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[aur-general] TU application.
by Peter Lewis 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

Hi folks, After the recent discussions about the number of TUs, the size of [community] etc., I have decided to apply to be a Trusted User myself. Chris Brannon has kindly agreed to sponsor me. So, here's my application. ..oO----Oo.. Who am I? I'm 30 and I live in Birmingham in the UK. I'm a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, in the School of Computer Science. I also teach programming there (Java mainly). When I'm not on the computer, I'm into hiking, photography, growing my own veg, making home-brew beer and that sort of thing. I have a largely non-technical blog here, in case you're interested: http://www.petesodyssey.org/ ..oO----Oo.. What's my experience? I've been a day-to-day GNU/Linux user since around 1998, when I got hold of a SuSE magazine cover CD and installed it on (IIRC) my AMD K6 machine. I used SuSE, Debian, *buntu and Gentoo for day to day stuff, before finding Arch about two years ago. I also spent a while learning about how Linux systems are put together going through the Linux From Scratch book and all that. I have to say that (and I know this is preaching to the choir but) Arch impressed me immediately and still does. When I found it, I had just spent a few weeks trying to understand the Debian packaging manual and had given up being able to learn how to do what I wanted (which was basically Linux From Scratch but with a way to manage updates). I can only describe the transition to Arch as feeling like my computer was working for me again, rather than against me (or worse, me for it)! I now use Arch on my laptop for everyday work - mainly scientific simulations and writing research papers. I also run another couple of boxes (one mainly for gaming, the other runs mythtv) as well as an Arch VPS at Linode, which handles my mail, web and other hosting needs. I was the first person (I think) to use Arch in our department at the university, and since then I've helped another half a dozen or so people make the switch. We run a "Linux Install Day" each year for the new students, and while most of them seem to want Ubuntu (because they've heard of it), I try to get hold of the ones that are more interested in understanding what's going on and spend a bit of time with them setting up Arch. They are always really appreciative and it's cool then watching them demonstrating their uber1337ness to the other students. It's actually becoming quite well appreciated as a distro in the department as a whole. Anyway... I do a lot of coding and have mainly used Java, C, C++ and PHP. I've also done a bit of Python and Ruby. Unfortunately not much of my code gets into open source projects, but I can usually find my way around unfamilar code bases pretty well and so have no trouble adding the odd patch here and there to fix things and make them work. I think this would be a useful skill when packaging things for Arch. I should point out that I'm in no way a black-belt at Bash, but I can certainly put together shell scripts for the things I need, and just tend to learn stuff as and when I need it. I aim to learn more of the ninja shell scripting stuff through being a TU, to be honest. ..oO----Oo.. Why do I want to be a TU? Well, you see there are all these really helpful people making Arch so great. And I've benefited from all that. So, I figure it's time I contribute something back. (Ask not what your distro can do for you, but what you can do for your distro... or something.) It also seems to me that there should be more TUs (without compromising quality, of course). I know that statistics aren't everything, but these made me stop and think: Packages in unsupported: 24406 Trusted Users: 22 (There have actually been over 66 new packages in the AUR in the last week.) Even with the best and most dedicated TUs in the world, and lots of help from ordinary users, I don't think that that kind of number of people can keep the AUR wheels greased, let alone maintain [community] too. I think it's a credit to the current and previous TUs that the AUR is the great thing that it is (and let's be honest, it's a big attraction of Arch). More TUs putting more effort into fewer packages each (preferably that they use) must be better than fewer TUs trying to have oversight of lots that they don't use much. As Chris rightly pointed out to me, people tend to care more about things that they use. Actually, by being a TU I also hope to learn more about what goes into making something like Arch so great, as well as improving my own skills. ..oO----Oo.. So what would I do as a TU? Well, mainly three things: 1) Maintain popular packages well and reliably. I currently maintain 7 packages in the AUR, and am interested particularly in things relating to science and research (e.g. latex, octave, sage, bibliographic management stuff like mendeley and kbib), as well as KDE things (I've been building and using KDE since version 1.0). And while I think it's ideal when people maintain things that they use themselves, this wouldn't restrict me from taking on other packages that I don't use. See my current packages here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=petelewis 2) Promote Arch and the TU scheme. As I said, I think we need more TUs, while maintaining our high standard. I'd like to promote the TU scheme and get more skilled Arch users to take on maintaining the packages that they use. I think a world where more people maintain a small number of packages each in [community] will lead to a bigger and higher quality [community] repo. We should advertise, with the aim of having many more TUs. This also means that we shouldn't be afraid of voting people down if they're not yet ready, and give feedback to help them improve and invite them to apply again later. We all benefit from this. 3) Maintain / improve processes and package standards. I think that standard processes and packages are very important, and can make life using Arch a lot easier. It's also important that the processes are right, and this means attention to detail. Things like package naming and categories fall into this. I think a large part of the job of a TU is to keep the AUR clean and clear, and I would spend time helping to achieve this. I have in mind that bits of additional functionality, such as to enabling deletion requests to be handled through the web interface, perhaps duplicate flagging and package renaming would be useful and make the job of a TU easier. Over time, I would investigate implementing things like this. Also on processes, I'm a bit of a geek for democratic stuff, constitutions and bye-laws and things. I've worked with a couple of quite large democratic organisations on their election and decision-making rules and would be interested in helping to keep these working well for the good of Arch and us all too. Again, it's important to get the rules right, but in addition to hard rules, often establishing good etiquette is just as important (but IMO preferably without going down the Ubuntu route of canned responses). I think Arch people are good at this kind of thing, but I think it always helps to have people who are interested in keeping things fresh. If there are any questions, I'm very happy to try to answer them. Cheers, and thanks for reading. Pete.

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[aur-general] Permissions of community-staging need to be reset
by Eric Bélanger 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

Hi, Could an AUR admin (or Andrea) reset the perms of the community-staging repo db for both arches? Thanks

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[aur-general] Package removal request
by doorknob60 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

(sorry if you got this twice, I'm pretty sure the first one didn't work) The fretsonfire-alarian-mod package needs to be deleted, I have replaced it with the fofix package.

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[aur-general] ContextFree orphan request
by Hilton Medeiros 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

Hi, please, could someone orphan this package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13081 It is not updated since 2008. Thanks in advance, Hilton

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[aur-general] The Arch Way
by Christoph 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

Hi, I have just adopted the package xmind (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22394) because the former maintainer disowned it, and I am not shure which is the best way to build the package. There are three possibilities: 1) Building from source 2) Building from the "Portable" zip-file (see http://www.xmind.net/downloads/) 3) Building from the deb-files provided for Debian/Ubuntu (see http://www.xmind.net/downloads/) ad 1) This is what you would usually do, but according to http://groups.google.com/group/xmind-dev/browse_thread/thread/d68d0c8f30b4b… the eclipse ide would be a prerequisite, so that would need a very large download if you do not already have installed eclipse (nearly 170 MB for eclipse plus 10 MB for the xmind source code!) ad 2) This was the way the former maintainer went. Download size: 75 MB The portable zip-file contains both the 32-bit and the 64-bit versions, so the PKGBUILD just had to copy the right files. ad 3) When I proposed (a year ago) to use the deb-files instead in order to have smaller downloads (each of them, 32-bit and the 64-bit has appr. 36 MB), the maintainer told me that this would be ugly and "not the Arch way", that he would not do such a thing. When I told him that I did not get the point of it, since the zip file equally just installed ready-built binaries, he did not respond to it. I still think that using the deb-files would - in this special case - be the best option. But of course I would never dare to deviate from "the Arch way" (since it is the way to world domination, as we all know ;-)). What do you think? Christoph

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[aur-general] New repositories (community-staging, multilib-testing)
by Thomas Bächler 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

The TU server now has a staging repository, this has been requested due to the big python rebuild. All rebuilds that are made for the staging repository should be put into community-staging now. multilib now has a testing repository, in case we need it (especially useful when testing has a new toolchain). Last but not least, the adjust-permissions cronjob has been disabled on both servers - should you mess with the db file directly (which you really shouldn't), never forget to restore the right permissions.

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[aur-general] Haskell hlint
by Nathan O 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

I found hlint at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23099 going through the orphaned packages, so I went to check the homepage of the software at http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hlint and the author lists package haskell-hlint at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34172 Both of them were created by the Arch Haskell team it says at top. "haskell-hlint" is up-to-date, while hlint isn't the differences are mainly that haskell-lint has more dependencies listed and builds/installs and does additional manual install of scripts than "hlint" . So probably hlint should be deleted. Thanks

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[aur-general] Why is aur.archlinux.org so slow? :(
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Whenever I try uploading a reasonably large package to aur.archlinux.org, my average speed is around 500KB/s. This appears to be an artificial limitation since a server would have at least 10/10MBits uplink. I therefore request the speed limit to be disabled in order to be able to upload large packages with all available bandwidth to increase productivity. Or is there a reason for the limit? -- Sven-Hendrik

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[aur-general] Please delete some chicken-egg packages
by Jim Pryor 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Hi I maintain all the chicken-* packages in AUR; these are "eggs" or extensions for the Chicken Scheme compiler and interpreter. I'll soon push a bunch of updates. However, these eggs are now unsupported and should be removed from AUR: chicken-crypto-tools http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32677 chicken-mailbox-threads http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32763 chicken-multimethod http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32770 chicken-termite http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32835 chicken-wiki-parse http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32851 Thanks. -- Jim Pryor profjim(a)jimpryor.net

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[aur-general] ruby-gtk2 and friends
by Brad Fanella 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

I adopted ruby-gtk2, ruby-atk, ruby-gdkpixbuf2, ruby-glib2, and ruby-pango in the AUR recently to update the package and fix some issues with it. If I remember correctly, these packages used to be in community and were recently removed. Was there a good reason for this, or was it just a matter of not caring to maintain it anymore? As these are very popular packages, I would like to move them to community (if nobody objects of course). Thanks, Brad

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[aur-general] Arch64
by Nathan O 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

What would the best way to compile i686 packages on a 64bit system to test the i686 version? With also maybe a possible few 32-bit only software that I might have to run.

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[aur-general] Partially Inactive again
by Angel Velásquez 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Hi guys, Since I am moving and I was doing my builds on my office through pkgbuild.com server (which is down from far 2 weeks) I've tried to do the rebuilds at my new home and my 3g phone connection. Of course, hdspa have their limitants and I can't upload or download quick or without issues in most of cases. I am getting a new connection from home, but they will install it until end of this September :/. So if pkgbuild.com server came back, I will update of course from home, but from now, I am needing some help, please feel free to update packages that I maintain and rebuilt them, I have some of them rebuilt, but I cannot upload them because of this network issue. -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com

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[aur-general] mail-notification
by Nathan O 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

gnome-mail-notification http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32363 seems to be the same as mail-notification http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/mail-notification/trunk/ the only difference I noticed is that it doesn't have patches included in the official repo, doesn't seem to enable/disable any options. Thanks

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[aur-general] what is the best way to resolve conflicting files in aur packages?
by Alex Combas 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

What is the best way to resolve conflicting files in aur packages? I've run into this issue a couple times recently, first of all with "panda3d-cvs" and "cuda-toolkit" both contained the file /usr/bin/bin2c The result was the panda3d-cvs maintainer just removed the file since he said it wasn't doing anything anyway. Now I've run into a similar problem but this time the maintainer fixed it a different way and it broke my package. opencl-headers http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35367 has 3 files which are also provided by nvidia-utils So now to fix it the maintainer of opencl-headers has added conflicts=(nvidia-utils) to his package. But my problem is that I recently made a package (luxrays-hg) which depends=('nvidia-utils') and also makedepends=('opencl-headers') So my package (luxrays-hg) will no longer install because 2 of its decencies (opencl-headers & nvidia-utils) are in conflict. So what is the best practice in this situation? -- Best regards, Alex Combas goplexian.com

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[aur-general] voting period: Brad Fanella
by Christopher Brannon 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

This message marks the beginning of the voting period for Brad Fanella's application to become a trusted user. You may read his application via this link: <http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2010-August/010049.html>. Good luck, Brad. -- Chris

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[aur-general] multilib
by Nathan O 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

I installed the x86_64 version of Arch, and I was looking at the wiki on running 32-bit apps in a 64-bit environment which seems what the multilib project/repo does. Though If I try and do pacman -S gcc-multilib gcc-libs-multilib binutils-multilib libtool-multilib lib32-glibc. Pacman gives me that binutils and binutils-multilib conflict. Do I let multilib's version replace it? Mainly I want to build i686/x86_64 packages and make sure they work fine on both architectures as well, maybe with running a few 32-bit only applications if I come across them. Thanks

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[aur-general] rabbitmq
by Stefan J. Betz 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Hello, the package rabbitmq is quite old in AUR. The current Maintainer p2k does not answer on mails or comments. I have an up2date rabbitmq PKGBUILD here with some fixes (rabbitmq as system user instead of a normal user). Can i become maintainer permissions on this package? Greetings Betz Stefan -- Betz Stefan -- Webdesign & Computerservice URL: http://www.stefan-betz.net Mail: info(a)stefan-betz.net

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[aur-general] Inactivity
by Jan Steffens 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

I lost all the data on my laptop to an unclean shutdown yesterday. I'm afraid I can't maintain my packages until I've completed recovering what I can (if anything) and I'm done setting up a new system.

