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[aur-general] TU Application
by Rick Rein 08 Jun '08

08 Jun '08

Hello list, I'm writing to apply for TU status, as I'm sure you can tell by the subject. My name is Rick, and I'm a recent addition to the Orlando, FL area. I was a Sergeant with the US Marines where I was a 5974, a Tactical Data Systems Administrator. I am now a Unix SysAd with a local company here in Florida. I had some minor experience with Red Hat in the late, late 90s running a Half Life Dedicated Server, but that box caught on fire, thus ending my pre-millenium linux experience. I picked up Archlinux sometime in 2004 2005 (Wombat) and have not been able to find a distro that fits me better since. I now have Arch installed on about 5 machines: a desktop(x86_64 and i686), laptop(i686), 2 myth boxes and an asterisk server. I have an affinity for light and fast and clean applications, but who doesn't? My prior contributions are mainly centered on IRC, however I have written a wiki article or two and have begun to go through them when I'm bored looking for edits/missing items. I currently have about 9 packages in the AUR, a mixture of adopted and created packages. I would like to become a TU so that I may give back to the community that I have been around for so long. It would also be an honor to say I was a part of such a top notch, and growing distro. I realize this message is a bit short winded so if you have any questions, or I left something out ,please feel free to ask. Thank you all for your consideration and have a lovely weekend, Rick <jeebusroxors> -- http://isawsome.net GPG key at http://isawsome.net/blog/static/gpg

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Re: [aur-general] can't "overwrite" coxpcall
by Adam Vogt 07 Jun '08

07 Jun '08

* On Thursday, May 22 2008, Allan McRae wrote: > Worlds most annoying bug strikes again > (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8672) Please put a comment in the bug > report with your PKGBUILD. Best workaround at the moment is to put the > PKGBUILD as a comment in the copas package. > > Allan> I have a similar issue. I tried to submit haskell-edison-api, as it is required by haskell-edison-core. But I am not allowed to overwrite it, but the directory does not exist on the aur filesystem. (that I can see) I guess I submitted in the 'wrong' (it shouldn't matter) order, so now I cannot submit a package that already exists (though only as a dependency).

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[aur-general] [SPLITTED] AUR package categories (WAS: drpython PKGBUILD update)
by Ronald van Haren 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Alessio Bolognino <themolok.ml(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu 2008-06-05 20:20, Ronald van Haren wrote: >> on a sidenote, I really don't see any point in having these >> categories. The categories are really not intuitive and don't help >> searching for a kind of package any easier. >> Well, it may be just me of course :p > > I don't think they are extremely useful, but they don't hurt neither. > Someone may think: "Let's see what cool game it's on the AUR" and then > look at the "games" category. > > Every distro has packages in categories, and I think it does make sense. > package categories are dropped from [core] and [extra] it seems from both the ABS tree and the package browser on www.archlinux.org Anyways, having package categories does indeed make sense as you described in the case of games, as well as some other sorts of packages. I just think the categories are really bad defined IMHO. For example you need an editor. Most likely the editors are to be found in the following categories: editors, devel, gnome, kde, xfce and maybe even x11 Especially the gnome/kde/xfce categories seem not really needed to me. > P.s. > The first time I read your mail I thought you were proposing to drop > categories, but probably you were not. > > -- > Alessio (molok) Bolognino > no if I was proposing something I would have started a new thread. It was just to see what others were thinking about it.

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[aur-general] drpython PKGBUILD update
by Jordi Cerdan 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi, I have created a new PKGBUILD for drpython. Currently drpython is assigned to devel category. Should I modify this one and upload it to editors? Regards, jcerdan

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[aur-general] TU resignation
by Roman Kyrylych 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi all! I was thinking about this for a long time, and now finally got to this announcement. I've been inactive recently, due to troubles with internet, seeking new job, moving to the new city, and this will continue as I won't have a laptop and Internet here for at least 1 week. In the meantime, I have a lot of unread bugtracker notification threads in my gmailbox (844 at this moment), and this will be my top priority for the next months. In addition, I want to concentrate more on fixing bugs in Core/Extra packages (my plan is to lower the number of open bugreports to <400 by the end of this year). I can still continue maintaining some packages in community/unsupported, if noone will want to maintain them. I won't be following TU discussions actively anymore though. Thank you all for the nice time I spent as part of the TU group. Health and growth to the group! P.S.: the list of my packages is large enough, so I will post it in a separate message later today. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[aur-general] pkg_diff location
by Allan McRae 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

