[aur-general] TU resignation
Hi everyone, I've been pretty busy lately and haven't been able to find the time to fix bugs and keep my packages up-to-date. Lately I haven't actually been using any of the packages I maintain, so I think the time has come to pass them on to someone with the time and motivation to maintain them. So, without further ado, I hereby tender my resignation as a TU. I wish you all the best and hope you continue doing the things which make Arch so great. Best, Jonathan P.S. I've had trouble getting GPG and gmail to play together, so I've attached the contents of this message and signed that instead of signing the email itself. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, I've been pretty busy lately and haven't been able to find the time to fix bugs and keep my packages up-to-date. Lately I haven't actually been using any of the packages I maintain, so I think the time has come to pass them on to someone with the time and motivation to maintain them. So, without further ado, I hereby tender my resignation as a TU. I wish you all the best and hope you continue doing the things which make Arch so great. Best, Jonathan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJStKaEAAoJEK9+94c8/Uu26OYIAIlPKg7TbXCLmpFlwgsE3i/h wBCzQnx7MCGNgBAZ3eDdFJR4txhZOtt740aO8O4ZhihUed/YR0lJwb72C6qP4dcf u5OIFFEdHF+iZqJ+34hPD7QkmVJUYxs+f5xeBlK4ETYNo3mtOU/SreyLLj7yviLG jz2e20tFK0sfOyeglKKJpMC8EOzn2ARufLPlZxV8TFUj0pN2uSOoT2Gm6Ifj2KRn SNv3PpZDitRwMfWRbxMOCSvHl8+KAKZwzKloEThSPFAzrjuSWyWb2+poDwE4YcRL McMBEyqC6jQNA0BTpZ6R3XYNbwgwFllkHij+ONKn4xd5R5Nrq7sRYzgGrZNUplA= =dxpV -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[aur-general] Orphaning desmume/agg
Hi all, I have just orphaned desmume agg, since I don't really have time to maintain packages that I don't use. Unless someone adopts it I'll move desmume to the AUR next week (it needs updating). However, I can't do that with agg as it is required by gnash-common, so it'd be good if someone could take over that one (updates for it are fairly rare). Cheers, Jonathan
Re: [aur-general] Developer/TU key signing
Hi, my arch master key is available [1] with fingerprint 44D4 A033 AC14 0143 9273 97D4 7EFD 567D 4C7E A887. Every packager please do: 1) reply this email in the mailing list, include gerolde/sigurd username and sign your reply using your gpg key. 2) name at least one package you already signed. [1] https://dev.archlinux.org/~ibiru/ionut_AT_master-key.archlinux.org -- Ionuț Hi Ionuț, Signing my email didn't work for me last time, so instead I have attached a text file with my reply, which I signed using gpg --sign --armor. Thanks, Jonathan Hi, my arch master key is available [1] with fingerprint 44D4 A033 AC14 0143 9273 97D4 7EFD 567D 4C7E A887. Every packager please do: 1) reply this email in the mailing list, include gerolde/sigurd username and sign your reply using your gpg key. 2) name at least one package you already signed. [1] https://dev.archlinux.org/~ibiru/ionut_AT_master-key.archlinux.org -- Ionuț 1) sigurd username: jconder 2) linuxtv-dvb-apps, mythtv -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) owFdkn9IU1EUx7elpk8CKYTIqENEJOyHc7OnJoPh7AeVOLAIJOxt77o9fXvv8d7d cmEW1KjMTChJVCTph6TVMkGiX/9VmllqQqwIGUpFBBlh5sTVfTP/qH8u954f3/M5 59zmVSs0Om24fu500eKeAe1t7bQr3YcUhfEgI67FpWO9cRvs4vSUjbKBLwiM7PaC j1EwkqEGBYFTgAkwHM+4eAQV5kNwhMNeqOIED5IlmRMwWK0OK9hzLBawF5utkGO2 WohUQS5tASigiY8u2eGAvG20A6zFdAnY8/NpY6JcSQDJQZAYdw2hkUHiEaMgYMXC hNecDTKS+CBgL4FAPgIBnEBeCNQ7IQCeU7CeGN28n0VANESeRSaF8/hlFvwKkgXG h4gUI7BArAIERb/8V9WvqAoJg0fyqL0SKMjNBjUHGAwqDQZRQMuEajAwvIwYNpiQ Q+xSH+pYvBhLSqHJxKKAUZ0h4fPXGkXZY6rnXJzsN3Gi4MeV9vLKpeEa1IL/BKpS RMxgIMduEjzYTlFkBv91UwjVblFgkUwR1EQuDhjYgMvASJKiJxvEXhygzmrXJ2m0 Ok1Ksk7dsIZKy1j+Aob0VE3jzsBwtMyUdWs2cjj6s+dYz+df5zNj/CejrWFE/Nhi vZkWemb40RTu1Pc3vlpX0LZyPi/mKnc09XHvurM2RMYX+cz6440tiu3aQkp319OH py6MfEmOdsze1ztWt8bR3UuSO5T96Ax1o+7F65GBq2+dL5UDW49mTT6XugqT9tc5 m6lq/KTgukxNDfUPa7Z/6IyZvee+Dk9Im0baG0Zjwvf3ttap0YyfE5vH6S1TxUrR xfmZcKZSFqo4cW/I+Q3fKZoOXx7UdD5YE1kIiWJpb+q+N6VVkSsh597prLnkjplW +mTaY10bHY/KExm5a3/3TR7MtznbNmrnq8dq4uwf =kePa -END PGP MESSAGE-