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[aur-general] Please delete line6usb
by Emmanuel Gras 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Please delete line6usb (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15333) since it's now in the mainstream kernel (/lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/staging/line6/line6usb.ko). I created a PKGBUILD for the svn version of the driver (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40604) Cheers, Emman

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[aur-general] obsolete plasmoids removal
by A Rojas 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

The following plasmoids are already included in upstream KDE: spacer http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23591 qalculate http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18836 bookmarks http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33096

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[aur-general] Question about patches in [community]
by Brad Fanella 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Hi everyone, I have a few popular packages I would be interested in moving to and maintaining in [community]. However, I recall reading somewhere that AUR software that includes a patch is typically not accepted in community until the upstream developers fix/merge the patches into the software and release it. Is this correct, or am I being misled? Thanks, Brad

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[aur-general] Status of community cleanup 2010.
by Thomas Dziedzic 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

So, it has been quite a while since the community cleanup was started. There are *still* packages that have an incomplete status on the todo list. I propose that the following packages be moved to the aur to finish the community cleanup: miniracer x86_64 Community dgriffiths man-pages-pt_br x86_64 Community jlichtblau mt-daapd x86_64 Community orphan mdf2iso x86_64 Community dgriffiths pstreams x86_64 Community dgriffiths nrg2iso x86_64 Community dgriffiths pygoocanvas x86_64 Community orphan noyau x86_64 Community orphan man-pages-cs x86_64 Community jlichtblau premake x86_64 Community dgriffiths grub-gfx x86_64 Community qucs x86_64 Community spupykin emerald-themes x86_64 Community ronald magickthumbnail x86_64 Community orphan and also the i686 versions of them, ofc

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[aur-general] Welcome our newest TU, Jakob Gruber (schuay)
by Laurent Carlier 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Here are the results: Yes: 11 (+1 from stefan) No: 1 Abstain: 9 (-1 from stefan) -> 21 voters, quorum is reached I've already upgraded your account on AUR. Now, let's the adventure begin!

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[aur-general] deleted package?
by Hervé Cauwelier 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi, I found a flashplugin package for x86_64 this morning that seemed more up-to-date than the last one maintained in community. But by the time I installed it, it disappeared from AUR. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32539 I didn't see any deletion request on the list. Has any TU taken the initiative to delete it? (I can't use the multilib package because nspluginwrapper is too unstable.) -- Hervé Cauwelier

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[aur-general] Inactive
by Ronald van Haren 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi, My internet connection broke down last Saturday during some thunderstorm and has refuced to come up again ever since. Still waiting for it to be fixed, but I have no idea how long it will take. Please feel free to fix my packages if necessary. Regards, Ronald

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[aur-general] gadmin-sshd
by Nathan O 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

My package, gadmin-sshd http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40572, does not seem to install the desktop file or my bash script I added. For the moment, I don't see the obvious reason why. Everything should be fine Thanks

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[aur-general] How do I
by Nathan O 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

How do I find somebody that will sponsor me?

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[aur-general] Deletion/Orphan requests
by Det 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

Hi (again) TUs and... other people(?), My earlier, rather long, mail was pretty much ignored so here's another try: xorg-server-antidesktop (delete; unnecessary and not being updated): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23750 xorg-server-catalyst (delete; unnecessary ("xorg-server{,-1.7,-1.8}-catalyst-maximize-fix" exist in AUR) and not being updated): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26728 xorg-server-xephyr (delete; unnecessary and not being updated): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15438 songbird (orphan; the maintainer decided to replace the PKGBUILD with a non-working version of songbird-svn - should be replaced with this one: http://www.mediafire.com/?q59or5x23kr54r6) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7286 songbird-bin (delete; unnecessary (unnecessary naming and identical to songbird-stable-bin)): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24586 songbird-stable-bin (delete; unnecessary (unnecessary naming and identical to songbird-bin)): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33050 inputproto-newest (delete; unnecessary (identical to [extra]'s inputproto, which is actually even updated faster)). Thanks for your time, "Det"

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Re: [aur-general] Wine Gecko
by Dan Vratil 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

On Sunday 05 September 2010 14:06:13 Jan Steffens wrote: > I would like to move wine_gecko into [community] (for 32-bit) and > [multilib] (for 64-bit). > > Attached the proposed PKGBUILD. Hi, Is it neccessary to download sources for both architectures? Something like [ "$CARCH" = "i686" ] && ARCH=x86 [ "$CARCH" = "x86_64" ] && ARCH=x86_64 source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wine/$pkgname-$pkgver-… would save some bandwith when building just for one arch. Dan -- --------------------------------- Dan Vrátil vratil(a)progdansoft.com ICQ 249163429 Jabber progdan(a)jabber.cz Tel. +420 732 326 870 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] Please delete these packages; they are replaced!
by Dany Martineau 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

Hi! Please delete these packages, as geometria now contains all locales in one package. --> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39990 (geometria-en) --> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39989 (geometria-es) --> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39991 (geometria-fr) Thanks a lot!! -- Dany Martineau Enseignant en mathématiques École secondaire du Harfang 4e et 5e secondaire http://danym.org CSSMI

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[aur-general] TU e-mail forwards (was: Re: Welcome our newest TU, Lukas Jirkovsky (stativ)!)
by Ray Rashif 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

2010/9/2 Lukáš Jirkovský <l.jirkovsky(a)gmail.com>: > I forgot to write that I already tried username(a)aur.archlinux.org and > username.aur(a)archlinux.org but both without success. Those may not be working. (someone on Gerolde needs a nudge?) Could you all add a ~/.forward on Sigurd with your (real, unmangled) e-mail address and send a test mail to check if it works? Else, you guys can always strive to keep this one updated as an alternative to the profile information: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trusted_Users I'm also in favour of standardising the mangling used there; personal preference, right, but currently it looks like a mess. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD

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[aur-general] Wine Gecko
by Jan Steffens 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

I would like to move wine_gecko into [community] (for 32-bit) and [multilib] (for 64-bit). Attached the proposed PKGBUILD.

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[aur-general] Removal request
by Luca Bennati 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

Hi all, could you please remove my old package warzone2100-beta [ http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33892]? Upstream doesn't do betas anymore, and there is a package in community. BTW also vdpau [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24337] has been replaced by extra/libvdpau, you should remove it. Thank you

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[aur-general] TU Bylaws amendment proposal
by Xyne 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

Hi, Given the recent wave of TU applications, I think it might be a good idea to amend the TU Bylaws regarding quorum for addition of a TU. The section currently contains the following specification: > Following the announcement, standard voting procedure commences with a > discussion period of 5 days, a quorum of 66%, and a voting period of 7 days. I recommend that it be changed to this: > Following the announcement, standard voting procedure commences with a > discussion period of 5 days, a quorum of 66%, and a voting period of 7 days. > The quorum is counted among TUs who are active throughout both the discussion > period and the voting period. This would prevent ambiguity and possible arguments regarding the establishment of quorum. Considering how lax we seem to be when it comes to the bylaws, I doubt it would ever really be an issue, but an extra line to clarify wouldn't hurt either, plus it would provide clear logic if we ever encode the members list and tie it to the voting interface (you know, when we're all downloading the signed Duke Nukem Forever package via pacman on Hurd). Regards, Xyne *heads off to find other non-issues*

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Re: [aur-general] Deletion/Orphan requests
by Det 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

Forgot xorg-server-gentoo - it's also unnecessary and not being updated: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15089

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[aur-general] Delete request
by Nathan O 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

Will somebody delete grdc http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23191When you click on the link for the package it states that the project has been renamed to Remmina and it redirects you to http://remmina.sourceforge.net/ It seems there are already Reminna packages Thanks

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[aur-general] PKGBUILD/AUR help
by Christos Nouskas 04 Sep '10

04 Sep '10

I'm trying to enhance the PKGBUILD of kernel26-pf to detect the cpu-specific .config option and automatically add it to the generated package and its description, by tweaking the $PKGEXT and $pkgdesc variables. Example: an amd64-k8 optimized kernel would be packaged as kernel26-pf-2.6.35-pf7-k8.pkg.tar.xz. The PKGBUILD I've created (see http://pastebin.ca/1931033 - relevant lines 96-138) builds and creates the package just fine using makepkg, but submission of the source package to AUR fails. I know that $PKGEXT perhaps shouldn't be tampered with, but I'm open to suggestions.

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[aur-general] Question about bad applications
by Nathan O 04 Sep '10

04 Sep '10

What should I do about software that won't work, not due to the fact about how it is packaged, but badly coded? I am finding some packages of mine that won't compile or run and the author(programmer) doesn't seem to be active anymore

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[aur-general] Help with a perl package needed
by Philipp 04 Sep '10

04 Sep '10

Hi, I just remembered that I wrote a PKGBUILD for a perl program a while ago but never made it available to others. I know nothing about perl, so I'm looking for advice. It did build, install and apparently work, but spits a whole lot of errors now. I don't have the slightest idea how to figure out what's wrong now. I had to write PKGBUILDs for a bunch of the dependencies as well, and used CPANPLUS to do that. Thanks to a hint from a fellow archer I noticed that a bunch of those are already provided by the perl package itself. Well, to me this looks like nothing but a huge mess, can you help me clean it up? pkgname=nama pkgver=1.064 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Tk/CLI frontend for ecasound" arch=('any') url="http://freeshell.de/~bolangi/cgi1/nama.cgi/00home.html" license=('GPL2') depends=('perl>=5.10.0' 'ladspa' 'ecasound' 'perl-anyevent' 'perl-event' 'perl-parse-recdescent' 'perl-data-section' 'perl-file-find-rule' 'perl-io-all' 'perl-modern-perl' 'perl-term-readline-gnu' 'perl-yaml-tiny' 'perl-file-copy-link' 'perl-graph' 'perl-text') makedepends=() options=(!emptydirs) source=("http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GANGLION/Audio-Nama-$pkgver.tar…") md5sums=('59c871d55e175413d0b0cfceb042b775') build() { cd "$srcdir/Audio-Nama-$pkgver" # Setting these env variables overwrites any command-line-options we don't want... export PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 PERL_AUTOINSTALL=--skipdeps \ PERL_MM_OPT="INSTALLDIRS=vendor DESTDIR='$pkgdir'" \ PERL_MB_OPT="--installdirs vendor --destdir '$pkgdir'" \ MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null # If using Makefile.PL { perl Makefile.PL && make && make test && make install; } || return 1 # remove perllocal.pod and .packlist find "$pkgdir" -name .packlist -o -name perllocal.pod -delete } -- Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan

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Re: [aur-general] Orphan (adoption) request for x48 and delete request for x48-emulator
by Eric Waller 04 Sep '10

04 Sep '10

No problem. You definitely started first and went well beyond what I did. Thanks. I'm curious -- do you know if I can capture and use the 50g ROM? If you know, could you send me a PM? On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 2:23 AM, René Herman <rene.herman(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/28/2010 03:55 AM, Eric Waller wrote: > > I was angling for that one :-P >> > > I see. Had done this one already a month ago but was up to now still > waiting for a possible maintainer-reply. > > > Note that I had crated a patch to the newer of the packages and it is >> attached as a comment. How does your patch compare to mine? >> > > It's fairly different. I saw the posted patch for x48-emulator just after I > sent the message to the AUR mailing list but I believe that one only upped > the version to 0.6.3 and added x86-64. > > The old x48-emulator PKGBUILD (and the patched one, then) had a problem > with missing dependencies and as described in the message, with a hard-coded > "non-archlinux compliant" /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults directory. > > I also install the ROMDump program from the sources for those of us that > want to grab their own ROMs. > > > I sent an email to the maintainer (clamy) earlier this week and have heard >> nothing back as yet. >> > > Contacted him a month ago as well and also silence. Same for the original > x48 maintainer. > > > I was going to adopt it, but if you would like it, that is okay by me. >> > > For now, I've adopted it. I'll be fairly busy again with other things the > coming period but was planning on at least looking into giving X48 a > somewhat less obsolete configuration mechanism than the X defaults stuff > (ie, just an /etc/x48.conf or some such). If you do more extensive "upstream > work" than we can always switch maintainership of the package again. I'm > normally at least fairly responsive to email... > > New x48 is up on the AUR! > > Regards, > Rene >

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[aur-general] Candidate for removal: haskell-derive
by Magnus Therning 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

The AUR package 'haskell-derive' is *very* out-of-date and seems to have been replaced by 'derive'. Please consider removing 'haskell-derive' from AUR. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[aur-general] Voting period for Florian Pritz
by Thorsten Töpper 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Hello, The discussion period has ended, 120h since my confirmation have passed so it's time to vote. Log into the AUR and give your vote to the fourth currently running vote process (and every other where you haven't done so yet). Good luck Florian. And now vote or no cookies for no one! :-P Thorsten -- Jabber: atsutane(a)freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4

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[aur-general] gadmin-squid
by Nathan O 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

I adopted and updated gadmin-squid to the latest version. I figured I would try something, because if you install a desktop file so that it will show up in Gnome's menu, it would say you need to run it as root. So I created a BASH Script called gadmin-squid-menu and added optdepends=('gksu: Graphical Sudo Support'). The desktop file points to gnome-squid-menu(my bash script, which states if gksu is installed, run gksu /usr/sbin/gadmin-squid, else gadmin-squid). This I think would be acceptable, correct me if I am wrong. Here is the package if you want a better understanding of what I mean: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15309

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[aur-general] Concerning all my questions
by Nathan O 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

I just wanted to write and say I hope I am not annoying anybody with my questions. I am trying to help AUR(even though at times I ask for something to be deleted, thinking that it's a duplicate). On my other questions, I am trying to make sure my packages conform to the standards as much as I possibly can and try to get them to work. Thanks for the understanding.

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[aur-general] Voting period for Jonathan Conder (PirateJonno)
by Ionuț Bîru 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Hi TUs, the voting period for $subj has begin. http://aur.archlinux.org/tu.php?id=32 -- Ionuț

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[aur-general] What happened with qucs?
by Sergej Pupykin 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Hi, what happened with qucs? it was removed from community and AUR. http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/community/qucs/trunk/ fails, but it still presents in https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=qucs and can be downloaded from mirror.

