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[aur-general] Delete orphan package
by Joao Cordeiro 10 Nov '10

10 Nov '10

I think this package (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14908) should be deleted. The maintainer orphaned it since it is deprecated and now included in other package (see maintainer comment). Thanks in advance

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[aur-general] Proposal: Mass AUR Cleanup (Discussion Period)
by Jakob Gruber 10 Nov '10

10 Nov '10

In response to Louis objections about skipping the discussion period, I'm posting the full text of the proposal below. It has been altered from the original text to incorporate Xynes idea of adding the 'last maintainer activity rule. Sorry for making you guys vote twice. This marks the beginning of the discussion period. --------------------------------------------- Hi TUs, recently I had a look at the AUR db to see if we could do some mass cleanups (see my mail at aur-general [1]). ------------------------------ Orphan candidates ------------------------------ Packages which are marked 'out of date' but the last package action (submission or modification) AND the maintainers last action (across all of his packages) are before January 1st, 2009. So, Out of date = TRUE AND Last package action < 20090101 AND Last maintainer action < 20090101 http://pastebin.com/e5qJxBUs (335 packages in the most recent DB dump - results may vary a little when querying the actual db) Valid objections in reply to [1] (and any other related threads) would be excluded. While many of these packages are probably candidates for deletion, the only safe thing to do en masse is to orphan them. Please vote 'yes' if you agree with orphaning these packages and 'no' if you disagree. [1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2010-September/010999.ht…

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[aur-general] TU Application
by Kaiting Chen 10 Nov '10

10 Nov '10

Hi aur-general, my name is Kaiting Chen and Xyne has decided to sponsor me for my TU application. I'm twenty one years old and a senior at Duke University studying Biomedical Engineering with a minor in Economics. I have also been a web developer and systems administrator for about four years now and am currently working on a rather long and protracted project for the university. I have been using Linux on a daily basis for about seven years now starting with Red Hat Linux, then Debian, Gentoo and finally Arch Linux for the last three years. And I use C, C++, x86 ASM, Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, and Javascript on a daily basis. I have Arch installed on four servers in total as well as on one virtual machine. I'm not ashamed to admit that I run a Windows 7 notebook as my only physical computer; though it's only role these days is to not bother me while I SSH into my Linux machines. I maintain a small cluster running Arch where I hand out free shell accounts to anyone who wants them. Currently this cluster has one hundred and twenty five users though I am in the process of updating its infrastructure to (hopefully) scale up to a couple thousand. The most important services on this cluster are/were glusterfs, nfs, ntpd, httpd, vsftpd, postfix, dovecot, postgresql, ejabberd, slapd, openvpn, memcached, pvpgn (this list is being updated quite often). I currently maintain thirty packages in the AUR, most of which I do not use but would be unhappy in seeing them orphaned. I would like to become a Trusted User simply because I would like to maintain packages more effectively. Recently there's been a thread on aur-general about the possible removal of hundreds of packages from [community] which makes me very worried. Packages such as cacti, courier-*, ejabberd, freeradius*, ipsec-tools, monit, roundcubemail, scilab, and *ircd are very important to people who run Arch on the server such as myself. This list evinces a fundamental problem however that there is simply not enough manpower to maintain the current repositories. Because I am able (or hopefully will be deemed so by the powers that be/grant TU priveleges) I would like to help alleviate this condition. Arch allows me to focus on the work that I do; it should be obvious that helping to ensure that Arch functions smoothly and efficiently is a necessary task for anyone who has made this distribution a valuable part of their workflow. In more concrete terms of how I want to contribute, I would like to start by adopting python-openbabel, freeimage, metakit, gen2shp, tdl, python-bsddb, and other orphaned packages in [community] once I have the chance to take a closer look at the orphan list. I'd also like to pull smalltalk, burp, bti, liboauth, and vim-align into [community]. I would also like to work on bringing some of the packages in [community] up to date such as rsyslog, pyinotify, openntpd, and ngspice. I would also like to work on maintain the Arch web presence. I think that a separate login is needed for each part of the site is something that should be fixed. The AUR is also somewhat outdated and I in large part agree with the page here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_2. That's about all I can think of for now. Please feel free to ask any questions and thanks for taking the time to consider my application. Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/

