Re: [aur-general] Deletion requests: django-maintenancemode, django-agpl, perl-term-statusline

2014-03-05 Thread Jason St. John
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:48 AM, Felix Yan felixonm...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, March 04, 2014 01:24:29 Jason St. John wrote: Hello, The source and upstream URLs for these are broken, so they can be safely deleted. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/django-maintenancemode/ https

[aur-general] Deletion requests: django-maintenancemode, django-agpl, perl-term-statusline

2014-03-03 Thread Jason St. John
Hello, The source and upstream URLs for these are broken, so they can be safely deleted. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/django-maintenancemode/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/django-agpl/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-term-statusline/ Thanks, Jason

[aur-general] Deletion request: perl-pod-simple

2014-02-17 Thread Jason St. John
Hello, Pod::Simple has been a Perl core module since Perl 5.9.3, and Pod::Simple 3.28 (the latest version) is in Perl 5.18. As such, please delete perl-pod-simple[1]. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-pod-simple/ Thanks, Jason

Re: [aur-general] Perl core modules in the AUR

2014-02-17 Thread Jason St. John
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:04 PM, John D Jones III unixgeek1...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/17/14 16:32, Jason St. John wrote: Hello, Is there any reason to keep AUR packages for Perl core modules? The only reason I can think of is if there is an important bug fix or feature addition that has

Re: [aur-general] Removing stale accounts from the AUR

2014-02-01 Thread Jason St. John
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Никола Вукосављевић hau...@gmx.com wrote: On 31.1.2014 15:34, Nowaker wrote: Can you find an example of a 2 year old comment which is still relevant? Maybe all comments older than 2 years should be removed? 2 years old comments are irrelevant regardless of

Re: [aur-general] Package of Questionable Legality

2014-02-01 Thread Jason St. John
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 9:52 PM, WorMzy Tykashi wormzy.tyka...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 February 2014 23:05, Rob Til Freedmen rob.til.freed...@gmail.com wrote: [...] so i created this 27 line program to do it for me and it automatically adds the torrent to my torrent client. This package is not

[aur-general] Merge request: pkgbuild-reflection-git into pkgbuild-introspection-git

2014-01-19 Thread Jason St. John
Hi, Please merge pkgbuild-reflection-git[1] into pkgbuild-introspection-git[2]. The software was renamed upstream. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pkgbuild-reflection-git/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pkgbuild-introspection-git/ Thanks, Jason

Re: [aur-general] Promoting use of .AURINFO

2014-01-17 Thread Jason St. John
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Lukas Fleischer archli...@cryptocrack.de wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 at 13:56:44, Peter Littmann wrote: [...] Could you please send more infos about mkaurball, the new format and if this page in the wiki is still true:

Re: [aur-general] PKGBUILD review request

2014-01-10 Thread Jason St. John
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Douglas Christman douglaschrist...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, This is my first attempt at creating a package so I'd appreciate any feedback you have. The PKGBUILD is avilable here: https://raw.github.com/dobyrch/termboy-go/master/PKGBUILD Thanks! Hello, You

Re: [aur-general] Deletion request: virtinst-current

2013-12-08 Thread Jason St. John
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Jason St. John jstj...@purdue.edu wrote: This is an extension of the rename request for virtinst-current -- virtinst[1]. Based on some further research by djpohly, it was discovered that virt-manager-0.10.0-1 began providing virt-install[2]. djpohly offered

[aur-general] Deletion request: python-bayes and python2-bayes

2013-12-04 Thread Jason St. John
Hello, I'm the current maintainer of both of these packages. The upstream source for these has some weird stuff hard-coded into some of the files which makes using these difficult, so I'm not willing to maintain the packages in the AUR, and I'm guessing others won't want to either. As such, I'm

Re: [aur-general] Rename request: virtinst-current - virtinst

2013-12-04 Thread Jason St. John
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Devin J. Pohly djpohly+...@gmail.com wrote: Requesting rename of package virtinst-current: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/virtinst-current/ to virtinst. Name is a holdover from when the package was created (as the original submitter explains in the

[aur-general] Deletion request: virtinst-current

2013-12-04 Thread Jason St. John
This is an extension of the rename request for virtinst-current -- virtinst[1]. Based on some further research by djpohly, it was discovered that virt-manager-0.10.0-1 began providing virt-install[2]. djpohly offered that it might be useful to keep virtinst around because of all the dependencies

[aur-general] Deletion request: libxenctrl

2013-12-04 Thread Jason St. John
I'm requesting that libxenctrl[1] be deleted. There are several issues with it: --- it has no maintainer --- it has not been updated in over two years (since 2011-11-02) --- the source file returns a 404 error [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libxenctrl/ Thanks, Jason