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[aur-general] short inactivity
by Lukáš Jirkovský 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Hello, after being active for a day a have a bad news. I'll be without Internet connection for a three days starting from tomorrow. P.S.: I'll adopt packages I uploaded today when I return back. These packages are: cuetools klavaro gimp-plugin-fblur gimp-plugin-wavelet-denoise Lukas

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[aur-general] Welcome our newest TU, Lukas Jirkovsky (stativ)!
by Thomas Dziedzic 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

With a result of 16 votes for yes, 0 votes for no, and 4 votes for abstain. I would like to welcome Lukas Jirkovsky (stativ) as our newest trusted user! Everybody give him a warm welcome! :)

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[aur-general] Definition of categories
by PyroPeter 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Hello subscribers, imo its hard to decide which category to use for some packages. E.g. a browser: Should it be categorized as "network" or "x11"? Is there a exact definition of these categorys somewhere? If not, one should be written. Regards, PyroPeter -- freenode/pyropeter "12:50 - Ich drücke Return."

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[aur-general] Removal Request
by H.Gökhan SARI 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Hello, Could you please my old package 'ssh-proxify'? There isn't such application anymore. -- H.Gökhan SARI hsa2(a)difuzyon.net

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[aur-general] Please delete filelight-kde4
by Christoph 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

filelight-kde4 meanwhile exists in [extra], so please delete it. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31136 Cheers, Christoph

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[aur-general] Delete Request for farsight
by Nathan O 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Can somebody delete farsight @ http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19751 I have uploaded the new package named farsight2, which succeeds farsight Thanks

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[aur-general] Aptana and ELF Files
by Nathan O 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Currently I have adopted Aptana and updated it to a nicer PKGBUILD. Namcap gives me that ELF files are outside of a valid path. The way Aptana is packaged, it seems you would need to copy the source directory to another directory on the system, for example /opt/${pkgname}. Since you can't compile the program and if you seperate the files or directories, the program would not very likely run. What should I do? Ignore it, or put the files/directories in another location besides /opt?

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[aur-general] Delete request
by José Valecillos 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Can you please delete gwibber-microft-bzr, gwibber-sqlite-backend-bzr, gwibber-sweston-bzr, gwibber-trunk-bzr and gwibber2.0 ? All that packages has been orphan by his maintainers or, in the case of gwibber-sweston-bzr, are no maintained anymore. These packages are just older and custom versions of gwibber, they aren't need it anymore in favor of gwibber and gwibber-bzr. Here the links in respective order: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26309 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37248 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31681 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29746 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29716

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[aur-general] Delete request
by Nathan O 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Can tweetr http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27503 be deleted. The homepage of Tweet-r only lists the application for the IPhone and the download location no longer exists and some of the sites I tried to find an alternate download location, points to the dead-download location or homepage

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[aur-general] Delete request
by Nathan O 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Found more packages that appear to be the same : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15486 same as http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22128 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=443 same as http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30104 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22533 looks to be the same as http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39413

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[aur-general] KDE quickaccess plasmoid (and others)
by Peter Lewis 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi, There are currently two packages for the KDE quickaccess plasmoid in the AUR. This one is for KDE 4.2 and gives a 404 error: kdemod-kdeplasma-quickaccess http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19191 ...and can therefore be deleted IMO. The maintainer hasn't responded to a comment saying that it doesn't exist any more. This one works nicely: quickaccess-plasmoid http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18854 and also has 101 votes. Should it go in community with the proper naming (i.e. kdeplasma-addons-quickaccess or somesuch)? In fact, there are actually quite a lot of plasmoids with a lot of votes: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=plasm&do_Search=Go&SB=v&SO=d Is there a policy on these, since most of them are installable via KDE's "get new stuff" interface? Cheers, Pete.

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[aur-general] Delete request
by Nathan O 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hydra1 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35398 should be deleted, as it is the same as Hydra http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=4458

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[aur-general] Voting period for Jakob Gruber (schuay)
by Laurent Carlier 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

The discussion period is over, so let start for the voting procedure..... Application for Jakob Gruber http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur- general/2010-August/010254.html My sponsorship message http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur- general/2010-August/010257.html Good luck Jakob! Lordheavy

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[aur-general] Want to submit a PKGBUILD
by 陈文龙 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

It is realvnc

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[aur-general] Please remove lib32-glibc from AUR
by Jelle van der Waa 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Currently i maintain lib32-glib, but since the multilib repo is here the awesome dev's already packaged it ;). AUR link http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15540 Package link http://www.archlinux.org/packages/multilib/x86_64/lib32-glibc/ Btw. thank you dev's for the effort of brining in a multilib repo! -- Jelle van der Waa

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[aur-general] Licenses, GPL3 only
by Philipp 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hi, I just looked up the GPL notation again. Here's the relevant excerpt from the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards .. The (L)GPL has many versions and permutations of those versions. For (L)GPL software, the convention is: * (L)GPL - (L)GPLv2 or any later version * (L)GPL2 - (L)GPL2 only * (L)GPL3 - (L)GPL3 or any later version Now besides that this is obviously confusing there's another problem. How would you specify that a program is GPL3 only? Regards, -- Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan

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[aur-general] Please delete kdemultimedia-pulse
by Jordi De Groof 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

The patches are integrated in kde 4.5 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33668 Thanks

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[aur-general] lib32 deletion request
by Try Again 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Two of the packages I maintain, lib32-tdb and lib32-libcanberra, have been adopted in [multilib]. Can you please delete them from the AUR? Thanks.

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[aur-general] Delete request
by Nathan O 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Can somebody delete libsigcplusplus http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11338, it seems that libsigcpp1.2 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11468 is the same Thanks

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[aur-general] PKGBUILD: build() vs package() function
by Nicky726 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hello, hope I don't get this missplaced, as a quick search didn'd get me any results. When I have a package, which does actually build nothing -- say wine_gecko (a file only needs to be placed to a correct directory) -- I should only have package() function in the PKGBUILD, is that a correct interpretation? Now the makepkg is happy but the AUR complaints. I can workaround that with an empty build() function in that case the AUR is happy but the makepkg complains. So I just put in there a harmless echo and both are happy now. Actually my question is not that much about the correct workarounding, as it is about if I really get the meaning of the build() and package() functions correctly, that is for building build(), for installing package()? 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] [multilib] wine_gecko, bin32-wine_gecko
by Nicky726 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

Hello, as for the recent multilib eforts, I read the "Changes to AUR and community due to the multilib repository" post here and noticed many bin32-* packages switching to withhout-the-bin32 name and I wonder what to do with wine_gecko/bin32-wine_gecko I maintain in the AUR. Is there a guideline for bin32-* packages? 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] libicq2000
by Nathan O 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

Should libicq2000 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11337 be deleted, the package gives that it can't find libsigc++ though it is installed. I did some research and it is said that libicq2000 will not work with the libsigc++-2. I am thinking that you are not able to install libsigc++ and libsigc++-2. If it is to be deleted, package ickle http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11336 should be deleted because it depends on libicq2000. Not sure what to do in this aspect. Thanks

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[aur-general] delete package
by corvolino 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

I would ask to delete the package because the site as the source link are offline. -- corvolino ~ Linux User #459152 Jabber: corvolino(a)jabber.org Blog - http://corvolinopunk.wordpress.com Archlinux-br Developer Team

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[aur-general] cmake build
by Nathan O 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

I have encountered having the issues with software that uses cmake as it's build system. Usually I get the warnings stating that there is an Insecure RPATH and Package contains reference to $srcdir. I believe I figured out how to fix the RPATH issue, because a previous package had Rpath issues and I used sed to add a setting(can't remember what the setting is called at this second). The issue I have now is the Reference to $srcdir, for the current package and future reference, how do you fix it? Thanks

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[aur-general] PKGBUILDs check
by KESHAV P.R. 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Can someone please check these PKGBUILDs for any apparent errors. Please ignore the pkgnames for now. Thanks in advance. grub2-efi-bzr http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40290 grub2-efi http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40300 Regards. Keshav

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[aur-general] gtkd delete
by Nathan O 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Also found another, gtkd http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22002 The package won't compile, the last commit to the author's git repo is around 2 years ago. I tried using dsss like it said to use to build it and also renamed GNUmakefile to Makefile and ran make. If I used dsss, it would not install anything in the $pkgdir. If I tried running make, then it would give a compile error.

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[aur-general] httpfs
by Nathan O 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Can somebody delete httpfs http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15621there is an httpfs2 package which seems to be more up to date and probably is the successor of httpfs,also nothing requires httpfs. Thanks

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[aur-general] deletion request
by KESHAV P.R. 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Please delete the following packages from AUR :- grub2-efi-x64-bzr http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39901 grub2-efi-x86-bzr http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39902 grub2-efi-x64 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39904 grub2-efi-x86 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39905 The packages have been merged (based on tpowa's suggestion) and replaced by grub2-efi-bzr http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40290 and grub2-efi http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40300 (see the PKGBUILDs for more info). Thanks in advance. Keshav

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[aur-general] Rename 'qpamat-hg' to 'qpamat-git'
by Bernhard Walle 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Hi, could someone of the TUs do the rename or alternatively if that's not possible just delete 'qpamat-hg' so that I can upload 'qpamat-hg'? Thanks in advance. Regards, Bernhard

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[aur-general] "bin32-skype" in [multilib] (as "skype")
by Malte Rabenseifner 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

CCing my announcement in the comments of bin32-skype (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7914) please keep the package for at least 7 days to get people a chance to switch to [multilib]. "Since the announcement of the new [multilib] repository yesterday (http://www.archlinux.org/news/508/) I strongly encourage ALL users of bin32-skype to switch to the Skype package of that repository and report bugs and problems to the Arch bug tracker at http://bugs.archlinux.org (be sure that you have switched to "Community Packages"). I already have done testing of the package in [multilib] since it has been uploaded and I am bug free. Please help to find more bugs on different systems so that the change will go smoothly when this package will be removed from the AUR." -- Malte Rabenseifner, Germany mail(a)malte-rabenseifner.de -- Beneath knowing, understanding. Beneath understanding, seeing. Beneath seeing, recognizing. Beneath recognizing, knowing. --

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[aur-general] Frupple delete request
by Nathan O 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Also another package I am requesting to be deleted is frupple http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28699 It doesn't run. I would attempt to send a bug report to the author, but it seems the author no longer maintains it anymore. If I remember correctly, the site states the file was uploaded on "2008-07-31" Thanks

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[aur-general] Removal request for lib32-libsamplerate
by Mikhail Vorozhtsov 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Hi, TUs. Please remove my lib32-libsamplerate package[1] (it is in [multilib] now). [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31550

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[aur-general] fsirc
by Nathan O 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Can somebody delete FSirc http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20459 . The author no longer has it listed on his site, and I found a git page for it, but the last update was in 2008. Nothing is listed as depending on fsirc. Thanks

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[aur-general] lib32-libstdc++5?
by Ng Oon-Ee 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Hi all, Just realized http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11191 is orphaned, and that there's quite a few comments below specifying exactly how to update it. Considering how many packages depend on it, I'm surprised its orphaned, but when I checked the PKGBUILD its a well-recognized name. Should I just adopt this package to update it and orphan it? Or is it more polite to wait for Pierre since I think its his package based on the name there. Or does the orphan indicate he doesn't want this package anymore? Thanks. Ng Oon-Ee

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[aur-general] Orphan (adoption) request for x48 and delete request for x48-emulator
by René Herman 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Good day. [this same message has been hanging in the non-subscriber moderation queue for a few days now] I'm a recent arch user (but longtime linux user) and would like to adopt the x48 package, an emulator for the HP-48 scientific calculator. There are two versions of the package on the AUR, x48 and x48-emulator but both are out of date and unfortunately neither listed maintainer (also CCed) has responded to email. I've created a new PKGBUILD updated to the current 0.6.3 and have also patched x48 itself to have it use the normal archlinux X11 app-defaults directory (/usr/share/X11/app-defaults) instead of a previously hard-coded /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults. The new PKGBUILD furthermore installs the "ROMDump" program so people can use it to grab the ROM from their own HP-48s. Might also like to do more serious work on the emulator in the future. I suppose the x48-emulator package will have been created only because back then the x48 maintainer also didn't respond -- if I can adopt the x48 package, the x48-emulator package could be deleted I suppose. I'm not a subscriber to the list; if I look through the archives I believe it's not usual to attach src archives but if anyone want to see my version, it's at: http://members.home.nl/rene.herman/arch/x48-0.6.3-1.src.tar.gz I'm "rene" on the AUR (with only the "ufiformat" package as of now). Regards, Rene

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Pierre Bourdon 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Hi, Could you please delete gdb-archer-python-git [1] ? It is not needed anymore as gdb in [extra] now supports Python scripting. Thanks in advance, [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36034 -- Pierre "delroth" Bourdon <delroth(a)gmail.com> Étudiant à l'EPITA / Student at EPITA http://bitbucket.org/delroth/

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[aur-general] Orphaning Request for dconf
by Adam Hani Schakaki 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Hello, Please orphan dconf [1] since it wasn't updated for over five weeks now. The first correction proposal is written on 20th July and now we got two new version since the latest update in the AUR. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38530 Adam Hani Schakaki

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[aur-general] Changes to AUR and community due to the multilib repository
by Thomas Bächler 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

With the creation of the [multilib] repository, all 32-bit libraries are now installed in /usr/lib32 and compiled from source using the gcc-multilib package instead of being copied from i686 packages. All AUR users maintaining lib32-* and bin32-* packages are encouraged to adapt their packages to the new layout. All trusted users who want to maintain 32 bit packages should join the arch-multilib mailing list and ask for access there. The x86_64 community repository should remain lib32-free in the future.

