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[aur-general] need 32 bits testing (i686) of gtk2hs-darcs
by Paul Dufresne 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

If someone could test my new (and first) package on a 32 bit systems: gtk2hs-darcs It seems gtk2hs developers have not (much) tested on i686 lately, a bug was found and corrected, but I'd like to know if there is others. Don't reply to this message directly, write comment on the package page. The ideal tester would be someone knowing darcs and Haskell with i686, but only i686 is essential. Pay, is the feeling to have contributed to Gtk2HS ;-) Thanks!

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[aur-general] TU Resignation
by Callan Barrett 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hey there, I was thinking about this for a while and finally decided to write the email. I've been doing this thing for about 12 months now and to be honest it's gotten really boring lately being a TU, I now think packaging is the most tedious and annoying process ever and I don't think I can be bothered doing this anymore. Anyway, I maintain 75 packages in community, most of which being the xfce-svn ones, but they're all pretty easy to maintain. I don't know exactly what should happen to the xfce-svn packages, although it would be great if another TU maintains them it is a lot of packages and it might be best they go into unsupported for now, if anyone is interested there is a script I have to automate the whole process of updating it. The rest of the packages are pretty minor, maybe even don't need to be in community, and it wouldn't be hard to just pick a few out. So there we go, I'll probably stay involved with Arch but definitely not the packaging side of it. Good luck to the rest of the TUs. -- Callan 'wizzomafizzo' Barrett

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[aur-general] Cross-compiler that installs in non-standard directories
by bardo 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi all. I've never seen an official cross-compiler package in arch, so I'm not sure if I'm breaking some rule here. I'm going to release to [community] in a short time a set of packages (binutils-avr, gcc-avr and avr-libc) which previously installed in /opt/avr. According to the guidelines I moved everything to /usr, but a couple non-standard directories are created. One is /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu, which should be fine, the other is /usr/avr, which contains its own lib and include directories. Obviously namcap complains, but this directory structure solves some conflicts: for example /usr/avr/include/ctype.h would overwrite /usr/include/ctype.h... Should I go for it? C.

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[aur-general] Replaced packages still in community
by Allan McRae 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Well avoiding doing work today, I noticed a few packages still in community that were replaced by other packages. In some cases this was long ago... Here is a possibly non-exhaustive list: lmctl (codemac - replaced by lomoco from v1.0-1 [2006-05-05]) ruby-qt (dsa - replaced by ruby-kde from v3.4.92-1 [2006-06-13]) em8300-cvs (swiergot - replaced by em8300 from v0.16.0_rc6 [2006-11-26]) python-ctypes (dsa - replaced by python from v2.5-3 [2007-03-18]) libgtk-java (sergej - replaced by java-gnome from v4.0.5 [2008-01-06]) Some of the older replacements only used "replaces" and not "provides" but anything requiring them should be updated by now. java-gnome uses the provides/replaces strategy. Is there any reason that these are still in the repository or can they be removed? Cheers, Allan

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Re: [aur-general] Replaced packages still in community
by Timm Preetz 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:10 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > libgtk-java (sergej - replaced by java-gnome from v4.0.5 [2008-01-06]) > > Is there any reason that these are still in the repository or can they > be removed? Not really. I'm pretty sure I told sergej. I will mail him again if he doesn't read that here.

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[aur-general] rb_libtorrent moved from community
by Sebastian Nowicki 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Hi, I was just packaging btg in order to move it to community, but I realised that rb_libtorrent is in unsupported. I looked at the details page[1] and it appears pressh moved it from community. Was there any reason for moving it back to unsupported? There's also a small annoyance with the libtorrent and rb_libtorrent packages - they conflict. The two packages provide different libraries, but conflict due to having the same paths. There is a package in unsupported called librtorrent [2] which resolves the issue. Since libtorrent already exists in community, the package, along with rs_rtorrent, should be either removed or the changes should be implemented in libtorrent. There was also some discussion about this conflict on the bbs [3], which provides more detail. It appears Debian is having the same problem [4]. Their solution is to rename the packages to libtorrent-rakshasa and libtorrent-rasterbar, which may be better package names than rb_libtorrent and librtorrent. I think it would be better if these packages wouldn't conflict, but excessive renaming of packages is probably unnecessary. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=14940 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=10572 [3] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=234044#p234044 [4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=402462