For those TUs who don't follow the arch-dev-public list (you really should...), the pkg_diff pages has not been updated in a while because Andy is moving and has no internet connection. Pierre has come up with a nicer looking version: http://www.archlinux.de/?page=ArchitectureDifferences From that list, you can see that community64, as always, needs some attention. I will do my part when I finish work. Allan

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[aur-general] drpython package and shrinkta
by Jordi Cerdan 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi, I would like to update drpython package ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6419 ) because its maintainer ( http://aur.archlinux.org/account.php?Action=AccountInfo&ID=591 ) does not respond to e-mails and does not update it since May 2007. Could someone orphan it please? On the other hand, I have created a PKGBUILD for shrinkta ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17343 ) and I think it's almost well done, but I can't find the dependencies nedded for this package (only found libdvdread). How can I discover the dependencies needed by a package? I could not find nothing on the wiki about that... Regards, jcerdan

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[aur-general] Deleting packages in AUR
by Allan McRae 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi all, At the moment anyone can delete a package they maintain from the AUR. This seems to be being exploited by an evil minority to remove packages that have been orphaned. e.g. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=373831 I thought that it may be better if we restricted the deleting to only devs/TUs so this con no longer happen. (see bug http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10527) The question is, how often do packages get deleted from the AUR and thus how much work would this generate? I guess it would be in similar volume to what we already get from orphan requests but this is just a guess. Anyway, pressh suggested I post this here so all TUs would see it. Allan

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for gnome-vfs-docs 2.22.0-2! -- 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] Can't upload package
by Biru Ionut 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Hi, Somebody has deleted *-ubuntu packages and i wanted to adopte and maintain them. But i have a minor problem. I can't upload 2 of 4 packages: fontconfig-ubuntu and libxft-ubuntu. It gives me that error: You are not allowed to overwrite the fontconfig-ubuntu package. You are not allowed to overwrite the libxft-ubuntu package. Can somebody fix that problem?

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[aur-general] Trusted User Application
by Loui 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Hello Trusted Users! I'd like to formally express my interest in becoming a Trusted User. My name is Loui Chang and I've been using Arch Linux for about a year and a half. My alias is louipc in aur/wiki/bugs/bbs/freenode. I'm the current developer of aurbuild and I've also submitted many patches to help improve AUR. I'm generally interested in improving the ways that we build, distribute and manage packages. To be honest, I maintain few packages in unsupported. Most packages I need already seem to be taken care of, so I don't plan on bringing many new packages to community. Here's what I have submitted to AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=louipc&SeB=s Mostly what I offer is this: - Helping to clean up and administer AUR and community. - Help squashing bugs. - Continue developing AUR with the added perspective of a Trusted User. - Take on some packages that are already in community or packages that get dropped from the official repos. Some of my big goals are: - Develop a new system for sharing PKGBUILDs. - Give TUs more direct access and control of that system. - Get every single darn bug closed. I greatly appreciate if you can see a benefit in appointing me as a Trusted User. You guys already seem to do a very good job though. If anyone has packages that they don't really use, please let me know and maybe I can take care of them. :D Cheers!

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for screenlets 0.1.1-1! -- 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] Finally updating my packages
by rabyte 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Just wanted to let everyone know that I'll update (most) of my outdated packages within the next 24 hours. I'd like to thank everybody for their patience, read: not taking all those lovely pkgs away from me ;-) Special thanks go to Anders for taking over my webkitgtk-svn pkg, saving me hours of compile time. Yep, I'm serious :-)

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[aur-general] Inactivity notice (07/05/08 - 14/05/08)
by Sebastian Nowicki 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hi, I flying over to the USA for Apple's World Wide Developers Conference '08, so I'll be inactive from the 7th June to the 14th. I have some outdated packages, which I hope to update before I fly out, but I currently have exams. The packages usually aren't that active upstream so it shouldn't be a big deal. I'll update them when I get back.

