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[aur-general] bfinch - Was: [arch-dev-public] pkgstats and repo cleanup
by Allan McRae 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

Daenyth Blank wrote: > Bob (Finch) asked for his community packages to be removed. I wrote a > little script to help with it. It's not documented and has some rough > edges, but it should give you a nice base to hack on. Enjoy :) > Two things here... Did Bob quit as a TU or just pulled all his packages from the repo? And, I do not see many of his old packages in the AUR. e.g. fldigi, fdlog. Is that accidental? Allan

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[aur-general] VirtualBox and 64bit guests
by bardo 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Hi fellow TUs. I'm happy to inform you that the new VirtualBox 2.1.0 finally added support for 64bit guests on 32bit hosts. So if you always sticked to arch32 because of lack of proprietary apps/lack fo time/fear of "those new things"/whatever... now you have no more excuses =) You can start contributing to arch64 today, just install a virtual machine! I'm doing it myself now ;-) Cheers, bardo

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[aur-general] 2 same packages in AUR
by Jens Maucher 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

In AUR exists two packages thar are the same. perl-wx http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13033 wxperl http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=5645 Best Regards, -- Jens 'defcon' Maucher

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[aur-general] orphan request : python-webpy
by Thomas SARBONI 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Hi, python-webpy is out-to-date for 15 days, can i adopt it ... and update it ? It's important because the last release is python 2.6 compliant. Thank you. -- Thomas SARBONI April -promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre- Aujourd'hui, Mercredi 17 Décembre 2008, il y a 3678 adhérents à l'April. Et vous, où en êtes vous ? http://www.april.org/adherer?referent=Thomas+Sarboni

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[aur-general] #10674
by Jens Maucher 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Hello, what do you think the feature request (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10674) will be entered? Maybe as present on x-mas? :-) Best regards, Jens

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[aur-general] Testmail
by Jens Maucher 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Testmail.. Don't answer. Thanks,

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[aur-general] suggestion
by Jens Maucher 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Hi folks, After adding a comment to a packet i get "Comment has been added. " Well, i miss a button like "back" or something. Click on the 'Back'-button and press F5 is in my opinion silly. Best regards, Jens aka defcon

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[aur-general] AUR Suggestion
by Jens Maucher 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Hi folks, After adding a comment to a packet i get "Comment has been added. " Well, i miss a button like "back" or something. Click on the 'Back'-button and press F5 is in my opinion silly. Best regards, Jens aka defcon

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[aur-general] glib docs package
by Bráulio Barros de Oliveira 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Hello, I would to know the name, if there is, of the package for the glib documentation, cause it is not included in the official repositories (or I cannot find it) neither included into gtk docs. Regards, bráulio

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[aur-general] Voting period - Rules governing packages entering [community]
by Allan McRae 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

Hi TUs, This starts the seven day voting period for the proposed rules for packages entering the [community] repo. Voting is being done on the AUR interface, last 7 days and will require a quorum of 75%. For your reference: [proposal] * Only "popular" packages may enter the repo, as defined by 1% usage from pkgstats or 10 votes on the AUR. * Automatic exceptions to this rule are: - i18n packages - accessibility packages - drivers - dependencies of packages who satisfy the definition of popular, including makedeps and optdeps - packages that are part of a collection and are intended to be distributed together, provided a part of this collection satisfies the definition of popular * Any additions not covered by the above criteria must first be proposed on the aur-general mailing list, explaining the reason for the exemption (e.g. renamed package, new package). The agreement of three other TUs is required for the package to be accepted into [community]. Proposed additions from TUs with large numbers of "non-popular" packages are more likely to be rejected. * TUs are strongly encouraged to move packages they currently maintain from [community] if they have low usage. No enforcement will be made, although resigning TUs packages may be filtered before adoption can occur. [end proposal] Allan

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[aur-general] Orphan Request: Pythoncard
by reality gaps 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

Hi guys, The pythoncard package is flagged out of date and the maintainer sent me the following: "I have no time to maintain the PKG. Please feel free to take over maintenance of it." I'd like to adopt the package if someone can mark it unmaintained. Thanks -- realitygaps(a)yahoo.com

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[aur-general] Resign as a TU
by Giovanni Scafora 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Hi guys, I've decided to resign from my position as a Trusted User. There are two reasons: 1) I no longer have the time anymore to follow the TU stuffs as I should do. 2) I want to focus my efforts on developer work only. All the best, -- Arch Linux Developer (voidnull) AUR & Pacman Italian Translations Microdia Developer http://www.archlinux.it

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[aur-general] Account Type On AUR
by Callan Barrett 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Can everyone who is a developer and a Trusted User set their account types on the AUR to Trusted User rather than developer. At this point there are only two differences between a TU and a dev on the AUR: your title and the ability to make other people developers. Right now the stats are some arbitrary number on the front page and I have to rely on a wiki page for an accurate number of TUs which is ridiculous. I also have to allow developers to vote on the TU interface which also seems stupid to me even if we should trust developers. At this point the only reason a TU/dev should be a developer on the AUR is because they don't know why or they're in an epenis measuring contest with each other so please change your account and fix the stats (or give me an incredible reason for being a dev). Thanks. -- Callan Barrett

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[aur-general] Packages with libpcap dependency need a rebuild
by Thomas Bächler 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Soon (today or tomorrow), libpcap 1.0.0 will move to core. All community packages depending on libpcap will need a rebuild (iftop is among them, no idea if there are more). The rebuilds probably won't be necessary for each version anymore, as the libpcap.so has no a sane SONAME (.so.1) instead of having the whole version (including the minor) as SONAME.