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[aur-general] Popular new Chinese fonts looking for TU adoption
by Qianqian Fang 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

hi all I am not sure if this is the right place to post an adoption request, if not, please advise me the appropriate mailing list. I am an upstream author of a set of popular Chinese fonts. My team and I spent the past 3.5 years developing high quality free fonts for CJK users, including the first manually fine-tuned multi-strike bitmap font with full coverage to GB18030 charset (WenQuanYi Bitmap Song), and the first open-source Hei Ti (sans-serif) vector font (WenQuanYi Zen Hei). These fonts are quite popular in the Chinese community, and widely distributed by Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu etc. Contributors also packaged these fonts for ArchLinux, with the hope of benefiting ArchLinux Chinese users. The links to these packages can be found at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=wqy The submitters of the packages recently contacted me and expressed their desires of pushing these fonts to "community", as both fonts got reasonable votes and popularity among the users. However, they have not yet been able to locate a TU to adopt these packages. So, we are looking for TU(s) who is able to take and help maintaining these Chinese font packages. The package submitters (CCed) and the upstream are willing to help and clarify things in the process of packaging. Please let us know if you are interested. thank you for your attention. Qianqian

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[aur-general] PlayOnLinux
by JaDa 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

I like start working on this cool application http://www.playonlinux.com/en/presentation.html has anyone work on this before? PlayOnLinux_2.0.7.tar.gz PlayOnLinux-DosboxSupport_2.0.7.tar.gz -- Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

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[aur-general] VOTE: Sebastian Nowicki (Xilon)
by Callan Barrett 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Whoops, sorry for being late to start this thread. This begins the 7 day voting thread for the addition of Xilon as a TU, don't forget to vote. You can see the discussion period here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-January/006694.html I vote YES. -- Callan 'wizzomafizzo' Barrett

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[aur-general] TU: Disown extract-xiso please
by Wes Brewer 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Could a TU please disown the extract-xiso package. It was added in April 2005 and has never seen an update. I would like to take over this package and I've tried to contact the contributer without success. Further investigation into this users packages reveals that 3 out of 4 of his packages are flagged out of date, all 4 of them were added in April 2005 and have never seen an update. Maybe it would be best to disown all of his packages as the contributer doesn't seem to be around anymore. At least then others could take over the PKGBUILD's. List of achlinux-nl's pacakges: cage, eggdrop, extract-xiso, gnuvd Thank You Wes,

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[aur-general] About ghc updates and cabalized packages
by Vesa Kaihlavirta 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Simo (and others who work on Haskell packages), Currently, every even minor ghc update breaks all packages that are registered via Cabal. This is not because of API incompatibilities but because the new version of ghc overwrites the Cabal db. This can be manually fixed by running all /usr/share/haskell/*/register.sh. I was wondering... could ghc do that itself in post_upgrade()? --vk