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[aur-general] Please orphan python-simplejson
by David Moore 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Please orphan python-simplejson. This has been marked out of date for about a month and a half. I tried to email the maintainer (pythonwarrior) but the email bounced. thanks, Dave -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhDw10ACgkQOP+t1LlaoiGTJACdGbB2ZoiOEoGAeWuyjZzPZWSg PVkAn2eCHCPQDGhkLN4zPdy6WEgumoCH =gpQM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] TU Vote - Angel Velásquez (angvp)
by Hugo Doria 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hi TUs, This begins the 7 day voting thread for the addition of Angel Velásquez (angvp) as a TU. Please, dont forget to vote. You can see his introduction and the discussion period here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-May/007742.html You can vote using the web interface. Good Luck angvp! -- Hugo Doria http://hdoria.archlinux-br.org

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Re: [aur-general] AUR cleanup package list
by Dragonlord 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

Not much traffic on the wiki page until now! Do we have at least any unofficial date to finish this thing? Not that it stays this way for one month or so ... Cheers Jaro On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:51:24PM +0200, Allan McRae wrote: > HI TUs, > > The call for people to list packages in the AUR to cleanup has been quite > successful with around 100 packages recommended. See the wiki page: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_CleanUp_Day > > Now we have to go through the list and confirm which packages deserve to be > deleted. Remember not to get carried away here. We don't want to delete > work that may still be useful. > > [snip] > > If you have a disagreement with another TUs decision, move it to a new > section call "further discussion" or something. If the suggestions are > checked properly before moving the the remove or keep list, then this > shouldn't happen but we will deal with it if it happens. > > I will go through and make the removals in a few days. > > Cheers, > Allan >

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[aur-general] not quite orphaned request - mugshot
by Ryan Corder 28 May '08

28 May '08

The mugshot package in AUR has been out of date for some time and the author has not responded to requests to update it since July of 2007. I have provided a new PKGBUILD in the comments along with creating new PKGBUILDs for software it now depends on, desktop-data-model and hippo-canvas. desktop-data-model: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16867 hippo-canvas: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16868 I would like to make a request to take over ownership of the mugshot package found here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10180 thanks. ryanc

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[aur-general] Package removal request - xcursor-industrial
by Kristaps Esterlinsh 28 May '08

28 May '08

Due to lack of my knowledge in the AUR (submitting an modified PKGBUILD), I orphaned the package to upload it again, but without success. As you can see the structure for this package is a mess :) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xcursor-industrial/ So please remove it and I will upload a clean one again. Thank you :)

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] abs tree checker
by bardo 27 May '08

27 May '08

Sorry, tried to send this @ arch-dev-public. On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:44 PM, bardo <ilbardo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Xavier <shiningxc(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> I think this script is something that packagers (of the official repos) >> should check regularly to ensure the quality of arch pkgbuilds and packages. > > Great work, thanks for the heads up. Now to my packages. > >> eclipse-ve --> 'eclipse<3.3' > > There's nothing I can do here: the latest visual editor doesn't work > with Europa. They say they're working on it. They've been saying this > for many months. > >> acerhk --> 'kernel26<2.6.25' > > Fixed this morning before seeing this e-mail ;-) > > > Corrado

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Re: [aur-general] AUR cleanup package list
by Abhishek Dasgupta 27 May '08

27 May '08

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 09:52:16PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > org - included in emacs 22+? The Emacs 22.2 release ships with Org-mode version 4.67d. (orgmode.org) The current version is 6.04c. I don't know what should be done in this case. Data::Dumper is also part of perl 5.10 and it's there as a separate CPAN package as well. ion-modules should not be removed but should be moved to unsupported as ion3 is no longer in [extra]. gshare's website is down for quite a long time. I think it should be moved to unsupported. Also moved some packages into the keep/remove list. -- Abhishek Dasgupta <http://abhidg.mine.nu> GPG 67972DOF pgp.mit.edu

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[aur-general] abs tree checker
by Xavier 26 May '08

