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[aur-general] Qdevelop modification
by Shaika-Dzari 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hello everyone. I maintain qdevelop package in Aur. Since 0.25.2, the source did not compile. See comments : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14930 I made a bug report and provide the solution ibsen-aur gave me but there are no new version out there and my bugreport did not have any response from qdevelop author since 6 weeks. A user suggested to add this line in the pkgbuild to solve the problem: sed -i -e "s/free(allinherits)/delete [] allinherits/" src/QIComplete/tree.cpp Is it alright to do this? I can do a patch if it's a better (and more standard) solution. Thanks you. -- Shaika-Dzari http://www.guidelinux.org http://code.google.com/p/animeshell

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Re: [aur-general] TU Vote - Dragonlord
by w9ya＠qrparci.net 07 May '08

07 May '08

> Hi TUs, > > This begins the 7 day voting thread for the addition of Dragonlord > (Jaroslav Lichtblau) as a TU, don't forget to vote. You can see his > introduction and the discussion period here: > > http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-May/007530.html > > I vote YES. > > Cheers, > Allan > > -- > Allan McRae > Arch Linux Trusted User I also vote yes Very best regards; Bob Finch Liviu Librescu - În veci pomenirea lui. (May his memory be eternal.)

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[aur-general] Wanted: courier-mta maintainer
by Tobias Kieslich 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi guys. I'm currently the maintainer of all courier* related stuff. I was using the courier mailserver on my own machine including a full fledged versiom of courier-mta. However, I recently fell for a dovecot/tarmail combo, and not using courier-mta myself makes maintainance harder and way more error prone. I will be able to maintain it for a while because changes happen gradually, and there is also no question that courier-imap stays in extra. But we are looking for a courier-mta maintainer in extra otherwise we will drop it down to community in time. Just answer to that thread if you have experience with courier-mta and are willing to maintain it for Archlinux. Thanks, -Tobias

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[aur-general] TU Voting On The AUR
by Xavier 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hello, I am curious why no one is interested in this : http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/tur-users/2008-February/007020.html Besides many other advantages like automation and anonymity, it should remove noise on this ML and prevent non-TU from voting. But maybe that's where the fun is (old school ftw) :) Otherwise, if there was a real interest, then finishing that project shouldn't be a big problem.

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[aur-general] Initial voting testing in AUR - Dragonlord
by Douglas Andrade 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi TUs, I created a voting thread in AUR for Dragonlord. Please vote there and in this ML, so we can test the voting process in AUR, and if we all like it, we could start to benefit from Callan work and use it in the next voting process. Thanks

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Re: [aur-general] amendment bylaws: voting & tur-users
by Timm Preetz 07 May '08

07 May '08

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 23:09 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > As a query, can we see who has voted for a proposal. We might start > running into quorum issues if we can't track who has voted and give > those who don't a boot (a bit pessimistic I know, but probably > justified...) I think it is possible to find out who has voted (otherwise you could vote twice), not sure who can actually see this. Maybe make that public after the vote is closed, to give an overview.

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[aur-general] Inclusion of ChangeLog Files
by Dennis Craven 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi list, I often find it useful (as do many I'm sure) to keep ChangeLog files up to date when maintaining things like Arch packages etc. Is it bad practice to include this file in the tarball submitted to the AUR? Cheers, ~djc

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[aur-general] Helixplayer
by Tony Dodd 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hey All, The version of helixplayer that's in community is both orphaned and extremely old. Is a TU planning to adopt this, or can it be kicked back into unsupported? Thanks Tony

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[aur-general] makepkg and unzip
by Xavier 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hello, I am not sure if it's widely known that makepkg 3.1 now uses bsdtar for extracting .zip sources. I see many PKGBUILDs still have makedepends=(unzip) while unzip is in fact never used. It was often discussed before whether that makedepends line was required or not. eg : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=5280 Now the situation is clearer, since unzip is no longer used by makepkg. So the makedepends line can be safely removed. There might be some special zip files that are not handled (correctly) by bsdtar. In that case, it's probably a good idea to contact both bsdtar maintainer and the creators of the zip archive about the problem. To work around it, you can use noextract and call unzip manually like in that example : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9792?getfile=2016 (in that pkgbuild, unzip is put in makedepends, and I think it's correct) If the above makes sense, and is not yet mentioned in the wiki, and someone finds a relevant place to add it, then go for it :)

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[aur-general] orphan request: libopensync-plugins
by Hauke Wesselmann 07 May '08