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[aur-general] determining inverse AUR dependencies of binary packages
by Christopher Brannon 10 Nov '10

10 Nov '10

Hi all, I'll start this discussion with an example of the problem. I notice that python-sqlalchemy is about to change in [community]. Most of the packages which depend on it will need to change their dependency to python2-sqlalchemy. This is handled quite nicely for packages in the binary repositories. If you do a package search on www.archlinux.org, you'll see which packages require python-sqlalchemy. Likewise, it is easy to get a list of [unsupported] packages which require a given package from [unsupported]. However, I don't know of a way to get a list of [unsupported] packages which require a given package from the binary repositories. If it were possible to build such lists, we could contact maintainers of [unsupported] packages, in order to inform them of upcoming changes which require their attention. -- Chris

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[aur-general] Delete wireshark-devel?
by Simon Legner 10 Nov '10

10 Nov '10

wireshark-devel [1] is a very outdated package (1.0.8 instead of 1.4.1 from extra). We should consider to delete it. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27349

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[aur-general] Delete package
by Joel Goguen 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

Hello all, I had created four packages on AUR; chromium-browser-inspector-bin, chromium-browser-l10n-bin and chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra-bin since the versions I found depended on only the dev channel Chromium package, and then chromium-browser-beta-bin to give these packages one to depend on. I've since learned that this isn't the way it should be done, so I'm requesting that a TU delete these four packages and I'll go to the maintainers of the existing packages to ask for beta channel packages. The package links are: chromium-browser-inspector-bin: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42722 chromium-browser-l10n-bin: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42725 chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra-bin: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42726 chromium-browser-beta-bin: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42720 -- Joel Goguen

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[aur-general] github switched to SSL everywhere
by Chris van Dijk 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

Recently github switched over to using SSL for their entire website [1]. Currently wget does not accept the wildcard *.github.com in the certificate: $ wget http://github.com/ --2010-11-06 15:45:12-- http://github.com/ Resolving github.com... 207.97.227.239 Connecting to github.com|207.97.227.239|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: https://github.com/ [following] --2010-11-06 15:45:12-- https://github.com/ Connecting to github.com|207.97.227.239|:443... connected. ERROR: certificate common name `*.github.com' doesn't match requested host name `github.com'. To connect to github.com insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'. This can be solved/worked around by passing --no-check-certificate to wget, something that makepkg does by default (DLAGENTS in /etc/makepkg.conf) _only_ for sources with the protocol https://. It does not do this for http sources, and of course does not know about any redirects to https. So my question is, what is the recommended course of action here, updating all PKGBUILDs that grab from github to point to the https source? Or is it wget's problem and we should just wait for an update? It has been fixed in wget's git repo but not released yet [2]. FYI: This is known to the github people, and they consider it wget's issue [3]. [1] https://github.com/blog/738-sidejack-prevention-phase-2-ssl-everywhere [2] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?20421 [3] http://support.github.com/discussions/repos/4702-cannot-download-via-wget-a…

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[aur-general] Delete request
by widomaker2k7＠gmail.com 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

Hello, please delete cid-svn and tvdownloader-svn # cid-svn [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40062 remplace by [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42696 # tvdownloader*svn [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40330 remplace by [4] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42697 Thanks you.

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[aur-general] Orphan request
by Xavier D. 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Hi, Could you orphan the following package as the maintainer doesn't respond and doesn't upgrade a package that is outdated since a long time now : thunar-devel (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20771) ? BRs,

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[aur-general] Delete request
by Christos Nouskas 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Please, delete kernel26-pf-p4 which is an accidental duplicate of kernel26-pf: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42310 -- X.

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