Re: [aur-general] Revise VCS packages versioning

2013-10-31 Thread Jason St. John
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Anatol Pomozov anatol.pomo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi The sha1 is useful to people who need to quickly tell developers which version they are running when they're from git. Removing it is a bad idea. You can get the commit from the version number even without

Re: [aur-general] Package merge request: vim-solarized-git and vim-colors-solarized-git

2013-10-18 Thread Jason St. John
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Felix Yan felixonm...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 20:28:36 Jason St. John wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Jason St. John jstj...@purdue.edu wrote: On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Jason St. John jstj...@purdue.edu wrote: Hello

[aur-general] Deletion request: ttf-cantarell

2013-10-16 Thread Jason St. John
Hello, I'm requesting that ttf-cantarell be deleted. It appears to be an old duplicate of cantarell-fonts, which is in [extra]. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-cantarell/ https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/cantarell-fonts/ Thanks

Re: [aur-general] Deletion request: ttf-cantarell

2013-10-16 Thread Jason St. John
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Jerome Leclanche adys...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Jason St. John jstj...@purdue.edu wrote: Hello, I'm requesting that ttf-cantarell be deleted. It appears to be an old duplicate of cantarell-fonts, which is in [extra]. https

Re: [aur-general] Package merge request: vim-solarized-git and vim-colors-solarized-git

2013-10-16 Thread Jason St. John
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Jason St. John jstj...@purdue.edu wrote: On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Jason St. John jstj...@purdue.edu wrote: Hello, I'm not sure which is a better package name as there seems to be no dominating convention in the AUR, so I will leave that decision up

Re: [aur-general] Package merge request: vim-solarized-git and vim-colors-solarized-git

2013-10-14 Thread Jason St. John
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Jason St. John jstj...@purdue.edu wrote: Hello, I'm not sure which is a better package name as there seems to be no dominating convention in the AUR, so I will leave that decision up to the TUs. Please do one of the following: --- merge vim-solarized-git

[aur-general] Package merge request: vim-solarized-git and vim-colors-solarized-git

2013-10-09 Thread Jason St. John
Hello, I'm not sure which is a better package name as there seems to be no dominating convention in the AUR, so I will leave that decision up to the TUs. Please do one of the following: --- merge vim-solarized-git into vim-colors-solarized-git --- have the package maintainer update

[aur-general] Package merge request: oracle-instantclient-{sdk, basic} and instantclient-{sdk, basic}

2013-10-09 Thread Jason St. John
Hello, Please merge instantclient-basic into oracle-instantclient-basic, and merge instantclient-sdk into oracle-instantclient-sdk. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/instantclient-basic/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/oracle-instantclient-basic/

[aur-general] Disown request: cflow

2013-09-16 Thread Jason St. John
I emailed the maintainer of cflow[1] asking him to update the package for the several listed problems with it (see comments), but his email address does not work. I got an automated response saying that the user is unknown. Please disown this package. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cflow/

Re: [aur-general] Is it OK to package oneliners?

2013-09-16 Thread Jason St. John
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote: Deleted with the following message: A single-line shell command is not worth its own package, let alone a project on git hub. Such commands are better off as aliases. Seeing that was definitely a skypalming wtf moment. Regards,

[aur-general] Disown request: perl-graphviz

2013-07-10 Thread Jason St. John
perl-graphviz[1] has been flagged out-of-date with a 404'd source for over a year. Please disown it. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-graphviz/ Jason

[aur-general] Package deletion requests: perl-rdf-vcard-babelfish and perl-rdf-trineshortcuts

2013-07-10 Thread Jason St. John
perl-rdf-vcard-babelfish has a source that 404s, and its CPAN page has been deleted. -- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-rdf-vcard-babelfish/ -- http://search.cpan.org/search?query=rdf%3A%3Avcardmode=all perl-rdf-trineshortcuts has the same issues. --

[aur-general] Orphan requests for partition's packages

2013-05-18 Thread Jason St. John
Hello, Please orphan the packages maintained by user partition. None of the PKGBUILDs have a package() function, and based on the last upload dates for these packages (2008, 2008, and 2010), he likely has no interest or time in maintaining them. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/read-edid/

Re: [aur-general] ttf-google-webfonts{,-distilled,-git,-hg} mess

2013-04-24 Thread Jason St. John
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Maxime GAUDUIN aluc...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Marcel Korpel marcel.li...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Maxime GAUDUIN aluc...@gmail.com wrote: I mostly agree with you, but I would still keep the git package because

[aur-general] Merge request: ttf-google-webfonts-hg -- ttf-google-fonts-hg

2013-04-24 Thread Jason St. John
Google Web Fonts has been rebranded as Google Fonts[1]. Due to this, I am requesting that ttf-google-webfonts-hg[2] be merged into ttf-google-fonts-hg[3]. [1] http://9to5google.com/2013/04/22/google-web-fonts-rebrands-as-google-fonts-simplifies-web-interface/ [2]