07 May '08

Could you please orphan libopensync-plugin-moto, libopensync-plugin-python and libopensync-plugin-vformat. These packages were last updated in October 2007. All of them are flagged out-of-date as newer versions are available since january. I have tried to contact the maintainer via AUR. When he did not answer after a while I contacted him by mail and did not get a response to date(I have sent my mail about 4 weeks ago). Thanks in advance Hauke

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[aur-general] gdc & gdc-svn
by Anders Bergh 06 May '08

06 May '08

Hi, If a TU could please orphan gdc and gdc-svn it'd be great, because they're very outdated and I'd like to try and update them. It's a bit difficult to update gdc because it needs its own gcc (4.1.x) and I haven't yet really found a good way of installing only the necessary files, but I'll post a new thread in case I run into any issues. Anders

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[aur-general] python-pyfits in AUR/unsupported
by Mike Ressler 06 May '08

06 May '08

The python-pyfits package is listed as an orphan and has been flagged as out of date. Bringing it up to date is relatively trivial - anyone mind if I have a go at it? It is useful to me and I don't want to see it die. By way if introduction since this is my first post, I've been using Linux for 16 years (yes, since 1992), and Arch for about 6 months. Though it took me a long time to find it, Arch just suits me. This will be my first try at contributing something to Arch; since I didn't see any specific protocols for updating someone else's (or orphan) packages in the AUR User Guide, I thought I'd check here first. Mike -- mike.ressler(a)alum.mit.edu

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[aur-general] Packages with pkgver hackery
by Anders Bergh 06 May '08

06 May '08

I just now saw two packages in the recent updates box on the AUR front page with screwed up version numbers: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16828 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16829 I don't really know if this causes any issues other than making the pages look weird, but I think perhaps a TU should look into it. Anders

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[aur-general] should make be in makedepends?
by Abhishek Dasgupta 06 May '08

06 May '08

Should we expect that the user already has make installed when a makepkg is invoked? Or should we put 'make' in makedepends? -- Abhishek

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[aur-general] TU application
by Dragonlord 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi! My name is Jaroslav Lichtblau and I live in Czech Republic. I'm 26 and this year my study time will be over. I discovered GNU/Linux in year 2003. It took me about one year to learn the basics and since then I'm using it solely - on my home PC and my NB. Until now I went through Mandrake and Ubuntu. I was also trying out some other distros, but wasn't quite happy. One year ago I heard some rumors about ArchLinux and gave it a try. Since then I'm catched and forgot about other distributions :) One of the reasons was AUR. Me and my girlfriend used to play game named cuyo together pretty often. But I didn't find it packaged in Arch. So after some time reading in the wiki I was able to make my first working PKGBUILD for it and I had our game nice packaged and installed in the system. Since then I am adopting and contributing PKGBUILD because it's so much fun to me. Besides of that, I do translate programs (osmo, epdfview, ...) into czech because the subject of my studies is languages - german mostly, but I can also talk/understand english, so let's use it. As a TU I will offer my knowledge and time to improve my favourite distribution and also the open source world, which gave me so much in the last few years. I think I have also some nice packages like subtitleeditor, cream, fillets-ng ... and cuyo :) which I would like to add to the [community] repo. In the last time I watched closely on new and updated PKGBUILDs, so I would be happy to do it further as a TU. In my free time I like reading fantasy/sci-fi books. Knowing this, my AUR login is obvious - Dragonlord. My irc and arch forum nick is drag0nl0rd. The last thing, Allan is so kind to sponsor my application. Let's start the trial :) any questions and suggestions will be answered. Sincerely, Jaroslav My AUR packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=Dragonlord&SeB=m&PP=100…

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[aur-general] I am out
by Uwe Vogt 05 May '08

05 May '08

anope-devel gnome-menu-extended kmenu-gnome phpbb3 If someone like to adopt my packages, the are now free to go and they are all up to date! cheers jada

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[aur-general] TU application
by Geoffroy Carrier 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi! My name is Geoffroy Carrier. I'm a 20-year-old French comp.sci. student. I started using Linux on 1998, and Archlinux around a year ago, after a lot of Debian, some Gentoo and Fedora, and tests of many other distributions. I now use it on all my 6 computers, from the server to the eeepc. I've been available for more than 50 weeks per year for the last 3 years. My main subjects of interest are: - community64 - The-Unix-way console-based tools - Server-oriented tools - Security issues I'll focus on adopting orphaned packages in a first time, but there are plenty of packages that I'd like to work on, as localepurge, wol, btanks, docutils, aur-sync, etc. I'm working on automated makedepends checks with a tool using nilfs called mdma. I'll give you some more information soon. I also joined uArch recently, and follow kdemod with much intereset. I already created/adopted a few packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=gcarrier&PP=40 I speak a poor English, so I'll keep this message short ;) But I am willing to answer all your questions. A big "Thank you" to the people I recently met through flyspray, IRC, jabber and who confirmed me in my will to apply. -- Geoffroy Carrier

