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Re: [aur-general] Breaking the unspoken rule: AUR helper in [community]
by Evangelos Foutras 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/cower/ > > Thoughts? I was under the impression we didn't do this, and definitely > on purpose, otherwise people have *no* idea the AUR is different in a > lot of ways. Making people go the "hard way" to get a helper installed > at least presents some (necessary) barrier. This should have been posted to aur-general, where TUs can reply. Personally, I don't feel strong either way. As it was explained to me on IRC, cower doesn't include any building or installation functionality, it only searches for packages, downloads them, and can also check for updates to installed, unsupported, packages.

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] adding hunspell-xx packages
by Andreas Radke 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Am Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:06:15 +0100 schrieb Andreas Radke <a.radke(a)arcor.de>: > hunspell-de is alive. hunspell-en as well. same for hyphen-de (we already had hyphen-en from the hyphen split pkg) mythes-de and mythes-en. Feel free to add more languages sets (hunspell/hyphen/mythes) you need. Always check whether Fedora (http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/) or OpenOffice (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries) has a more recent version. Now we need to rebuild OOo/LibO and Mozilla packages to make use of them. AUR and Community packages may need fixes for the proper file locations. -Andy

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Breaking the unspoken rule: AUR helper in [community]
by Ionuț Bîru 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

On 12/30/2010 04:16 AM, Dan McGee wrote: > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/cower/ > > Thoughts? I was under the impression we didn't do this, and definitely > on purpose, otherwise people have *no* idea the AUR is different in a > lot of ways. Making people go the "hard way" to get a helper installed > at least presents some (necessary) barrier. > > -Dan this is my mistake suggesting him to push it community mostly because cower is not like yaourt. It doesn't help building anything and users still have to familiar themselves with PKGBUILD and makepkg. i consider cower being a cli interface from aur and it much better than the html version. with it i can found more easily packages because it has bash completion, searching has regex. Just try to find the link for opera build from aur using the html interface vs cower. The only "rule" i found in wikis about this subject is: Note: There is not and will never be an official mechanism for installing build material from UNSUPPORTED. All users should be familiar with the build process. Maybe we should change that and include all aur helpers that interface with the official json api from aur.archlinux.org. -- Ionuț

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Breaking the unspoken rule: AUR helper in [community]
by dave reisner 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/cower/ > > Thoughts? I was under the impression we didn't do this, and definitely > on purpose, otherwise people have *no* idea the AUR is different in a > lot of ways. Making people go the "hard way" to get a helper installed > at least presents some (necessary) barrier. > > -Dan > I suppose it depends on what we want the barrier to be. In lieu of one of Xyne's flowcharts, consider the raw interaction with the AUR to be something like: search -> download -> extract -> makepkg -> pacman cower draws the line after extraction, because I consider the process to be trivial up until that point. A completely uninformed user who learns how to use the AUR website and/or cower is still left in the same position after extraction -- they have some strange text files on their hard drive. A monkey* could get this far. The responsibility still lies with the user to understand what they've downloaded and what needs to be done with those files. makepkg, and the understanding of, is too important to be masked by another program. I do, however, understand the concern that existance of a tool in community to fetch said strange files may make them appear to be more supported than unsupported. dave * a real monkey, not one of our users.

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[aur-general] Belated Arch Holiday Madness
by Kaiting Chen 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Hi aur-general, I was out of the country while the whole Holiday Madness moves were taking place. Therefore I'm adopting my packages a little late. It looks like I'll be moving radvd, libx86emu, hwinfo, netperf, and nsd to [community]. They'll probably hit [community-testing] tomorrow and [community] in a couple of days. Merry Christmas and Happy New Years everyone! --Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/

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[aur-general] change font package name?
by Bernardo Barros 29 Dec '10

29 Dec '10

If the users' comment is correct, should I change my font package names from xxx-font-ttf to ttf-xxx? http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44857

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[aur-general] Please delete dmenu-xmms-patch
by StephenB 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

Hi Please delete: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39466 I have uploaded a later version with a more suitable name Thanks, Stephen

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[aur-general] Removal request
by jesse jaara 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

Euphoria4 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44783 can be removed as package euphoria was updated to series 4 and euphoria3 package was created. -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.)

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[aur-general] VirtualBox in [community]
by Heiko Baums 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

In the [community] repo there are the following packages in addition to the package virtualbox 4.0.0-2: virtualbox-additions 4.0.0-1 (any) virtualbox-guest-additions 4.0.0-2 (i686 and x86_64) virtualbox-guest-modules 4.0.0-2 (i686 and x86_64) In ABS there's only virtualbox-additions. What is what package? And is virtualbox-additions a duplicate of virtualbox-guest-additions? If yes, it would be nice, if this could be removed from [community] without moving it to AUR. And it would be nice if virtualbox-ext-oracle (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44761) would be moved to [community], too, so that virtualbox is completely in [community] with all its features. And, btw., does it really make sense to split virtualbox? I mean in most cases the virtualbox-guest-additions and virtualbox-guest-modules are needed for running virtualbox or the guests anyway. Heiko

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[aur-general] Deletion request for picviz
by Antoine Lubineau 27 Dec '10

27 Dec '10

Hello, I have adopted picviz [1] a few days ago to update it, and I chose to keep the same splitting as upstream, so I have made packages for libpicviz [2], picviz-cli [3] and picviz-gui [4]. Please remove picviz [1], which is now obsolete. Thanks, Antoine Lubineau [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26983 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44717 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44718 [4] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44719

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[aur-general] delete svn packages
by Joao Cordeiro 27 Dec '10

27 Dec '10

The following packages were moved to GIT upstream and have a corresponding git package in AUR. pan-svn [1] cwiid-svn [2] tracker-svn [3] redmine-mysql-svn [4] kadu-svn [5] supercollider-svn [6] gammu-svn [7] hostapd-svn [8] Thanks in advance, João Cordeiro [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15951 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9855 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9555 [4] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31275 [5] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3623 [6] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14862 [7] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26737 [8] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19812

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[aur-general] delete packages
by Joao Cordeiro 27 Dec '10

27 Dec '10

Banshee mirage plugin is now part of the Banshee Community Extensions project, as you can confirm in [1] - read April 7th news and check where source link points to. Since the community extensions have an AUR package, all mirage plugin packages should be deleted [2] and [3]. Thanks in advance, João Cordeiro [1] http://hop.at/mirage/ [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19007 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13138

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[aur-general] QuteCsound outdated
by Bernardo Barros 26 Dec '10

26 Dec '10

I flagged qutecsound outdated a while ago, still waiting. The user has almost 200 pacs... that must be hard for him/her. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23502

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[aur-general] faust-cvs / faust-git, remove?
by Bernardo Barros 26 Dec '10

26 Dec '10

there are two packages for faust development. the team switched to git faust-cvs http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37082 faust-git http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44767

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[aur-general] Please delete lib32-libtiff4
by Ng Oon-Ee 26 Dec '10

26 Dec '10

libtiff4 has both-arch support. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28895 (supports both arch) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39656 (to be deleted)

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[aur-general] Arch holiday madness! nominations
by Thomas Dziedzic 25 Dec '10

25 Dec '10

This is the official thread of the "Arch holiday madness!" nominations! Please read the article located on rollingrelease.com or archlinux.org before posting nominations here.

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[aur-general] Cleanup Suggestions
by kevku 25 Dec '10

25 Dec '10

oh sorry forgot to mention that aniworld-bzr http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33346 is my own package and you can delete that

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[aur-general] disown request
by Gonzalo Seguel 25 Dec '10

25 Dec '10

please disown the next package google-earth http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15270 the user dont respond any request, by message in aur page and email, for at least a few weeks and, the package is outdated for a weeks pd: merry christmas :D

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[aur-general] Deletion Request (tdfsb)
by Sascha Kruse 25 Dec '10

25 Dec '10

Hi, I've created http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44780 today (tdfsb). I didn't see, that it's allready in [community]. Sorry for that. Greetings, Sascha

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[aur-general] Cleanup Suggestions
by kevku 25 Dec '10

25 Dec '10

limewire http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9331 -killed aniworld-bzr http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33346 -zombie ffmpeg-webm http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37312 -merged into main branch squashfs-tools-lzma http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31648 -same as above bitlbee-msn http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6203 -duplicate? bitlbee-bzr-libpurple http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33889 -duplicate? most of the stuff in http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=go-o&do_Search=Go&PP=25&SO=a as libreoffice and its language packs are in extra but dunno somone might need those

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[aur-general] Delete package jedit-pkgbuild
by Vitaliy Berdinskikh 24 Dec '10

24 Dec '10

Hi all, remove [jedit-pkgbuild][pkgbuild] please: I add pkgbuild.xml to [jedit-devel][jedit] package. [pkgbuild]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21653 [jedit]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19451 -- Vitaliy Berdinskikh UR6LAD 73 & 72!

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[aur-general] Triplicate packages
by cantabile 24 Dec '10

24 Dec '10

Hi, I noticed during a search that c-lit [1], clit [2] and convertlit [3] all provide the same thing [4]. If it were my decision :), I would keep [2]. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16250 [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26797 [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23222 [4] http://www.convertlit.com/ -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River

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[aur-general] aur.archlinux.org down?
by Seblu 24 Dec '10

24 Dec '10

$ ping aur.archlinux.org PING aur.archlinux.org (208.92.232.29) 56(84) bytes of data. >From 67.69.228.37 icmp_seq=1 Time to live exceeded >From 67.69.228.37 icmp_seq=2 Time to live exceeded ^C --- aur.archlinux.org ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 0 received, +2 errors, 100% packet loss, time 1001ms $ wget aur.archlinux.org --2010-12-22 22:02:14-- http://aur.archlinux.org/ Resolving aur.archlinux.org... 208.92.232.29 Connecting to aur.archlinux.org|208.92.232.29|:80... failed: No route to host. Regards, -- Sébastien Luttringer www.seblu.net

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[aur-general] Gridflow outdated, no reply
by Bernardo Barros 24 Dec '10

24 Dec '10

This package is several versions outdated and the owner does do not respond: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19271

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[aur-general] libxkbcommon-git & libxkbcommon(-git) - wooot?
by Det 24 Dec '10

24 Dec '10

Hellooooooooh, Please wipe out either libxkbcommon [1] or libxkbcommon-git [2] from the face of the AUR. These things are essentially the same package (since they both use git), which makes the other one redundant. 'libxkbcommon' was there first but it has the wrong naming scheme and not that many votes for it to really matter if it somehow was suddenly dematerialized(!). [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40796 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42556 Thaaanks, Det

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[aur-general] deleted revengeofthetitans-hib
by widomaker2k7＠gmail.com 24 Dec '10

24 Dec '10

Hello, Please delete "revengeofthetitans-hib", it's of duplicite which http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37457 to remove : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44694 thanks.

