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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for poedit 1.4.1-2! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] secondlife need help
by Amanai 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 secondlife i686 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18446 you can play this game, but there are several small bugs to fix. looks like this Wiki is out dated http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Compiling_the_viewer_(Linux) I orphan this package and hope someone will fix the last things. THx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkh9l2MACgkQ+IsChyUV2oFiEgCgjilKj29PJSRttyLqIvPuDPrN I7cAnj/Qq4FxILMm3C8RuDkWtpkDZ7aN =qZw2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for python-lxml 2.1-1! Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for copas 1.1.3-2! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] google-perftools
by Amanai 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Can one of the TU please orphan the package google-perftools http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7785 looks like the owner don't update it anymore. Thx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkh9hhEACgkQ+IsChyUV2oHprwCgjL9//ej7ehTCn37yLntCfhus Q40An1uspkxmEpHOX1ck1FO44M/YYPoi =0dpD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] sancho-gtk removal from [community]: discussion thread
by bardo 15 Jul '08

15 Jul '08

Hi fellow TUs, devs and archers! I'm writing this long e-mail to discuss the current situation about sancho-gtk, a [community] package I'm maintaining. I inherited sancho-gtk, a front-end for mldonkey, when mOLOk resigned from his TU position, and some time ago I checked if everything was ok with it. In the PKGBUILD I found an ugly hack to download the software, which is hosted on Sourceforge but isn't available at the traditional download location. It is rather distributed through a direct link in its homepage (http://sancho-gui.sourceforge.net/) but that link changes every few minutes: because of this came the ugly hack. The whole thing, I discovered, was done on purpose by its author, whom I contacted for explainations. He pointed out that the download page page states "no redist/pkging/mirrors pls". I don't like forwarding private e-mails, so here's a summary of what I found out and some of my assumptions. * The author doesn't like his software to be repackaged because he doesn't want users complaining upstream for distribution-level bugs. * He doesn't really care if his user base drops to near-zero because his software isn't easily available and integrated in linux distributions. * I wasn't able to find the application's source code (the GTK version, at least) on his site, so I assume it is a closed source app. When the author was asked to clarify his position, include a license and, in case of a free one, the corresponding source code, he didn't answer. * The author thinks software inclusion in a linux distro is "opt-in" (his words), and states he never asked for it. When I pointed out that free software has nothing to do with opt-in, he stopped answering my e-mails. * The author never clearly stated (even though I asked) if we are infringing any license by redistributing the software. * An important phrase I think i just have to report is "I don't think a license has ever written any software", referring to his preference of distributing his software only through the homepage. I want to drop this software from our repos. Not because he asked for it, but because it looks like this person doesn't really understand what free software and a community are, and that we are persons, too, with our rights. He's not the kind of person I want to deal with. I also think he is in violation of Sourceforge terms, since he's maintaining what looks like proprietary software on their servers. What do you think about the whole thing? I already decided to drop both sancho-gtk and mldonkey (its development seems to be stalled), but there are more questions. Should I notify him to Sourceforge in case he is infringing? Should I drop the package to [unsupported]? Should I delete it? Should I hand it to another maintainer? I wouldn't want to see another ion3, but I don't think it's very different. Should we try to define special policies for cases like these? Corrado

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[aur-general] TU reminder: set PACKAGER variable in makepkg.conf
by bardo 15 Jul '08

15 Jul '08

(This is also valid for some devs.) Please, remember to set the PACKAGER variable in all your build machines. It really helps being able to know who built a package through pacman -Qi or -Si. Thanks, Corrado

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[aur-general] offline for a bit
by Aaron Schaefer 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

Ahoy all...both the NICs on my Arch box got fried during a thunderstorm last week, so my machine has been without teh intertubes. I have a couple of packages flagged out of date and one bug report (which I am most likely just going to update the package to the development version to solve). Anyway, I've got to order a new NIC to get back up and running, but wanted to inform you that I'm not just slacking off :-) I should be back up and running early next week I would guess... -- Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 10 Jul '08

10 Jul '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for hedgewars 0.9.5-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] Adding MAINTAINER comment box
by james toy 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

AUR, I think we should try to implement a comment box above the general comment box that can be edited ONLY by the package maintainer -- this is important for updates and information about more complex packages -- for example -- kernel26zenmm-git does not automatically have nvidia support built in and can be supplemented by the xf86-video-nvidia (i think thats the package name i'm just doing it from memory now) -- this is useful information that should not get lost in the main comments box -- i just wanted to throw this out there -- never too many documents -- especially when there are caveats -- hope everyone is well respectfully, -- jt

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for cherrypy 3.1.0-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] inactivity notice (vacation)
by Ronald van Haren 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Travis Willard <travis(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Ronald van Haren <pressh(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi devs/Tus, >> >> I'll be on vacation from 9th of August (tomorrow) until 29th of >> August. During this time I will probably not check my mail at regular >> intervals so don't expect quick respones from my side ;) > > 9th of July? > > arghh yeah. from 9th of July until 29th of July.