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[aur-general] Package deletion
by ALAUX, Guillaume 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Hi, This package http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26823 is out of date, orphan and is a duplicate of http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26803 I think we should delete it. Guillaume

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by F B 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Hi, please delete these packages wolf-bin32 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29506 dib0700-firmware http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23033 wolf now support x86_64 so the first one is unuseful, dib0700-firmware is provided by linux-firmware. Thank you in advance.

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[aur-general] Packages deletion request and PKGBUILD check
by KESHAV P.R. 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Please delete packages grub2-efi-x64-bzr http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39901 and grub2-efi-x86-bzr http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39902 . The packages have been merged and replaced by grub2-efi-bzr http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40290 (see PKGBUILD for more info). Can someone please check the PKGBUILD http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/grub2-efi-bzr/grub2-efi-bzr/PKGBUILD for any apparent errors. Thanks in advance. Regards. Keshav

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[aur-general] oDesk created archlinux packages!
by Stephen Weinberg 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

My package, godesk (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37635) is no longer needed. Apparently the archlinux community (maybe only me) pestered them enough for them to decide to make official packages! (http://www.odesk.com/community/node/234) This new edition was apparently created at the expense of the static version. At the bottom of the page it says "oDesk supports the following Linux versions: Ubuntu 8.10+, Debian 4+, Fedora 9+ and OpenSuse 11+." It does not say archlinx... but I guess it is a start. -- Stephen Weinberg

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[aur-general] cpige
by Nathan O 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

I have cpige-cli and cpige-gui, they are from the same sources. I think I figured out how to put them together instead of seperate packages, can somebody tell me if the following is correct: # Contributor: Nathan Owe <ndowens.aur at gmail dot com> pkgname=cpige pkgver=1.5 pkgrel=2 pkgdesc="The Frontend version of cpige" arch=('i686') url="http://ed.zehome.com/?page=cpige-en" license=('GPL') optdepends=('gtk2: GUI support') source=(http://ed.zehome.com/cpige/cpige-${pkgver}.tar.gz${pkgname}.desktop) md5sums=('ad5b8f70d254a261cfb3fda586d66448' '42845d95fa350d1a8025109e0c65b2de') build() { ##GUI Version## cd ${srcdir}/cpige-${pkgver}/gui/ ./configure --prefix=/usr make install -d ${pkgdir}/usr/{bin,share/{${pkgname},applications,pixmaps}} install *.{c,h,png,po,ico} ${pkgdir}/usr/share/$pkgname/ install -Dm755 cpigeGUI ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/cpigegui install -Dm644 cpigeGUI.png ${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/cpigeGUI.png install -Dm644 ${srcdir}/${pkgname}.desktop ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${pkgname}.desktop ##CLI Version## cd ${srcdir}/cpige-${pkgver} make install -d ${pkgdir}/{etc,usr/{bin,share/{cpige,man/man1}}} install -Dm644 cpige.conf.example ${pkgdir}/etc/cpige.conf install -Dm644 cpige.1.gz ${pkgdir}/usr/share/man/man1/ install -Dm755 cpige ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/cpige } If it is correct, I would like cpige-cli http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28087 and cpige-gui http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28088 deleted. Thanks

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[aur-general] avr-libc + gcc-avr updated PKGBUILDs
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Hello, Thanks in advance! - avr-libc (require a gcc-avr 4.5.1 + patch below) * update to 1.7.0 * Fix license: BSD -> custom * Remove all || return 1 + Patch for PKGBUILD against trunk here: http://gist.github.com/552752 - gcc-avr * Add a patch to support more architectures, can compile fine avr-libc-1.7.0. Patch from [#1] plus add syntax fixes (missing commas). Anyway there is a bug in gcc-4.5 with AVR, current avr-libc 1.6.8 neither compile without it. [#2] [#1] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-04/msg01210.html [#2] http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45261 + Patch for PKGBUILD against trunk here: http://gist.github.com/552763 -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi \cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1

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[aur-general] TU Application / Looking for sponsor
by Jakob Gruber 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Hi, I'd like to apply for the TU position, and as I don't have a sponsor yet it'd be great if somebody would be kind enough to take me on :) A little bit about myself: I'm 26 and I live close to Vienna, Austria. The past couple of years I've worked as a database developer / consultant, then as a C# programmer (with a couple of additional tasks like building and maintaining our SVN / Trac server). In my free time, I've also been playing around with C++ and Python. I've been using Arch for around 2 years. I haven't had much linux experience before that - if I remember correctly it was around 1-2 months of Ubuntu and Gentoo. I regularly lurk on the forums and maintain a few packages in AUR ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=schuay ). Generally, I'm mostly interested in maintaining games. However I'm more than willing to help out where it is needed. Out of my AUR packages, I'd consider taking firehol, me-tv and stone-soup to community. I have a decent pc (3ghz dual core, 6G ram) available to build for both i686 and x86_64. schuay

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[aur-general] ardour-lv2
by Ty John (sand_man) 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

I noticed this package is currently unmaintained. Can I adopt this?

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[aur-general] TU process
by Nathan O 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Just wondering what steps do I need to take to apply for TU? I have packaged for AUR previously under ndowens04@gmail.com(as I mentioned, I created this address strictly for AUR purposes). This is not, by the way, a TU application. I am just wondering what would I need to do in order to be concidered for TU. Thanks P.S. Previously one time I applied for TU, some of the complaints were how I wrote messages. Which I have improved on, because I am a Moderator on a forum and typing messages more professionally has helped me :)

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[aur-general] unknown-horizons-svn now unknown-horizons-git
by Thomas Kinnen 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Hi all, the Unknown Horizons project moved from svn to git for version control. A new package has been uploaded for git: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40274 The old svn package (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24438) is obsolete and should be deleted from the AUR. Best regards Nihathrael

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[aur-general] algoscore
by Nathan O 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

*** glibc detected *** algoscore: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0a010ba8 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/libc.so.6(+0x6c7b1)[0xb6eec7b1] /lib/libc.so.6(+0x6e866)[0xb6eee866] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_malloc+0x63)[0xb6ef0d03] algoscore[0x8062591] algoscore(naHash_set+0x41)[0x80627d1] algoscore(naInternSymbol+0x95)[0x805f835] algoscore(naNewContext+0x46a)[0x805eb3a] algoscore(main+0x57)[0x8055637] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0xb6e96c76] algoscore[0x8054f71] ======= Memory map: ======== 08048000-0807d000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1850602 /usr/bin/algoscore 0807d000-0807f000 rw-p 00035000 08:06 1850602 /usr/bin/algoscore 0a00f000-0a030000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] b6400000-b6421000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b6421000-b6500000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 b6573000-b6578000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b6578000-b6593000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1842823 /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 b6593000-b6594000 rw-p 0001a000 08:06 1842823 /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 b6594000-b6676000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1834581 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.14 b6676000-b667a000 r--p 000e2000 08:06 1834581 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.14 b667a000-b667b000 rw-p 000e6000 08:06 1834581 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.14 b667b000-b6682000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b6682000-b6694000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1852809 /usr/lib/libXft.so.2.1.13 b6694000-b6695000 rw-p 00011000 08:06 1852809 /usr/lib/libXft.so.2.1.13 b6695000-b6699000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1839482 /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0 b6699000-b669a000 rw-p 00003000 08:06 1839482 /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0 b669a000-b669c000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1839495 /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0 b669c000-b669d000 rw-p 00001000 08:06 1839495 /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0 b669d000-b669e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b669e000-b66c2000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1850995 /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2 b66c2000-b66c4000 rw-p 00023000 08:06 1850995 /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2 b66c4000-b66d5000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 130823 /lib/libresolv-2.12.1.so b66d5000-b66d6000 r--p 00010000 08:06 130823 /lib/libresolv-2.12.1.so b66d6000-b66d7000 rw-p 00011000 08:06 130823 /lib/libresolv-2.12.1.so b66d7000-b66d9000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b66d9000-b66db000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 134445 /lib/libdl-2.12.1.so b66db000-b66dc000 r--p 00001000 08:06 134445 /lib/libdl-2.12.1.so b66dc000-b66dd000 rw-p 00002000 08:06 134445 /lib/libdl-2.12.1.so b66dd000-b679e000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1856693 /usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0 b679e000-b67a2000 rw-p 000c1000 08:06 1856693 /usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0 b67a2000-b67a3000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b67a3000-b6835000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1850532 /usr/lib/libfltk.so.1.1 b6835000-b683b000 rw-p 00091000 08:06 1850532 /usr/lib/libfltk.so.1.1 b683b000-b683e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b683e000-b6863000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1850556 /usr/lib/libportaudio.so.2.0.0 b6863000-b6864000 rw-p 00025000 08:06 1850556 /usr/lib/libportaudio.so.2.0.0 b6864000-b6868000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1856714 /usr/lib/libogg.so.0.7.0 b6868000-b6869000 rw-p 00004000 08:06 1856714 /usr/lib/libogg.so.0.7.0 b6869000-b688f000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1856724 /usr/lib/libvorbis.so.0.4.4 b688f000-b6890000 rw-p 00026000 08:06 1856724 /usr/lib/libvorbis.so.0.4.4 b6890000-b69f5000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1856727 /usr/lib/libvorbisenc.so.2.0.7 b69f5000-b6a06000 rw-p 00165000 08:06 1856727 /usr/lib/libvorbisenc.so.2.0.7 b6a06000-b6a07000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b6a07000-b6a53000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1859852 /usr/lib/libFLAC.so.8.2.0 b6a53000-b6a54000 rw-p 0004c000 08:06 1859852 /usr/lib/libFLAC.so.8.2.0 b6a54000-b6a6b000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1839512 /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1.1.0 b6a6b000-b6a6c000 rw-p 00016000 08:06 1839512 /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1.1.0 b6a6c000-b6a72000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1839591 /usr/lib/libxcb-render.so.0.0.0 b6a72000-b6a73000 rw-p 00005000 08:06 1839591 /usr/lib/libxcb-render.so.0.0.0 b6a73000-b6a76000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1852759 /usr/lib/libxcb-render-util.so.0.0.0 b6a76000-b6a77000 rw-p 00002000 08:06 1852759 /usr/lib/libxcb-render-util.so.0.0.0 b6a77000-b6ad3000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1844743 /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0.18.4 b6ad3000-b6ad6000 rw-p 0005c000 08:06 1844743 /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0.18.4 b6ad6000-b6ad7000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b6ad7000-b6aeb000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1831748 /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.5 b6aeb000-b6aec000 rw-p 00014000 08:06 1831748 /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.5 b6aec000-b6b11000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1840833 /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14.3.0 b6b11000-b6b12000 rw-p 00024000 08:06 1840833 /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14.3.0 b6b12000-b6b19000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 130824 /lib/librt-2.12.1.so b6b19000-b6b1a000 r--p 00006000 08:06 130824 /lib/librt-2.12.1.so b6b1a000-b6b1b000 rw-p 00007000 08:06 130824 /lib/librt-2.12.1.so b6b1b000-b6b1d000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1841489 /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0.2400.1 b6b1d000-b6b1e000 rw-p 00002000 08:06 1841489 /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0.2400.1 b6b1e000-b6b4a000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1852752 /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.4.4 b6b4a000-b6b4c000 rw-p 0002b000 08:06 1852752 /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.4.4 b6b4c000-b6b4d000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b6b4d000-b6bce000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1840841 /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.6.0 b6bce000-b6bd2000 rw-p 00080000 08:06 1840841 /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.6.0 b6bd2000-b6c11000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1852839 /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0.2800.1 b6c11000-b6c13000 rw-p 0003e000 08:06 1852839 /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0.2800.1 b6c13000-b6c3e000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1852834 /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.2800.1 b6c3e000-b6c3f000 rw-p 0002b000 08:06 1852834 /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.2800.1 b6c3f000-b6cd6000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1841490 /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0.2400.1 b6cd6000-b6cd8000 rw-p 00097000 08:06 1841490 /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0.2400.1 b6cd8000-b6cf0000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1840811 /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0.3009.1 b6cf0000-b6cf2000 rw-p 00018000 08:06 1840811 /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0.3009.1 b6cf2000-b6cf3000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b6cf3000-b6cf7000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1852857 /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3.1.0 b6cf7000-b6cf8000 rw-p 00003000 08:06 1852857 /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3.1.0 b6cf8000-b6cfa000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1853017 /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1.1.0 b6cfa000-b6cfb000 rw-p 00001000 08:06 1853017 /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1.1.0 b6cfb000-b6cfd000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1853012 /usr/lib/libXcomposite.so.1.0.0 b6cfd000-b6cfe000 rw-p 00001000 08:06 1853012 /usr/lib/libXcomposite.so.1.0.0 b6cfe000-b6e14000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1840437 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.3.0 b6e14000-b6e18000 rw-p 00115000 08:06 1840437 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.3.0 b6e18000-b6e22000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1852849 /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.2800.1 b6e22000-b6e23000 rw-p 00009000 08:06 1852849 /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.2800.1Aborted

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[aur-general] bes
by Nathan O 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

I have almost got BES packaged, the only problem is that namcap gives me: bes W: Referenced library 'libbes_dispatch.so.8' is an uninstalled > dependency > bes W: Referenced library 'libbes_ppt.so.4' is an uninstalled dependency > bes W: Referenced library 'libbes_xml_command.so.1' is an uninstalled > dependency > bes E: Insecure RPATH '/build/pkg/usr/lib/bes' in file > ('usr/lib/bes/libbes_xml_command.so.1.0.3') > bes E: Insecure RPATH '/build/pkg/usr/lib/bes' in file > ('usr/lib/bes/libbes_ppt.so') > bes E: Insecure RPATH '/build/pkg/usr/lib/bes' in file > ('usr/lib/bes/libbes_ppt.so.4.0.3') > bes E: Insecure RPATH '/build/pkg/usr/lib/bes' in file > ('usr/lib/bes/libbes_ppt.so.4') > bes E: Insecure RPATH '/build/pkg/usr/lib/bes' in file > ('usr/lib/bes/libbes_xml_command.so') > bes E: Insecure RPATH '/build/pkg/usr/lib/bes' in file > ('usr/lib/bes/libbes_xml_command.so.1') > bes E: Insecure RPATH '/build/pkg/usr/lib/bes' in file > ('usr/bin/besstandalone') > bes E: Insecure RPATH '/build/pkg/usr/lib/bes' in file ('usr/bin/bescmdln') > bes E: Insecure RPATH '/build/pkg/usr/lib/bes' in file > ('usr/bin/besdaemon') > bes E: Insecure RPATH '/build/pkg/usr/lib/bes' in file > ('usr/bin/beslistener') > > I figured out how to fix the rpath issue with cmake, but this one uses ./configure and make system.