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[aur-general] Orphan request
by Bartek Piotrowski 23 Dec '10

23 Dec '10

Following packages have been out-of-date for a some time now. Maintainers hasn't replied comments and emails in more than week. flush (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25114) bleachbit (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22499) gpick (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24975) muttng (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10892) wklej (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7811) - Maintainer answered, that he forgot password and request to orphan his packages and account, if you can. -- Bartek "Barthalion" Piotrowski

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[aur-general] Please orphan earcandy
by Ng Oon-Ee 23 Dec '10

23 Dec '10

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24059 Maintainer does not respond since Dec 9th

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] rpcbind 0.2.0-3
by jwbirdsong 23 Dec '10

23 Dec '10

On 12/20/2010 11:40 AM, Andreas Radke wrote: > Minor fix: add missing man page for rpcinfo > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21271 > > Please sign off. > > -Andy > If you'll take user signoff... Signoff both arches

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[aur-general] xmobar-darcs deletion request
by Cédric Girard 22 Dec '10

22 Dec '10

Hi, xmobar development has moved to git repository, thus xmobar-darcs [1] may be deleted as it has been replaced by xmobar-git [2] Please feel free to review the PKGBUILD for xmobar-git as well. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13627 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44683 Thanks, -- Cédric Girard

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[aur-general] AUR/apache-maven removal?
by Guillaume ALAUX 22 Dec '10

22 Dec '10

Hi there, AUR/apache-maven [1] is: - out of date - orphan - duplicate of community/maven [2] [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36876 [2] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/maven/ Let's make some room :) -- Guillaume

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[aur-general] Duplicates
by Nathan Owens 22 Dec '10

22 Dec '10

The following are duplicaates: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42059 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8110 (has the most votes) Thanks

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[aur-general] Remove ardour3-svn
by Bernardo Barros 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Hi, I suggest to remove ardour3-svn from AUR. It's not ready for use yet. See message from the author below. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34433 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> Date: 2010/12/20 Subject: Re: [LAU] Ardour3 To: Bernardo Barros <bernardobarros2(a)gmail.com> Cc: Fabio <capoeirista(a)arcor.de>, linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Bernardo Barros <bernardobarros2(a)gmail.com> wrote: > It's not really a oficial arch binary package, paul.. > it's a arch user script that builds from svn. that doesn't make a whole heap of difference. people who use svn are at least 1 step closer to understanding that the first step after a crash is "svn update". people using arch build scripts ... not so much, i suspect. moreover, people using svn are probably (hopefully!) on the commit mailing list and can see that the version they got this morning is now 8 commits old by lunchtime. again, people using arch build scripts ... not so much

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Re: [aur-general] Remove ardour3-svn
by Cédric Girard 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Le 21 déc. 2010 18:33, "Xyne" <xyne(a)archlinux.ca> a écrit : > > On 2010-12-21 15:55 +0100 (51:2) > Cédric Girard wrote: > > > I know why you did it, even though I don't see why AUR PKGBUILDs content > > should be dictated by upstream devs. > > It's not being dictated by upstream devs. The dev has expressed concerns and > we're trying to address them out of respect. He has been neither rude nor > demanding from what I have seen, and a simple message is a completely > reasonable solution. > > Really, the entire OSS community would fall apart if everyone adopted this > apparent attitude of "I don't have to do shit for you, no matter how > ridiculously easy it would be for me, so why should I? Now do more for me." > It's parasitic consumption and it undermines the mutualism on which we thrive. It seems there is a misunderstanding of what I was trying to express. It does not bother me that an upstream dev asks the maintainer to add some warnings about the early state of an application and the need of proper bug reports. And I'm fine with giving warnings about that. What I do not understand is him asking for the removal of a package. If he put a public svn he should accept that code is checked out from it. Anyway I do agree with the benefit of understanding and collaboration between open source communities.

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[aur-general] Package deletion
by Dan Vrátil 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Hi, please remove k3b-svn [1], since the project was moved to the git repo. I already uploaded k3b-git package [2]. Thanks! [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19034 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44665 -- -- Dan Vrátil vratil(a)progdansoft.com Tel: +4202 732 326 870 Jabber: progdan(a)jabber.cz Tento email neobsahuje žádné viry, protože odesílatel nepoužívá Windows. / This email does not contain any viruses because the sender does not use Windows.

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[aur-general] Request delete of samba4-openchange
by Ng Oon-Ee 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41471 Reason: a duplicate of samba4 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40043 Background: Previous maintainer created samba4-openchange because openchange relies on a specific version of samba4 but samba4 advanced beyond that version. This is no longer the case, and in addition there doesn't seem to be much use of samba4 currently except for openchange (this is also the case in Debian/Fedora).

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[aur-general] Packages looking for maintainer
by Sébastien Duquette 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

Hi, I'm currently the maintainer of 34 packages (mostly security related) and I would like to transfer them to someone else since I don't use Arch Linux anymore as my main distribution. However I would prefer not to leave the packages unmaintained, so please email me (include my email address as I'm not subscribed to this list) if you are interesting in adopting some of the packages. Here is the package list (maintainer name: ekse) blitzen cowpatty dissy dnsmap graudit halberd hwreport jumpnbump keimpx lft libdasm libdisasm libnetdude libpcapnav likepython (this one is silly :) ) memfetch netdude php-xhprof proxyfuzz psh ratproxy ruby-anemone ruby-nokogiri ruby-robots ruby-sqlite3-ruby sagan-rules sagan-svn sinatra smem tclx tcpreplay verbiste verbiste-gnome Thanks, Sébastien

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[aur-general] TU Application
by Jelle van der Waa 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

Hello all. I would like apply to become a TU! Daenyth has decided to sponsor me for my TU application I'm 21 years old and a Bachelor student Computer Science. I have experience with C++, C, x86 ASM, Java, Python, PHP, SQL and javascript. I use archlinux on daily basis as a server and as desktop on my laptop. Since a year I am a maintainer at the Arch-Games project[0], since then i learned how to deal with makepkg, libpng/libjpeg patches, rebuilding packages for boost/python. Also learning how to work and setup clean chroots for 32 and 64 bit and how to improve PKGBUILDs and use tools like git/svn/namcap. I have had much fun and hard work working on updating packages for arch-games, Daenyth really helped me a lot and #archlinux and #archlinux-offtopic guys too ;) Also I must admit i have learned a lot from Ioni. I would like to become a Trusted User, so I can help packaging for community since something there are a lot of orphan packages so I will be always prepared to update/improve those packages. I would love to see improvements like more splitting of packages which has been done with packages like compiz. Also creating more any packages would be better for our mirrors. Since we didn't have much space for packages, I have had to split much data packages to "any". My current packaging interests are haskell, LaTeX, cli apps, virtualization. In the future i am looking into improving tools such as namcap. Feel free ask any questions here or on irc. [0] https://github.com/Arch-Games/arch-games P.S. Allan made me apply :P -- Jelle van der Waa

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[aur-general] delete package
by Joao Cordeiro 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

qutim-plugin-floaties-latest[1] was a dupe of qutim-plugin-floaties[2] (that was out of date). I asked [2] to orphan and [1] to adopt and update. You can now delete [1]. Thanks in advance, João Cordeiro [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38225 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27273

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[aur-general] Discussion about removing ibus-table-wubi from [community]
by Thomas Dziedzic 19 Dec '10

19 Dec '10

I would like to move ibus-table-wubi [1][2] from community because it hasn't been updated since 27/12/2009 and it has been marked as deprecated upstream when you go to download it. I was just wanting feedback before I remove it. [1] - http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/ibus-table-wubi/ [2] - http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/ibus-table-wubi/

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Seblu 19 Dec '10

19 Dec '10

Delete package : oracle 11gR1-1 (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23730&O=&L=&C=&K=&SB=&SO=&PP=&do_…) Because, it's orphan, it's out-of-date, source link is broken (==cannot be built). Regards, -- Sébastien Luttringer www.seblu.net

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[aur-general] Please remove qsampler-cvs (updated to qsampler-svn today)
by Bernardo Barros 19 Dec '10

19 Dec '10

Please remove qsampler-cvs from AUR, since I'm updated it to qsampler-svn. Thanks!

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[aur-general] Orphan Request
by speps 19 Dec '10

19 Dec '10

Hi, i've sent an e-mail to osc (farid) on 10/12/05 (two weeks ago) and i've got no response (also on identi.ca), maybe he's too busy. Please orphan: vmpk ==> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20321 supercollider ==> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14863 minicomputer ==> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15304 pdfshuffler ==> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25657 cmyktool ==> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33923 pyphat ==> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15521 Thanks

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[aur-general] Deletion Request
by Mark Moeller 19 Dec '10

19 Dec '10

Could you please delete nautilus-dropbox-icons? https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34884 It has been replaced with the newer version of the Tango icons in dropbox-tango-emblems. Thanks -- Registered Linux User # 424781 Registered Linux Computer # 364703 Smarter, Faster, Better... Arch Linux

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[aur-general] Deletion request for kernel26zen-git
by Marcel Korpel 18 Dec '10

18 Dec '10

Hi, As kernel26zen-git [1] has been replaced by zen-kernel [2] the former should be deleted (there's only a dummy PKGBUILD left). The only other thing that should be done is changing the dependency of nvidia-beta-zen [3] and tiacx-zen-svn [4] (though both packages are old/out of date). Thanks in advance. Regards, Marcel [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13900 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44068 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13904 [4] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14491

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[aur-general] Delete package: shiboken
by Matthias Männich 18 Dec '10

18 Dec '10

Hi, please delete shiboken[1] from AUR. It has been replaced by libshiboken[2] and shibokengenerator[3]. Best regards, Matthias [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35905 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40917 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40916

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[aur-general] Deletion request for thewidgetfactory
by cantabile 18 Dec '10

18 Dec '10

Hi, I uploaded thewidgetfactory [1] not knowing that there was a package for that already [2]. Please delete [1] :) I'll adopt [2] instead. Thank you. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44464 [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2745 -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River

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[aur-general] Removal request for cl-opengl-darcs
by Taras Shpot 18 Dec '10

18 Dec '10

Hello. cl-opengl-darcs has been replaced by cl-opengl-git as development has been moved to github. If it's appropriate in this case, please remove cl-opengl-darcs. Thank you.

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[aur-general] Deletion request for uswsusp-cvs and maybe uswsusp too
by cantabile 18 Dec '10

18 Dec '10

Hi, uswsusp-cvs [1] doesn't build, says: suspend.c:12:2: erreur: #error "See README; this CVS does not contain current code" The readme says: "Warning: this CVS no longer contains latest version of suspend tools. Latest version is maintained in git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-utils.git" The project page [2] concurs. I have uploaded uswsusp-git [3]. The latest official release (version 0.8) will soon be three years old - do we want to keep it [4] ? Looking at the commit log [5], the latest git version is much nicer. Then there are these two: fbsplash-uswsusp [6] and uswsusp-fbsplash [7]. They both provide uswsusp 0.8 with --enable-fbsplash, the differences come from the patches they apply. Both pkgbuilds could use an update ($startdir, unnecessary makedeps, || return 1 ...) [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20886 [2] http://suspend.sourceforge.net/download.shtml [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44473 [4] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14093 [5] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-utils.git;a=shortl… [6] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32300 [7] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16233 -- cantabile

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[aur-general] luafilesystem
by Andreas Baumann 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Hi, Can somebody delete 'luafilesystem' in AUR? I did something really stupid: luafilesystem exists already in community. I accidently made a package in AUR, now I have there one with 26 votes. :-) Another interesting question is: why can I publish AUR packages with the same name as an official package? I personally would check that automatically when submitting to AUR. Greetings and thanks in advance Andreas -- Andreas Baumann Trottenstrasse 20 CH-8037 Zuerich Telefon: +41(0)76/373 01 29 E-mail: abaumann(a)yahoo.com Homepage: www.andreasbaumann.cc

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[aur-general] Removal request: soundkonverter-kde4
by A Rojas 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32499 since the package in community has been upgraded to the kde4 version

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-notifications] Community Sourceballs 16-12-2010
by Brad Fanella 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Andrea Scarpino <andrea(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On Thursday 16 December 2010 10:51:32 Eric Bélanger wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Andrea Scarpino <andrea(a)archlinux.org> > wrote: >> > On Thursday 16 December 2010 08:34:19 repomaint(a)archlinux.org wrote: >> >> ==> Failed to create source packages for [community]... >> >> -> arch-artwork-0.2.1-3.src.tar.gz >> >> -> cherrytree-0.17-1.src.tar.gz >> >> -> driconf-0.9.1-5.src.tar.gz >> >> -> flobopuyo-0.20-5.src.tar.gz >> >> -> gnunet-0.8.1b-1.src.tar.gz >> >> -> gnunet-gtk-0.8.1-1.src.tar.gz >> >> -> java-jdom-1.1.1-1.src.tar.gz >> >> -> madman-0.94beta1.20060611-1.src.tar.gz >> >> -> obextool-0.35-2.src.tar.gz >> >> -> python-geotypes-0.7.0-4.src.tar.gz >> >> -> xcursor-bluecurve-0.1.1-2.src.tar.gz >> > >> > Pierre, can we see log? Because these are working for me. >> >> I posted a bug for the sourceball script on the internal section of >> bug tracker. At least, it affects flobopuyo and madman. The rest of >> them might be affected to. > Therefore those are affected, because I already checked all them and these are > working for me. I unflagged those that are not working from the todo list: > please TUs fix your packages! > Cheers > >> BTW, the source url of scrpac is broken (missing /other/ directory). >> I'll fix it tonoght if it's still broken by then. > Ops...fixed. > > CC'ing aur-general since all these packages are in [community]. > > -- > Andrea Scarpino > Arch Linux Developer > Fixed cherrytree (incorrect md5sum) Regards, Brad

