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[aur-general] Application as a Trusted User
by Thorsten Töpper 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 Hello, I've been playing for a while with the thought to apply as a Trusted User, but I never really had the courage to do so, well now I try it. About my person: I'm a 1990 born student from the south of Germany, I study Computer Science(first semester) and use Arch as my main system now since two years and 4 days. I'm mainly active in the german part of the community as the international forums and IRC are too lively for me to actively participate a lot, so I mostly only read the topics, but don't post in the threads. However I read nearly every mail at the mailing lists (except for the ones concerning problems of Users with software I haven't used in years e.g. KDE), but as my opinion was often already stated I don't feel that I have to repeat what's already been said, so I mail rarely to the lists too. About my skills: I'm programming in C since a few years, though I mostly review code in order to learn more, I'm also capable of the basics with python 2.5, several BASIC dialects, C++, Objective C, Java and of course shell scripting. Whereas the focus for the next years lies upon C and Java as they're both needed by my study. About my packages: I maintain 10 packages in AUR[1], whereby I also participate in the development of the i3 window manager to whom's project family 6 of these packages belong(3 projects, each as stable and git package), the other four are the git package of the newsbeuter feedreader and the cococpp package which is a build dependency for the previously named, structorizer which is a Java program to design structograms (or Nassi- Schneiderman diagrams) and a mecurial package for objfw which is a portable framework for the Objective C language, not one of them was adopted. If you want to see their history, I also keep them in a git repository at github.com[2]. About my Application: I asked Stefan Husmann if he would like to sponsor me and he agreed to do so. I have two Arch systems, my laptop running an i686 installation and my desktop machine running a x86_64 installation, both run without the testing repository. As I have to use Java and corresponding util- ities for my study I'd take care of orphanages of the Java development segment, but also orphans in the topics I'm mainly interested in(window managers, development and networks). And as I check my mail whenever it's possible I'd also help with the request of users regarding the administration of the AUR. If you want to search for me, my nick at Arch related sites is Atsutane. Regards Thorsten [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=Atsutane [2] http://github.com/Atsutane/packages - -- Jabber: atsutane(a)freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAksIGCkACgkQOeTxfyla+/QIXgDgq6vF0HVT5ab9E2eMNjcRvxzw MLDlK0b2ILDHugDeLTJMdLx609Qhnh5Z87jPEDohZiLX0i4Cd/0HZQ== =uTIK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] tablet waltop, linuxwacom 0.8.4-9 patch for waltop
by andrew james 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

I want this patch included in the package. It works with the tablet, WALTOP International Corp. Slim Tablet, two pen buttons are errored currently (both work like mouse middle click ?button 3?), but pressure and button 1 at pen tip work. The patch is one line to include the WALTOP vendor id, written generically at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wacom#WALTOP_tablet_support_by_the_Waco… Another AUR package has this patch but the package failed to get the controllers from linuxwacom. awx was maintainer. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28999 I think other users may like the convenience of this patch included for their tablet. I wrote the patch for the current package linuxwacom 0.8.4-9. It is attached, to include it in the PKGBUILD add something like, #patch to work with tablet WALTOP # tested WALTOP International Corp. Slim Tablet patch -Np1 -i ${srcdir}/linuxwacom-0.8.4_3-waltop.patch || return andrew diff -aur a/src/xdrv/wcmUSB.c b/src/xdrv/wcmUSB.c --- a/src/xdrv/wcmUSB.c 2009-09-16 21:54:04.000000000 +0200 +++ b/src/xdrv/wcmUSB.c 2009-11-06 03:40:27.904101443 +0200 @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ ioctl(local->fd, EVIOCGNAME(sizeof(id)), id); /* vendor is wacom */ - if (sID[1] == 0x056A) + if (sID[1] == 0x056A || sID[1] == 0x172f) { common->tablet_id = sID[2];

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[aur-general] Orphaning request (pidgin-hotkeys)
by Lukas Fleischer 29 Nov '09

29 Nov '09

Hi, pidgin-hotkeys is out-of-date for more than two years (0.2.4 has been released on 2007-06-22). Although this plugin doesn't seem to be developed actively anymore, I still use it and would like to see it maintained in the AUR (using a hotkey to switch to the next window with activity - just like Meta-a in irssi's default config - is quite useful). However, pidgin-hotkeys needs to be patched to work with pidgin>=2.2.0. The author didn't react on AUR comments for about 9 months and didn't respond to a detailed mail I wrote one week ago. Could you please orphan this package, so that I can adopt it and upload a working PKGBUILD? Best regards, Lukas Fleischer