Re: [aur-general] Orphaning mediatomb
- Original message - On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 22:06:02 -0600 Mike Bedwell pcally...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/23/2011 09:10 PM, Jonathan Conder wrote: On 24 October 2011 01:42, Dieter Plaetinckdie...@plaetinck.be wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:10:48 +1300 Jonathan Conderjonno.con...@gmail.com wrote: Hi TUs, In a few days I will be orphaning my package mediatomb, and will delete it too unless anyone is interested in maintaining it. It has been unmaintained upstream for over a year, and currently I don't have enough time to deal with the issues that keep cropping up because of this. At the moment it isn't even installed on my main computer. Thought I'd just let people know first, in case anyone else is interested in maintaining it, and to give my reasons for dropping it. Thanks, Jonathan why would you delete the package? I still use MT. orphan as you want, but it's not because upstream is inactive that you should remove the package IMHO. I was under the impression that it didn't currently work, but on closer inspection it looks like one of the bugs was invalid. Maybe it should stay then, but unless someone is willing to maintain it I think we should encourage new users to look for an alternative (by removing it from the repos). Dieter I'm just a noob to the lists, but I don't understand why non-maintained mediatomb equates to a package that is no longer relevant to anyone. Unless it is severely broken, I would think that many would appreciate it continuing on in the repos. At worst, don't delete it, but relegate it to AUR instead. I use mediatomb in my home and would hate to see a loss of the package. In aur, most are aware that, You get what you get and you don't throw a fit. Btw, i falsely assumed that MT was already in AUR and Jonathan planned to remove it from AUR. so I'm not sure what exactly he meant with dropping then... removing from the repo but not uploading in AUR? that only means someone else will create a new PKGBUILD and upload it to AUR. you could save that person some work :) Dieter Sorry for the confusion. By 'drop' I meant move it from community to the AUR. Jonathan
Re: [aur-general] Orphaning mediatomb
On 24 October 2011 01:42, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:10:48 +1300 Jonathan Conder jonno.con...@gmail.com wrote: Hi TUs, In a few days I will be orphaning my package mediatomb, and will delete it too unless anyone is interested in maintaining it. It has been unmaintained upstream for over a year, and currently I don't have enough time to deal with the issues that keep cropping up because of this. At the moment it isn't even installed on my main computer. Thought I'd just let people know first, in case anyone else is interested in maintaining it, and to give my reasons for dropping it. Thanks, Jonathan why would you delete the package? I still use MT. orphan as you want, but it's not because upstream is inactive that you should remove the package IMHO. I was under the impression that it didn't currently work, but on closer inspection it looks like one of the bugs was invalid. Maybe it should stay then, but unless someone is willing to maintain it I think we should encourage new users to look for an alternative (by removing it from the repos). Dieter
[aur-general] Orphaning mediatomb
Hi TUs, In a few days I will be orphaning my package mediatomb, and will delete it too unless anyone is interested in maintaining it. It has been unmaintained upstream for over a year, and currently I don't have enough time to deal with the issues that keep cropping up because of this. At the moment it isn't even installed on my main computer. Thought I'd just let people know first, in case anyone else is interested in maintaining it, and to give my reasons for dropping it. Thanks, Jonathan
Re: [aur-general] Temporary Inactivity
