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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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