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[aur-general] encfs
by Patrick Baumgart 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

I need the package as dependency in "cryptkeeper". But the package is gone and I cannot put a "new" encfs package to AUR, although there is none available. I would take the encfs package on my own, if no one maintains it. Baumi --

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[aur-general] kernel26zenmm-git PKGBUILD
by james toy 06 Jul '08

06 Jul '08

all, I was wondering what the demand for this PKGBUILD would be -- its for the git of zenmm -- i am asking first instead of just throwing it on the AUR because it will be a bit of a pain to maintain since its SO bleeding edge -- if people DO want it though i will certainly put in the time to make it readily and easily available -- hope everyone enjoyed the holidays respectfully, -- jt

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[aur-general] community repo no longer updating
by Eric Belanger 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

There's a problem with the community repo which prevents it from updating. >From the log: cvs update: failed to create lock directory for `/home/cvs-community/community/devel/glib2-docs' (/var/lock/cvs/community/devel/glib2-docs/#cvs.lock): Permission denied cvs update: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/home/cvs-community/community/devel/glib2-docs' cvs [update aborted]: read lock failed - giving up Hopefully an admin will fix that soon. Eric -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[aur-general] TU application
by Anders Bergh 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

Hi! I'd like to apply to become a Trusted User. I talked to Angel Velásquez (angvp) on IRC and he said he would be my sponsor. I've used Arch Linux since early 2006 and Linux since 2001. I've also been doing some work on Arch Linux PPC, mainly been trying to keep the packages that I use up to date, but I've also been working on tools to make it easier to do so... but I haven't yet completely figured out the best human-friendly way to see what needs updating and rebuilding. Currently I maintain packages related to the D programming language in the AUR, and recently got permission for Arch Linux to distribute the D compiler. It's closed source, however the front-end is open source and there are already a couple of open source D compilers, however the gcc-based gdc is not very maintained (doesn't work with gcc versions > 4.1) and the others are quite early in development. I used to maintain a small binary repository but I don't think a lot of people actually used it. But I did get quite a bit of experience with the repository tools and how to build packages. After adopting most of the D-related packages I no longer needed to host my own. I'm also quite interested in the Lua programming language, and I maintain a few Lua packages and so far one got adopted by another TU into community. I used to be a rabid Debian user but the one thing that annoyed me was how you almost had to read a book in order to create your own packages. In Arch Linux it was so easy to create them and that's the main reason I use this distribution. I really like when things are simple! My list of AUR packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=Anders&SeB=m Note that I haven't updated the gdc packages yet, I think they're kind of tricky to install since the gcc makefiles aren't really helpful when you want to install one frontend only. About me: I'm Swedish and 17 years old. Most of my interests involve computers, such as programming, IRC, games... it's a bit hard to think of all the things I do because I often like to try new things. I'm currently focusing quite a bit on web dev such as PHP and Django. I'm not much of a web design guy so it's mostly the coding part that interests me. My native language is Swedish, and I did English in school ever since 1st grade, however most of my English is self taught because of all the time I've spent on IRC and other places on the Internet. I have an Arch 64 installation so building 64-bit packages isn't a problem for me. Regards, Anders

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Re: [aur-general] New Devs
by Simo Leone 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:43:23PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Hi TUs (and other interested parties), > > Many of you may have noticed that there are eight TUs in the new bunch of > developers bought on in the past weeks > (http://www.archlinux.org/news/401/) That is about 1/3 of the total TUs. > So we thought we let you know what was happening with our TU positions. > > The good news is that we do not intend on resigning from our TU positions > in the immediate future. We are joining the dev team to help take some > strain of the devs and don't want to create strain for the remaining TUs by > oprhaning all our community packages in the process! We may want to orphan > some packages in the community/unsupported repo as our workload becomes > larger with picking up packages to maintain in the main repos, but we will > deal with that if/when the time comes. > > Allan (on behalf of the newly appointed Dev/TU's) > Also note that if you at some point don't want to do the TU stuff but don't want to drop your packages on them either, I'm in the habit of giving devs community access if they ask for it, and no one's complained about it yet. Luckily we all seem to get along :) -S

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[aur-general] New Devs
by Allan McRae 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Hi TUs (and other interested parties), Many of you may have noticed that there are eight TUs in the new bunch of developers bought on in the past weeks (http://www.archlinux.org/news/401/) That is about 1/3 of the total TUs. So we thought we let you know what was happening with our TU positions. The good news is that we do not intend on resigning from our TU positions in the immediate future. We are joining the dev team to help take some strain of the devs and don't want to create strain for the remaining TUs by oprhaning all our community packages in the process! We may want to orphan some packages in the community/unsupported repo as our workload becomes larger with picking up packages to maintain in the main repos, but we will deal with that if/when the time comes. Allan (on behalf of the newly appointed Dev/TU's)