26 May '08

Hello, stonecrest wrote a very useful script in my opinion a while ago : http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch/2007-November/016238.html However, it hasn't been updated since the svn move and the new abs. It had a feature to fetch the abs tree itself, using csup directly. But anyway it is not required, abs can be used manually instead, so I just removed that part. The second problem is the directory structure, which is now different for core/extra/etc, where the package dir are on the first level, compared to community which still has the old layout with an additional level of category. This breaks the following function : def repo_from_path(path): return path.split("/")[-4] It should be -4 for community and -3 for the rest. Instead I just used 3, but it will only work on /var/abs/ tree (or any other structure with just 2 directory levels). Anyway, this was just two quick hacks to get the script working again and see what were its results now. And it is still far from perfect :) I think this script is something that packagers (of the official repos) should check regularly to ensure the quality of arch pkgbuilds and packages. So here is the result I get currently : $ ./check_archlinux.py --abs-tree=/var/abs ======================== = i686 Integrity Check = ======================== Performing integrity checks... ==> parsing pkgbuilds ==> checking dependencies ==> checking makedepends ==> checking archs ==> checking for circular dependencies ==> checking repo packages Missing PKGBUILDs ------------------- /community/devel/codeblocks/PKGBUILD /community/devel/php-apc/PKGBUILD /community/kde/kima/PKGBUILD /community/system/pommed/PKGBUILD /community/x11/gpomme/PKGBUILD /community/x11/e/PKGBUILD /community/lib/python-ctypes/PKGBUILD /community/lib/python-elementtree/PKGBUILD /community/multimedia/miro/PKGBUILD /community/gnome/cheese/PKGBUILD Mismatched Pkgnames --------------------- 'dbhub' vs. /community/daemons/dbhub/PKGBUILD 'dina-font' vs. /community/x11/dina-font/PKGBUILD 'offlineimap' vs. /community/network/offlineimap/PKGBUILD Missing Dependencies ---------------------- fldigi-docs --> 'acroread' gnome-media --> 'gstreamer0.10-gconf' listen --> 'gstreamer0.10-gconf' listen --> 'gstreamer0.10-alsa' listen --> 'gstreamer0.10-mad' listen --> 'gstreamer0.10-vorbis' perl-mail-dkim --> 'perl-digest-sha' perl-app-cli --> 'perl-locale-maketext-simple' striim --> 'gstreamer0.10-mad' striim --> 'gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs' medit --> 'gcc-objc' soundconverter --> 'gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs' soundconverter --> 'gstreamer0.10-vorbis' soundconverter --> 'gstreamer0.10-lame' soundconverter --> 'gstreamer0.10-flac' soundconverter --> 'gstreamer0.10-mad' flumotion --> 'gstreamer0.10-libpng' flumotion --> 'gstreamer0.10-vorbis' flumotion --> 'gstreamer0.10-theora' flumotion --> 'gstreamer0.10-ogg' fdlog --> 'acroread' jokosher --> 'gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs' gnustep-gui --> 'gcc-objc' kungfu --> 'gstreamer0.10-dvdread' kungfu --> 'gstreamer0.10-mpeg2dec' kungfu --> 'gstreamer0.10-libpng' kungfu --> 'gstreamer0.10-theora' perl-critic --> 'perl-readonly' thoggen --> 'gstreamer0.10-theora' thoggen --> 'gstreamer0.10-dvdread' thoggen --> 'gstreamer0.10-a52dec' thoggen --> 'gstreamer0.10-mpeg2dec' thoggen --> 'gstreamer0.10-vorbis' thoggen --> 'gstreamer0.10-ogg' perl-graphics-colornames --> 'perl-module-load' exaile --> 'gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs' exaile --> 'gstreamer0.10-gconf' bmpx --> 'gstreamer0.10-alsa' bmpx --> 'gstreamer0.10-cdparanoia' archboot --> 'rt2x00-cvs' archboot --> 'iwlwifi' ion-modules --> 'ion' ion-modules --> 'ion-scripts' gnustep-back --> 'gcc-objc' quodlibet --> 'gstreamer0.10-mad' quodlibet --> 'gstreamer0.10-vorbis' gnustep-base --> 'gcc-objc' muine --> 'gstreamer0.10-faad' Missing Makedepends --------------------- perl-app-cli --> 'perl-locale-maketext-simple' perl-time-duration --> 'perl-test-pod-coverage' pandoc --> 'haskell-mtl' pygoocanvas --> 'pygobject-doc' perl-graphics-colornames --> 'perl-module-load' totem-plugin --> 'gstreamer0.10-gconf' gensplash --> 'klibc-beyond' Unmet Dependency Provisions ----------------------------- fldigi-docs --> 'fldigi=2.10' d4x --> 'openssl<=0.9.8' bincimap --> 'openssl<=0.9.8' arora-git --> 'qt>=4.4.0' drscheme --> 'openssl<=0.9.8' eclipse-ve --> 'eclipse<3.3' socat --> 'openssl<=0.9.8' qc-usb --> 'kernel26<2.6.25' libfwbuilder --> 'openssl<=0.9.8' acerhk --> 'kernel26<2.6.25' martian --> 'kernel26<=2.6.25-0' Unmet Makedepends Provisions ------------------------------ wpa_supplicant --> 'kernel26<2.6.25' v86d --> 'kernel26<2.6.25' Repo Hierarchy for Makedepends -------------------------------- extra/xosd depends on community/xmms extra/flac depends on community/xmms core/iputils depends on extra/jade core/madwifi-utils depends on extra/sharutils core/e2fsprogs depends on extra/bc core/madwifi depends on extra/sharutils Invalid Archs --------------- libofa --> x64_86 kexec-tools --> 686 zsnes --> ppc mod_perl --> x64_86 minicom --> !x86_64 Circular Dependencies ----------------------- coreutils>pam>db>coreutils eclipse-ecj>gcc-gcj>eclipse-ecj archboot>archboot Missing Repo Packages ----------------------- postgis-1.2.1-1 in community/os/i686 lmms-0.3.2-1 in community/os/i686 sakura-2.1.0-2 in community/os/i686 'dina-font'-2.89-2 in community/os/i686 qc-usb-0.6.6-6 in community/os/i686 musicmanager-0.9.8-1 in community/os/i686 open-vm-tools-modules-2008.04.14-1 in community/os/i686 proj-4.5.0-2 in community/os/i686 'offlineimap'-5.99.14-1 in community/os/i686 'dbhub'-'0.450'-3 in community/os/i686 open-vm-tools-2008.04.14-1 in community/os/i686 gnash-common-0.8.2-1 in extra/os/i686 evolution-data-server-2.22.1.1-1 in extra/os/i686 enscript-1.6.4-3 in extra/os/i686 Summary --------- Dirs with missing PKGBUILDs: 10 Duplicate PKGBUILDs: 0 Missing (make)dependencies: 55 Unmet provisioned (make)dependencies: 13 Circular dependencies: 3 Invalid archs: 5 Missing packages in repos: 14 Mismatching PKGBUILD names: 3 Repo hierarchy problems: 6

