by Matthias Rascher 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

Hi, can somebody delete this packages... 1) obsolete http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45068 the package name was changed (see package comment by chmurli) 2) duplicate http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37238 the package is redundant (see package comment by alexwizard) Thanks

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[aur-general] Anybody want apvlv?
by Brad Fanella 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

So with the recent release of apvlv 0.1.0, I have decided to drop maintaining it. I believe it now supports UMD file reading of some sort, and this requires the whole the PSP toolchain to be packaged and submitted to the repo, which is something I have no interest in doing whatsoever, as I haven't even used the software in months. Any takers (TUs of course)? Regards, Brad

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[aur-general] jack-audio-connection-kit-dbus removal
by Daniele Paolella 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Please delete the package jack-audio-connection-kit-dbus (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22535) I uploaded the new release as jack-dbus (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45254) for consistency with jack in [extra], jack2 and jack2-dbus in [community].

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[aur-general] Delete request
by Luca Bennati 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

nano-wrap https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20596 -> outdated, orphan, functionality included in official repos

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[aur-general] Deletion Request
by notizblock 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

hi, i reuploaded the following packages using a python2-pkgname naming scheme: -https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37035 -https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22977 -https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29765 -https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19942 please delete the above packages. thx, -- bbs: nblock aur: notizblock

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[aur-general] Delete request: pysztaki
by György Balló 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Accidentally, I uploaded this package in wrong name, please delete it. The correct name is pysztaki-svn. Sorry. City-busz

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[aur-general] Orphan Request
by speps 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Hi, can you please orphan libxml? ==> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15850 The maintainer seems to be inactive since May 2009 The are 3 comments suggesting the x86_64 addition, the last one on August 2010. Also, i need it to work for my libglade-old. Thanks

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[aur-general] Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
by Martti Kühne 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

hello http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=Synthead&SeB=m user owns 55 packages and has an invalid e-mail address. does anyone happen to know him (or is willing to google after him)? I wonder. he wouldn't get comment notifications, he wouldn't get ood bumps (afaik both go to that address) and he obviously doesn't get mail sent to his email address directly. I kindly ask for orphaning his dasm package in order to adopt it. regards mar77i ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <mailer-daemon(a)googlemail.com> Date: Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:44 AM Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) To: mysatyre(a)gmail.com Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: synthead1(a)comcast.net Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 5.1.1 Not our Customer (state 14). ----- Original message ----- MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.185.79 with SMTP id cn15mr9556808vcb.54.1294713884783; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:44:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.220.5.139 with HTTP; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:44:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:44:44 +0100 Message-ID: <AANLkTikDQKmXqrSe4QmKKrkGJg_z6i25FR7u7paxqEoy(a)mail.gmail.com> Subject: dasm version bump From: =?UTF-8?Q?Martti_K=C3=BChne?= <mysatyre(a)gmail.com> To: synthead1(a)comcast.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasm-dillon/files/dasm-dillon/2.20.11/

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Re: [aur-general] [Solved] aur bug let me can not update grub4dos
by Daniel Lin 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Sorry, I got a bug report response. And this issue is solved. Thank you.

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[aur-general] aur bug let me can not update grub4dos
by Daniel Lin 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

I've post the bug near half year. Recently, I got a user require to renew PKGBUILD. But, I think this is bug of AUR script paring problem. As I know AUR's program will not modify. So, the simple method is delete the entry, let me upload again. If you know the admin of AUR, could you help me to delete the entry of grub4dos. That let me could easy upload a new grub4dos entry. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20672

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Re: [aur-general] Community Cleanup 2011.
by Thomas Dziedzic 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Andrea Scarpino <andrea(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On Monday 10 January 2011 15:41:23 Andrea Scarpino wrote: >> Can you provide a final list? I did this job some months ago and I don't >> think that we have more orphans packages which can be moved. > Here[1] my previous list (you can edit the page and use it) > > [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Community_Repo_Cleanup > I have edited the link [1] I am proposing this as more of an ultimatum to have 0 orphans by the end of this week. @gordonjcp "python-pyparallel - will adopt, Gordonjcp" still on the list... [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Community_Repo_Cleanup#P…