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[aur-general] Bunch of deletion candidates
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

openoffice (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24413) This package is plainly named "openoffice" when it seems to provide a -dev version of some kind and it also appears to duplicate the effort of the packages in [extra]. Personally I think it is confusing even though the package appears to be maintained. Your call. go-oo-bin-base (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19457) This package also seems to duplicate the package of the same mission in [extra]. I know that the difference is that this one uses the provided rpm packages instead of compiling by itself. Your call again. go-oo-{calc,draw,impress,math} These are outdated and at best match the go-oo-bin-base package. We however already have the functionality in [extra]. Also I'd like box2d-svn (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24278) orphaned for me to pick up. The maintainer didn't show any effort to communicate or fix the package. -- Sven-Hendrik

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[aur-general] Orphaning request
by Raphael Scholer 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hello TUs, could you please orphan vim-snipmate, since it needs an update to work with current vim versions. I posted a comment regarding this problem, nearly two months ago in aur, but the maintainer didn't reply/or update the PKGBUILD. I tried today to reach him via e-mail, but the given adress in his aur profile doesn't seem to be active anymore. Regards, Raphael Scholer

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Laszlo Papp 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hello TUs, kermit[1] seems to be a duplicate of ckermit[2]. It installs the same version of kermit project like ckermit. The Maintainer of kermit didn't react for the comments which were taken nearly 3 years ago. I've checked it won't hurt any other package on AUR, because this package is not the dependency of other package. I've checked which name is better to be in AUR, but after a small researching ckermit is better according to the official site/project, and other distribution (like Ubuntu, Gentoo) use ckermit too instead of kermit. [1]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3385 [2]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14006 Best Regards, Laszlo Papp

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[aur-general] Please delete package aurget-git
by Jordy van Wolferen 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hey all, I would like to request the removal of the package aurget-git: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25551 I used some code from brisbin33 scripts and he now wrote a complete AUR frontend and wants to use the name aurget. Aurget-git isn't the dev package of aurget, so to don't confuse people I changed the name to aurget-jordz (non-git). Best Regards, jordz

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[aur-general] LDFLAGS question
by bardo 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hi all. Recently I've been having fun with the latest pulseaudio quirk: it doesn't build because of the --as-needed flag in linking. I don't understand linking in depth, but as I understood it there's some dependency cycle that gets triggered by the aforementioned ld flag. However this doesn't happen when building in a chroot, where the package builds fine. It isn't the only package where it happens, and I have a handful of questions about the correct way to handle this. 1. If something like this happens, is it an upstream bug? 2. If it builds fine in a chroot there's obviously a software that triggers the bug, does it mean I am missing a dependency? 3. If a package builds inside a chroot but not outside, should it be changed in such a way that it builds everywhere regardless of the changes that are to be made? Or should it be left as it is, and related bugs closed with "build it in a chroot"? 4. What does the absence of the ld flag imply in practical terms? Is it just a "nice to have" or has it some real implications?