On 29 January 2011 23:53, Ray Rashif sc...@archlinux.org wrote: On 29 January 2011 06:36, Jonathan Conder jonno.conder+a...@gmail.comjonno.conder%2ba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I'm off to the beach again and won't be back until Monday. This time there is something on my todo list, which is to move the mythplugins-* packages from community-testing into community once libmysqlclient is updated. If this happens while I'm away it would be great if someone could do that for me. If not, it doesn't matter that much because the only package it will break is mythplugins-mythzoneminder, which I doubt is used by many people. OK, we'll keep tabs on that. Thanks. I'm back now so I can do it myself, and just in time by the looks of the todo list :). Jonathan
[aur-general] Temporary Inactivity
Hi everyone, I'm off to the beach again and won't be back until Monday. This time there is something on my todo list, which is to move the mythplugins-* packages from community-testing into community once libmysqlclient is updated. If this happens while I'm away it would be great if someone could do that for me. If not, it doesn't matter that much because the only package it will break is mythplugins-mythzoneminder, which I doubt is used by many people. Thanks, Jonathan
Re: [aur-general] Temporary inactivity
On 2 January 2011 13:38, Jonathan Conder jonno.conder+a...@gmail.comjonno.conder%2ba...@gmail.com wrote: Hey everyone, I'm off to the beach for a few days, and should be back on Friday if not earlier. Just thought I'd let everyone know, although I doubt anything will need my attention while I'm away. Jonathan Back now.
Re: [aur-general] AUR Improvement Thread
On 17/11/10 17:17, Kaiting Chen wrote: How can we make the AUR even better? I think it would be nice if people who click the Notify button get emailed when the package is updated, and not just when someone comments. Some maintainers don't say anything when they update. Jonathan
Re: [aur-general] Packages for deletion?
On 19/10/10 08:53, Ray Rashif wrote: On 19 October 2010 03:48, Gordon JC Pearcegordon...@gjcp.net wrote: Mediatomb 0.12.1-2 appears to be in community already, so does that mean the AUR version is superfluous? http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/mediatomb/ http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/mediatomb/ All I see in AUR is mediatomb-svn, and that's fine. Someone probably just deleted mediatomb if it did exist. I was gonna say... was sure I'd deleted it months ago :P
Re: [aur-general] Mime Types
On 22/09/10 13:11, Loui Chang wrote: On Wed 22 Sep 2010 01:20 +1200, Jonathan Conder wrote: On an unrelated note, does anyone else have problems with the MIME types on the AUR server? This is the header I get when downloading a tarball: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/x-tgz Accept-Ranges: bytes ETag: 2582334637 Last-Modified: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:58:19 GMT Content-Length: 425 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:52:28 GMT Server: lighttpd/1.4.28 The MIME type for gzipped tarballs on my system is application/x-compressed-tar. It's kinda annoying because Firefox gets confused and decides it can't open the tarball. I might try to fix it myself at some later stage, but I'm really snowed under at the moment. Interesting. Where is that set on your system? This whole mime type thing is a bit of a mess eh? I guess it's kind of hard to rely on non-standard mime types. Is there some kind of auxiliary non IETF standard? You can find the mime types that Firefox uses in: /home/username/.mozilla/firefox/profileid/mimeTypes.rdf Cheers It is set in /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml (belonging to shared-mime-info), but maybe other places too. I would imagine freedesktop.org would be the best candidate for an auxiliary standard. But maybe I should just report this as a Firefox bug, since it prompts me to open it with the right program, and only after it has finished downloading does an error occur. Jonathan
Re: [aur-general] everyone welcome our newest TU: Peter Lewis!