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[aur-general] Desktube
by Nathan O 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

I am wondering should Desktube be deleted http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24581 ? Currently the home page states that they are working on a newer version and the location for the download redirects to the homepage. I have searched for an alternative download location, but currently I only see the old version of Desktube. I found one that is for version 1.0, but it redirects to the homepage of Desktube. My opinion is that maybe it should be deleted and somebody will probably re-add Desktube into AUR whenever the new version is released(if ever).

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[aur-general] Claws-mail-notification
by Ng Oon-Ee 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Hi, http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18285 is an older version (badly named) of http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28037 I suggest first pacakge (notification_plugin) be deleted.

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Re: [aur-general] TU Application / Looking for sponsor
by Laurent Carlier 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Le mercredi 25 août 2010 14:08:13, vous avez écrit : > Le mercredi 25 août 2010 13:30:35, Jakob Gruber a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to apply for the TU position, and as I don't have a sponsor yet > > it'd be great if somebody would be kind enough to take me on :) > > > > A little bit about myself: I'm 26 and I live close to Vienna, Austria. > > The past couple of years I've worked as a database developer / > > consultant, then as a C# programmer (with a couple of additional tasks > > like building and maintaining our SVN / Trac server). In my free time, > > I've also been playing around with C++ and Python. > > > > I've been using Arch for around 2 years. I haven't had much linux > > experience before that - if I remember correctly it was around 1-2 months > > of Ubuntu and Gentoo. I regularly lurk on the forums and maintain a few > > packages in AUR ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=schuay ). > > > > Generally, I'm mostly interested in maintaining games. However I'm more > > than willing to help out where it is needed. Out of my AUR packages, I'd > > consider taking > > > > firehol, > > me-tv > > and stone-soup > > > > to community. > > > > I have a decent pc (3ghz dual core, 6G ram) available to build for both > > i686 and x86_64. > > > > schuay > > Look at your packages, they are pretty well maintained except they should > be updated in regards to last pacman features (return 1 & missing > package() function) > > Searching a bit on the great internet, i've found some of your > contributions. > > I guess you got the ability to be a good TU. > > Let me be your Sponsor. > > Regards, > Laurent Carlier Also,.... Let the discussion period begin! and have fun!

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[aur-general] Please delete rpm2cpio
by Kaiting Chen 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

I believe rpmextract contains rpm2cpio and as rpmextract is in extra I don't see any reason to keep rpm2cpio around in unsupported. Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/

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Re: [aur-general] A slew of deprecated packages (none of which are mine)
by nimetonmaili 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Well, Songbird is still being developed on the SVN and nightly builds are being released (the 64-bit support was dropped, though). But has any TUs red this list of mine? The conversation seems to be drawing away to Songbird and its alternatives J. Det

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[aur-general] Please remove kbfx and kbfx-cvs
by Raul Castillo 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

The project seems to be dead, their page is just a parked ad page. http://www.kbfx.org

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[aur-general] Please delete masterm package
by Marq Schneider 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Apparently masterm fell off the face of the Earth - sourceforge page no longer exists and Google searches produce nothing. Would someone be so kind as to remove masterm [0] for me? [0] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28348 Thanks, Marq

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[aur-general] libisoburn moved to [extra] please remove from community
by Tobias Powalowski 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Hi subject says it all, thanks greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[aur-general] Deletion request: kwebkitpart
by Nicky726 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Hello, kwebkitpart is now in [extra] and make options look the same, so I guess it can be deleted from the AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39197 Nicky -- Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone (Joni Mitchell)

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[aur-general] Please delete openser
by Kaiting Chen 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

According to the web page openser is now opensips, which is in community. There should be no reason to keep it in unsupported. Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/

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[aur-general] Please delete rl
by Kaiting Chen 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Hi, I don't know if this qualifies for deletion but according to the website the project is dead. The author recommends using `shuf` which is in coreutils. Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/

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[aur-general] Please delete kate-plugin-tabify-svn
by Massimiliano Torromeo 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

The plugin is now included in kate 4.5.0 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38937 Thanks.

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[aur-general] algoscore
by Nathan O 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

I am trying to get algoscore to work http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23577 but so far everything I have tried gives me a problem. Using the makepkg -sf gives that there is a reference to the $srcdir and namcap gives algoscore E: Insecure RPATH '/home/ndowens/Aur/algoscore/src/AlgoScore/src/build/nasal' in file ('usr/bin/algoscore')

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[aur-general] A slew of deprecated packages (none of which are mine)
by fasdfsa fsadfsaf 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Hi TUs and... other people(?), So I got this nice list of unneeded packages in AUR that should be removed. None of these are mine so I don't know how justified my suggestions are - at least they've not been updated for some time and there is a replacement for most of them. First off let's stare "xorg-server-xephyr": http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15438 The option "--enable-xephyr" is included in the official [extra]'s xorg-server so this package is not needed. This I'm not too sure about, "xorg-server-antidesktop": http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23750 <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23750>I guess it's purpose is to start up with a blank screen.. but that should be the case these days anyway(?) xorg-server-catalyst: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26728 There's "xorg-server-1.7-catalyst-maximize-fix", "xorg-server-1.8-catalyst-maximize-fix" and "xorg-server-catalyst-maximize-fix" in AUR so this one is not needed. xorg-server-gentoo: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15089 Currently there are only these two tiny patches in the Gentoo's X server which are to 'disable ACPI' and 'prefer nouveau over nv'. At least it's a lot less than 'Joekey' (the maintainer) is happy to update for. songbird-bin: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/songbird-bin/songbird-bin/PKGBUILD, songbird-stable-bin: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33050 I had to laugh when I saw this. These two PKGBUILDs are virtually _identical_. Why an earth would we need both? Actually the "songbird" package's PKGBUILD should be replaced with either one of those (it currently holds a non-working version of the songbird-svn package... for whatever reason) and then the two others removed (I mean _I think_ that's how it should be done). All that songbird-nightly* stuff should be removed too. In AUR there should be only the old stable Songbird (songbird), a SVN version (songbird-svn), a nightly version (songbird-nightly) and a bleeding edge one (being alpha/beta/rc) (songbird-beta). But only "songbird-svn" exists and works. "Songbird-auto-nightly" and "songbird-auto-beta" should just be moved to as "songbird-nightly" and "songbird-beta" (I take it this can only happen by telling the maintainer, ilikenwf, to upload those packages with the simplified name and then the former ones could be removed) and songbird(-stable)-bin "changed" to "songbird". It'd be _nice_ to also have the "xorg-server*-catalyst-maximize-fix" packages changed to just "xorg-server*-catalyst" but that's probably not worth it taken the "conflicts=()" changes with other PKGBUILDs, the removals of the formerly named package and other stuff like that... Thanks for your time, 'Det'

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[aur-general] Moving vlc-pulse to [community]
by Jan Steffens 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

I would like to move vlc-pulse into [community], to provide VLC with native PulseAudio output. Are there any objections?

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[aur-general] Quality
by Nathan O 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hey I was wondering if somebody has time to look at my packages and see if they are of quality :) Some I adopted and got to add my name and email as maintainer and update the quality of it. The ones with my name and email are already updated. If you look you may see ndowens04 at gmail dot com or ndowens04+AUR at gmail dot com I may end up adding this email to the packages, I created this email address for AUR purposes so my main email address doesn't get cluttered. Thanks

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[aur-general] Orphaning of bluej
by PyroPeter 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hello TU's, I would like to request orphaning of bluej[1], which is now out-of-date for over a month. I have an updated PKGBUILD and would be happy to upload it. Regards, PyroPeter [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13853 -- freenode/pyropeter "12:50 - Ich drücke Return."

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[aur-general] updated PKGBUILD for gcc-avr
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hello, I am again around here :) * update from 4.5 snapshot to 4.5.1, no other changes needed. * remove || return 1 * use ${_basedir} like gcc package for select snapshot/release * add missing custom licence Patch against svn trunk can be downloaded from here http://gist.github.com/546973 Good luck! -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi \cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1

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[aur-general] At last, clean multilib support
by Thomas Bächler 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Jan Steffens and me spent the this weekend putting together a multilib toolchain and a clean lib32-glibc package. I wanted to do this for at least two years, and we finally managed to do it on FrOSCon now. This is the plan of attack on this: * Maintain the PKGBUILDs in svn-community/${pkgname}/trunk/ * Create a separate repo 'multilib', (svn-community/${pkgname}/repos/multilib-x86_64) * Remove ALL multilib packages from community. Do NOT mix pure 64 bit with multilib. All multilib must go into the new multilib repository. * Rebuild all multilib packages with the multilib compiler to solve the numerous problems encountered by the hackish "copy our 32 bit packages into another path" approach. * Find TUs and Devs willing to work on multilib (please add your name to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multilib_Project) Any comments are welcome. We will upload the multilib packages and PKGBUILDs into a small test repository in a minute for review.

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[aur-general] removal request
by Lukáš Jirkovský 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

jdownloader-openjdk (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35966) is basically a duplicate of the jdownloader package. The only difference is that jdownloader-openjdk has a dependency on openjdk6 and jdownloader on java-runtime (which is better). Lukas

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[aur-general] Discussion period has ended for Lukáš Jirkovský
by Thomas Dziedzic 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

You can find a thread here: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2010-August/009959.html

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[aur-general] TU application
by Lukáš Jirkovský 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hello, the discussion about pulling ufoai into [community] made me thing about applying for a TU. Since I've got quite a lot of time recently I finally decided to apply for a TU position which I've been encouraged into several times in the past. My name is Lukas Jirkovsky. I'm from Pilsen, Czech Republic. Currently I'm pursuing my bachelors degree in computer science at the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the University of West Bohemia. I'm using Linux for about six years (I still have the old Mandrake 10.1 CD here). I used Slackware for several years but approximately 3 years ago I moved to Arch Linux which I immediately fell in love with ;-) Currently I maintain 94 packages in AUR. Several packages of mine got it's way into [community] and [extra] too. I can remember ttf-linux-libertine, geeqie, luminance and autopano-sift-c being ones. I'd like to move the klavaro package into community and maybe some other popular packages. I'm also very interested in bringing more graphics software to Arch Linux. Moving ufoai if wanted should be without problems too, I've got a decent connection at home. The last words about my packaging work is that I'm aware that some of my PKGBUILDS still uses contributor instead of maintainer. I'm slowly replacing these packages when a new version comes out or any other update is needed. Now something about my skills. I've a decent knowledge of C and C++ and in my spare time I'm participating in the development of Hugin [1]. I know Java too, but I prefer C++ (templates are just so beautiful). I used to maintain the Arch-graphics repo [2] but since I switched to x86_64 I don't do regular builds (I'd have to rewrite some of the scripts first). I can build for both x86_64 and i686. best regards, Lukas Jirkovsky [1] http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://arch-graphics.kx.cz/

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[aur-general] openmpi, mpich2: provides 'mpi'
by Marco 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hi people, should we define a provides=("mpi") or something like that in openmpi and mpich2, and eventually also other possible mpi implementations? That way a number of mpi-dependent packages will be made undependent of the chosen mpi implementation one wants to install. domanov

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[aur-general] makechrootpkg
by Nathan O 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Is there a way to make 'makechrootpkg' use clyde so it will install missing dependencies from AUR? I looked at /etc/makepkg.conf /etc/pacman.conf and couldn't find an option. I also looked at the source for makechrootpkg and didn't see anything I could change to make it use clyde instead of pacman. Thanks

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[aur-general] Delete request
by Nathan O 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Can batman be deleted http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22177 the package is named wrong, should be named batmand. I am currently updating it to update the package to the correct name. Thanks

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[aur-general] DestroyTwitter
by Nathan O 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

How long do I have to wait before a package would be concidered to be orphaned. I left a comment containing how the PKGBUILD should be done and the next day emailed the maintainer, and I have not a response yet. It has been roughly 3-4 days. The current PKGBUILD is really messy in my opinion and I linked to a much cleaner version and still uses $startdir. Thanks

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[aur-general] Orphanin request
by Dan Vratil 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi, please orphan package libmusicbrainz2. I emailed maintainer and he has no interest in maintaining it since he's no longer using Arch. Thanks! Dan URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18081 -- --------------------------------- Dan Vrátil vratil(a)progdansoft.com ICQ 249163429 Jabber progdan(a)jabber.cz Tel. +420 732 326 870 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] GMdesk Delete Request
by Nathan O 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Can somebody delete GMdesk at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28388The application crashes, and nor will a previous version run either. Thanks