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[aur-general] TU resignation
by Shinlun Hsieh 26 May '08

26 May '08

Hello friends, I've been thinking about this for a while, and finally decide to step down. These days I don't have much time to maintain the packages publicly released on AUR due to my personal issue and as a result, I should resign from this position because I don't serve the AUR users who are using my packages as before. It's a great experience to work with you all, keep working guys! Thanks for bringing this great distro to the community. Though resigning from my packaging job, I'll stay involved with Arch as a user. Good luck to you. Best regards, Shinlun

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[aur-general] Inactivity for CVS problem
by JJDaNiMoTh 25 May '08

25 May '08

Hello to all, I have a problem with CVS: I can't do anything. Every actions result in a timeout. I tried many repos, but nothing: I'm blocked. I think it is a connection issue, because for two or tree days it worked. I don't know how proceed now, feel free to adjust / update my packages, I will remain available ( other internet functionality are OK ). -- JJDaNiMoTh - ArchLinux Trusted User

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[aur-general] [website] accessing maintainer information
by cyril Romain 24 May '08

24 May '08

Hi, Although the information of a package maintainer can be retrieved from a package page, that information cannot be retrieved from the searching package page. For instance, the maintainer info is accessible from here (by clicking his/her name): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7111 whereas clicking on his/her name from here doesn't work: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=uwolfer&SeB=m Clicking on the name in the searching package page actually filters the search result with that maintainer. But I'm wondering if it would not be more consistent to display the maintainer information instead. Regards, Cyril

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