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[aur-general] Firefox 3
by Slash 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Comrades, Now that Firefox 3 is stable, I think we need to consider cleaning up the packages related to such on the AUR. A lot of these firefox3 ones are no longer needed: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=firefox&SeB=nd&PP=100&d… For example: arch-firefox3-search - "arch-firefox-search" should be updated for version 3 firefox3-bin - "firefox-official" should do the same thing firefox3-bin-pl - "firefox-official-pl" should be created to replace firefox3-i18n - same.. or maybe a variant of this package should be used rather than language-specific ones firefox3-rc-es - no longer needed Thoughts? Thanks, Slash

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[aur-general] Request to remove xcursor-industrial from filesystem
by Kristaps Esterlinsh 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Hi, please remove http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xcursor-industrial/ from filesystem as it is orphaned (I was the maintainer), within the few days I'll upload it again ;) Thanks

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[aur-general] i2p aur package - maintainer did not answer
by Thomas Krauss 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Hello, i made a aur package for the latest i2p version. The pgkbuild in aur is evil out of date, but the maintainer does not answer to my email what is the best thing, i can do now? eichi -- open source for an open mind! use Linux and feel free! - Mein Weblog: http://der-eichi.de Themen unter anderem aus den Bereichen |Politik|, |Linux| und |freie Software| ----- Mein öffentlicher PGP Schlüssel: http://pgp.der-eichi.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Leider konnte ich Ihren öffentlichen Schlüssel nicht finden, daher schreibe ich Ihnen | | unverschlüsselt und hoffe, dies ist akzeptabel | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! Freie Alternative zu Google Maps & Co.: http://www.openstreetmap.org !

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[aur-general] About emacs org-mode
by Jiyunatori 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Hi there. I've just stepped into the arch and I'd like to participate. The org package is highly out of date, so I updated it. I'd like to share this small contribution with everyone, but the package is already maintained by rwanderley. I contacted the maintainer and sent him my updated version ten days ago, but had no answer to this day. Would it be possible to take the charge of maintaining this package ? take care Jiyunatori PS : what is the policy about renaming a package in the AUR ? is there a naming policy for emacs modes ?

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[aur-general] Old packages in AUR
by Shaika-Dzari Shaika-Dzari 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

Hello everyone. This morning I looked orphan package and I found some packages that could be remove: - sharpmusique : source is not available anymore - eclipse-kde : source is not available anymore - fvwm-trans : outdate, did not build - gimp-freetype : made for gimp 2.0, not available from official gimp website - gnash-cvs : gnash use Bazaar now - kanola : did not build, no update by his creator since 2 years - kdeaddons4 : made and submited in 2006 - kdeedu4 : same ^ - kdepim4 : same ^ - kdeless : splited by his maintainer into other package - madman-devel : no update, problem with Faad, official website is down - menu : replace by archlinux-xdg-menu in community - menu-xdg : same ^ - netscape-navigator : closed-sources, end of support by netscape - poppler-qt4 : use old Qt4 from community - pynealpm: use old libalpm - qgnokii : depend on qt3 but still use depend=(qt) - sqcam-cvs : depend on kernel26 and was not update since 1 year... - xscreensaver-arch : did not work - ymessenger : no update since 3 years, PKGBUILD license is GPL ? - fluxbox-styles-boxwhore : boxwhore website is dead Hope this help.

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[aur-general] Orphan Request: libotr pidgin-otr
by Marcel W. Wysocki 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

The packages are flagged out of date for quite some time now. Also there have been comments to inform the maintainer about the new version. I'd like to take over those packages. -- Marcel W. Wysocki <maci(a)satgnu.net>

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[aur-general] TUs: anyone want to take dmd into community?
by Anders Bergh 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

Hey, I spoke to Walter and he told me that it would be okay to let Arch Linux distribute dmd in the repositories. I'm not a TU, but feel free to take over the dmd and libphobos packages (and perhaps even libtango). (for those who don't know what dmd is: it's the main compiler for the D programming language) Anders

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[aur-general] orphans again
by Ronald van Haren 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

just so we won't let this list grow like we did in the past, here are the current orphans in community: <category><name><pkgver><votes> multimedia denemo 0.7.6-1 7 x11 lxtask 0.1-1 15 network pound 2.4.2-1 1 lib python-geotypes 0.7.0-1 0 please adopt if if one of these packages is yours, or you want to maintain one of these. I'll move the ones left orphan to unsupported somewhere next week. note that python-geotypes is a dependency of mezogis (0 votes, maintained by dtw) so it should stay in community if mezogis stays. Ronald

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