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[aur-general] TU application
by Florian Pritz 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Hi, I've been asked a few times to apply as a TU and finally decided to do so ;). My name is Florian Pritz, I'm from Austria, 18 years old and I've been using Arch for something like 2 years and a few weeks. Before that I've sometimes tried OpenSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu and Gentoo, but after a few hours/days switched back to Windows. Currently I have 5 boxes running arch, 1 (desktop) testing, 3 servers (2 at home), 1 laptop (my father's). I'm mainly active in #archlinux.de, but also sometimes helping out on bugday. I'm a quite experienced PHP and shell programmer and some time ago I started with perl, which is really cool thanks to CPAN and bauerbill. My C and python skills are somewhat basic, but enough to find and fix some bugs. Currently I have 27 packages in the AUR [1], some even having > 40 votes and I'd like to bring those to community. Quite a lot of them still have "|| return 1", but I'm removing those whenever there are updates available. One of my servers is used for webhosting, myqsl, mail and a few shell accounts and I'd like to help update some of the software that's running on this box (most of it is from extra though :( ). Sometimes I'm rebuilding stuff like mysql, php, dovecot or postfix because of security advisories, but most of the time the you guys are faster. A small side project of mine is a pastebin/file upload service [2] written in PHP, using pygments for highlighting and memcached to reduce the load. [3] Thorsten Töpper asked me to become a TU and also wants to sponsor me. Thanks. If you want to know more, please ask. I'm not a good story writer ;) [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=bluewind [2] http://paste.xinu.at [3] http://git.server-speed.net/users/flo/filebin -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}@server-speed.net

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[aur-general] Trusted User Application
by Brad Fanella 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Hello everybody, In response to this (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103250) thread, I (and a few others) have decided that it would be a good idea to have a stream of new TUs to maintain packages that they actually use themselves, which in theory would lessen the gap between upstream and package releases. I guess I should tell you a little about myself and what I do/have done. My name is Brad Fanella and I am from Chicago, Illinois within the United States of America. I am a software developer, web designer, and [no]monkey[/no]. My forum username is itsbrad212 (I doubt anyone cares) and I have a little over 1,200 posts currently. I have been an Arch user since around December 2009 and a Linux user since late 2008. Before I had found Arch, distro hopping was a normal happening and I tended to do a lot of it. >From Ubuntu to Slackware to Debian to Gentoo, none of them every pleased me...until I found Arch. The combination of a simplistic, fast, rolling-release distribution with a great community and team of developers is what keeps me here, and I will definitely be staying for many years to come (if I ever leave at all). My talents? Well, when I first discovered that computers were for more than what happens when you click the Internet icon, the first thing that peaked my interest was web design, so I learned HTML, CSS, and (shortly later) PHP. A couple of months after that, I found another programmer and together we created a content management system (Surf-CMS) that we are currently managing to this day. Of course, how could you be called an "advanced" Linux user without knowing C and shell scripting? Well, I first learned about shell scripting when there were some tasks I needed to be done and I wanted to automate that process. C, on the other hand, was learned for two (maybe three) reasons: 1) Linux and C go together 2) I like speed 3) I wanted to be 1337 Kdding about the last one. Anyway, within the past few weeks, I have been developing a AUR+Pacman (and maybe ABS in the future?) wrapper in C. I thought C would be a good candidate because it's *fast*, and even with more than 500 lines of code, it still fetches, untars, and resolves dependencies in a split second. It is currently incomplete, but I plan to release it under the "Community Contributions" section in the near future. I also know Python and Assembly, but nobody really cares about Assembly anymore, so it's not really worth mentioning. I learned it because I have beens steadily developing a bootloader and kernel in pure 32-bit assembly (along with a few other developers) called LitaOS. Unfortunately, I don't work on it that often (maybe a couple hours a week, if that). What can I bring to the table? Well, as I said before, I use C for pretty much everything, so I do use a good amount of C libraries, so I guess you could say that. I also compile a couple of Python modules here and there. The main reason I wanted to become a TU is because I wanted to help improve the quality of both packages that I use personally and packages that others ask for, as well as help users on the AUR to bring their PKGBUILDs to a near perfected state. Arch deserves to be the very best, and I want to help get it there. Now, about my AUR package count. Allan even said it himself, and I quote: "@itsbrad212: You only have a few packages in the AUR but they look good. I'd say apply if you want..." I was actually a little hesitant about applying to become a trusted user, only because my AUR package count was so low. That being said, I actually have a fairly proficient knowledge of writing PKGBUILDs, building packages, using namcap, etc. For a short time, I was actually hosting a small repository of compiled packages from the AUR (that were either common or I used them myself) for a little linux discussion group on an IRC chat room. I actually am not still hosting those packages or maintaining them anymore as I wasn't getting enough of a response to make it worthwhile. I just recently got a list from a forum user of suggest packages that I should adopt in the AUR and keep up-to-date, so I plan on doing that. Chris Brannon has been kind enough to sponsor me, on behalf of Allan, through this process. I know I said it before, but I'll say it again. My goals are not to maintain 100,000 packages or something silly like that, but to improve other packages, submit clean and working packages myself, and help others on the AUR to improve their packages. Kind regards, Brad

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Re: [aur-general] TU application
by atsutane＠freethoughts.de 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:42:50 +0200 Florian Pritz <bluewind(a)server-speed.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been asked a few times to apply as a TU and finally decided to do > so ;). > ...*snip*... > > Thorsten Töpper asked me to become a TU and also wants to sponsor me. > Thanks. > > If you want to know more, please ask. I'm not a good story writer ;) > > > [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=bluewind > [2] http://paste.xinu.at > [3] http://git.server-speed.net/users/flo/filebin > I happily confirm to sponsor him so: Let the discussion period begin! -- Jabber: atsutane(a)freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4

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[aur-general] TU application / Searching a sponsor
by Adam Hani Schakaki 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hello, I am Adam Hani Schakaki from south-west Germany and I think that this would be the right time to apply or rather to find a sponsor. I hope that there is no age restriction for becoming a TU because I am only 16 years old. Anyway, I got my first Mandriva Linux CD 7 years ago, after that I was using several distributions like Fedora, openSuSE, Ubuntu, Debian. I also tried Gentoo, but most of the time I used Ubuntu for desktops and Debian for servers. But around the beginning of this year I found the great ArchLinux and I loved it. I was/am programming a lot homepage related things in PHP and I also got pretty good programming skills in Java and surely bash. Currently, beside school, I am involved in a project ordered by a school for pupils and companies that every pupil can easily find a job training and the teachers can supervise it. It looks like I will finish school in two years and after that I want to study Software Engineering in London. I am maintaining 103 packages in the AUR, most of them are go-openoffice language packs. But those language packs are all outdated because at the moment I am providing binary version in my repository unless anyone requests a source version for the AUR. One of my goals would be to bring those language pack to the community repo, since there are already openoffice, go-openoffice and openoffice language packs, but no go-openoffice language packs. But the primary goal will ever be to improve ArchLinux and I want to help as much as I can. I hope that I did not forget anything and I would be proud if I found a sponsor. Adam Hani Schakaki

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[aur-general] Package deletion
by Yura Siamashka 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi Please delete: geanydoc, geanyprj, geanyvc These plugins are part of community/geany-plugins -- Yura Siamashka <yurand2(a)gmail.com>

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[aur-general] Package deletion
by Adam Hani Schakaki 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hello, please delete the following packages from the AUR. go-openoffice-da-lang [1]: Replaced by go-openoffice-da. go-openoffice-hu-lang [2]: Replaced by go-openoffice-hu. go-openoffice-zh_tw [3]: Replaced by go-openoffice-zh-tw. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35716 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35731 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26189 Thanks Adam Hani Schakaki

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[aur-general] TU request?
by Brad Fanella 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi everyone, Terribly sorry if this is misplaced. Do I have to send a request to somebody in order to apply to become a trusted user? Anyway, I was recently reading a thread created on the forums that was basically talking about a need for new trusted users from within the community. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103250 Most of the discussion is on page two and beyond. We were talking about how having a larger amount of TU's and having them each maintain a smaller number of packages, typically ones that they use themselves, would seem more logical, or at least get packages synced quicker with upstream. After a nudge from Allan, I finally decided to apply. Again, sorry if this is in the wrong location. Could someone point me in the right direction if it isn't? (I checked the TODO section under the "Trusted User Guidelines" page on the wiki, but I assume that is for after you have been approved?) Don't hesitate to ask for more information. :-) Thanks, Brad

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[aur-general] Important: upcoming dbscripts release
by Pierre Schmitz 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi all, as the new dbscripts are quite done I'll send you a list with the most important changes. (If you are in a hurry read at least the next paragraph) Incompatible changes: * db-update will now update all packages found in your staging dir from all repositories * db-move has now a different syntax: "<repo-from> <repo-to> <pkgname|pkgbase> ..." You can move as many packages as you like at once. There is no need to specify an architecture here. * The wrapper scripts like testing2core have been removed as they are no longer needed; use db-move instead * testing2x now moves both arches at the same time (testing2x64 has been removed) * I have also started a user documentation at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:dbscripts Important changes: * implementation of a package pool: all packages are now stored in pool/packages or pool/community directories on the ftp server. The current repository directories like extra/os/i686 only contain symlinks. As a results moving pacakges between repositories is now a matter of altering symlinks and as such very cheap. This should solve the problems with not fully synced mirrors we had in the past when a lot of packages were moved from e.g. testing to extra. * Packages are only switched to this new layout if they are updated or moved. This way the migration should be slow but smooth. * db-move can now handle multiple packages within one "transaction". General improvements: * unit tests based on shunit2 * heavy refactoring to share common functions * Added more integrity checks which are run before the repositories are touched. * rewritten functions for easier and smaller code * the scripts can handle other db compressions than gz (but there is no migration path yet) Note: even though the result is more or less a rewrite there are still things that can be improved or new useful features that can be added. The tests only cover some basic use cases so we should still have a look at it once the new version is deployed. I think we should deploy these soon (before Allan's big python rebuild party) with CLEANUP_DRYRUN enabled during the first days. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[aur-general] Deletion and disown requests
by Jakob Gruber 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Hi, please delete stone-soup-nettiles [1]. The project looks dead and was never actually 100% usable as far as I know. I'm not sure about the second one. stone-soup [2] has a maintainer and was last updated on July 27th. However, it's been perpetually out of date, with AUR updates coming 2 months or so after official updates (even though nothing except pkgver and md5sums needed to be changed) and even then were done carelessly with incorrect links and md5sums. Somebody has even created a stone-soup071 package (which is the current version) because [2] is not up to date. I've marked the package out of date a few times, posted a PKGBUILD diff to the comments on July 31st (still not applied), and emailed the maintainer a week ago without a reply. While I don't want to steal this package, I'd love to maintain it and keep it updated. Your call whether disowning is appropriate. Thanks! schuay [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37371 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16020

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[aur-general] Packages removal request
by KESHAV P.R. 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Please remove the following packages from AUR grub2-gfxmenu-bzr - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36387 - Package uses old url - gfxmenu integrated in grub2 savannah bzr and available as part of grub2 1.98 - see http://grub.gibibit.com/Journal partclone-svn - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23841 - replaced by partclone-git http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35997 grub-gfxmenu - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10266 - exists in community repo as grub-gfx http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/grub-gfx/ grub2-915resolution - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22927 - orphaned - replaced by grub2-with-extras-bzr http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40061 Regards Keshav

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[aur-general] Deletion request for rawtherapee-staging-hg
by Martin Feilhauer 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hi, please delete rawtherapee-staging-hg [1], as rawtherapee-hg again contains the latest development changes and this repo is discontinued [3]. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37950 [2] http://rawtherapee.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2096&start=30 Thx & Regards, Martin -- http://gnidam.net

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[aur-general] Moving some popular games from AUR to community
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

I'd like to move the following games from AUR but I wanted to avoid any potential tears this time, thus I'm posting my sinister intentions here first. urbanterror supertuxkart ufoai yofrankie freecol blobby2 Let the drama begin! Or just give me a thumbs up or something. -- Sven-Hendrik

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[aur-general] Remove AUR grub2-efi package
by KESHAV P.R. 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Please remove the grub2-efi package http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34470 . I have uploaded grub2-efi-x64 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39904 and grub2-efi-x86 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39905 to replace it. I already informed grub2-efi maintainer "bardo" about the new packages and he has agreed for grub2-efi's removal. Thanks.

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[aur-general] Shall I move mplayer-vaapi to [community]?
by Evangelos Foutras 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hi guys, I've been using mplayer-vaapi [1] with my Radeon HD 4200 IGP for a couple of months now and I think it's a very useful package. Recently, its maintainer in the AUR dropped it because he switched to libvdpau. So, I've been thinking of adopting it and moving it to [community]. I haven't done anything yet, as I'm a bit unsure of whether I should go forward with the move. On one hand, a binary package for mplayer-vaapi is included in the unofficial, but well maintained, catalyst repo [2], but on the other hand it still is a useful package and it only has an additional dependency on libva (available in [extra]) compared to the straight mplayer package; it'd be nice to have it in [community]. On an semi-related note, I was also thinking of moving xvba-video to [community] as well, but it depends on the catalyst package which has a very complicated PKGBUILD (i.e. manual installation of every file). Therefore, I don't have any plans to mess with that for now. :P Thoughts? :> ---- [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35321 [2] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI_Catalyst#Catalyst.27s_repositories

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Re: [aur-general] Packages deletion request
by KESHAV P.R. 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

>> kernel26-rc - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31932 - >> replaced by kernel26-mainline >> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39965 >> >> Before deleting, can you please copy all the comments of kernel26-rc >> to kernel26-mainline. Thank you. >not possible. i suggest to delete instead kernel26-mainline. i don't >understand the rename. I copied the required comment manually (only 1 comment was required). You may delete the package. I am not the maintainer of the package but I use it very much.