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Re: [aur-general] Community Cleanup 2011.
by Huub Munstege 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Hi, no nothing, forget it. Just wanted to send a mail to Thomas directly. Saw afterwards it went to aur-general(a)archlinux.org. Sorry again. best regards ________________________________ Huub Munstege BPE 2836 Bamako, Rep. du Mali Tel: +223 20226397 Port: +223 78370695 ________________________________ ________________________________ From: Andrea Scarpino <andrea(a)archlinux.org> To: Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR) <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> Sent: Mon, January 10, 2011 7:38:00 PM Subject: Re: [aur-general] Community Cleanup 2011. On Monday 10 January 2011 11:26:00 Huub Munstege wrote: > This is more of a assigning responsibility to a package sort of thing, > as I said, I would rather have it be in aur and have a maintainer then > be in community and be an orphan. Grass is maintained by Thomas and you already reported your problem on flyspray (FS#22379). So tell me what's the goal of this off topic. -- Andrea Insert mode

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Re: [aur-general] Community Cleanup 2011.
by Andrea Scarpino 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

On Monday 10 January 2011 15:41:23 Andrea Scarpino wrote: > Can you provide a final list? I did this job some months ago and I don't > think that we have more orphans packages which can be moved. Here[1] my previous list (you can edit the page and use it) [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Community_Repo_Cleanup -- Andrea

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[aur-general] Does anyone use tdl?
by Kaiting Chen 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Just out of curiosity does anyone use tdl? The last release was way back in 2004. --Kaiting. [1]: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/tdl/ -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/

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[aur-general] Delete request
by Xavier D. 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Hello, Please delete xivo-client-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44283) as it has been renamed to xivo-client-qt-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45228) Thanks!

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Re: [aur-general] partitionmanager-svn problems
by Luca Bennati 09 Jan '11

09 Jan '11

2011/1/9 Andrea Scarpino <andrea(a)archlinux.org> > On Sunday 09 January 2011 13:34:35 Luca Bennati wrote: > > This app https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22778 have problems > in > > the PKBUILD being it over an year old, but upstream is active and > maintainer > > is not: all his packages have been marked outdated. > > What to do? Is it necessary to contact him? > I orphaned Reiser's packages because all are flagged as out-of-date from > time > and with missing make/dependencies; list: > - grub2-btrfs > - hypervideoconverter > - partitionmanager-svn > - qmmp-svn > > -- > Andrea > Well, ok, i sent him the email nonetheless :) I'll upload the new PKGBUILD asap.

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[aur-general] partitionmanager-svn problems
by Luca Bennati 09 Jan '11

09 Jan '11

This app https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22778 have problems in the PKBUILD being it over an year old, but upstream is active and maintainer is not: all his packages have been marked outdated. What to do? Is it necessary to contact him?

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[aur-general] utorrent-server deletion request
by Cédric Girard 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

utorrent-server [1] is a duplicate of utserver [2]. It has no maintainer, is outdated and has a bad PKGBUILD. Thanks, [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40600 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40602 -- Cédric Girard

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[aur-general] ipython3 duplicated
by François Boulogne 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Hi, I noticed ipython3 [1] and ipython3-git [2] pkgbuilts are strictly the same. Since, it is synchronized from a git repository, I suggest to remove [1]. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42460 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42461 Cheers, -- François Boulogne. Membre de l'April - Promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre http://www.april.org

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[aur-general] deletion request - xml-light
by Thomas S Hatch 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Please delete xml-light, it is a misnamed duplicate of ocaml-xml-light http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12207

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[aur-general] Removal request
by H.Gökhan SARI 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Hello, There is package named 'nautilussvn' in AUR ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26289) However, this package is obsolete because project is renamed as rabbitvcs and a newer version is published. Newer package is rabbitvcs-nautilus ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34482) So, nautilussvn package should be deleted. Thanks, -- H.Gökhan SARI hsa2(a)difuzyon.net