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[aur-general] orphaned packages in community
by Ronald van Haren 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hi all! I just took a look at the orphaned packages in community. I must say, they are quite a few (68, I added the full list at the end of this mail). If any of these belong to you and you did forget to adopt it after uploading, please do so now. If you did upload one of these and lost interest in it, please move it either to unsupported or post it in this thread so someone else can adopt it. In about a week time I will post the remaining list of orphaned packages at that time, so anyone interested (or needed as a dep) can adopt one of those. The rest I will move to unsupported a week or so after that. If you think the time schedule I mentioned is too short, please let me know so I can change it. Best regards, Ronald The full list of 68 orphaned packages in community: aoeui 1.0.0-1 the lightweight, unobtrusive, Dvorak-optimized editor basilisk 1.0-4 A free, portable Mac II emulator with JIT compiler bitterbpp 1.6-4 A program to backup DVDs to matroska byzanz 0.1.1-4 A desktop recorder that records to GIF childsplay 0.85.1-2 A suite of educational games for young children childsplay-plugins 0.85.2-1 Additional games for childsplay codeine 1.0.1-2 A simple, smart xine video player for KDE cowbell 0.2.7.1-3 An elegant music orgainzer divx4linux 6.1.1-1 DivX libraries (nonfree) e 0.16.999.039-1 Enlightenment Window Manager, Development Release 17 ecore 0.9.9.039-1 Event Abstraction and Modular Convenience Library edb-devel 1.0.5.007-4 Database Convenience Library wrapped around the Berkeley DB edje 0.5.0.039-1 Interface Abstraction Library and Toolset eet 0.9.10.039-1 Distribution Container Library and Tools efreet 0.0.3.004-1 An implementation of several specifications from freedesktop.org intended for use in Enlightenment DR17 (e17) and other applications using the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) embryo 0.9.1.039-1 Embeddable Scripting Language emotion 0.0.1.006-1 Video Smart-Object Library for Evas entice 0.9.3.004-4 Image Viewer using Enlightenment Foundation Libraries entrance 0.9.0.010-1 Enlightenment Display Manager epeg 0.9.0.009-1 JPEG Thumbnailing Library epsilon 0.3.0.009-1 Thumbnailing Library compliant with Freedesktop.org Standard esmart 0.9.0.009-1 A Collection of Evas Smart Objects etk 0.1.0.004-1 Etk is a toolkit based on the EFL evas 0.9.9.039-1 Enlightened Canvas Library ewl 0.5.1.009-1 Enlightenment Widget Library e_dbus 0.1.0.001-1 Wrappers around dbus to ease integrating dbus with EFL based applications freetype1 1.3.1-4 TrueType font rendering library fvwm-themes-devel 0.7.0-3 Development themes for fvwm gimpshop 2.2.11-4 A modified Gimp that features menu layouts and naming conventions similar to those in Photoshop. glitz 0.5.6-1 OpenGL image compositing library gnomesu 0.3.1-5 A program that allows a user to su to root in a Gnome environment. gourmet 0.13.4-2 A simple but powerful recipe-managing application gpsdrive 2.10pre4-1 A car (bike, ship, plane) navigation system gtk2+extra 2.1.1-1 GtkExtra is a useful set of widgets for creating GUI's for the Xwindows system using GTK+ gtk2hs 0.9.12.1-1 A GTK+2 binding for Haskell (prerelease) gtubeclock 0.9.1-3 A nixie tube style clock for X. haskell-binary 0.2-1 Efficient, pure binary serialisation using lazy ByteStrings for Haskell imlib2-devel 1.4.0.001-2 Image Rendering and Manipulation Library imlib2_loaders 1.4.0.001-1 Image Loaders for Imlib2 kdedecor-crystalgl 0.8.1-1 Transparent window decoration theme with a simple design and OpenGL-based effects kdenlive-svn 1727-1 A video editing GUI for KDE using the MLT video framework. last-exit 5-1 A last.fm player libconfig 1.1.3-1 C/C++ Configuration File Library libggi 2.2.2-1 GGI graphics library libgii 1.0.1-2 GGI input handling library libpq++ 4.0-2 C++ bindings for PostgreSQL lirc-xmms-plugin 1.4-1 XMMS LIRC plugin metakit 2.4.9.7-1 MetaKit is an efficient database library with a small footprint mowitz 0.3.1-1 This is the Mowitz (More widgets) library mxml 2.3-1 A small XML parsing library nautilus-audio-convert 0.1-2 An extension of Nautilus that provides a user-friendly way to convert several audio files nautilus-share 0.7.1-1 Share files through Samba with Nautilus nextaw 0.15.1-4 neXtaw is a replacement library for the Athena (libXaw) widget set opcion 1.1.1-4 A font viewer written in java perl-gtk2-sexy 0.02-3 Perl/CPAN Module Gtk2::Sexy php-gtk2 2.0.0beta-1 PHP bindings for gtk2 pydb 1.22-2 Pydb - Extended Python Debugger pyglet 1.0beta3-1 A pure python multimedia and game library pygoocanvas 0.9.0-1 GooCanvas python bindings qmmp 0.1.2-1 an qt4 based audio-player, rage 0.2.0.003-1 A media center designed mostly for use on a television hooked up to your pc via a remote control shapelib 1.2.10-3 simple C API for reading and writing ESRI Shapefiles shorewall-perl 4.0.5-1 perl compiler for shorewall firewall siag-office 3.6.1-4 Siag Office is a tightly integrated, free office package visualboyadvance 1.7.2-5 An emulator for Gameboy and Gameboy Advance systems. warzone 2.0.7-1 3D realtime strategy game on a future Earth winki 0.4.5-1 Aims to be the easiest program for video encoding zaptel 1.4.6-1 Zapatel Drivers for Asterisk