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-notifications] Community Sourceballs 16-12-2010
by Andrea Scarpino 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

On Thursday 16 December 2010 10:51:32 Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Andrea Scarpino <andrea(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > On Thursday 16 December 2010 08:34:19 repomaint(a)archlinux.org wrote: > >> ==> Failed to create source packages for [community]... > >> -> arch-artwork-0.2.1-3.src.tar.gz > >> -> cherrytree-0.17-1.src.tar.gz > >> -> driconf-0.9.1-5.src.tar.gz > >> -> flobopuyo-0.20-5.src.tar.gz > >> -> gnunet-0.8.1b-1.src.tar.gz > >> -> gnunet-gtk-0.8.1-1.src.tar.gz > >> -> java-jdom-1.1.1-1.src.tar.gz > >> -> madman-0.94beta1.20060611-1.src.tar.gz > >> -> obextool-0.35-2.src.tar.gz > >> -> python-geotypes-0.7.0-4.src.tar.gz > >> -> xcursor-bluecurve-0.1.1-2.src.tar.gz > > > > Pierre, can we see log? Because these are working for me. > > I posted a bug for the sourceball script on the internal section of > bug tracker. At least, it affects flobopuyo and madman. The rest of > them might be affected to. Therefore those are affected, because I already checked all them and these are working for me. I unflagged those that are not working from the todo list: please TUs fix your packages! Cheers > BTW, the source url of scrpac is broken (missing /other/ directory). > I'll fix it tonoght if it's still broken by then. Ops...fixed. CC'ing aur-general since all these packages are in [community]. -- Andrea Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[aur-general] Package Deletion - gtk2.18
by Eduardo Martins Lopes 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Hello guys, I would like to ask for the deletion of this package http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36204 It was required by another program but it's useless right now. I would also ask for deletion of another two, but i cant exactly tell if they are still used or not by someone else because they got a few votes awhile ago. Thanks in advance, -- Eduardo Martins Lopes Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry Federal University of São Carlos

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[aur-general] voting period for removing Ranguvar
by Ionuț Bîru 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Hi, application is here: https://aur.archlinux.org/tu.php?id=43 Ranguvar is not allowed to vote, therefor i temporally disabled his TU access. -- Ionuț

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[aur-general] python2-simpleparse replaces python-simpleparse / balazar removal
by Martti Kühne 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

python-simpleparse [1] is not supporting python 3.x atm. I just uploaded a package with correct naming. balazar [2] depends on python 2.x, the project is abandoned and the app segfaults just after the main menu, so the package can be scratched IMO. Guess my request was ignored last week after I mentioned it on irc... ;-P [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11339 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20842 cheers mar77i

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[aur-general] Delete pamusb package
by Phillip Smith 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

Can someone please delete the "pamusb" package. It is a duplicate of "pam_usb"... I obviously didn't see pam_usb before creating pamusb. Thx, ~p

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[aur-general] Moving calibre and unetbootin to [community]
by Giovanni Scafora 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Hi guys, I'd like to move calibre [1] and unetbootin [2] to [community] repo. As you see, respectively they have 435 and 1401 votes. What do you think about? Opinions? [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20406 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21989 -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

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[aur-general] Delete request for thunderbird-spell-pl
by Krzysztof Grygiencz 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Hi, I wasn't aware that thunderbird allows using global myspell dictionaries and uploaded deleted package "thunderbird-spell-pl", which is now obsolete, because there is hunspell-pl in AUR. Regards Krzysztof Grygiencz ---------------------------------------------- Księgowa radzi: Jak załozyć firmę w 15 minut? http://linkint.pl/f2842

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[aur-general] orphan ri-li
by Marc Cousin 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Hi, Could you orphan ri-li ? It's not maintained for 2 years, and can't be built. I've re-made the patch and package, and can upload it.

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[aur-general] Some packages moved from extra/community to aur
by Michael Trunner 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Hi, we use Archlinux on our university. The following packages where in extra/community the last time we reinstalled our student pool and now in AUR: * tcsh * autofs * python-numarray Is it possible to move it back to community? At least autofs? What must/can I do for that? Tschö Michael

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[aur-general] voting period for Dave Reisner
by Ionuț Bîru 12 Dec '10

12 Dec '10

Hi, the 5 days discussion period have ended. http://aur.archlinux.org/tu.php?id=42 -- Ionuț

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[aur-general] New dev with write access to [community]
by Rémy Oudompheng 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Dear TUs, Like Gaëtan and Stéphane, I am a (French-speaking) junior Developer, and I was given recently access to the [community] repos. I have no plan to add packages to [community] for the moment, I am currently concentrating on checking whether Haskell-based packages are compatible with the next version of GHC (particularly xmonad). You can expect GHC7 to be in [testing] in January and [extra] in February, depending on the Haskell Platform schedule. -- Rémy.

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Re: [aur-general] Tarball Guidelines
by Nicky726 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Hi all, been told by the bot, that selinux-flex has a binary (selinux-flex/flex- arch.patch.gz), which is a gziped patch. Guess I can ungzip it, though as this package is just a copy of a [core] package from some time ago, I guess the original maintainers new, what they were doing, if they included it this way. So should I do it to not include evil gziped patches? Thanx, 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] Deletion request
by Alessio Sergi 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Hi TUs, please delete rekonq+i18n-git [1] because locales are already provided by rekonq-git [2] package. Thanks in advance [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37865 <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37865>[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22846 <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22846> -- Alessio Sergi

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[aur-general] remove kernel26-slk and nvidia-slk
by Ike Devolder 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

For some reasons i replaced kernel26-slk with kernel26-bede why ?: the original naming is because it is inspired by the slackware config, but now its just some settings which are different from the stock arch kernel which make my linux experience nicer than with the default. so could kernel26-slk and nvidia-slk be replaced by: kernel26-bede and nvidia-bede thx kernel26-slk: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36738 nvidia-slk: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36769

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[aur-general] Augeas request
by Thomas S Hatch 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

I have an odd request with regards to an aur package - augeas: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18533 I have been working toward porting an extremely powerful virtualization application to ArchLinux - Libguestfs: http://libguestfs.org/ The libguestfs package will also enable a number of other virtualization packages to be packaged for Archlinux. The port of Libguestfs has required a number of changes to the upstream project and I have had to submit a fair amount of code to make it possible, and the upstream developers have been more than helpful in this effort. The problem I am facing now is one that I do not yet have the power to repair, as I am not yet a TU and I doubt I have enough clout yet to apply. You see, the build process needs to create a tiny virtual machine image, (the image is quite remarkable, a vm image for Arch in less than 50K) but the process to create the image requires that all packages for the image be available as binary downloads from a main Arch repo, aka core, extra and community. This brings me to my request, the augeas package. Augeas and a number of other packages which are only available in the AUR are required by this image, including hfsutils and zfs-fuse. While hfsutils and zfs-fuse are "nice to have" in the libguestfs image, and can be safely omitted, augeas is a hard requirement. So, since I can not do this myself yet I will request that a TU take up this small responsibility and maintain augeas in community so I can finish the port of libguestfs to Arch. Once I am a TU I will be more than take it off your hands! I have spent the last 3 months working tirelessly in my effort to bring better kvm/libvirt support to Arch, I am the author of varch: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42428 and I have more software in the wings to bring better virtualization support to Arch that requires libguestfs, please help me out! Thanks Thomas S Hatch - thatch45

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[aur-general] delete kernel26-slk && nvidia-slk
by Ike Devolder 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36738 (kernel26-slk) i will no longer support it, and you can delete it because there are definatly enough kernels available thru aur with it nvidia-slk can be deleted too https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36769 (nvidia-slk) if you should doubt, i maintain these packages (BlackEagle) thx

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[aur-general] rxvt-unicode-256color has been deleted
by Thomas Dziedzic 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

rxvt-unicode in extra has 256 color support built with it which made the deleted package redundant.

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[aur-general] delete package
by Joao Cordeiro 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

gst-python [1] is dupe of gstreamer0.10-python in extra. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3062

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[aur-general] Removal request : atheros-wired-1005-ha
by CalimeroTeknik 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Hello ! My package atheros-wired-1005-ha isn't needed anymore since kernel 2.6.31 (module merged), I think it can reasonably be dropped by now. Thanks :)

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[aur-general] delete packages
by Joao Cordeiro 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

libreoffice-bin [1] - dupe of package in extra. pyclutter-svn [2] is deprecated since pyclutter now uses git (and there is a git package in aur). Also, pyclutter [3] and python-clutter [4] are dupes. First has better naming but the second was submitted first so I don't know which one should be deleted - up to you. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41812 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18485 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34322 [4] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14044

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[aur-general] TU application - Kyle Keen
by keenerd 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Hello all. I am applying to become a TU. My sponsor is Xyne. My name is Kyle Keen, though my handle for irc/bbs/the-last-12-years has been Keenerd. I've been using Arch for a while now, from back when it was still known for refusing to package info files. Before that I did a wee bit of dev work for Puppy Linux. I actually got a bash gui app (yay xdialog) into the ISO but please don't look up the code, it was my first bash script and is rather terrifying. Lately I am a 24 year old freelance electrical engineer and spend my days writing C, my nights writing Python and during the twilight hours some Bash. Right now I host the bugbot in #archlinux-bugs and I've got a few AUR packages(1). Of them, ScrotWM and Slurm probably deserve to be in [community]. I've written several well-liked metatools for Arch including Pacgraph, Pacmatic, and Aurphan. Aurphan is the main reason for trying to apply. Pierre requested a feature to cross check official packages as well as the AUR(2). I was a little shocked to find 35 official orphans on my system. Clearly, we are understaffed. Arch has been nothing short of amazing and I want to do what I can to help keep it going. Other goals include improving the maintenance tools and porting Arch to old or cheap architectures. I also mirrored the AUR for a while and have a nearly complete copy of the old comments from before the Great Table Drop that should be re-inserted. Thanks for your consideration, Kyle http://kmkeen.com 1) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=keenerd&SO=d&SB=v 2) https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=108693

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[aur-general] delete packages (mostly svn and cvs)
by Joao Cordeiro 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

Some time ago I noticed that (obviously) there are several *-svn aur packages that no longer make sense because they were changed to git upstream. After a little thinking I came up with a list of all *-svn and *-cvs packages and made a script to check if said packages have a corresponding -git package. I believe the initial list was around the 100 packages, but then some were there due to some bugs in my script. From the final list I have been checking one by one if they should or not be deleted. It's harder than I thought, so I only managed to take care of 20-25 by now. I'll post other ones later. 1) flashrom-dev [1.1] and flashrom-svn-new [1.2] are both dupes of flashrom-svn [1.3]. 2) foobnix-svn [2.1] was replaced by foobnix-git [2.2] Homepage points to git only and svn results in out of date files. 3) fluxus-cvs [3.1] was replaced by fluxus-git [3.2] 4) django-mptt-svn [4.1] (already orphaned and flagged) was replaced by django-mptt-git [4.2] 5) dfu-util-svn [5.1] was replaced by dfu-util-git [5.2] as stated in [5.3] 6) conduit-svn [6.1] replaced by conduit-git [6.2] 7) brasero-svn [7.1] replaced by brasero-git [7.2] 8) Isn't banshee-latest-stable [8.1] a dupe of banshee [8.2] in extra? 9) banshee-svn [9.1] replaced by banshee-git [9.2] as you can see in [9.3] and [9.4]. 10) glade-svn [10.1] replaced by glade-git [10.2]. Check [10.3] and [10.4]. 11) gigolo-svn [11.1] replaced by gigolo-git [11.2] 12) gtkpod-svn [12.1] replaced by gtkpod-git [12.2]. 13) gpodder-svn [13.1] replaced by gpodder-git [13.2] 14) panache-translations-svn [14.1], panache-llibs-svn [14.2] and panache-lbase-svn [14.3] were replaced by [14.4], [14.5] and [14.6]. [1.1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30391 [1.2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36865 [1.3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23390 [2.1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40181 [2.2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44053 [3.1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22717 [3.2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30150 [4.1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26103 [4.2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42146 [5.1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21123 [5.2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43643 [5.3] https://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/src/host/dfu-util/DEPRECATED_REPOSITORY_PLEA… [6.1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36381 [6.2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41156 [7.1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10566 [7.2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26026 [8.1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41565 [8.2] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/banshee/ [9.1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8223 [9.2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26048 [9.3] http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/banshee?view=revision&revision=5209 [9.4] http://git.gnome.org/browse/banshee/log/ [10.1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23365 [10.2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38049 [10.3] http://svn.gnome.org/svn/glade3/trunk/ChangeLog [10.4] http://git.gnome.org/browse/glade3/tree/ChangeLog [11.1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23840 [11.2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40811 [12.1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13299 [12.2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32545 [13.1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13409 [13.2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18877 [14.1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30556 [14.2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30555 [14.3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30554 [14.4] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34504 [14.5] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34503 [14.6] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34502