On 22/09/10 07:35, Christopher Brannon wrote: Votes: yes 19 no 1 abstain 1 Quorum was reached, and the application was accepted. Peter, please read the following document: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines. It contains a list of tasks which every new TU must complete. If you have not already done so, familiarize yourself with our bylaws: http://aur.archlinux.org/trusted-user/TUbylaws.html. Also, I have changed the status of your account on the AUR. Welcome to the team! -- Chris Well done and welcome!
Re: [aur-general] what is the best way to resolve conflicting files in aur packages?
On 09/09/10 09:26, Alex Combas wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Nathan Ondowens@gmail.com wrote: First thing I would do, is to contact the maintainer of the package, and temporarily edit the PKGBUILD of the package that is giving you the problem if you are wanting to install it. I posted a message to him on the aur page for opencl-headers. And I did fix the problem on my computer, but for users who try to install my package they wont be able to do so unless they manually fix opencl-headers themselves. So any suggestions on how to fix this? I can see a couple of possible fixes: a) opencl-headers simply conflicts=(nvidia-utils) and then people install it with -f b) opencl-headers removes cl.h cl_gl.h and cl_platform.h since they are provided by nvidia-utils c) nvidia-utils removes cl.h cl_gl.h and cl_platform.h since they are provided by opencl-headers d) ??? Any other suggestions? Just wait for the next driver release, which removes these headers: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2314331 (unless of course they are put in the Arch package anyway) Jonathan
Re: [aur-general] gadmin-sshd
On 06/09/10 20:36, Nathan O wrote: My package, gadmin-sshd http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40572, does not seem to install the desktop file or my bash script I added. For the moment, I don't see the obvious reason why. Everything should be fine Thanks Use ${pkgdir} instead of ${srcdir} for the last argument of install -D.
Re: [aur-general] gadmin-sshd
On 06/09/10 20:41, Nathan O wrote: On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:38 AM, Jonathan Conder jonno.conder+a...@gmail.comjonno.conder%2ba...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/09/10 20:36, Nathan O wrote: My package, gadmin-sshd http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40572, does not seem to install the desktop file or my bash script I added. For the moment, I don't see the obvious reason why. Everything should be fine Thanks Use ${pkgdir} instead of ${srcdir} for the last argument of install -D. I feel like a dumb... I think it is time to go to sleep :-) Thanks for pointing out my sleepy stupidity :) Heh, don't worry, it happens to everyone (I think) :).
Re: [aur-general] Voting period for Jonathan Conder (PirateJonno)
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 18:37 +0200, Andrea Scarpino wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2010 04:39:06 Jonathan Conder wrote: Hi everyone, Thanks for the positive feedback :). I'll get right on that. Jonathan Welcome aboard. I made you TU on forum and flyspray, but can you set your surname in flyspray account? Thanks. Sure thing, thanks.
Re: [aur-general] Voting period for Jonathan Conder (PirateJonno)
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 20:03 +0300, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 08/23/2010 09:19 AM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: Hi TUs, the voting period for $subj has begin. http://aur.archlinux.org/tu.php?id=32 and the results are: yes 16 no 0 abstain 4 ___ 20 Congrats for our newly trusted user member. Welcome in the team Please refer to this link: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines#TODO_list_for_new_Trusted_Users Hi everyone, Thanks for the positive feedback :). I'll get right on that. Jonathan P.S. For reliability/mobility reasons, I have a new email address: jonno dot conder at gmail dot com. You will still be able to reach me at this address until November or so.