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[aur-general] request to be orphaned: postgresql-jdbc3
by Vitaliy Berdinskikh 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hi all! I can update postgresql-jdbc3 but this package not orphaned. Owner did last update at 2005. -- Sincerely yours, Vitaliy Berdinskikh xmpp:skipper13@jabber.in.ua

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[aur-general] cdrtools package
by Lukáš Jirkovský 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hi, I'd like to maintain cdrtools package in AUR. User maintaining this package (alejandronova) seems not updating packages any more (he has 3 packages in AUR and 2 of them are out-of-date). I've contacted him before Christmas and I haven't got response yet. Please, can somebody orphan this package? Thanks Lukas '6xx' Jirkovsky

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[aur-general] eb- & arp- tables packages / other question
by Michal Soltys 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hello I've added ebtables recently, but arptables is already added by someone else. Problem is - that PKGBUILD is a little careless (using /usr/local, trying to install into real filesystem). I left a comment and contacted current maintainer by mail, but no reply so far. What is the best way to adopt such package ? As for the the other question - I've some builds for already existing packages, but in a bit specialized way - i.e. by default installing into chroot environment. Is it ok to add such packages to AUR (i.e. mldonkey-chroot) with proper conflicts / provides tables ?

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[aur-general] User thtde not updating packages
by Jordi Cerdan 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hello, I'm using backup-manager for my personal backups and this package is maintained by thtde in AUR. This user has got 2 packages: qbankmanager and backup-manager and both are flagged out-of-date. Backup-manager last update was on 26 june 2006 and qbankmanager last update was in 07 july 2006. Several comments are asking him to update the packages but ther's no update coming. I would lñike to update backup-manager as I use it daily, but it's impossible by now. What is to be done in that case? Regards, jcerdan.

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[aur-general] forgot password
by Gary W Haller 26 Jan '08

26 Jan '08

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[aur-general] kernel modules depends
by Roman Kyrylych 26 Jan '08

26 Jan '08

Hi! In order to implement FS#7150 for Community packages I ask all TUs to use the following dependency scheme in next versions of your packages (which will happen when 2.6.24 will hit Core): depends=('kernel26>=2.6.24-2' 'kernel26<=2.6.25' 'foobar-utils') In this case when user has an older kernel version (e.g. 2.6.23.x) - (s)he won't be annoyed by pacman who will want to upgrade foobar module and broke the system. And when version 2.6.25 will be released - Pacman won't allow the user to upgrade to it when there's at least one not-yet-updated module. Note that it is 2.6.24-2, not -1 in above example - this is because there was a configuration change to important kernel subsystem that required all modules to be rebuilt. You should always change depends version in such cases, otherwise some people with out-of-sync kernel and module version will report that module is broken. I already added this to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Module_Package_Guidelines (feel free to improve that text). -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[aur-general] TU Resignation - mOLOk
by Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