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[aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure
by Loui Chang 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

This proposal clarifies the Standard Voting Procedure, and allows another condition for passing a motion. Signed-off-by: Loui Chang <louipc.ist(a)gmail.com> --- TUbylaws.html | 13 ++++++++----- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/TUbylaws.html b/TUbylaws.html index 2c4b854..a3fa84d 100644 --- a/TUbylaws.html +++ b/TUbylaws.html @@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ </head><body> <h1>Trusted User Bylaws</h1> - <div class="date">May 21, 2008</div> - <div class="version">1.1</div> + <div class="date">2010-12-05</div> + <div class="version">1.2</div> <address> Trusted Users @@ -79,9 +79,12 @@ <br><br> At the expiration of the voting period, if a quorum was reached, votes are to be tallied. - A simple majority is needed to pass or reject the motion. In the event of a draw, being - that 50% is not a majority, the motion does not pass. In the event that a quorum was not - reached, a duplicate voting period opens immediately after the first ends, all previous votes are + The motion is passed if quorum is reached and the number of YES votes is greater than the number of NO votes. + The motion is also passed if quorum is not reached but the number of YES votes exceeds fifty percent of the number of active Trusted Users. + The motion is rejected if quorum is reached and the number of NO votes is greater or equal to the number of YES votes. + + In the event that a quorum was not reached and the motion is not passed, + a duplicate voting period opens immediately after the first ends, all previous votes are struck from the record, and the voting period is repeated. If quorum cannot be reached for two consecutive voting periods, the motion fails to pass.<br><br> -- 1.7.3.2

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[aur-general] Orphan AUR package.
by Claudio Kozický 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

Hello. Please orphan AUR package "gmpc-mdcover". The maintainer "cpu" doesn't reply to messages and doesn't update the package. User "cpu" doesn't seem to maintain any of his packages. Thank you. Claudio Kozicky.

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[aur-general] deletion request: seamonkey-nightly
by Skyalmian Alcyone 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

(I'm guessing the first one didn't get through.) "seamonkey-nightly" package is succeeded by the nightly branch builds seamonkey-nightly-unstable (2.1b2pre branch) and seamonkey-nightly-stable (2.0.12pre branch). The former has the latest code base and is bleeding edge (trunk) while the latter is nevertheless a nightly build, but not bleeding edge. (I was confused at first about this...) ~

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[aur-general] grub2-bzr deletion request
by KESHAV P.R. 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

Hi anyone, I request the deletion of grub2-bzr http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37287 . The maintainer seems inactive and has not responded to comments. The grub2 build system has changed (in bzr repo, after 1.98) and new dependencies (autogen etc.) are needed. I have uploaded grub2-bios-bzr http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41055 to replace it. The pkgname for the new package is intentional as I also maintain grub2-efi-bzr http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40290 . Thanks in advance. Keshav

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[aur-general] deletion request: squeak
by solsTiCe d'Hiver 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

hi. As I have already requested one can delete squeak package (it has been replaced by squeak-vm and its brother squeak-image). The only package depending on it DrGeo has switched dependancy to squeak-vm. So it's safe now to delete it. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3705 I don't know if it's possible to migrate the vote number. or if it's even desirable ?

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Philipp 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

I didn't know perl supplied a large number of packages when I packaged a Perl-Program, so I packaged those I couldn't find in the official repos or AUR. The following are supplied by the Perl package: perl-file-copy-link https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38801 perl-graph https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38802 perl-io https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14631 perl-text https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38803

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[aur-general] Tarball Guidelines
by keenerd 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

Officially, the tarballs uploaded to the AUR should be named after their package, contain a directory named after their package, contain no dot files and most importantly contain no binaries. Officially, these requirements are very important. Here are a bunch of non-conforming packages. Maybe 90% of them. (A few errors slip though my scanner.) Of the +700 packages with binaries, most are a simple desktop icon. Should these be base64 encoded if someone can't find hosting? If no one can think of a better way to deal with the nonconforming packages, I'll write a bot to post insulting comments. Personally, I really like this solution. The AUR has always had a wild west frontier / insane asylum feel to it. The less regulation, the better it works. But a few well placed suggestions could help make the two thousand maintainers do a better job. -Kyle http://kmkeen.com

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[aur-general] Amendment
by Kaiting Chen 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

I move for the amendment of the bylaws. The patch against the current document is attached. Basically the amendment proposes that once an absolute majority is reached the voting period is to end immediately regardless of whether or not quorum was reached. The purpose of this amendment is to minimize parliamentary inefficiency by allowing votes with clearly decided outcomes to be resolved before the end of the established voting period. --Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/

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[aur-general] deletion request: dbus-systemd
by Dave Reisner 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

Good morning, dbus-systemd is now superfluous with the necessary compile flags being added to testing/dbus-core. Please delete dbus-systemd at your convenience: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40399 thanks, dave

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[aur-general] openttd package removal
by Joao Cordeiro 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

openttd [1] is in community too. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9391 Thanks in advance Joao Cordeiro

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[aur-general] removal of balazar
by Martti Kühne 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

balazar[1] can be removed. the project is abandoned and segfaults here. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11692

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[aur-general] Remember the rules for adding packages to [community]
by Allan McRae 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

So... I just noticed a package was added to [community] that I am certain did not pass any of the criteria required for being added. When I looked in the AUR for that package less than a week ago as a potential replacement for an old and unmaintained package in [core], it was not even in the AUR... and I can find no evidence for it every being added to the AUR in the time since. So it did not have 10 votes, it definitely would not have 1% pkgstats usage. So this is a reminder to everyone that there are rules about adding packages to [community] for a reason. With the complaints about running low on disk space being made lately, it seems we should remember to not put unused packages into [community] to prevent the remaining space being wasted... Allan

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[aur-general] Please delete vncviewer-enterprise 4.5.4-1
by Tom Wizetek 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44168 Thank you. -- TW / MajorTom

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[aur-general] Fix the Bylaws?
by Kaiting Chen 05 Dec '10

05 Dec '10

Apparently there are some people who think the bylaws are broken. On another readthrough it seems to me that the entire document could be streamlined substantially, and definitions could be made more explicit (especially in the matter of activity versus inactivity). In addition it is my personal opinion that the whole idea of the quorum should be reworked. According to Robert's Rules of Order, "should approximate the largest number that can be depended on to attend any meeting except in very bad weather or other extremely unfavorable conditions.". In the case of an internet presence where inclement weather is not an issue it seems to me that all active Trusted Users should be required to participate in a vote; if an active Trusted User does not vote then this should be taken as a sign of unwarranted and undeclared inactivity. Also I believe that it would be nice to include a clause indicating that the requisite numbers of votes for a vote have been achieved the vote should be allowed to end prematurely. For example if there are thirty Trusted Users and twenty of them vote for the addition of a Trusted User by the second day of the voting procedure then it should not be necessary to extend the vote to the full seven days because no amount of nay's can effect a negative outcome. In this case the five day delay that would result from a strict adherence to the current bylaws is wasteful inefficiency. In fact it is my desire that the bylaws resemble as closely as possible an already established system for such proceedings such as Robert's Rules of Order. --Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/

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[aur-general] removal proposal for Ranguvar
by Ionuț Bîru 05 Dec '10

05 Dec '10

Hi, Ranguvar has been added in our team no more than last year. Conform bylaws a motion should be sent and two active TUs and a voting procedure should follow after 7 days of discussion. Here are my reasons: 1) i noticed in January he doesn't have an account on our devel panel, i asked him to send all the infos to get one and he replied that he doesn't need one because none of his packages are suitable for community. Replying to his email i encourage to get one and adopt some packages from community. At that time we have ~700 orphans and i haven't got any replies from him. 2) no commits in community since the addition. 3) he's not marked as inactive and conform bylaws this proposal doesn't have sense. Quoting: "There is one special case for removal, removal due to unwarranted and undeclared inactivity, for which standard voting procedure deviates from the above." I'm waiting to see your replies and then act based on them. -- Ionuț

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[aur-general] Understanding the Trusted User Bylaws
by Loui Chang 05 Dec '10

05 Dec '10

http://aur.archlinux.org/trusted-user/TUbylaws.html I've noticed that there have been a few cases relatively recently where people don't really understand the bylaws. I'd like to encourage all Trusted Users to read over the bylaws periodically to make sure that they fully understand the procedures. Questions and clarifications are welcome on this list. If something is hard to understand, the bylaws can be revised and amended. If you don't agree with a certain procedure that may also be amended. Thanks for your consideration.

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[aur-general] deletion request: squeak, squeak-basicimage, squeak-fullimage
by solsTiCe d'Hiver 05 Dec '10

05 Dec '10

hi. squeak-basicimage and squeak-fullimage refer to old image of squeak image file. also the package do not build anymore because the sources are not there. squeak.org does not provide basic or full but just images for now. So would it makes sense to remove them ? I have transformed squeak package into squeak-vm (renamed it). So squeak package could be removed also. I have emailed drgeo maintainer of the changes to not break dependancy there if you delete squeak package as expected. I would like squeak users, if there is ones over here, to test squeak-vm and squeak-image, because I am not a squeak user. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3705 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3707 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3706

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[aur-general] arduino cleanup
by PyroPeter 05 Dec '10

05 Dec '10

Hello AUR users! I borrowed an arduino recently and found the *arduino*-part of the AUR to be very messy. Here are my findings: ## arduino64-updated [1] Outdated for ages, the copy of a copy of the arduino-PKGBUILD. Can be deleted. ## arduino64 [2] and arduino [3] The difference is difficult to find, the descriptions do not help in any way. arduino depends on avrdude, while arduino64 includes an outdated, but patched avrdude from the Arduino-project. I wrote an architecture-independent PKGBUILD that could replace arduino and an adapted one that includes the patched avrdude. It could replace arduino64. I am not sure about the naming of the two new packages, but I think it would make sense to call the package with included avrdude "arduino", because the Arduino SDK includes avrdude by default. The other one could be called "arduino_unpatched". (I am using an underscore here to distinguish it from the "mainname-modulename" notation used by arduino-onewire (which is an add-on for arduino) tl,dr: arduino64 can be deleted, I would like arduino to be orphaned. ## arduino-pyro [4] I uploaded my new PKGBUILD for the arduino-without-avrdude package under this name to get feedback. It can be deleted. Regards, PyroPeter [1] arduino64-updated https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32041 [2] arduino64 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24053 [3] arduino https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8388 [4] arduino-pyro https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43902 -- freenode/pyropeter "12:50 - Ich drücke Return."