[aur-general] AUR package: yogurt

2013-04-08 Thread Jason St. John
I hate to be the guy ruining someone's joke, but is the yogurt package[1] really appropriate for the AUR? It just makes a symlink from yogurt to yaourt making fun of the latter's name. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yogurt/ Jason

Re: [aur-general] ttf-google-webfonts{,-distilled,-git,-hg} mess

2013-04-07 Thread Jason St. John
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Maxime GAUDUIN aluc...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Marcel Korpel marcel.li...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Maxime GAUDUIN aluc...@gmail.com wrote: I mostly agree with you, but I would still keep the git package because

Re: [aur-general] font package category in AUR?

2013-04-07 Thread Jason St. John
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 7:08 PM, johnea m...@johnea.net wrote: I did a quick search to see if this has been discussed before, but found nothing. It seems it would help organization if there was a font category for AUR packages. Font are in all kinds of categories, and with inconsistent

Re: [aur-general] nanoc3 deletion request

2013-04-06 Thread Jason St. John
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Daniel Wallace danielwall...@gtmanfred.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 06:01:44PM -0400, Daniel Wallace wrote: On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 09:19:09PM +, Xyne wrote: I disagree that replaces is not useful in the AUR. Many people create their own

Re: [aur-general] VCS PKGBUILD and Pacman 4.1: increase epoch?

2013-04-05 Thread Jason St. John
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Maxime Gauduin aluc...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 22:20 +0100, WorMzy Tykashi wrote: On 5 April 2013 22:19, WorMzy Tykashi wormzy.tyka...@gmail.com wrote: Oops. Forgot my reference. [0]

Re: [aur-general] VCS PKGBUILD and Pacman 4.1: increase epoch?

2013-04-05 Thread Jason St. John
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Maxime Gauduin aluc...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 23:49 +0200, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Jason St. John jstj...@purdue.edu wrote: I agree that epoch should not be included in AUR packages just to work around

[aur-general] Deletion request: keepass2

2013-04-03 Thread Jason St. John
The package keepass2 appears to be a duplicate of keepass. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/keepass2/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/keepass/ Jason

[aur-general] ttf-google-webfonts{,-distilled,-git,-hg} mess

2013-04-01 Thread Jason St. John
I am the current maintainer of the AUR package ttf-google-webfonts-hg[4], and I'm bothered by the mess of various packages there are for Google's Web Fonts project. It's not at all KISS in its current state. There are currently four different AUR packages[1][2][3][4] that essentially supply the

[aur-general] Deletion request: xmlrpc-c-abyss

2013-03-27 Thread Jason St. John
xmlrpc-c-abyss[1] was created to provide an abyss-enabled version of xmlrpc-c[2], but as of [3], the package in [community] has enabled abyss support. xmlrpc-c-abyss is no longer needed and can be deleted. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xmlrpc-c-abyss/ [2]

[aur-general] Deletion request: perl-config-ini-mvp

2012-12-11 Thread Jason St. John
I am requesting that perl-config-ini-mvp[1] be deleted because the source link 404s. It seems like upstream may have renamed it to [2]. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-config-ini-mvp/ [2] http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Config-MVP-Reader-INI/ Thanks, Jason

[aur-general] Deletion request: perl-cyrillic

2012-11-12 Thread Jason St. John
perl-cyrillic[1] should be deleted because the PKGBUILD contains years-old syntax, the source files are bundled together with the AUR tarball, and because I can't find the CPAN page for this package. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-cyrillic/ Thanks

[aur-general] Deletion request: hpl1-engine

2012-10-31 Thread Jason St. John
I'm requesting that hpl1-engine[1] be deleted. The description is very unhelpful, and the source doesn't download (`makepkg -g` fails due to an HTTP 403 error). [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37211 Thanks!

[aur-general] Deletion request: systemd-arch-units-git

2012-10-31 Thread Jason St. John
systemd-arch-units-git[1] needs to be deleted because the GitHub page for it has been deleted. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47603

[aur-general] Package Deletion Requests (rtmpdump-yle asp)

2012-07-11 Thread Jason St. John
Hello, Please delete rtmpdump-yle[1] because the maintainer of the package made the following comment: THIS PACKAGE IS DEPRECATED! DO NOT USE THIS! You need to install the new yle-dl package from AUR, which will work with the new Areena. Please delete asp[2] because the package is very

[aur-general] Package Deletion Request: perl-shared

2012-02-25 Thread Jason St. John
?h=packages/perl Thanks! __ Jason St. John Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Computer and Information Technology, Purdue University

[aur-general] [Removal Request] r8169

2011-12-08 Thread Jason St. John
it, I pretend to remove from aur. Thanks __ Jason St. John Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Computer and Information Technology, Purdue University