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Re: [aur-general] LDFLAGS question
by Ranguvar 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 18:58, bardo <ilbardo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all. > Recently I've been having fun with the latest pulseaudio quirk: it > doesn't build because of the --as-needed flag in linking. I don't > understand linking in depth, but as I understood it there's some > dependency cycle that gets triggered by the aforementioned ld flag. > However this doesn't happen when building in a chroot, where the > package builds fine. > > It isn't the only package where it happens, and I have a handful of > questions about the correct way to handle this. > > 1. If something like this happens, is it an upstream bug? > 2. If it builds fine in a chroot there's obviously a software that > triggers the bug, does it mean I am missing a dependency? > 3. If a package builds inside a chroot but not outside, should it be > changed in such a way that it builds everywhere regardless of the > changes that are to be made? Or should it be left as it is, and > related bugs closed with "build it in a chroot"? > 4. What does the absence of the ld flag imply in practical terms? Is > it just a "nice to have" or has it some real implications? > Hello bardo, 1.) Depends on whether they see it as such :p Some upstreams get all annoyed and tag the bug as WONTFIX. Others care about it and take a look into it. I would file it upstream though, just in case. Also, check the Gentoo bug reports, both closed and open, for your problem -- Gentoo has lately been trying to resolve all --as-needed compile issues. 2.) Probably not missing a dependency so much as revealing a flaw in how the software is built (or the linker itself). --as-needed affects how binaries link in other stuff, a certain package may trigger the problem. 3.) I would say, personally, make it build the same everywhere. Do put a comment in the PKGBUILD though, for future reference by others 4.) --as-needed reduces some of the library dependencies of binaries, and also speeds up the dynamic linking step -- applications start faster. Therefore, it's nice to have, but can be removed if it presents problems (as it does every now and again). And lastly, please filter --as-needed in a sane way instead of exporting LDFLAGS :P I like the following three-line solution to filter all variants of --as-needed: LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS//-Wl,--as-needed}" LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS//,--as-needed}" export LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS//--as-needed}" Again, please tag that block with a comment about the failure and that it doesn't fail in a clean chroot or whatever :) Hope that helps, -- Ranguvar [Devin Cofer]

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[aur-general] Deletion request: pulseaudio-airtunes-git
by Clément Démoulins 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Hello, Please delete my package pulseaudio-airtunes-git [1] Thanks Clément Démoulins [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19564

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[aur-general] Anyone who wants to maintain sim instant messenger?
by Tobias Powalowski 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hi guys, i have still the sim package, which i don't use since ages, someone here who uses it? Else it's time to move it to the AUR or community. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] audio packages
by bardo 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

2009/11/21 Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org>: > There have been plenty of bugs about enabling pulseaudio support in various > packages but they are routinely closed with a "deferred until it is in > [extra]" message. To get better audio support we would probably want to > bring in at least pulseaudio, oss and portaudio from [community]. I maintain pulse in [community] and couldn't agree more, this package should go to [extra], since it is a makedepend for a lot of packages which many users have to rebuild by themselves at the moment. > So is there a current dev willing to maintain these? If anybody wants to step up, get in touch with me, I can recap on the current package situation and give a lot of tips for a mostly hassle-free maintenance. Since as far as I know not all devs read this ml, it could be a good idea if someone forwarded this message to arch-dev-public. Thanks, Corrado

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[aur-general] Inactivity
by Abhishek Dasgupta 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Semester exams are starting next week, so I'll be inactive till 8th Dec. Cheers, Abhishek

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[aur-general] Out-of-Date orphans packages list
by Andrea Scarpino 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

Hi, As you already know I am writing a list of ours orphans packages and a candidate maintainer for each. The list is really long (~980) and I haven't more time now (I lost two days for mysql too...). But I thought we can begin from out-of-date packages meantime. So: [extra] bash-completion - (aaron) exim fluidsynth (giovanni) fox - needed by packages in community, move? libtorrent-rasterbar (hugo) mailman myth* (juergen) nasm (aaron) nicotine nss_ldap pam_ldap perl-event (tobias) opencv (tpowa) phonon-xine (pierre) pm-utils (thayer) proftpd (dale) qjackctl (tobias) sawfish (jurgen) silc-toolkit (ibiru) snort tomcat transcode (giovanni) vim (tobias) vsftpd (tobias) x264 (hugo?) xvidcore (tobias) [community] assaultcube beaver duplicity - (elasticdog) eclipse-pydev (bardo?) firefox-spell-pt-br - maybe we should do a firefox-spell-i18n package gtk2-docs (jgc?) libpthread-stubs libxdg-basedir (ronald) moovida musepack-tools proj puzzles python-flup (aschaefer) python-sqlalchemy (ronald) schismtracker tuxcmd (jswierczynski) urlgfe (new project name uget) windowlab xnee (jswierczynski) zziplib (dgriffiths) Please adopt your packages. thanks! -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[aur-general] package cleanup requests
by TDY 21 Nov '09

21 Nov '09

Hopefully this email doesn't turn out blank like my last one. Please remove these packages of mine: pal: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32149 - accidentally uploaded a dupe just now echinus-hg: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16908 - project moved to git gscrot: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16389 - project renamed to shutter Thanks.