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[aur-general] moving packages to community
by Ike Devolder 05 Dec '10

05 Dec '10

Thx guys for letting me know you would move some packages from AUR to community thats really stimulating to contribute something if you dont know what i'm talking about - libssh2 ( i picked it up after bash dropped it in AUR) - podofo (cant remember how i picked it up) It would just be a little polite , just to let someone know the move will be done cant be that hard to send a mail ;)

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Re: [aur-general] removal proposal for Ranguvar
by Linux Lover 05 Dec '10

05 Dec '10

2010/12/4 <aur-general-request(a)archlinux.org> > > > Message: 8 > Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 17:07:54 -0500 > From: Loui Chang <louipc.ist(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [aur-general] removal proposal for Ranguvar > To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" > <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: <20101204220754.GC32145(a)celine.lan> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > On Sat 04 Dec 2010 23:59 +0200, Ionu? B?ru wrote: > > On 12/04/2010 11:53 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: > > >On 5 December 2010 05:46, Loui Chang<louipc.ist(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > >>On Sat 04 Dec 2010 22:19 +0200, Ionu? B?ru wrote: > > >>>On 12/03/2010 12:06 AM, Ionu? B?ru wrote: > > >>>> > > >>>>I'm waiting to see your replies and then act based on them. > > >>>> > > >>> > > >>>i don't see this being discuss any further and all messages have been > only > > >>>in one direction. > > >>> > > >>>i modified his account on aur to normal user. Ranguvar, i'm sorry for > this > > >>>and when you'll have time again you should consider applying again. > > >>> > > >>>Loui can you disable his account on sigurd? > > >>>Andrea can you remove his privileges from bugtracker and forum? > > >> > > >>You still need to create a voting proposal. > > >>Why doesn't anyone read the damned bylaws? > > > > > >I myself thought there would be voting, but I just realised Ionut > > >inferred that we needn't vote from the following: > > > > > >"for which standard voting procedure deviates from the above." > > > > > > > above being the voting procedure and from my understanding what is the > > opposite of having a voting? NO voting. > > > > > > we had this situation in the past and we didn't had any voting procedure. > we > > just removed it and we continued our business. > > > > with or without the vote, the result would be the same. And to be fair, > we > > are investing too much time in the removal, even more that he invested in > > community. > > Then don't waste any time on it. Leave it alone. > But if you do want to remove a Trusted User you MUST follow the bylaws. > Three days discussion and Five days of voting for removal due to > inactivity. Read the bloody bylaws. > > We cannot be at liberty to remove people without proper procedure. > Forgive me for speaking out of term here, but wouldn't it just be easier to amend the bylaws to get away of that ambiguity? Two people reading it, two different conclusions, sounds like a lawyer could make big money out of this ;-).

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[aur-general] removal proposal for Ranguvar take 2
by Ionuț Bîru 05 Dec '10

05 Dec '10

hi, because of my lack of understanding of bylaws and failing to comply with them on my first proposal, i like to take the chance and redo the proposal, following letter by letter the removing procedure. Conform bylaws a motion procedure should be sent on aur-general with reasons. Here are my reasons: 1) i noticed in January he doesn't have an account on our devel panel, i asked him to send all the infos to get one and he replied that he doesn't need one because none of his packages are suitable for community. Replying to his email i encourage to get one and adopt some packages from community. At that time we have ~700 orphans and i haven't got any replies from him. 2) no commits in community since the addition. 3) he's not marked as inactive and conform bylaws this deviates from the "above", above being, 5 days discussion period + 7 voting. Because of that i'm starting a 3 days discussion period and 5 days voting. Please discuss the motion(really discuss and not like in previous,couples of hours and the next days arguing about bylaws) Ranguvar can defend himself. -- Ionuț

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[aur-general] DELREQ for several gtk2/gnome/glib perl packages
by Justin Davis 05 Dec '10

05 Dec '10

I sent a delete request awhile ago but I haven't heard a response. In case it didn't send properly here it is again. These perl packages are already provided in the [extra] repository and due to naming confusion were uploaded to the AUR. I adopted these as the aurperl user when they were orphans. I noticed them last week when updating one. Here are the links, package names, and corresponding [extra] package. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25815 perl-gnome2 [gnome-perl] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25816 perl-gnome2-canvas [gnomecanvas-perl] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25817 perl-gnome2-vfs [gnome-vfs-perl] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25818 perl-gnome2-gconf [gconf-perl] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25813 perl-gtk2 [gtk2-perl] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25822 perl-gtk2-gladexml [glade-perl] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25814 perl-pango [pango-perl] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25812 perl-glib [glib-perl] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25810 perl-cairo [cairo-perl] Please delete these packages since they are duplicates. Thanks! -- -Justin

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[aur-general] Quorum?
by Kaiting Chen 05 Dec '10

05 Dec '10

I just noticed that a number of votes for the addition of a Trusted User in the past (including my own) did not ever reach the requisite sixty-six percent quorum. I really have no idea what to do about this. --Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/

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[aur-general] deletion request: geogebra_dl
by solsTiCe d'Hiver 04 Dec '10

04 Dec '10

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23281 seems to be an old version of geogebra. it is orphaned. latest package is geogebra (3.2.45.0) or even geogebra-beta. so this one, geogebra_dl stucked at 3.0.0 could be deleted.

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[aur-general] deletion request: arista-bzr
by solsTiCe d'Hiver 04 Dec '10

04 Dec '10

hi. >From what I understand arista is on a git server. so arista-bzr is outdated. and could be removed. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25876 There is currently an arista-devel package but it should be better renamed arista-git. what's the way to go ? arista-devel is acceptable as a name even though it comes from a git ?

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[aur-general] Remove request
by jesse jaara 04 Dec '10

04 Dec '10

Please remove: openoffice.org-voikko http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29139 A new pkg called voikko-openoffice was created to that the name would be similar to voikko-libreoffice suomi-malaga http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29138 A new pkg called suomi-malaga-voikko was created because it is possible to build several different versions of suomi-malaga from the source one for voikko spell checker and a version for sukija. Sukija isn't in aur yet but I will make a pkgbuild for it soon. So the version it will use will be suomi-malaga-sukija. Depencys of other pkgs have been taken care of and wikipage if one exist will be updated shortly or if one doesn't exist I might create one. -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.)

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[aur-general] Orphan request
by jesse jaara 04 Dec '10

04 Dec '10

Following packages have been out-of-date for a some time now suomi-malaga libvoikko enchant-voikko mozvoikko openoffice.org-voikko http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29725 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9525 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30563 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29139 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29138 I have posted a up-to-date PKGBUILDs for some of them too and maled the maintainer a week ago but didn't get a reply. -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.)

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[aur-general] Moving subtle to [community]
by Ángel Velásquez 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Hi, I'd like to move subtle [1] to [community], as you see have 48 votes atm (including mine) and I think in [community] many people will give it a try. Opinions? [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13016 -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com

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[aur-general] Removal request
by jesse jaara 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Please remove libtuxcap-cvs http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27469 as it is replaced whit libtuxcap-git -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.)

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[aur-general] TU application - Kyle Keen
by keenerd 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Xyne wrote: > What? You were his original choice for sponsor? I feel so used and cheap. > > How many more were there, Kyle? Tell me! There was only you. Always only you. Ionut was a giddy bit of foolishness, brought on when Falconindy convinced me to apply. I know not why I sought such a ménage à trois, but cooler heads did prevail and Ionut gracefully turned down my feckless advance. I never forgot your suggestions on the BBS, nor our lofty plans for the AUR, nor the long nights testing pkgbuild2json. I've missed working with you on such grand projects and hoped with my most secret of hearts that this Application would be the first step towards rekindling those old adventures. If you wish to spurn me now, I will accept that lonely fate. But please - let your motive be driven by your dreams for the future and not by petty jealousies of the past. Assiduously yours, Kyle

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[aur-general] [Orphan Request] [pytyle2-hg]
by Andrew Gallant 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Hello, Could pytyle2-hg be orphaned? It can be found here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42541 The current maintainer used a "10 Minute Mail" address, so he cannot be reached. (I'm the developer of pytyle--I'll take over the package, as it is currently broken.) Thanks! - Andrew

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[aur-general] New Orphans
by Qadri 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Hello all, I've been realizing lately that I have less and less time to spend on updating my Arch machine, having had a couple 1 or 2 gig updates involving hundreds of packages. So I just checked, and at least one of my packages in the AUR had been marked out-of-date and apparently I completely glossed over it. I'm no longer using any of the packages I was maintaining, so I'm emailing in case anyone wants to grab them before they fall into complete disrepair. MAQ. Packages: julius voxforge-am-julius sphinx4beta opengazer vxl-svn psad

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[aur-general] TU Application: Dave Reisner
by Dave Reisner 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Greetings! Please consider this my application to become a Trusted User. My name is Dave Reisner, and I'm 27 years old, currently residing in the New York City area. Ionut Biru has graciously offered to sponsor this application. I'm a self-taught programmer, computer enthusiast, an occasional IT consultant, and I enjoy brutal sarcasm & dry wit. During the daytime, I star as a QA website tester, writing automated test scripts with the Selenium framework. At night, I prefer Bash & C, but I also dabble in Go, Java, Ruby, and Python. Although I've only been using Arch for a little over a year now, I've become very much appreciative and endeared to its simplistic style and offer of freedom in administration. I quickly settled into a CLI setup featuring DWM, mutt, ncmpcpp, tmux, etc and filled in any missing gaps with Bash and C programs of my own design. In particular, I wrote cower and burp, which interface with the AUR to do clean and fast downloading and uploading (respectively) from the AUR. Please feel free to visit my Github repositories [1]. I also consider myself to have been an active contributor to the Arch community. I advocate the testing repo (which I use on all the boxes I maintain), I diligently file and follow up with bug reports, providing patches or other solutions whenever possible, and I've made a few (though somewhat minor) code contributions to pacman. Over the course of the past year, I've picked up a number of packages in the AUR [2]. While many of these aren't very popular, I would like to make an effort to bring Systemd into community to make it more accessible. I believe that while it does not necessarily fall directly in line with the "true spirit" of Arch, it's an excellent project and there are many people interested in its offerings within the Arch community. I've been following its development since a month after Lennart made his initial announcement, and I have been the major provider of Systemd packages on the AUR. In addition, I've spoken with Daniel Griffiths and I offered to relieve him of some of his packaging duties (given his hectic schedule), and we agreed on: asciidoc, html2text, and rsnapshot. Eventually, as I become more comfortable with the role, I would like to take on more packages to help insure that our repos stay fresh and full of useful software. Since the recent cleanup. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Thanks for taking the time to consider my application. Dave. [1] http://github.com/falconindy [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=falconindy

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[aur-general] Fwd: [arch-dev-public] Help on maintaining LXDE packages wanted
by Ionuț Bîru 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

maybe this was missed. Does any TU wants to maintain this? LXDE needs a maintainer to fit together all the pieces and currently is in bad shape. I don't want to push fixes that i can't test and i don't want to touch them anymore. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [arch-dev-public] Help on maintaining LXDE packages wanted Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:11:29 +0200 From: Jürgen Hötzel <juergen(a)hoetzel.info> Reply-To: Public mailing list for Arch Linux development <arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org> To: arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org Hi, anyone wants help out on this topic? I personally don't use LXDE anymore. Jürgen

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[aur-general] orphan request
by Philipp 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

fim - Highly customizable and scriptable framebuffer image viewer based on fbi. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15407 It seems to be out-of-date since 2009 and the PKGBUILD is lacking to say the least. I can't promise to fix/maintain it, but the current maintainer doesn't seem to maintain it. There are comments from March that seem to have gone unnoticed.

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[aur-general] Delete request
by Renato Garcia 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Hi, There are a package python3-docs < https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23989> in AUR. It is duplicated from python-docs on communit. Regards, Renato Garcia

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[aur-general] Delete packages: libmp3splt, mp3splt and mp3splt-gtk
by Denis A. Altoé Falqueto 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Gentlemen, Please, delete these packages. I uploaded them thinking they didn't exist in our repositories, but the search I made was wrong. I searched with 'mp3split' but the packages are mp3splt, without that i, so I ended up creating the packages and uploading. Just noticed after the fact. Sorry for the trouble. -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto Linux user #524555 -------------------------------------------

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[aur-general] orphan request
by jib 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Please orphan humanity-icons http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30460 There is a bug in the PKGBUILD, and the maintainer hasn't replied comments and emails in more than two weeks. Thanks in advance.

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[aur-general] Please delete picard-qt
by Kevin Vesga 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

This package is simply an old version of Picard (in community) and is not special: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10232 If you think it should not be deleted at least change its name to picard09 or something. Picard is natively a Qt application so the name picard-qt makes no sense.