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[aur-general] please delete pygit2-git
by Hervé Cauwelier 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Hi, I long hesitated between naming my package "pygit2-git" (to follow the upstream name) and python-libgit2-git (to follow the Python naming scheme). I chose the latter and added "pygit2" in the description so people still find it. Please delete https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43692 Thanks

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[aur-general] [aur general] Seeking the TU wisdom
by Thomas S Hatch 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Ok, I have a bit of a problem with a pair of packages, puppet and facter. As it stands the puppet package in the aur is broken, it builds but it does not run properly. The puppet package in the AUR is configured to run on ruby 1.9, puppet does not run properly on ruby 1.9 yet, and the pacman plugin for puppet that is supplied with the package no longer works properly. The package has also been out of date for a few weeks. I have contacted the maintainer and I was promised that my fixes would be applied, but they were not, so I made a duplicate, puppet-ruby1.8 and facter-ruby1.8, I am using these packages in production and they work very well. I even open up a github account, forked Miah's puppet package, applied the changes and requested a pull as requested. But the package remains out of date and broken, so my question is this, does this constitute grounds for having a TU orphan the packages so I can update them, make them work, and get rid of my duplicates? Or should I continue more diplomatically? -Tom Hatch

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[aur-general] Packages removal request
by Maciej Sitarz 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

Hello all, please remove this packages (all mine): *bash-completion-netcfg* http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24127 reason: merged into official netcfg package *firefox-spell-en-gb* http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30343 reason: hunspell-* packages now include all necessary dictionaries *firefox-spell-pl* http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19409 reason: hunspell-* packages now include all necessary dictionaries Thanks -- Maciek Sitarz

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[aur-general] Temporary inactivity
by Jonathan Conder 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

Hey everyone, I'm off to the beach for a few days, and should be back on Friday if not earlier. Just thought I'd let everyone know, although I doubt anything will need my attention while I'm away. Jonathan

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Re: [aur-general] TU Application -Thomas Hatch
by Christopher Rogers 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

I was working on something that is like quarters. I called it absbb (or ABS Build Bot). I was trying to make a build like slitaz<http://www.slitaz.org/>has for there distro but for arch. I used makerepo to help with making the packages once in chroot. I have not looked at it in a few months since i was busy trying to make slitaz better and updated. https://github.com/godane/devtools-pkgbuild/tree/archbb Also there is archbb script that was just my attempt to combined all of devtools into one big script. That didn't get any auto build bot feature into it. I hope this helps. Also +1 for TU. PS I started releasing my livecd again at http://godane.wordpress.com.

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[aur-general] dkms-virtualbox outdated, orphan
by Martti Kühne 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

...and [1] was last updated in 2007. I'm sure you guys know exactly what to do. :-D http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11663 regards mar77i

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[aur-general] Ocaml Packages
by Thomas S Hatch 05 Jan '11

05 Jan '11

I am looking at the state of the ArchLinux Ocaml packages. I am trying to update a number of them and I am trying to build a number of ocaml applications, but there are many incosistencies. The main problem is that there are ocaml packages that build with findlib and without findlib, and they place the development libs in different places. Also I have found a few packages that install libs in the findlib dir AND in the ocaml dir. The two directories are : findlib: /usr/lib/ocaml/site-lib non-findlib: /usr/lib/ocaml Other distributions with more developed ocaml support, such as fedora and Debian/Ubuntu have chosen to use findlib for all packages and they all install to the /usr/lib/ocaml dir. So I am proposing for discussion, that we look into repairing the ocaml packages to all use findlib and to install everything into /usr/lib/ocaml. Then we can have some peace on the ocaml front and we can do away with the complications in the AUR with ocaml packages. I have adopted the ocaml-findlib package and a number of them have been orphaned, (which I am picking up) but I wanted to run this by the TUs and other AUR devs before I really considered revamping the ocaml landscape in the AUR. -Thanks -Thomas S Hatch

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[aur-general] cisco-vpnclient - random computer hang
by Netanel Shine 05 Jan '11

