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[aur-general] TU Application: Lukas Fleischer
by Lukas Fleischer 21 Oct '10

21 Oct '10

Hi! My name is Lukas Fleischer, I'm a 20-year-old student from Germany, studying Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart, freelance web-developper, IT consultant and hobbyist DJ. I've been using GNU/Linux for about three years (used OpenBSD and FreeBSD before) and Arch Linux probably for about two years. Since then, Arch Linux has become my Desktop distribution of choice being installed and used on four of my workstations and one server (i686 as well as x86_64, one box using [testing] and [community-testing] repos). Besides Arch Linux, I'm still using Debian, Gentoo and *BSD as server distributions/OS. I'm a hardcore CLI user (zsh, tmux, mutt, irssi, mplayer, calcurse just rock!), experienced programmer (10+ years) specialized in Perl, C and Assembly and, as I already said, web-developper (PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL). As I read about Loui looking for help with the AUR multiple times on aur-dev, I thought I'd just give a try and apply for TU. My main interests would be to help out with AUR development (just check some of the patches I sent to aur-dev) and AUR cleanups (you might e.g. want to have a look at aurdupes [1] and some of my mails to aur-general), double-check popular AUR packages, and, of course, to maintain a couple of packages in [community] including remuco, redshift, tinyproxy, mixxx (I'd also like to see xwax in [community] but sadly, it's not really popular), pytyle, optionally surf and tabbed and maybe some of the OpenSync stuff (I'm still trying to get it work with calcurse and my Symbian phone). I currently maintain 22 packages in the AUR [2] and previously maintained some other packages that have been moved to [community] (e.g. perl-datetime-format-iso8601, perl-task-weaken, winetricks). You might also want to check my "archlinux-packages" GIT repository [3] which is (almost) always up-to-date. If you check some of the PKGBUILDs you might notice that I care about consistency and conformity with standards (although not all of the packages might stick to that, especially virtualbox_bin still looks kinda ugly and contains some legacy stuff). I'd really appreciate any kind of positive criticism and improvement suggestions as regards that! Well, if there are any questions left, feel free to ask. And before I forget, Loui has agreed to be my sponsor :) Regards, Lukas [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40869 [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=cryptocrack [3] http://git.cryptocrack.de/?p=archlinux-packages.git;a=summary

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[aur-general] request for deletion of django-command-extensions package
by Alper KANAT 20 Oct '10

20 Oct '10

Hello There, django-command-extensions projects is renamed to django-extensions in upstream and moved to github. I adopted both packages today. Can you please delete django-command-extensions package? I'll continue maintaining django-extensions. Thanks! --- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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[aur-general] Please delete xmacro-patched
by Ng Oon-Ee 20 Oct '10

20 Oct '10

There's currently xmacro [1] and xmacro-patched [2] in the AUR. Both do the same thing, and even generate identical binaries. xmacro-patched should therefore be deleted. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15191 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27245

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Re: [aur-general] Libreoffice in AUR
by karl 20 Oct '10

20 Oct '10

On 13:49 Wed 20 Oct , Allan McRae wrote: > On 20/10/10 23:47, Heiko Baums wrote: > >So I'd like to see LibreOffice in [extra] besides OpenOffice. I think > >LibreOffice is or will soon be too important to just have it in AUR or > >[community]. > > Wow... that was fast: > > > pacman -Si libreoffice > Repository : extra > Name : libreoffice > Version : 3.2.99.2-1 The version in extra is the libreoffice alpha. That version isn't compatible to the libreoffice language packs. In the AUR is libreoffice-bin, it's the libreoffice beta and compatible to the also provided language packs of libre office. It would of cause be nice, to see the beta + the language packs in the AUR. Best regards, Karl

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[aur-general] Libreoffice in AUR
by Ng Oon-Ee 20 Oct '10

20 Oct '10

I just noticed that libreoffice-new has been uploaded. Contrary to the last post in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=105664 the old libreoffice in the AUR has not yet (to my searching) been deleted (I think its been reuploaded). Obviously, its exactly the same. I wonder what the point is of having libreoffice-new though. It's basically just extracting of some rpms, as compared to the libreoffice from [testing]. I propose that libreoffice[1] and libreoffice-new[2] be deleted. The author should reupload as libreoffice-bin. If a TU agrees, I volunteer to email the author. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41792 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41793

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[aur-general] deletion request: hachoir
by solsTiCe d'Hiver 20 Oct '10

20 Oct '10

hi. hachoir-0.5.2 package from 2006 is still in AUR while it has been superseeded by the hachoir-* package family (hachoir-core, hachoir-metadata, hachoir-parser, hachoir-regex, hachoir-subfile) and this does not even build, I think please delete hachoir-0.5.2-1

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[aur-general] openjdk dev packages.
by Peter Lewis 20 Oct '10

20 Oct '10

Hi folks, There's currently a very out of date openjdk development version package here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14671 It's also currently orphaned and doesn't build any more. However, there's quite a lot of information in there and though it would probably normally be deleted for being very out of date, orphaned and no longer building on a current system, I don't want to delete it due to the work that's obviously gone into it. This would probably have to be redone if and when someone wanted an openjdk development package. It should be probably renamed openjdk-dev and given some love... does anyone who knows more about building Java fancy taking it under their wing? Otherwise, I suppose that we can just leave it orphaned for such a time as someone does... Cheers, Pete.

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[aur-general] Name of python libraries
by Clément Démoulins 20 Oct '10

20 Oct '10

Hi, Since the default python interpreter is python 3, should we renamed python 2 librairies: python2-* and python 3 libraries: python-* ? Clément Démoulins

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[aur-general] Deletion request ropemode ropevim
by Nicolás de la Torre 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Please delete ropemode http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38313 and ropevim http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20489 Just uploaded python-ropemode and python-ropevim for the python update and conforming python package guidelines. Thanks

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[aur-general] Deletion request rope
by Nicolás de la Torre 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Please delete rope http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13702 Just uploaded python-rope for the python update and conforming the python package guidelines. Thanks

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