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[aur-general] Delete request
by Wanton 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

bin32-zsnes http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19167 Already in multilib. rocksndiamonds-fedora https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22418 Outdated, replaced by community/rocksndiamonds. dune2 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33037 Broken link, and this is non-free game. mahjongforunix http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22225 Already in extra with name mahjong. Regards, Wanton.

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[aur-general] RM a bunch of duplicate perl packages
by Justin Davis 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

I adopted a bunch of orphaned perl packages awhile ago (as the aurperl user) and I noticed that there are some perl module packages that already exist in [extra]. The problem was that the packages in AUR use the more predictable perl package naming scheme while the [extra] packages use a custom naming scheme (i.e. gtk2-perl, gnome-perl, etc). Please delete these packages: [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25815] perl-gnome2 [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25816] perl-gnome2-canvas [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25819] perl-gnome2-panelapplet [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25817] perl-gnome2-vfs [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25818] perl-gnome2-gconf [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25813] perl-gtk2 [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25822] perl-gtk2-gladexml [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25814] perl-pango [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25812] perl-glib [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25810] perl-cairo Thanks -- -Justin

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[aur-general] Acroread packages.
by Peter Lewis 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Hi folks, Does anyone know of a reason why the bin32- acroread packages can't be deleted? The standard acroread packages support both arches now. (Just thought I'd check I wasn't missing anything before getting trigger happy...) Cheers, Pete.

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[aur-general] delete package
by Joao Cordeiro 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

gnome-globalmenu-svn [1] Now using git [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21152

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[aur-general] Delete request
by 翁学天 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Please delete following package: fcitx-config: renamed to fcitx-configtool by upstream fcitx-config-git: upstream nolonger use git but hg fcitx-dbus-svn: upstream nolonger use svn but hg fcitx-sunpinyin-git: upstream nolonger use git but hg fcitx-svn: upstream nolonger use svn but hg fcitx-trunk-svn: upstream nolonger use svn but hg fcitx-utf8-svn: upstream nolonger use svn but hg Thanks :)

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[aur-general] delete request
by Gonzalo Seguel 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

please delete this package gtkhtml-editor: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42648 the content of this package now is part of gtkhtml package, and not be useful anymore thanks

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[aur-general] crafty and xfce4-volstatus-icon up for adoptions
by Allan McRae 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

Hi, I no longer wish to maintain these packages in [community] so they are up for adoption. I will move them to the AUR in one week if no TU lets me know that they want to maintain them. crafty: A chess engine. The latest release gives heaps of compiler issues and my chess skills do not warrant playing against this so my motivation to fix is minimal... xfce4-valstatus-icon: Needs its source located. The link on its project page is dead and a _very_ brief search did not turn up anything. Allan

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[aur-general] RTL?
by Netanel Shine 28 Nov '10

28 Nov '10

Hey all, When we gonna see RTL in the AUR? the hebrew language cant be useful in the current status.

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[aur-general] Disown lib32-libdrm-git
by jesse jaara 28 Nov '10

28 Nov '10

Could you disown the lib32-libdrm-git package as it havent been updatet since march I have sent a updated pkgbuld a couple weeks ago and mailed abou it a week ago but havent got anykind of a reply. -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.)

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[aur-general] orphan request
by Xavier D. 27 Nov '10

27 Nov '10

Hello, Please orphan gmpc-libnotify (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14266) as the maintainer doesn't respond and doesn't update its package (for a long time now). Thanks in advance. BRs,

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[aur-general] Please delete peazip-portable-beta-gtk2
by Kevin Vesga 27 Nov '10

27 Nov '10

The maintainer (tuxspirit) has different packages meant to replace this and he/she supposedly already asked to have it deleted. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26243

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[aur-general] Removal request: pips-common
by CalimeroTeknik 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

Le 25/11/2010 08:30, aur-general-request(a)archlinux.org a écrit : > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:34 AM, CalimeroTeknik <calimeroteknik(a)free.fr> wrote: >> > The package pips-common was replaced by all the epson-inkjet* packages >> > and consequently can be removed. > Done. > > Should pips-common-32 be deleted as well? Yes, I verified that, it should be dropped as well. It's not useful anymore, it was designed for cups 1.3. Thank you !

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[aur-general] delete package
by Joao Cordeiro 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

fftw2double http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6936 Same as fftw2 at community. Thanks

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Re: [aur-general] MPD maintainer wanted + some apps
by Andrea Scarpino 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

Left: On 26 November 2010 02:12, Andrea Scarpino <andrea(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > * icecast > * kmldonkey > * kmplayer * konq-plugins > * krusader > * povray * sonata CC'ing aur ML -- Andrea Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[aur-general] kdemod* packages
by Andrea Scarpino 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

AFAIK, they have a separate distro and a separate AUR (CCR[1]). Shouldn't these[2] packages be removed from AUR? [1] http://chakra-project.org/ccr/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=kdemod&do_Search=Go&detail=1&C… -- Andrea Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[aur-general] My pacKages free for adoption
by Andrea Scarpino 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

Hi TUs, only let you know that these packages in [community] are now orphans: * audex * kaudiocreator * kgraphviewer * kim4 * knemo * kphotoalbum * kpovmodeler * krecipes * krename * kuickshow * skrooge * tagpy * tellico * yaz Thanks -- Andrea Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] SDL and friends maintainer wanted
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

On 25.11.2010 15:47, Allan McRae wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking to stop maintaining SDL and related packages. These were > some of the first packages I adopted when joining the dev team and I > now really focus on other areas. Saying that, I do not think I have > had to touch one of these packages in ages, so it will be a low > maintenance burden for whoever takes it on (at least until SDL-1.4 is > finally released). The packages to be taken are: > > SDL: > sdl > sdl_gfx > sdl_image > sdl_mixer > sdl_net > sdl_pango > sdl_perl > sdl_sound > sdl_ttf > smpeg > > Related libraries/dependencies: > freealut > freeglut > ftgl > libmikmod > openal > speex > > Games for testing: > apricots > frozen-bubble > > > If no current developer wants to take these on, I can look at the > active people in the Arch Games project for recruitment (some are TUs > I think...). > > Allan > I'd take them, though I'm only a lowly TU, unable to maintain packages in [extra]! Oh, the shame! So, drop thy devine packages to [community] or else! -- Sven-Hendrik

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[aur-general] Deletion Requests
by notizblock 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

Hi, i quickly looked at a lot of firefox related packages and i believe that a lot of them can be deleted. all of these are outdated and orphaned: [1] bin32-swiftweasel-athlon64 3.0.1-4 [2] firefox-china 2009.1-3 [3] firefox-china-addons 2009.1-4 [4] firefox-complete-pl 3.6.3-2 [5] firefox-i18n-beta 3.5b4-1 [6] firefox-i18n-uk 3.0.4-1 [7] firefox-imglikeopera 0.6.17-1 [8] firefox-optimized 3.0.11-1 [9] firefox-spell-en_us 3.0.3-1 [10] firefox-spell-es_ar 3.0.10-1 [11] firefox-spell-es_cl 3.0.3-1 [12] firefox-spell-es_es 3.0.10-1 [13] firefox-spell-fr_fr 3.0.3-1 [14] firefox-testing 3.6b5-1 [15] firefox-testing-src 3.6.3plugin1-1 [16] firefox2 2.0.0.16-1 [17] firefox2-spell-es_ar 2.0.0.16-1 [18] firefox2-spell-es_es 2.0.0.16-1 [19] icecat-zemberek 3.0.1g1-2 [20] swiftweasel-amd-pgo-de 3.5.1-1 [21] swiftweasel-amd-pgo-it-lns 3.5.3-3 [22] swiftweasel-amd64-k10-pgo 3.5.6-1 [23] swiftweasel-amd64-pgo 3.5.6-1 [24] swiftweasel-athlon64 3.5.6-1 [25] swiftweasel-athlon64-de 3.0-1 [26] swiftweasel-intel-pgo 3.5.6-1 [27] swiftweasel-intel-pgo-it-lns 3.5.3-5 [28] swiftweasel-intel64-pgo 3.5.6-1 [29] swiftweasel-nocona 2.0.0.15-1 [30] swiftweasel-nocona-es 3.0.1-1 [31] swiftweasel-prescott 2.0.0.15-1 [32] swiftweasel3-prescott 3.0RC2-1 out of date, but still have a maintainer: [33] firefox-qt-beta 3.5b4-1 [34] firefox-qt 3.6.3-2 (the comments say, that it can be deleted) [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18818 [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24912 [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24958 [4] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31785 [5] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24630 [6] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11442 [7] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26238 [8] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18090 [9] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21117 [10] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16509 [11] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20904 [12] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16510 [13] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21116 [14] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32162 [15] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32484 [16] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18992 [17] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18970 [18] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18969 [19] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19004 [20] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28130 [21] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30101 [22] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32203 [23] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26187 [24] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12325 [25] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18405 [26] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20754 [27] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30109 [28] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20878 [29] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16075 [30] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20759 [31] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12311 [32] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15695 [33] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26962 [34] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22050 regards, -- bbs: nblock aur: notizblock

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[aur-general] delete requests
by Joao Cordeiro 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

gnome-mount-lite [1] gnome-disk-utility replaces it mpich [2] and mpich2 [3] are the same. First one is outdated but probably has better naming. 1 should be deleted OR adopted by 2 maintainer (so that 2 can be removed) xautoclick-latest [4] should be removed because it is a dupe of xautoclick [5] (that was orphaned). I asked its maintainer to adopt the original package and update it. It was not updated yet. bargraph [6] I may be wrong but I believe this simply disappeared from the face of the internet. It has no packages dependents on it and may as well be deleted from aur too. programmers-dvorak [7] same as programmer-dvorak-console-map [8] but outdated and orphaned. Thanks in advance [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36041 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=1502 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=1503 [4] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39030 [5] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32264 [6] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7700 [7] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11203 [8] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42222

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Adam Hani Schakaki 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

Hi, plese remove bug-buddy-gtk3 [1] since it is not needed anymore. Thanks Adam Hani Schakaki [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42690

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[aur-general] Package deletion
by jib 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

Please delete package ttf-ubuntu-family-fonts http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41204 It is the same as package ttf-ubuntu-font-family (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41465) except it has the wrong version number (1.1 when source package is 0.69) It has been orphaned by the maintainer. Thanks

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[aur-general] Deletion Request: Gnaural duplicates
by SpepS 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

Hi, gnaural-bbgen ==> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19995 is a duplicate of gnaural ==> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43882 Also gnaural/gnaural2 is an old naming convention since gnaural2 on http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnaural/files/ is located in the gnaural_old stuff. (latest gnaural2 version is 0.1.20080229b9) So gnaural2 ==> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15317 could be deleted too. Thanks

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[aur-general] Deletion Request
by notizblock 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

hi, out of date, orphaned: firefox-beta 3.6.4build6-1: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22244 bin32-swiftweasel-athlon64 3.0.1-4: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28070 bin32-firefox-es_ar 3.6.8-1: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31328 out of date, but still have a maintainer: thunderbird-branded-bin-sve 3.0-1: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33657 bin32-firefox-sv 3.5.7-1: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33655 regards, -- bbs: nblock aur: notizblock

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[aur-general] Removal request: pips-common
by CalimeroTeknik 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Hello ! The package pips-common was replaced by all the epson-inkjet* packages and consequently can be removed. It doesn't compile anymore, anyway. Thanks !