05 Jan '11

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10537 it seems like the computer just freeze (hang) on random time when using the vpnclient on newer kernel version (2.6.36) - on the older versions it was fine. more information here - http://ilapstech.blogspot.com/2009/09/cisco-vpn-client-on-karmic-koala.html…

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[aur-general] Audio plug-ins name convention
by Bernardo Barros 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Hi all! I'm packaging some audio plug-ins and I wanted to know if there is any naming convention to this, as with fonts. Since there are different formats (LADSPA, LV2, DSSI and VST), if we follow the convention used with fonts (like ttf-xxxxx), we will get: lv2-xxxxx dssi-xxxxx ladspa-xxxxx vst-xxxxx It makes sense?

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[aur-general] xbmc-svn and skins removal request
by Vlad George 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Hello TUs, please remove "xbmc-svn" (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20156) as it is now succeeded by xbmc-git (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45036) Also please remove the unmaintained xbmc skins: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=xbmc&do_Orphans=Orphans&detail=… All the skins in the AUR aren't needed anyway, because skins use now the add-on interface and are now installed locally through xmbc. Thanks in advance, Vlad --

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Re: [aur-general] [aur-dev] Request to drop keditbookmarks-svn
by Andrea Scarpino 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

On Tuesday 04 January 2011 21:18:21 Joker-jar wrote: > Today i recieve mail: > > AUR Comment for keditbookmarks > > > > duplicate of kdebase-keditbookmarks. deleted > > So, delete keditbookmarks-svn also. I'm author of package. Thanks keditbookmarks-svn is keditbookmarks from SVN not the stable version thus I didn't delete it. Are you sure you want to delete it? PS. Moving to aur-general which is the right place for these things. -- Andrea Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[aur-general] orphan request - offlineimap-git
by Ethan Schoonover 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

I'd like to request that offlineimap-git be orphaned. - Current PKGBUILD points to old repository - I've tried to contact the current maintainer via email (listed address is a dead .edu account) and via twitter with no luck. Last attempt was over two weeks ago. - I have already posted a preliminary PKGBUILD (see links below) and am ready to submit it. Current (out of date) offlineimap-git: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24202 BBS thread with my new PKGBUILD (for ref only) https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=110196 Ethan Schoonover es(a)ethanschoonover.com http://ethanschoonover.com

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[aur-general] mc script cleanup
by Grigorios Bouzakis 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22229 This is the old fork of the devel team that now maintains mc. Deprecated for years. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22236 Slavz (from Slava Zanko) was the name of the above mentioned fork. He now leads the mc development team. Script doesnt use the forgotten forks sources but its uneeded since its the same as the package in extra only noone maintains it. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14644 The utf-8 patch has been incorporated in mc since the early recent releases. It had also been part of the slavz fork. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9065 A fork of the old unmaintained mc. It added some features to it, but now has been superseeded by the recent releases of mc under the new management. Definitely deprecated, no release in more than six years. -- Greg

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[aur-general] I can not maintain my packages anymore, liquidsoap & some ocaml dependencies
by Luciano A. Ferrer 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

Hi guys, gals! Unfortunately I can not maintain my packages anymore, it is liquidsoap[1] and some ocaml dependencies of it (in fact, I am not using them anymore...) You can see the list here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=luuuciano Maybe some of you want to own them, or a few of them? No idea what it is the best way to do it, I will just Disown them now? In the other hand, Thomas S Hatch sent an email to ocaml packagers[2] Best regards and wishes! luciano [1] http://savonet.sourceforge.net/ [2] Hello, I am the new ocaml findlib maintainer and I just letting the maintainers of ocaml packages know that I have changed some of the behavior of findlib to fix some issues. These changes should not break your packages, but I am asking that the ocaml package developers change their packages to reflect these changes, and I just want them to be aware of them since it changes a lot of PKGBUILDs in the long run. Thanks for your packages! https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OCaml_Package_Guidelines

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[aur-general] GMPC packages, bundle and singular
by Joel Heaton 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