Re: [aur-general] makechrootpkg
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 01:18 -0500, Nathan O wrote: Is there a way to make 'makechrootpkg' use clyde so it will install missing dependencies from AUR? I looked at /etc/makepkg.conf /etc/pacman.conf and couldn't find an option. I also looked at the source for makechrootpkg and didn't see anything I could change to make it use clyde instead of pacman. Thanks Maybe try exporting PACMAN? For example: export PACMAN=clyde makechrootpkg ... It won't work if clyde's argument syntax is different to pacman's. Jonathan
Re: [aur-general] Trusted User Application
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 22:36 +0300, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 08/17/2010 05:09 PM, Jonathan Conder wrote: Here is a longer list of AUR packages that I could possibly pick up: bin32-skype (if policy allows) i don't see any reason not to. Is not in repos because nobody want it to maintain. Ok, I just wasn't sure about the rules for 32-bit packages. packagekit pacman-glib is this usable? last time i used gnome-packagekit + packagekit it had only problems. Most annoying was i could install any packages without asking me any credentials I've added a lot of functionality since then, but there are still a couple of occasional bugs that need sorting (actually these are in gnome-packagekit and libalpm), and I won't move it to community until they are fixed. Try it out if you want: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35019 http://github.com/PirateJonno/pacman-glib/tree/master/pk-backend Jonathan
Re: [aur-general] Trusted User Application
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 07:24 -0500, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: Going through the bug reports, it seems that you have a keen eye and don't let bugs go unnoticed. Thanks :) That said, I am a little bothered by the amount of packages you do maintain currently in the aur which is only 6. Since you do have such a small amount of packages, I will ask, what are your goals after you become a TU? Fair enough. The main reason I maintain only those packages is that everything else I use from the AUR already has a maintainer. Becoming a TU would presumably allow me to adopt other people's packages and put them in community. Also, MythTV + plugins makes up 12 packages already. Anyway, I just saw your second email. With that vague list I wasn't talking about the AUR, but rather packages that could be adopted within the repos, like MythTV is at the moment. I'm not really sure what those are exactly (or if there are any), hence the lack of specifics. Here is a longer list of AUR packages that I could possibly pick up: bin32-skype (if policy allows) desmume fbsplash fbsplash-extras fbsplash-theme-arch-black fbsplash-themes-arch-banner gap-math* gnome-colors-icon-theme gnome-packagekit gummi lightning mediatomb[-svn] myththeme-blue-abstract* nautilus-makepkg* nspluginwrapper-debian nspluginwrapper-flash packagekit pacman-glib python-poppler I've starred the ones that aren't that popular, but are interesting to me personally. Also, I'm not ready to release PackageKit-related stuff quite yet, but I would hope that it would be reasonably popular when I make a proper announcement. Jonathan P.S. Thanks Allan
[aur-general] Trusted User Application
Hi everyone, I would like to apply to become a Trusted User. Ionuț/wonder has kindly agreed to sponsor me. Anyway, here is some info about me: Who am I? My name is Jonathan Conder, from Auckland, New Zealand. I'm currently a full-time student studying Maths and Computer Science (among other things). I've been using Linux since early 2008, after a bit of distro-hopping I moved to Arch, and was very impressed by the wiki and the degree of control I gained over my system. My forum username is PirateJonno, maybe some of you have seen me around. Why do I want to be a TU? Well, Arch has been my distribution of choice for several years now, and I would like to give something back to the community. I hope that this position will enable me to move some popular AUR packages to community. What packages am I interested in? Firstly, I would like to adopt MythTV (and related packages) since they seem to have no current maintainer. This would involve moving them out of extra and into community of course. If the need arises, I would also be willing to maintain anything I have installed, which boils down to a lot of GNOME desktop applications, a few games, and various multimedia programs or libraries. Other packages I would be interested in bringing to community are: fbsplash (along with a few themes) gnome-colors-icon-theme mediatomb (possibly with a few patches) nspluginwrapper-flash (if this presents no ideological issues) Also, I have a few projects of my own that could be added in future, namely PackageKit and nautilus-makepkg. See my AUR/GitHub pages at: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=mK=PirateJonno http://github.com/PirateJonno Can I do the job? I think I have enough experience packaging for Arch to become a TU. Although I don't maintain many AUR packages, I would do if the need arose. I often modify others' packages to change the configure flags, add a custom patch, enable debugging symbols, etc. My work on PackageKit has made me very familiar with the packaging system itself. I am also a reasonably experienced C/C++ programmer, which means I am usually pretty good at tracking down bugs. My ability to find bugs in unfamiliar code is also improving. For example, here are some I have reported/fixed: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?email1=j% 40skurvy.no-ip.orgemailtype1=exactemailreporter1=1 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?email1=j% 40skurvy.no-ip.orgemailtype1=exactemailreporter1=1 http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?status[]opened=PirateJonno Thanks for your time, Jonathan