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[aur-general] About BURG packages
by H.Gökhan SARI 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Hello, There is a variety of burg-* packages on AUR: burg-bzr burg-bzr-fixed burg-emu-fixed burg-themes burg-themes-extras burg-themes-fixed the packages with *-fixed postfix are the working ones (There is a thread going on https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=100130) And the other packages (the packages other than burg-themes-extras, I didn't test it) are orphaned or not working -BTW, most of them aren't updated for a while-. I suggest removing burg-bzr, burg-themes and renaming fixed packages as deleted ones. And also, I'll test burg-themes-extras and let you know if it works. Thanks, -- H.Gökhan SARI hsa2(a)difuzyon.net

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[aur-general] cran2arch
by Oleg Smirnov 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Hi community, I have written a tool converting R CRAN packages into Arch package format. Idea and use case was heavly borrowed from cabal2arch. Source code: https://github.com/master/cran2arch AUR package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43790 Few converted packages: https://github.com/master/rabs Suggestions & patches are welcome. -- Regards, Oleg Smirnov

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[aur-general] Deletion Request
by notizblock 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

out of date, project moved to git, replacement exists: beaver-cvs: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31985 regards, -- bbs: nblock aur: notizblock

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[aur-general] [deletion request] udev-systemd
by Dave Reisner 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Please delete. Systemd support is now in testing/udev. thanks, dave

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[aur-general] Deletion Request
by notizblock 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

out of date, orphaned, already in [community] -python-impressive: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35026 regards -- bbs: nblock aur: notizblock

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[aur-general] Please Remove: perl-task-weaken
by Justin Davis 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

Please delete the perl-task-weaken package [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41562] I was in a hurry and didn't notice it was in the community repo. Thanks, -- -Justin

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[aur-general] TUs: low disk space on sigurd
by Pierre Schmitz 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

Hi TUs, just to let you know, that sigurd's hard drive is filled up to 82%. You should look for things to be cleaned up and please be more responsible with resources. Some packages are really large. Don't forget that a single package will need up to 4 times its size: two architectures, one source package and downloadable sources in the source cache dir. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[aur-general] Fixing packages with broken sources
by Pierre Schmitz 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

Hello Devs and TUs, as you might know some licenses require providing the sources somehow. While fixing the sourceballs script which implements this I discovered quit a lot of broken PKGBUILDs. We really need to fix those asap as this also breaks ABS and makes rebuilds a real pain (and impossible to automate in future). I have setup a todo list which can be found at http://www.archlinux.org/todo/48/ (there are also links to the raw logs if you like to see why makepkg failed) Here is how to fix it: * If you just missed uploading a source file to svn there is no need to repackage; just add that file and run archrelease $repo-$arch And: use devtools in futuer which prevent such errors * If the checksum is wrong: Have a look why this happened! This might be a serious problem. You need to rebuild and rerelase the package with a new pkgrel of course. * Upstream source has moved. If the checksum is still the same, just update the source url and use archrelease. No need to repackage. * Upstream source is gone. If there is a new version, update to that. If that happens regulary or there is no releiable upstream source you should upload the source to ftp.archlinux.org/other/$pkgname. If the source file is quite big, let me know; so I can blacklist it as there is no need to mirror it twice. Also, let me know if there are any false positives. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[aur-general] oh-my-zsh PKGBUILD
by Tony 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

Hi, I made a PKGBUILD from Robby Russell's oh-my-zsh <https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh> framework which helps manage your zsh configuration. There are over 40 themes with a handful of functions and auto-complete helpers available. It installs fine here, but in case you find something that should be modified, please provide some constructive input so I can submit this PKGBUILD to AUR. PKGBUILD: http://archlinux.pastebin.com/B3fyYkrp install file: http://archlinux.pastebin.com/1HpZXGwF Thanks, -- Tony

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[aur-general] Please resolve tap-plugins and tap-plugins-cvs
by Ng Oon-Ee 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Hi, I just adopted tap-plugins[1], updated and cleaned it up. tap-plugins-cvs[2] should IN MY OPINION be deleted, it does not serve any purpose above tap-plugins (the description talks about bsb but the package does not actually provide it). The problem is that louderbox[3] depends on tap-plugins-cvs. How to resolve? Ideally I'd think [3] should depend on [1] and [2] deleted. I am cc-ing maintainer of [3] here. [1]http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8361 [2]http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20098 [3]http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33604

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[aur-general] Please delete python-migrate
by Roberto Alsina 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

I am renaming it python2-migrate to match python2-slalchemy

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[aur-general] Orphan request
by Frikilinux 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Hi, Could you orphan this package : regnum-online http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30621 The maintainer doesn't update, dont reply comments and i send an email two week ago without reply. Thanks.

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[aur-general] orphan request
by jib 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Could you please orphan the following package: humanity-icons (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30460) The maintainer doesn't correct a faulty PKGBUILD; comments have been posted, an email has been sent without a reply. Thanks

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[aur-general] How to manually add or remove packages from the repos
by Pierre Schmitz 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Hi Devs and TUs. in same rare cases it is needed to manually add or remove packages from our repositories regardless what is in SVN. ATM theses cases are due to e.g. svn crashing and leaving us with an inconsitent state or when some split packages have been removed from a new version of the pkgbuild. However, using repo-add or repo-remove on the dbfiles is a bad idea as they don't lock the db files and don't set the correct permissions. In short, just don't even think about doing that. :-) I have added some simple wrapper which are /arch/db-repo-add and /arch/db-repo-remove. Usage is: * db-repo-add <pkgfile> <repo> <arch> * db-repo-remove <pkgname> <repo> <arch> with pkgname being a single package name (not pkgbase) and pkgfile the full path to a single package. arch is one of i686, x86_64 or any. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Alessio Sergi 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Hi TUs, please remove pidgin-perl [1] because pidgin in [extra] is now built with perl support enabled by default [2]. Thanks in advance [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25500 [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21749 -- Alessio Sergi

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[aur-general] Package removal request
by H.Gökhan SARI 21 Nov '10

21 Nov '10

Hello, Can you please remove package 'pidgin-monocrome-tray-icons'. It's the package pidgin-monochrome-tray-icons with a typo :) -- H.Gökhan SARI hsa2(a)difuzyon.net

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[aur-general] Disown b43-tools-git.
by Konstantinos Karantias 21 Nov '10

21 Nov '10

b43-tools-git has various problems right now, and it hasn't been updated for almost a year, can someone disown it? -- Blog: http://www.gtklocker.com/

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[aur-general] Move pigeonhole to [community]?
by Peter Lewis 21 Nov '10

21 Nov '10

Hi fellow TUs, Are there any objections if I move pigeonhole (dovecot sieve plugin) from the AUR to [community]? It's got 9 votes at the moment, but there's a potential problem in that if pigeonhole isn't built against the installed version of dovecot, mail delivery breaks. So, the idea would be to keep dovecot in [community] and depend on the current version of dovecot *only*. This way people can't update their system in such a way as to break mail delivery. This make sense to you? Cheers, Pete.

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Seblu 20 Nov '10

20 Nov '10

Can you remove rpm4 package, it's orphan, outdated and the package rpm-org is the same with a maintener. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24605 -- Sébastien Luttringer www.seblu.net

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[aur-general] DELETION REQUEST: g95-stable
by Eduardo Martins Lopes 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Hello all, I would like to request the deletion of the g95-stable package ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31466 ) for the author of the program has been not releasing non-stable packages for quite some time. Thanks in advance -- Eduardo Martins Lopes Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry Federal University of São Carlos

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[aur-general] deletion request
by Seblu 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

package: dnstracer Reson: Is in community link: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3229 -- Sébastien Luttringer www.seblu.net

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[aur-general] Deletion Request (thunar-volman-git-udev)
by Skyalmian Alcyone 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

"...anyway this package is not necessary anymore since the code is merged into thunar volman standard git repository..." - Berseker, August 06, 2010 The maintainer, killermoehre, dropped it on July 31, 2010 and this package is superseded by thunar-volman-git.

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Seblu 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Can you delete my last uploaded paclage kernel-rc. Name should be kernel26-rc. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43699 Regards, -- Sébastien Luttringer www.seblu.net

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[aur-general] deletion request
by Xavier Corredor Llano 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

hi, please delete this package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43683 hdf-eos5 contain it, therefore not necessary thanks -- Xavier Corredor Llano Bogotá - Colombia

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[aur-general] AUR helpers in [community]?
by Kaiting Chen 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Can AUR helpers go into [community]? `burp` and `cower` each have over ten votes and qualify, but I never see AUR helpers in binary form so I thought I would ask. --Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/

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[aur-general] Package sabnzbd-svn can be removed from AUR
by Jordy van Wolferen 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hey all, Package sabnzbd-svn can be removed from AUR, as sabnzbd is now using bzr. Regards, jordz

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[aur-general] need advice on package naming
by Hervé Cauwelier 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hi, I packaged python-libgit2 but the upstream is dead. And a new Python binding was started by the same team than libgit2 itself. It's named pygit2. So I wonder whether I keep the same package but point to the new repository (and thus follow the Python naming convention) or I keep the upstream name for people to find it (and follow packages like pygobject). Is it more important to prefix Python packages with "python-" or to respect the upstream name. In the former, I'll write down "pygit2" in the package description. In the latter, I'll ask for my old package to be deleted. Thanks for your advice. -- Hervé Cauwelier

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[aur-general] Package splitting
by Gwenn Gueguen 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hi all, I'm planning to package pf_ring for archlinux. pf_ring has several components: - Common kernel module - Several kernel drivers for some network cards - Userland lib and includes - Some pf_ring capable softwares (tcpdump, libpcap, snort...) I'm wondering how to split this into several packages... Does the following look OK? - pfring-module-svn for kernel module - pfring-driver-xxx-svn for kernel drivers (one per card driver: e1000e igb tg3 ...) - pfring-svn for userland (lib and includes) - snort-pfring-svn, tcpdump-pfring-svn... for pf_ring capable softwares (with conflicts=snort, conflicts=tcpdump...) Thanks, -- Gwenn

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[aur-general] delete packages
by Joao Cordeiro 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

I think all of these packages should be deleted: iolang (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42613) dupe of iolanguage vimspell (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=465) upstream itself advises to stop using it since vim7 has a better native spellchecker mkvtoolnix-patched (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41906) "A permanent official solution has been included in the new v4.4 upstream release. So this package no longer has any reason to exist." floola (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16267) OR bin32-floola ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18717) both provide the same (outdated) bin package. One of them should be deleted (second one is the dupe but has better naming...) searchsploit-svn (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38759) gone (?)

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[aur-general] Does anyone maintain ImgToPs?
by Leonid Isaev 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hi, I am going to maintain imgtops (http://imgtops.sourceforge.net/) which is a graphic format conversion tool, useful to make large *.{eps,jpg,...} files intended for inclusion into LaTeX fit the http://arXiv.org standards. I don't think it exists anywhere in Arch, but just to be safe: Does anyone already maintain it, perhaps under a different name? Thanks.

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[aur-general] zint qt optional dep
by Joao Cordeiro 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

I just adopted and updated zint. Zint checks for qt and installs both zint and zint-qt if it is found. Otherwise, it just installs zint. I don't believe this to be the optimal approach. Even if I have qt installed, it doesn't necessarily means that I want zint-qt. Despite that fact, I don't want to package zint with its original name, installing less stuff than the developer does and more importantly, removing features to users that installed previous versions of the package through AUR. My first idea was to create zint-noqt, implicitly leaving zint-qt behind. Is this the best way for me to solve this? Removing qt from the main package seems intrusive to me. Thanks in advance, Joao Cordeiro

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[aur-general] [community] repository cleanup
by Andrea Scarpino 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hi TUs, we are here again. After the success with [extra] (DEVs adopted ~80 packages, TUs ~60), I want to reduce the number of orphans packages in [community]. Actually, they are 84 (82, I just adopted two...). The list is here[1]. Simply cross out the package which you want to maintain in [community]. Adoption is not required, but would be nice. Packages will be moved to AUR this Saturday 20th. Thanks [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Community_Repo_Cleanup -- Andrea Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[aur-general] Various new packages in [community]
by Gaetan Bisson 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Dear TUs, I'm Gaetan, a (discreet) junior dev, mentored by Allan. I recently got access to sigurd and thought I would use that opportunity to maintain in [community] a few packages I have been maintaining on the AUR so far, but which are just a bit too unpopular to go to [extra]: pari (fast advanced calculator) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19196 dnstracer (DNS diagnosis tool) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3229 collectd (performance collecting daemon) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2341 They have over thirty votes each. Is it okay by everyone? Cheers. -- Gaetan

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Masato Hashimoto 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hi, Please remove libreoffice-langpack-ja[1] due to the libreoffice-ja is provided on extra. And I think many of libreoffice l10n packages on AUR are unnecessary anymore. Thanks [1]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42140 -- HASHIMOTO, Masato

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[aur-general] AUR Improvement Thread
by Kaiting Chen 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