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[aur-general] cleanup: duplicate packages
by Lukáš Jirkovský 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi, I've found two duplicate packages: gimp-resynth http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6823 gimp-plugin-resynthesizer http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12273 I think one of them should be deleted. In my opinion it would be better to remove gimp-resynth, even though it was uploaded first. It's contributor owns only this package and it doesn't conform so well with gimp plug-ins naming habit.

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[aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization
by Allan McRae 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi all, I think there is enough support for this to go forward. So it is time we nut out the details. Here is how I suggest we go about it. Firstly, I make a post to the announcements section of the forums along the lines of: <draft> The AUR has a large number of obsolete packages which could use cleaning up. Examples of packages that may be cleaned up are: - packages that have been renamed or replaced - old and unmaintained developmental (cvs/svn/etc) packages - outdated and orphaned packages with few or no votes This is where you can help. Post suggestions of packages in the AUR Cleanup wiki page (url here) or as a reply to this thread. TUs will get together and go though the list in a couple of weeks and confirm which packages should be removed. Please do not remove suggestions from the wiki page but add a comment on why it should be kept instead. </draft> I suggest we get together in the TU IRC channel on the weekend of 17/18 May and go through the list. I think we should take care not to get too carried away when we remove packages. While some packages may be orphans, if they are not out of date then the PKGBUILD could still be useful for some people. Any comments before I create the wiki page and post to the forums? Cheers, Allan PS. Someone will have to give me the TU IRC channel key because I never got around to getting it given I rarely use IRC.

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[aur-general] AUR Cleanup
by Allan McRae 05 May '08

05 May '08

The AUR has a large number of obsolete packages which could use cleaning up. Examples of packages that may be cleaned up are: - packages that have been renamed or replaced - old and unmaintained developmental (cvs/svn/etc) packages This is where you can help. Post suggestions of packages in the AUR Cleanup wiki page (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_CleanUp_Day) TUs will get together and go though the list in a couple of weeks and confirm which packages should be removed. Please do not remove suggestions from the wiki page but add a comment on why it should be kept instead. TUs will take great care not to delete any useful package. Cheers, Allan -- Allan McRae Arch Linux Trusted User

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 04 May '08

04 May '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for scilab 4.1.2-4! -- 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] Problem uploading packages on i686
by Allan McRae 04 May '08

04 May '08

Hi all, At the moment the is a problem uploading packages to i686 community. I know this because I have moved a couple of packages to community and the AUR does not reflect this after several hours. Now, I know in the next 12 hours, we will probably get one of those "missing package" emails and fixing that will fix the problem. Then again, it might be one of the duplicate/missing PKGBUILD problems. Surely given I know it is a problem already, then I can fix it! My question is, does the output from the community/AUR integration daemon get posted anywhere visible to us TUs? Cheers, Allan

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[aur-general] Problem uploading packages on i686
by Allan McRae 04 May '08

04 May '08

Hi all, At the moment the is a problem uploading packages to i686 community. I know this because I have moved a couple of packages to community and the AUR does not reflect this after several hours. Now, I know in the next 12 hours, we will probably get one of those "missing package" emails and fixing that will fix the problem. Then again, it might be one of the duplicate/missing PKGBUILD problems. Surely given I know it is a problem already, then I can fix it! My question is, does the output from the community/AUR integration daemon get posted anywhere visible to us TUs? Cheers, Allan

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[aur-general] Problem with tupkg
by DaNiMoTh 04 May '08

04 May '08

Uhm, I have this problem: tupkg doesn't upload. I have this output: [danimoth@jane scilab]$communitypkg {'size0': ['0'], 'numpkgs': ['1'], 'name0': ['scilab-4.1.2-4.pkg.tar.gz']} Uploading: scilab-4.1.2-4.pkg.tar.gz 14394 kb then nothing.. I think the problem is tupkg, but password and username are right. I answer to bash yesterday to upload it and he tells me that he has upload... why it isn't recognised?

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 04 May '08

04 May '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for scilab 4.1.2-4! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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