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[aur-general] removal of my superseeded packages
by Florian Friesdorf 21 Nov '09

21 Nov '09

Hi, the following packages (which I am the maintainer of) are superseded. (In brackets the number of votes they still have and the new package): - pil-py24 (3, new: python24-pil) - python-ldap-py24 (0, new: python24-ldap) - setuptools-py24 (1, new: python24-setuptools) - vimoutliner (10, new: vim-tvo) I think python-ldap-py24 can be removed. How is the procedure for the others, that still have votes? -- Florian Friesdorf <flo(a)chaoflow.net> GPG FPR: EA5C F2B4 FBBB BA65 3DCD E8ED 82A1 6522 4A1F 4367 Jabber/XMPP: flo(a)chaoflow.net OTR FPR: 9E191746 213321FE C896B37D 24B118C0 31785700 IRC: chaoflow on freenode,ircnet,blafasel,OFTC

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[aur-general] [nuisance guy] please delete this account
by solsTiCe d'Hiver 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

hi. there was this guy, nicknamed diblidabliduu on AUR. he bug me to update a package that i explained i have no reason to do so. he then repeatdly marked this package out-of-date. As the comments he made are gone i guess his account has been deleted. but this package has again been marked out-of-date by jfdlksafdskjl. i guess he's back. please delete this account

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[aur-general] Deletion request: eglibc-2.10-svn
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Hola Please delete eglibc-2.10-svn [#1], it is now replaced by eglibc-2.11-svn [#2] Gracias ;) [#1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26373 [#2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32130 -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D

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[aur-general] Resignation
by Timm Preetz 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

I hereby resign from my duties as an Arch Linux Trusted User. Good luck to all the others in the future :) Timm

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[aur-general] gummibaerchen status?
by Andrea Scarpino 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Is Timm Preetz aka gummimbaerchen still a TU? I read he is flagged as active but: - he have not an account on dev platform - last package sent on 05th April '09 - last closed bug on 22th April '09 -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[aur-general] MythTV
by Manne Merak 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hi, any idea why MythTV 0.22 branch is flagged out of date? Any plans to start it up again. I can help (well, I can try) Manne

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[aur-general] Package deletion request
by Ranguvar 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hello, Can you please delete my package, 'llvm-clang-svn<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30359>'? It does not fit in with the new llvm and clang packages in [community], and it'd be better for me to offer contributions to 'llvm-svn' and 'clang-svn', etc. Thanks! -- Ranguvar

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[aur-general] Please remove package "blender2.5"
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

It appears as though AUR package "blender2.5" is now broken and also useless because the 2.5 branch has already been merged with blender mainline and thus now blender-svn effectively replaces this package. The author doesn't seem to answer either so I think it'd be best to remove this package. -- Sven-Hendrik

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[aur-general] SELinux upgrade and packages deletion request
by Nicky726 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hello, First a bit of notice: I upgraded SELinux related packages in AUR. If some kindly had a look at those PKGBUILDs and comment them, I'd be glad. Especially the kernel package gave me a pain (it's config). The same for users having some troubles. And now to business: Following packages of mine are not needed anymore (please delete them): selinux-usr-libselinux-python selinux-usr-libsemanage-python selinux-kernel26 Python bindings are now part of the original packages. I decided to change the name of kernel package to comply Arch Linux naming standards. Have a nice day, Ondrej Vadinsky -- 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] Out-of-date community packages
by Eric Bélanger 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hi TU, Since the community repo has been moved to the main web site, you are no longer receiving out-of-date notifications as they are being listed as orphans. We are currently working on finishing the setup, accounts, etc. Meanwhile, here's a list of recently flagged packages (there might be core/extra packages as I didn't bothered filtering the list): [acetoneiso2] [fceux] [listen] [qemu] [aircrack-ng] [gnote] [netbeans] [rubyripper] [pinentry] [virtualbox-additions] [virtualbox-modules] [virtualbox-ose] [virtualbox-ose-additions] [virtualbox-ose-additions-modules] [awesome] [imagemagick] [xtrans] [rtorrent] [libtorrent] [kvpnc] [nilfs] [nilfs-utils] [openttd] [vnstat] [efreet-svn] [eina-svn] [ecore-svn] [embryo-svn] [edje-svn] [e_dbus-svn] [e-svn] [python-sphinx] [libotf] [monit] Eric

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