How can we make the AUR even better? I'll start: 1. Integrated distributed version control system 2. User provided binaries (if case anyone wants to volunteer) (this should probably be carefully controlled) 3. Time-adjusted 'relevance' measure (votes are useful but suck at the same time; nobody cares if a packages was upvoted 9000+ times a million years ago, especially if it's already been obsoleted by something else) 4. An official client 5. LDAP support because LDAP makes everything so much better --Kaiting -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/

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[aur-general] Please delete qtile dups
by Ng Oon-Ee 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

qtile-new-git http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40921 bavardage-qtile-git http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23760 The first, package maintainer admitted he wrongly uploaded it, he currently maintains qtile-git The second, I have no idea where its from, but its circa 2009, references the same project webpage but a different source. Its uploaded by 'bavardage', who also owns that github branch... but no activity since early 2009

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Alessio Sergi 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Hi TUs, please remove plasma-ihatethecashew-plasmoid [1]. It's replaced by ihatethecashew-plasmoid [2] now. Thanks in advance [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20648 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43677 -- Alessio Sergi

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[aur-general] What to do about raggle?
by Kaiting Chen 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

I'm maintaining raggle in [unsupported] and it seems to be broken despite my attempts to patch it as best I can. The project has been abandoned upstream since 2005, and I don't think ruby-ncurses which it depends on really even works. I would delete it except that it has 75 votes. What to do? Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/

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[aur-general] delete packages
by Joao Cordeiro 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

starcal-new (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32486) starcal-last (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35941) The user was creating a new package every time a new version came out. Since the original starcal was orphaned I updated it and fixed the problem with python (that all the three had.) I think these two should be deleted, even though starcal-new is not orphaned. nppangband-newest (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34119) Duplicate of nppangband from extra. rainlendar-beta (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16491) rainlendar-light is now on version 2.7, rainlendar-beta-unstable is on 2.8.b98. The two of them completely replace it. liferea-dev (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23759) Completely outdated. liferea, liferea-git and liferea-unstable are all up to date, replacing -dev.

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[aur-general] removal
by jwbirdsong 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Please remove webilder http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3708. WAYYYY out-dated and replace by webilder-applet http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16807. I _may_ re-upload under original name when/if I get webilder-applet package working 100%

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[aur-general] Who wants a cloak on IRC?
by Jan Steffens 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

2010/11/11 Ángel Velásquez <angvp(a)archlinux.org>: > > +1 cloaks I need one too and some new TUs are needing cloaks too :-) > Okay, I'm making a list for Aaron of TUs or devs who want a cloak. I need the IRC nicks. Please answer to this mail or Jabber (jan.steffens(a)gmail.com)

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[aur-general] delete package
by Joao Cordeiro 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37737 Maintainer asked for it. Also, theres this package to replace it: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26910 Thanks in advance Joao Cordeiro

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[aur-general] why the latex-beamer package?
by Rémy Oudompheng 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Hello, A latex-beamer package seems to have entered [community] recently. Is that an error ? The beamer package for LaTeX is already included in texlive-core, and moreover this package seems to depend on tetex (!) and installs files in the middle of the texlive tree. Regards, Rémy.

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[aur-general] Delete Request
by Ivo Senner 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Well, please remove qutim-otr-git (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43571) I've replaced it by qutim-plugin-otr-git (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43633) to keep the naming convention used by other qutim plugins rather then just use the git-name ;) Cheers,

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[aur-general] Delete request
by Dan Vrátil 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Please remove akonadi-svn [1]. It is replaced by akonadi-git [2] now. Thanks [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16891 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43632 -- -- Dan Vrátil vratil(a)progdansoft.com Tel: +4202 732 326 870 Jabber: progdan(a)jabber.cz Tento email neobsahuje žádné viry, protože odesílatel nepoužívá Windows. / This email does not contain any viruses because the sender does not use Windows.

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra] repository cleanup
by Andrea Scarpino 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

On Saturday 13 November 2010 14:46:30 Andrea Scarpino wrote: > Nice, today we have 291 orphans packages in [extra] (they were 352 three > days ago). 62 will be moved to [community]. 127 to AUR. > > I didn't expect this success. I can start moving them today if you agree. > > Full lists: > > <COMMUNITY> > abuse > agg > alltray > antiword > arch > bomberclone > cdcd > cddb_get > centerim > chntpw > devil > dia > distcc > dmenu > dopewars > elinks > enigma > epdfview > fftw2 > gdk-pixbuf > gocr > httptunnel > libnids > librep > libvisual-projectm > mailman > motion > ngrep > ntop > nvclock > patchutils > prboom > prelink > privoxy > projectm > pyogg > python-cheetah > python-eyed3 > python-sqlobject > pyvorbis > qgit > quilt > rep-gtk > sawfish > silly > slmodem > slmodem-utils > spidermonkey > squashfs-tools > tor > twinkle > unarj > wmii > words > wput > xboard > xdialog > xemacs > xemacs-base > xemacs-sumo > xosd > xskat > </COMMUNITY> > > <AUR> > 3ddesktop > acct > acidrip > afterstep > autofs > biogrep > biopython > blassic > bonnie++ > bootchart > came > ccrtp > ccscript3 > cdlabelgen > cdtool > colortail > commoncpp2 > corewars > cpudyn > cpufreqd > crimson > cssed > culmus > dbh > ding > dvdbackup > eboard > ed2k-gtk-gui > evms > flite > galculator > gcal > gcombust > gdeskcal > gdesklets > gift > gift-fasttrack > gift-gnutella > gift-openft > gimp-fourier > glabels > gmencoder > gnomeicu > gpart > graveman > gtick > gtk1-engines > gtkam > gtklp > gtk-smooth-engine > gtkterm > gtk-theme-switch > gxine > hexcurse > hping > httrack > hugs98 > icmake > imwheel > ipvsadm > irda-utils > jed > joe > jpilot > lesstifextensions > libexif-gtk > libixp > libmal > libmusepack > libnjb > libsexymm > libzrtpcpp > lincity > linuxdcpp > luola > moon-buggy > moon-lander > mp3blaster > mrxvt > ne > netselect > pal > pan > parprouted > pebrot > pinball > planner > pure-ftpd > python-vpython > qof > qstat > rbldnsd > revelation > rockdodger > root-tail > rpmunpack > screem > seed > smtpprox > spamassassin-spamc > swatch > sylpheed > synergy > tcdr > tcptraceroute > tcsh > thttpd > tin > tpb > transset > ttf-isabella > ubuntulooks > uml_utilities > vacation > vconfig > viewglob > webalizer > wmix > x2vnc > xbl > xdrawchem > xfsdump > xpyb > xqf > xtermcontrol > xzgv > yodl > </AUR> Everything moved except mailman which I want to keep in [extra] and ding which Stefan wants to maintain in [community]. TUs please adopt your packages and thanks! -- Andrea Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[aur-general] Delete request
by Wanton 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

wesnoth-unstable (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30580) Obsolete and duplicate wesnoth-devel (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9600) -- Regards, Wanton

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[aur-general] Please Remove: perl-catalyst-plugin-cache-memcached
by Justin Davis 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Please remove the perl-catalyst-plugin-cache-memcached package because it has been deprecated upstream. AUR link: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25759 CPAN page shows it is deprecated: http://search.cpan.org/~bobtfish/Catalyst-Plugin-Cache-Memcached-0.8/lib/Ca… Thanks! -- -Justin

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Seblu 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

conntrack package is "out-of-date", orphans and replaced by conntrack-tools http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=5960 Regards, -- Sébastien Luttringer www.seblu.net

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[aur-general] deletion request
by masutu Subric 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Hi, can you please delete python3-pyephem ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32966) The python3 package is now named python-pyephem, i created another package for python2 called python2-pyephem. masutu

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Ian-Xue Li 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

These scripts was wrote by me and is no longer used, http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29166 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29689 please delete them. -- Li Ian-Xue http://b4283.ath.cx

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[aur-general] packages to remove
by Joao Cordeiro 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

- brainworkshop-source (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37536) "Comment by: prurigro on Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:53:22 +0000 This package is no longer required and will no longer be maintained, as the brainworkshop package @ http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25593 now provides the same thing." - get-flash-videos-svn (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28695) get-flash-videos now uses git - basket2-git (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24550) "Comment by: mtorromeo on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:40:28 +0000 basket-git has a cleaner PKGBUILD and the package name is also more appropriate. this one should be removed IMHO" Thanks in advance

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[aur-general] deletion request
by masutu Subric 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

Hi, can you please delete these packages: ns_broadway 2006-1 (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6350) ns_kit7free 2006-1 (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6354) ns_minikit 2006-1 (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6351) ns_piano 2006-1 (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6352) These soundfonts/sample packs do not exist any more (at least not for free). Thanks, masutu

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[aur-general] Remove pks
by jesse jaara 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

These packages can be removed lib32-ati-dri-git lib32-libgl-git -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.)

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[aur-general] Orphan request
by Clément Démoulins 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

Hi, Could you orphan the packages : - python-yenc [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7743] - tvnamer-git [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36535] The maintainers doesn't update after the migration to python 3. I post comments and i send an email 1 week ago without reply. Thanks Clément Démoulins

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[aur-general] Fwd: Lib32 and Bin32 pkgs
by jesse jaara 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

I think we should start a campaign for converting the lib32 and bit32 pkgs to new multilib compliant format. So instead if downloading the 32bit version from the i686 repos build the package from source whit -m32 and gcc-multilib. -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.) -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.)

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[aur-general] graphviz perl module package
by Antonio Lucas 13 Nov '10

13 Nov '10

Hi, I did this PKGBUILD for graphviz, and I think it is OK. But I would like someone more experienced (I never did a PKGBUILD) took a look and tell me if it is really OK and I can upload it to aur. I based it on this sample found on the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Perl_Policy#Sample_Vendor_PKGBUILD thanks in advice abracos Antonio Lucas

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[aur-general] move acerhk to [unsupported]?
by Christopher Brannon 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

It won't build against kernel 2.6.36. There hasn't been a release in a long time. According to the homepage, the upstream author is no longer actively supporting it. IMHO, it should move. I could make more of an effort to patch it if someone is *really* interested. -- Chris

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Xavier D. 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Hi, Could you delete this package: notify-osd-xfce-bzr (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31872) as its orphan, redundant with notify-osd-xfconf-bzr (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31934) and not working anymore. Thanks,

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[aur-general] [deletion request] nvidia-opencl-headers
by Stéphane Gaudreault 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Could you please remove the nvidia-opencl-headers package ? http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42430 It is no longer needed as these headers are availables again in nvidia-utils. Thanks, Stéphane

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[aur-general] to maintain or not to maintain... the maintainer doesn't any more.
by Martti Kühne 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Aurel Canciu <aurelcanciu(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > I'm really sorry, I forgot about that account and no longer have access to > it unfortunately, I will send a message to aur-general to remove it. Thanks > for notifying me! > I will email you when that account will get removed so you can 'adopt' that > package. > Have a nice day and sorry for the delay! > Hello list the package salasaga is out of date and the maintainer has a bad email address. Obviously, he's no longer interested in maintaining the package as well. Please disown, I'll adopt and update. mar77i

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[aur-general] [deletion request] gimp-mathmap-13
by Uli Armbruster 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

Hi I just discovered this package http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43383 We have this plugin in the repos and the newer version is about to come in, so nobody needs this package in the AUR. It even doesn't work, because doxygen is needed in makedepends (this is also missing in the official PKGBUILD, I'll tell Geoffroy ;) ) Merci

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[aur-general] [extra] repository cleanup
by Andrea Scarpino 10 Nov '10

10 Nov '10

Hi DEVs/TUs, currently we have 700 (counting both arches and any) orphans packages in [extra]. As member of the orphans team, I made a list[1] of these packages and I'd like to move them to Unsupported. If some DEV wants to keep a package simply cross it out (adoption is not required, but it would be nice) or reply to this mail. If some TU wants to maintain a package in [community], please write the name into the "Candidate to [community]" section, *DO NOT* cross it out. Or reply to this mail. I think that a week is enough time for this job. 17th November I will move the remaining packages to Unsupported and the candidates to [community]. Cheers [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Repo_Cleanup -- Andrea Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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