Hi fellow TUs, ~13 months have passed since my election, today I decided to step down. I really enjoyed doing this job, it taught myself a lot and gave me the chance to give back something to this great community. The first months I created hundreds (literally) of packages, I gave suggestions to AUR users how to improve their packaging skills and things like that. Lately my enthusiasm dropped and slowly reached zero. When I receive an out of date notification instead of thinking "Cool, a new version of that app.", I think "Oh, cr*p, I have to update and test that silly stuff". So, "It's not funny anymore"™. Moreover, I'd like to spend more time studying and contributing to different projects. Anyway, I'll still use Arch, so you'll probably read my mails now and then on the mailing lists 8) Now, the technical stuff, this is the list of the packages I maintain in [community]: gnome/gtranslator - not required by any package lib/confuse - required by tilda and awesome (maybe others) lib/fpconst - req. by python-soappy lib/gnu-efi - req. by refit lib/librsync - req. by rdiff-backup lib/python-soappy - not required by any lib/python-sqlalchemy - req. by griffith multimedia/griffith - not required by any multimedia/lxmusic - broken multimedia/mp3gain - not required by any network/ddclient - not required by any network/flock - not required by any network/links-g - not required by any network/mldonkey - not required by any network/sopcast - required by gsopcast and qsopcast network/youtube-dl - not required by any system/mairix - not required by any system/man-pages-it - not required by any system/nopaste - not required by any system/pommed - required by gpomme system/rdiff-backup - not required by any system/unace - not required by any x11/gpomme - not required by any x11/gsopcast - not required by any x11/lxpanel - not required by any x11/lxsession - not required by any x11/netwmpager - not required by any x11/obmenu - not required by any x11/openbox-themes - not required by any x11/pcmanfm - not required by any x11/sancho-gtk - not required by any x11/smplayer - required by smplayer-themes x11/smplayer-themes - not required by any x11/sux - not required by any x11/xkbset - not required by any note: smplayer{,-themes} will go in [extra] when qt4 will go out of [testing]; pommed/gpomme require an Apple laptop to be tested; lxmusic is broken and the author won't fix it any time soon. I'll move packages that won't be adopted in 2,3 weeks in [unsupported] (so please don't delete my account yet :) Cheers, -- Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino Arch Linux Trusted User (for the last time :) Please send personal email to themolok(a)gmail.com Public Key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFE0270FB GPG Key ID = 1024D / FE0270FB 2007-04-11 Key Fingerprint = 9AF8 9011 F271 450D 59CF 2D7D 96C9 8F2A FE02 70FB

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[aur-general] helixplayer disowned
by tardo 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

Due to the extremely complex nature of the build system and lack of time to figure out, the package has been disowned. If someone doesn't pick it up in a few days, I'll throw it back in unsupported.

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[aur-general] Package Update: shorewall-perl
by Vardyr 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

As noted in the latest newsletter, the shorewall-perl package in AUR is orphaned and out-of-date. The package is currently in [community] so I cannot adopt it, but I have updated the PKGBUILD and attached it to this message. I'm not sure if this is the appropriate method for submitting this particular update, so please correct me if need be. Notes/critiques on the PKGBUILD are appreciated as well. -Vardyr

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for blueman 0.3-3! -- 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] fortune-mod-cs update
by Dragonlord 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Hi, I'd like to adopt the "fortune-mod-cs" package in AUR. The current maintainer doesn't care about my comments under the package, neither does he respond on my email. Can someone orphan the package, so that I can adopt it? Thanks D

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[aur-general] [VOTE] Allan McRae
by Roman Kyrylych 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Hi all TUs! This message starts the voting period for Allan McRae. His introduction can be found here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-January/006600.html You have 7 days to vote. Please be active! My vote is YES. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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Re: [aur-general] Eclipse-Qt update
by Shaika-Dzari 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

>>On Jan 23, 2008 2:56 AM, Shaika-Dzari <shaikadzari at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi everyone. >> >> I sent an (gentle ^_^) email 4 days ago to eclipse-qt maintainer to ask him to update >> his package on Aur but I did not get any response. >> The last update was 24 June 2007. >> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=11798&O=25&L=0&C=0&K=… >> >> In my email, I offered him to adopt his package if he did not have the time to maintain it. >> >> What can we do if he did not response? >> Could I adopt his package or should I simply post my new pkgbuild as a comment? >> >> Thank you for your help. >> >> -- >> Shaika-Dzari >> http://www.guidelinux.org >> http://code.google.com/p/animeshell >> >> >You did what you had to do,contact him,if no response contact this >mailing list ;) >I've orphaned it, so you can adopt it now. Thank Ronald. I adopted the package. -- Shaika-Dzari http://www.guidelinux.org http://code.google.com/p/animeshell

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