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[aur-general] Orphan request: opencascade
by Michele Mocciola 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Hi, opencascade is flagged out of date for some time. I tried to contact the maintainer without success. I'd like to adopt it. -- mickele (mimocciola(a)yahoo.com)

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[aur-general] Please remove aif-blockdevicerefactor-git package from AUR
by Dieter Plaetinck 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hi, I own the package aif-blockdevicerefactor-git It was named after a specific branch, but since the branch has been merged into master and then deleted this package doesn't, and will never work anymore. Can it be deleted? Sorry for bothering you with this, when I created it I didn't realize users couldn't delete their own packages :-) Dieter

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[aur-general] Official discussion period - Rules governing packages entering [community]
by Allan McRae 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

This starts the official discussion period for the addition of rules governing the addition of packages to [community]. As this is essentially a bylaw change, we will use that voting procedure: 5 days discussion, 7 days voting, quorum of 75% required. [proposal] * Only "popular" packages may enter the repo, as defined by 1% usage from pkgstats or 10 votes on the AUR. * Automatic exceptions to this rule are: - i18n packages - accessibility packages - drivers - dependencies of packages who satisfy the definition of popular, including makedeps and optdeps - packages that are part of a collection and are intended to be distributed together, provided a part of this collection satisfies the definition of popular * Any additions not covered by the above criteria must first be proposed on the aur-general mailing list, explaining the reason for the exemption (e.g. renamed package, new package). The agreement of three other TUs is required for the package to be accepted into [community]. Proposed additions from TUs with large numbers of "non-popular" packages are more likely to be rejected. * TUs are strongly encouraged to move packages they currently maintain from [community] if they have low usage. No enforcement will be made, although resigning TUs packages may be filtered before adoption can occur. [end proposal] Allan

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Re: [aur-general] Eclipse plugin packaging standardization proposal
by bardo 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

First of all, nobody really wrote /against/ this proposal and nobody said there's no need for a standard, so I suppose everyone's ok with it. If this is not the case, just speak up, otherwise I'll wait for a week from the last comment and then proceed to wikify it. On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > / syntax is actually for replacement. The syntax above says "replace > with nothing". The # and % syntax is for deletion (matching from the > front or back of the word, respectively). I doubt there's any real > difference as far as performance goes. I'll keep the slash syntax, then, it's also simpler to customize. Thanks fo the great explanation :) >> (2) you could use the jar command to extract a jar file instead of >> unzip. that's what it's made for. it's in the jdk which is a dependancy >> of eclipse. so you can expect user to have jar command and jdk package >> (jar is also in java-gcj-compat) I modified the PKGBUILD to use jar instead of unzip, thanks. However I had to do some other changes. As I pointed out in the post: «I was noticed that I can directly use jar, which the user already has since it's part of the JRE. This is great, since it spares a makedepend! However, jar can't extract to directories other than the current one: this means that, after the directory creation, it's necessary to cd before extracting. Since there were many occurrences of the destination path I decided to use a custom variable even though somebody might not like it, because there's a great improvement in readability.» Quick link reference: http://blog.bardland.org/2008/11/20/arch-linux-eclipse-plug-in-packaging-a-… Corrado

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[aur-general] Request for deletion of ecomorph-* packages
by Smartboy 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

A new version of ecomorph is out, and the GIT is out of date right now. I have created a new ecomorph package for these, and the others (which are now out of date, broken, and were already orphaned) need to be deleted. Thanks, Smartboy

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[aur-general] No new package supplied for ngspice r18-1
by Eric Bélanger 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

The repo for x86_64 is no longer updating: No new package supplied for ngspice r18-1 Please fix. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[aur-general] aur/libdrm and extra/libdrm
by Lyman 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

Hi, I believed that aur/libdrm should be removed. -- Lyman Li 苦水潭(主站): http://lymanrb.blogspot.com 苦水潭(国内): http://lymanrb.spaces.live.com

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[aur-general] Request for removal of kicad-doc from AUR
by Mark Schneider 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Would someone be as so kind as to remove the no longer needed package kicad-doc from AUR for me [0]? Thank you, Mark [0] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15958

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[aur-general] WeeChat with Per-Server Proxies in AUR
by kludge 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=60262

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[aur-general] Disown vala package in AUR please
by Michael Kanis 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Hi, could somebody please disown the package for vala in AUR? http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7203 It is currently owned by pizzapunk, but he doesn't respond to mails etc. and it is stuck at a very old version now. I want to maintain the pkg. Thanks Michael

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[aur-general] Someone hug sergej
by Callan Barrett 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

sergej I'm sorry for trying to vote you out. It was a pretty big dick move on my part. I think you've shown yourself to be perfectly capable of maintaining all these packages and like other people have said although it's impossible for you to put complete care into each package you're very good at fixing stuff when it's reported. I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW I APPRECIATE YOUR WORK. :') -- Callan Barrett

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