Hi all, I just have a query about these, before I spend some time adopting and updating a bunch of them. In AUR, there are two packages that provide almost all of the GMPC plugins as far as I can see; gmpc-plugins and gmpc-plugins-git: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29603 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23457 There are a number of plugins packaged separately in the AUR as shown here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=gmpc&do_Search=Go&detail=1&C=0&… Now, neither gmpc-plugins nor gmpc-plugins-git provide all of the plugins listed, though they do cover most. Are the others okay to exist in case people only want one or two rather than the whole package, or should they be removed because they are provided by another package? I'd just like to clear this up before I go ahead and do anything/nothing. Kind regards, Joel.

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[aur-general] tenshi
by Florian Pritz 02 Jan '11

02 Jan '11

I noticed tenshi [1] hasn't been updated for quite a while and I'd like to maintain it (and perl-io-bufferedselect which is a dependency in newer versions and not yet in AUR/repos) in community if 1) the current maintainer is okay with that and 2) three TUs agree because it sadly doesn't satisfy the 10 votes or 1% usage rule. I've got a working PKGBUILD for 0.12 and I'm already using it on my systems. In case I can't move it to community I'll publish that later. CC'ing the current maintainer (Ryan). [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14088 -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}@server-speed.net

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[aur-general] Orphan request
by kevku 02 Jan '11

02 Jan '11

Requesting orphan on opensc http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10154 no reply from maintainer in a week.

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[aur-general] OCaml Findlib changes
by Thomas S Hatch 02 Jan '11

02 Jan '11

Hello, I am the new ocaml findlib maintainer and I just letting the maintainers of ocaml packages know that I have changed some of the behavior of findlib to fix some issues. These changes should not break your packages, but I am asking that the ocaml package developers change their packages to reflect these changes, and I just want them to be aware of them since it changes a lot of PKGBUILDs in the long run. The changes are small, but outlined in this wiki entry: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OCaml_Package_Guidelines My hope is to clean up and standardize OCaml packages and make it as nice as other language libs like haskell. Thanks for your packages! -Thomas S Hatch

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[aur-general] Package deletion request
by Thomas S Hatch 02 Jan '11

02 Jan '11

lwt: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33268 Has been replaced by the properly named: ocaml-lwt: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39089 Thanks! -Thomas S Hatch

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[aur-general] delete req,
by jwbirdsong 31 Dec '10

31 Dec '10

gmic at http//aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39897 Unmaintained dup of community pkg gmic thanks

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[aur-general] ArchStudio
by Bernardo Barros 31 Dec '10

31 Dec '10

Hello everyone! I set up a repository based on a modified version of ArchAudio, with some of my stuff and lots of PKGBUILDs from AUR's contributors. Hope this helps to update and maintain ArchAudio alive and updated. Just source for now, no binaries. It is a hg repo, so it can also be hosted inBitBucket and Google Code, and can be easily forked, hacked and pushed back. The contribution work can be much easier this way, I think. The initial idea is not _necessarily_ to replace ArchAudio repo binaries, but set up a pool for development of the most updated and new in terms of professional audio packages for ArchLinux. https://bitbucket.org/smoge/archstudio Happy New Year! Bernardo

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[aur-general] Duplicate Lyx 2.0beta2
by Bernardo Barros 31 Dec '10

31 Dec '10

It seems to be the same thing for me: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37964 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44306 the only difference is --enable-build-type=pre, that I thinks does not change much. Cheers!!

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[aur-general] Chmod files in a package
by Nathan Owens 31 Dec '10

31 Dec '10

I am working on package bglibs, it has a installer that installs the libs and such. Namcap gives that usr/lib/bglibs/lib/... needs 444 or 644 directories and files need permission set to 644 or 444. I have tried chmod -R 644 $pkgdir/usr/lib/bglibs/lib and that doesn't work. Also I have tried: for dir in $pkgdir/usr/lib/bglibs/lib do chmod -R 644 $dir done also I have tried: find $pkgdir/usr/lib/bglibs/lib -type d -exec chmod 644 {}\; None of the above worked.

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