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[aur-general] Removal request: brscan2-usb
by Sven Schneider 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hi, the package brscan2-usb [1] provides the same functionality as brscan2 [2]. I think brscan2-usb can be deleted as it's outdated and brscan2 is the upstream name. Greetings Sven [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19856 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19122

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[aur-general] Packages deletion request
by KESHAV P.R. 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

The following packages are either too old or replaced by other packages - visparted-svn - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15314 - Upstream no longer exists and package orphaned btrfs-git - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22577 - btrfs is no more unstable bin32-partimage - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12037 - available at http://svn.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/partimage/ kernel26-rc - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31932 - replaced by kernel26-mainline http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39965 Before deleting, can you please copy all the comments of kernel26-rc to kernel26-mainline. Thank you.

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[aur-general] Move community/*avr* to the AUR.
by Thomas Dziedzic 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hi, I have noticed that all the avr packages have been orphans ever since I can remember. gcc-avr hasn't been updated yet, and wasn't even marked out of date when I checked today. (had to mark it myself and I don't use it). I would like to move the following packages to the AUR where someone more interested in them will be able to take good care of them. avr-libc gcc-avr binutils-avr avrdude

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[aur-general] Trusted User Application
by Jonathan Conder 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hi everyone, I would like to apply to become a Trusted User. Ionuț/wonder has kindly agreed to sponsor me. Anyway, here is some info about me: Who am I? My name is Jonathan Conder, from Auckland, New Zealand. I'm currently a full-time student studying Maths and Computer Science (among other things). I've been using Linux since early 2008, after a bit of distro-hopping I moved to Arch, and was very impressed by the wiki and the degree of control I gained over my system. My forum username is PirateJonno, maybe some of you have seen me around. Why do I want to be a TU? Well, Arch has been my distribution of choice for several years now, and I would like to give something back to the community. I hope that this position will enable me to move some popular AUR packages to community. What packages am I interested in? Firstly, I would like to adopt MythTV (and related packages) since they seem to have no current maintainer. This would involve moving them out of extra and into community of course. If the need arises, I would also be willing to maintain anything I have installed, which boils down to a lot of GNOME desktop applications, a few games, and various multimedia programs or libraries. Other packages I would be interested in bringing to community are: fbsplash (along with a few themes) gnome-colors-icon-theme mediatomb (possibly with a few patches) nspluginwrapper-flash (if this presents no ideological issues) Also, I have a few projects of my own that could be added in future, namely PackageKit and nautilus-makepkg. See my AUR/GitHub pages at: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=PirateJonno http://github.com/PirateJonno Can I do the job? I think I have enough experience packaging for Arch to become a TU. Although I don't maintain many AUR packages, I would do if the need arose. I often modify others' packages to change the configure flags, add a custom patch, enable debugging symbols, etc. My work on PackageKit has made me very familiar with the packaging system itself. I am also a reasonably experienced C/C++ programmer, which means I am usually pretty good at tracking down bugs. My ability to find bugs in unfamiliar code is also improving. For example, here are some I have reported/fixed: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?email1=j% 40skurvy.no-ip.org&emailtype1=exact&emailreporter1=1 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?email1=j% 40skurvy.no-ip.org&emailtype1=exact&emailreporter1=1 http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?status[]&opened=PirateJonno Thanks for your time, Jonathan

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[aur-general] Please delete geometria
by Dany Martineau 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hi! Could someone can delete geometria (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29049) as i replaced it with geometria-es, geometria-fr and geometria-en Thanks! -- Dany Martineau Enseignant en mathématiques École secondaire du Harfang 4e et 5e secondaire http://danym.org CSSMI

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[aur-general] Fwd: core/elfutils?
by Martti Kühne 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=5300 can be deleted as it's in [core] repo. thx.

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[aur-general] package deleting request violetland-fr
by biginoz 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Hi. I request the deleting of violetland-fr because I adopt violetland and make in PKGBUILD the possibility to have qwerty or azerty keyboard configuration. Package to be delete : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39342 Thanks. Biginoz

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[aur-general] Deletion of packages from AUR
by Elena of Valhalla 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Could you please remove package bugseverywhere-bzr from AUR? The project has moved to git http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38280 Could you please also remove usb_modeswitch-updated, that I uploaded in a hurry before reading the full guidelines http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35896 thanks -- Elena ``of Valhalla'' homepage: http://www.trueelena.org email: elena.valhalla(a)gmail.com

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[aur-general] package removal request
by Lukáš Jirkovský 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Please remove the package autopano-sift-c-svn (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13214) The development switched to mercurial and there is new package autopano-sift-c-hg using it (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39968) Lukas

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[aur-general] Package removal request
by Clément DÉMOULINS 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Could you please remove the package networkx, i renamed the package to python-networkx to follow python guidelines. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15986 Thanks Clément -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxqV0QACgkQLXRXVt1R4CgHcgCeJZFAp0DvUp+jSdNIwPxSeQIX 9uAAnjfyqHzVgED8QFrxxkyQedx/wTMj =L9Lf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] removal request
by Lukáš Jirkovský 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Hello everyone, please remove gpac-cvs (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11826) it has been superseded by gpac-svn. Have a nice day, Lukas

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[aur-general] Update pidgin-gtalkinvisible
by Nilesh Govindarajan 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Hi, This is to notify the PKGBUILD owner of pidgin-gtalkinvisible that the plugin has been updated at fahhem.com/pidgin Please update the md5sums() in the PKGBUILD. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps

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[aur-general] Packages Deletion request
by KESHAV P.R. 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Please delete the following AUR packages (all are grub2 related) grub2-915resolution - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22927 - now available as part of grub-extras (upstream) (not still in AUR) grub2-efi-bzr - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38369 - My own - orphaned grub2-efi-bzr-exp - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39601 - My own - orphaned Both the packages have been replaced by grub2-efi-x64-bzr ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39901) and grub2-efi-x86-bzr (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39902) grub2-gfxmenu - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27280 - gfxmenu is now integrated in grub2 bzr upstream present in grub2 1.98 grub2-gfxmenu-bzr - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36387 - same reason as above grub2-svn - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28283 - replaced by grub2-bzr (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37287) grub2-quiet - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35282 - there is no such thing as quiet grub2 - this package simply removes some printf messages - already orphaned Thank you.

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[aur-general] package deleting request barpanel
by jwbirdsong 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

barpanel http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16971 Last updated 14 Mar 2009. sources *seem* unavailable. didn't search REAL intensively.

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[aur-general] Moving the following packages to community tomorrow.
by Thomas Dziedzic 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

I plan on moving the following packages into community tomorrow: sage-mathematics (already started another thread for this one) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14429 perl-ppi http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17003 (dep) perl-params-util http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17112 (dep) perl-task-weaken (maintainer contacted, and gave permission to move) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17105 root http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12456 On another note, I have disowned: pytrainer - I have disowned this for anyone interested in adopting. Will maintain until a new maintainer is found. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7171

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[aur-general] Proposal to move sage-mathematics into [community].
by Thomas Dziedzic 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Hello, I am the maintainer of aur/sage-mathematics. I think this package has matured to the point where it could be included into the community repository. There are no issues with this package that I am currently aware of. Its inclusion into community would probably save a lot of compilation time for everyone. The namcap and built package could be found at: http://pkgbuild.com/~td123/ The package is ~700MB per architecture. I didn't modularize this package because upstream doesn't intend to modularize it, and because of the amount of work that would require, not only to split everything off, but to make sure nothing breaks at the same time. Case in point, http://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo I would like to start discussing its inclusion now. Cheers!

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Andrea Fagiani 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Please delete package [1] , it replaces rc.sysinit and rc.multi, provided by the initscripts package, which is just plain wrong, and it has been disowned. Also package [2] is a duplicate of the libnih package; the maintainer has agreed but didn't know how to delete it. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38083 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37884

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Re: [aur-general] Remove kernel-liquorix
by Raul Castillo 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

This was already obsolete whenever I found it. It was version 2.6.31 or something like that. I tried to update it but kept getting ASM errors. I have created new PKGBUILDs based on kernel26-bfs and nvidia-bfs and named kernel26-lqx and nvidia-lqx respectively. I have tested and am using the builds now on my PC for x86_64 and everything is working good. So pretty much this PKGBUILD is obsolete/not working and I have uploaded an undated version using the .configs from liquorix.net project.

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[aur-general] Vacation
by Ike Devolder 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

I go on vacation for a week so pls do not orphan my outdated packages :p i will update again on 23 aug, or at least on 24 aug. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=BlackEagle thx Best regards

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[aur-general] Removal request for cross32 stuff
by Mikhail Vorozhtsov 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Hi, TUs. Since my cross32-* packages [1][2][3][4] were adopted into [community], feel free to remove them from AUR. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31543 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31547 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31545 [4] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34216

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[aur-general] Package ownership change request qt-git and qtcreator-git
by Bernhard Friedreich 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Hi! Both packages: -) qt-git -) qtcreator-git seem to be unmaintained. I (friesoft) would like to take over maintainership as I've already created new, working versions. Thanks! Best regards, Bernhard Friedreich, friesoft

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[aur-general] Remove kernel-liquorix
by Raul Castillo 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

I don't know if previous request went through to remove kernel-liquorix.

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[aur-general] Package removal, ppasskeeper-svn
by Martin Peres 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Hi, The pppaskeeper project has switched from svn to git, making ppasskeeper-svn( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19471) useless. I'm the owner of this package, could you delete it? I will soon replace it with ppasskeeper-git. Thanks, Martin Peres (Mupuf)

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[aur-general] packages deletion request
by Xavier 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

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[aur-general] Orphan request
by Simon Stoakley 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Hi, can you please orphan libtommath [1], so i can adopt ,update etc. Development has recently restarted and I've emailed the current maintainer and had no reply. Thanks Simon -- [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11500

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[aur-general] AUR libfm removal requests
by Cilyan Olowen 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Hello, Could you please delete these two packages from AUR: libfm [1]: Duplicate as it is provided in extra and outdated. libfm-udisks [2]: Used to provide a version of libfm-git with enable-udisks, but this options was added by default in the original libfm-git package. Thanks! :) [1]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36847 [2]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38777

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Re: [aur-general] aur-general Digest, Vol 70, Issue 13
by Stijn Segers 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:36:17 +0300 > From: Ionu? B?ru <ibiru(a)archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [aur-general] TUs adopting packages from the AUR > To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" > <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: <4C66D411.7010405(a)archlinux.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > On 08/14/2010 08:22 PM, Xyne wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:43:37 +0300 > > Ionu? B?ru wrote: > > > >> On 08/14/2010 02:38 PM, Stijn Segers wrote: > >>> Guys, > >>> > >>> When I saw this discussion about sage-mathematics I was just wondering what is customary when > >>> a TU wants to adopt packages that are not his and are maintained by someone in the AUR. > >>> > >>> I had a couple of those (remmina-plugins and freerdp) and from one day to another my packages > >>> were 'gone' from AUR. Only after that some TU sent me a message that he had taken my > >>> packages. There was nothing in the AUR ML about moving it. > >>> > >>> Is this how this is usually done? I know developers aren't great communicators, but it sure > >>> struck me as impolite, rude even. > >>> > >>> Thanks > >> > >> yes. this is how we handle it. eventually we have to do that since you > >> or any other contributors can't commit to community and we want all our > >> users to easy access their favorite applications. > >> > > > > Is that really how we're supposed to handle it? > > > > In my opinion, a TU should contact the current maintainer in advance to > > discuss moving a package to [community]. Simply taking the package is > > indeed impolite, regardless of the number of votes. > > > > if you read his email, you'll see that an email was sent. > > if the current maintainer doesn't want to be moved, you think that is a > democracy? :D > > is not > > I don't mind seeing packages moved into [community], much to the contrary. But as Xyne said, communication would be nice. If some TU were to ask me 'can I adopt this package and put it in [community]', why would I say no? Why would anyone, for that matter? :-) I'd just like to be noticed before, and not after. Of course it's not a democracy, but communication isn't a synonym of democracy ;-).

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[aur-general] PKGBUILD using bzr for launchpad acess
by Christophe Chapuis 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Hello all, I have recently proposed a new prototype for the bzr handling in a PKGBUILD. You'll find it attached. It also "solves" a problem related to the use of makepkg with launchpad. Indeed, if you are already logged in in launchpad when contacting the bzr server, the "launchpad" plugin of bzr will automatically try to connect using ssh. This will fail because the build is done inside a fakeroot environment, where ssh cannot create the /root/.ssh directory... The solution proposed in that PKGBUILD is to never use the "lp:" URI style. Instead, we use the following command: "bzr --no-plugins pull http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~user/project/branch" Please find attach the proposed PKGBUILD-bzr.proto file which I just proposed for inclusion in the "abs" package. If you do the changes proposed in that PKGBUILD compared to yours, then it will solve the problem related to launchpad. Note that PKGBUILD not accessing a launchpad server are of course not problematic. Please tell me if you think my proposal if OK or if we should use another procedure to do that; I'm quite new to all this AUR procedures, and I hope I don't any kind of rude shortcut here :) Cheers, Tofe

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[aur-general] Please delete cairo-dock-plug-ins-bzr
by Ng Oon-Ee 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35141 is a dup of http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30335 Please delete. Both refer to the same package, and one is maintained while the other is orphaned with zero votes.

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[aur-general] Exchanging glest with megaglest
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Development on glest has been halted and due to that the megaglest fork has been started. I'd like to drop glest to AUR and move megaglest to community in its place. I feel this is the right thing to do since any player would want the more featureful and actively developed version. If nobody is going to hate me for it, I'm going to move it in 1-2 days. -- Sven-Hendrik

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[aur-general] package deletion request
by Dave Reisner 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

Please delete the package systemd-initscripts-git, which I was, until recently, the owner of. It backs up onto a git repo (also mine) which is no longer useful. Thanks, dave reisner

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[aur-general] TUs adopting packages from the AUR
by Stijn Segers 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

Guys, When I saw this discussion about sage-mathematics I was just wondering what is customary when a TU wants to adopt packages that are not his and are maintained by someone in the AUR. I had a couple of those (remmina-plugins and freerdp) and from one day to another my packages were 'gone' from AUR. Only after that some TU sent me a message that he had taken my packages. There was nothing in the AUR ML about moving it. Is this how this is usually done? I know developers aren't great communicators, but it sure struck me as impolite, rude even. Thanks B On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 04:17:36 -0400 aur-general-request(a)archlinux.org wrote: > Send aur-general mailing list submissions to > aur-general(a)archlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aur-general > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > aur-general-request(a)archlinux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > aur-general-owner(a)archlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of aur-general digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Delete request (Laurent Carlier) > 2. Re: python packages in [community-testing] (Angel Vel?squez) > 3. Re: Proposal to move sage-mathematics into [community]. (Xyne) > 4. Re: Proposal to move sage-mathematics into [community]. > (Sven-Hendrik Haase) > 5. Re: Proposal to move sage-mathematics into [community]. > (Loui Chang) > 6. Re: python packages in [community-testing] (Stefan Husmann) > 7. Re: Proposal to move sage-mathematics into [community]. > (Stefan Husmann) > 8. Re: Proposal to move sage-mathematics into [community]. > (Peter Lewis) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:57:49 +0200 > From: Laurent Carlier <lordheavym(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [aur-general] Delete request > To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository $AUR$" > <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: <201008140057.49246.lordheavym(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Le samedi 14 ao?t 2010 00:50:06, Simon Stoakley a ?crit : > > Hi, can you please delete firefox-tabcandy as it's now landed on trunk > > so can be got with the FF-nightly pkg > > Thanks > > Simon > > > > [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39196 > > Done :-) > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:16:30 -0300 > From: Angel Vel?squez <angvp(a)archlinux.com.ve> > Subject: Re: [aur-general] python packages in [community-testing] > To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" > <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTikXu%3Dd2s8b46eaA_u2hHOE5Bkz9XXqnA_298QhO(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > > > python-configobj - put in testing for arch=any conversion back in March... > > > > Moved > > > python-scipy - this is screwy... ?the version in [community-testing] has the > > same pkgrel-pkgver as that in [community] but they are different packages. > > Fixed and moved > > > > Can these be moved/fixed. > > > > Thanks, > > Allan > > > > > > > > > > >

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[aur-general] python packages in [community-testing]
by Allan McRae 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

Hi, With the approaching python rebuild I would like to get all python related packages out of [community-testing]. As far as I can tell, there are only three: bzrtools - seems to be an update from April rotting away. python-configobj - put in testing for arch=any conversion back in March... python-scipy - this is screwy... the version in [community-testing] has the same pkgrel-pkgver as that in [community] but they are different packages. Can these be moved/fixed. Thanks, Allan

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Alessio Sergi 13 Aug '10

13 Aug '10

Hi TUs, please remove nautilus-elementary [1] cause it's replaced by nautilus-elementary-bzr [2] (due to naming inconsistency) Thanks in advance [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33749 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39246 -- Alessio Sergi

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[aur-general] Please disown haskell-{funcmp, hopenssl, hsdns, hsemail, hsyslog}
by Peter Simons 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Hi, I am the principal author of these packages: haskell-funcmp http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18122 haskell-hopenssl http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17743 haskell-hsdns http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17745 haskell-hsemail http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17746 haskell-hsyslog http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17751 In March 2010, I published updates to these packages on Hackage and marked the corresponding entries in AUR out-of-date. Nothing happened. In May, I added comments to the AUR pages, asking Don Stewart to please update the PKGBUILDs, but nothing happened. In June, I posted to this very mailing list and requested that the packages please be disowned, but was referred to the Arch-Haskell mailing list instead. So I posted there, asking whether those packages could please be updated. Naturally, nothing happened. By now, all of these packages have been out-of-date for over 4 months. So ... could you PLEASE disown them so that I can take over maintenance? Take care, Peter

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[aur-general] Delition of gpsd
by Stefan Mark 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

I was asked in the comments in the gpsd packege to ask here for deletion of it. So i do. Could anyone please delete "gpsd" in aur? thanks stefan mark

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[aur-general] masqmail 0.3 with no backward compatibility
by Matthias Matousek 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Hello, I am currently maintaining the masqmail package in aur. masqmail is a small mail transfer agent. Last week a new version 0.3.0 was released which has no compatibility to the 0.2 branch. The masqmail developer recommends users who already use masqmail to stick with the 0.2 branch and new users to take the 0.3 branch. To make that possible there needs to be a package for each branch in the aur. I'm not sure how I should handle that. I was thinking about creating a second package "masqmail-0.3" in addition to the currently existing package "masqmail". I wasn't able to find anything about such issues in the packaging guidelines. Are there any suggestions how this should be handled? Thanks, matou

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[aur-general] Move python-clientform from [community]?
by Chris Brannon 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

This package used to be a dependency for python-mechanize, but not anymore. python-mechanize now provides the same functionality directly. Upstream will be making no further releases. I want to remove it from [community]. If it goes, is there any point in uploading it to [unsupported], considering that it is deprecated? -- Chris

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[aur-general] Orphan request: pyclew
by Ivan S. Freitas 08 Aug '10

08 Aug '10

Please orphan pyclew package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22245 I cannot contact the maintainer and it's very outdated. Thanks. -- ============================================== Ivan Sichmann Freitas Engenharia de Computação 2009 UNICAMP http://identi.ca/ivansichmann Grupo Pró Software Livre UNICAMP - GPSL ==============================================

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[aur-general] cryptmount out of date
by Mike Sampson 08 Aug '10

08 Aug '10

cryptmount[1] has been out of date and broken since May. If someone could orphan it I will update it. It looks like an interesting package. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12607

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[aur-general] Delete requset
by Simon Stoakley 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

Could you please delete nautilus-open-terminal-svn [1] It's moved to git and I've upld a new pkg [2] Thanks Simon -- [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25047 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39477

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[aur-general] Package duplicaded
by corvolino 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

Hello guys the package gmlive-extra [1] is duplicated, I would aks someone to look and delete the duplicate packet. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31423 <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31423> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31478 -- corvolino ~ Linux User #459152 Jabber: corvolino(a)jabber.org Blog - http://corvolinopunk.wordpress.com Archlinux-br Developer Team

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[aur-general] Package removal: boostpythongenerator
by Matthias Männich 05 Aug '10

05 Aug '10

Hi, can you please remove the package 'boostpythongenerator' (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33064) since it has been replaced by 'generatorrunner'. Thanks a lot, Matthias

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[aur-general] Removal request for yacron-git
by Profjim 05 Aug '10

05 Aug '10

Hi TUs, Can you please delete yacron-git (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29566) This has been superseded by extra/dcron and aur/dcron-git---which are waiting for some overdue fixes, but that's another matter. I just let yacron-git up for a while in case anyone went looking for the old name. But it can be retired now. Thanks. -- Jim Pryor profjim(a)jimpryor.net

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[aur-general] Sonata-svn package should be removed.
by Final Crisis 04 Aug '10

04 Aug '10

The package sonata-svn at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6963 is obsoleted by sonata-git and should be removed. The maintainer on its aur page said he left it to aid in the transition to the correct package and it's been long enough to remove it.

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[aur-general] ccache-pre package removal
by Marcin "eXine" M. 04 Aug '10

04 Aug '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Please remove my package ccache-pre since stable 3.0 version is out long time ago. Link: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35460 - -- Best regards, Marcin "eXine" M. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxZZTEACgkQTsAxsvjQwYX5pgCgt5DBcgTOYuMa0GcDZJG1PFVA LzoAn1fmLoaoFcjsFgGtdjLTixEirjPP =IjsH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] please orphan all my packages
by Caleb Cushing 04 Aug '10

04 Aug '10

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&L=2&K=xenoterracide thanks -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.com

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[aur-general] Orphan request: sympa and pidentd
by Moritz Rudert 04 Aug '10

04 Aug '10

Hello, Please, could someone orphan sympa - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29103 pidentd - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14736 because it is not updated long time and the maintainer didnt respond to comments. Thanks, Moritz <helios> Rudert

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[aur-general] metasploit3 package removal
by Marcin "eXine" M. 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Package metasploit3 haven't been updated since 2008 and is replaced by package metasploit which provides the most recent stable version. My question is - can it be removed? I didn't contacted the author, but if it's needed I'll do that. Link to that package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14965 - -- Best regards, Marcin "eXine" M. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxYlmoACgkQTsAxsvjQwYUHvwCfXTUsVwUGzNfot4d4bQa1VT9K rGUAn1Wy7x+n7tyciFNxYKGRfxo4zVXa =y5S4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] Please delete vim-scripts-xmledit
by Magnus Therning 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

Please remove vim-scripts-xmledit from AUR. With the latest release the author supports VBA so this vim extensions can easily be handled with GLVS[1]. /M [1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=642

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[aur-general] inactivity period
by Imanol Celaya 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

I'm going on vacations from 2 of august until 30 of august, so I'll be inactive for that period of time. Imanol

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[aur-general] trusted users business
by Ionuț Bîru 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

Hi, i've compiled a list of votes from the last 6 proposals just to see if it happened by accident to not vote. http://dev.archlinux.org/~ibiru/votes.txt from this only 3 users didn't vote for more than 3 times. Ranguvar, swiergot and vegai. From our wiki none are marked as inactive. Ranguvar i know he's active in this list, not so much in voting, swiergot i don't remember him at all, vegai i guess is busy. What happened guys? -- Ionuț

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[aur-general] Vala 0.9.4 and future versions
by Christer 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

Hi, Both vala-devel (0.9.2) and vala (0.8.1) is out of date and has been for a long time now. Both packages have been flagged as Out of Date previously (I cant seem to get information when it was done from the web page?). Version 0.9.4 came out a couple of days ago. I have added a PKGBUILD for 0.9.4 in the comments section of the vala-devel package, and I would like to take over as the maintainer of this package if the original maintainer no longer has the time or interest in it. Ionut Biru is the maintainer at the moment (ibiru(a)archlinux.org) Kind regards, Christer Nissen, Sweden

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[aur-general] gnome-subtitles
by Rafael Beraldo 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

Hello, gnome-subtitles AUR package [1] has been out-of-date for a long time. I have just created a PKGBUILD for the last version of this package. In order to upload my PKGBUILD, gnome-subtitles has to be orphaned. Could please a TU do that for me? gnome-subtitles is a great application and I would learn a lot of things by maintaining this package. Thank you! -- Rafael Beraldo http://cabaladada.org

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[aur-general] Orphan request: rsget
by Anton Leontiev 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

Please, orphan the package rsget [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25469] There is already version 0.3.1 and PKGBUILD on the official site. I have posted the message in the comments and on the 17th of July I sent an e-mail to Phitherek requesting him to update or disown the package, and he didn't answer. I am going to propose to be the maintainer to the author of the PKGBUILD on the official site. If he refuse I'll take the maintenance. With best regards, -- Leontiev Anton (bunder(a)t-25.ru)

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[aur-general] AUR package removal: frogatto
by Pavle 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

Could someone remove frogatto package from AUR, owned by me, pio? For some reason i couldn't refresh my package list, so I didn't see it was already in community repository. Sorry

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[aur-general] Orphan request for sqsh
by Erik Johnson 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

This package has been flagged as out of date and the maintainer has not responded to my attempts to contact him. The package has not been updated for over two years now. Can someone orphan this so that I can assume responsibility for it? http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18441 Thanks, -- -Erik "For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." --Carl Sagan

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[aur-general] orphan request for gallery
by Moritz Rudert 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Hello, can you please orphan gallery (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29171) because it hasnt updated long time. Thanks helios

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[aur-general] [Deletion Request] xf86-input-keyboard-git and xf86-input-mouse-git.
by speedvin 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

Hello! Please delete below packages, because of those you can use packages from the repository! xf86-input-keyboard-git - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19041 xf86-input-mouse-git - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19042 Thanks!

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[aur-general] Request for funguloids
by Dany Martineau 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

Hi! I've recently create a successful PKGBUILD for the game funguloids (works with ogre 1.7.1). I wrote to the maintainer some time ago to update his PKGBUILD, but it hasn't been updated since 2 years. I'd like to become the maintainer of this game (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12506) and correct the PKGBUILD to make it work. Thanks! -- Dany Martineau Enseignant en mathématiques École secondaire du Harfang 4e et 5e secondaire http://danym.org CSSMI

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[aur-general] Please orphan the "adobe-air" package or assign it to me
by Xavion 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

Please read the comments at the bottom of the webpage<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16940>for the "adobe-air" package. You'll notice that the maintainer has ignored my request from over a fortnight ago to update the PKGBUILD. It's important that this is done soon, due to a serious security vulnerability that Adobe has now fixed.

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