[aur-general] poppler rebuilds will soon move - one buggy pkg in Community

2011-02-05 Thread Andreas Radke
Just a small note that we will move poppler rebuilds right after the MySQL move. So far I only know of one broken pkg in community where a fix is available: epdfview - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22734. Can somebody with community access test it and fix the bug? -Andy

Re: [aur-general] poppler rebuilds will soon move - one buggy pkg in Community

2011-02-05 Thread Jakob Gruber
On 02/05/2011 10:08 AM, Andreas Radke wrote: So far I only know of one broken pkg in community where a fix is available: epdfview - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22734. That fix you mentioned is already applied in the current package. I tried a couple of different patches a few days ago.

Re: [aur-general] poppler rebuilds will soon move - one buggy pkg in Community

2011-02-05 Thread Jakob Gruber
On 02/05/2011 10:32 AM, Jakob Gruber wrote: On 02/05/2011 10:08 AM, Andreas Radke wrote: So far I only know of one broken pkg in community where a fix is available: epdfview - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22734. That fix you mentioned is already applied in the current package. I tried a

Re: [aur-general] poppler rebuilds will soon move - one buggy pkg in Community

2011-02-05 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 02/05/2011 02:50 PM, Jakob Gruber wrote: On 02/05/2011 10:32 AM, Jakob Gruber wrote: On 02/05/2011 10:08 AM, Andreas Radke wrote: So far I only know of one broken pkg in community where a fix is available: epdfview - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22734. That fix you mentioned is

Re: [aur-general] 2 packages for Lyx 2.0

2011-02-05 Thread Bernardo Barros
I mean, if they provide the same thing, there should be just one. Right? 2011/2/3 Bernardo Barros bernardobarr...@gmail.com: Lyx beta3 has two packages in AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37964 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45798 no idea which did it better. :-)

Re: [aur-general] 2 packages for Lyx 2.0

2011-02-05 Thread Christophe Chapuis
I agree. Did you try to contact both of them, or leave a message on the AUR ? On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Bernardo Barros bernardobarr...@gmail.comwrote: I mean, if they provide the same thing, there should be just one. Right? 2011/2/3 Bernardo Barros bernardobarr...@gmail.com: Lyx

Re: [aur-general] [community], [unsupported] and AUR

2011-02-05 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 03 February 2011 05:39:52 Heiko Baums wrote: Every binary repo is called something in square brackets like [core], [extra], [community] etc., which are activated or deactivated in /etc/pacman.conf, but there is no repo [unsupported]. And at least I haven't found any reference on

[aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Gergely Imreh
Hi, Recently a couple of my packages have been moved to Community but the process feels a little uneasy to me. My impression is that AUR is treated as a second class source of packages compared to the official repos. Not surprising, of course, so many packages have problems. This is also

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Gergely Imreh imr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Recently a couple of my packages have been moved to Community but the process feels a little uneasy to me. My impression is that AUR is treated as a second class source of packages compared to the official repos.

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Ángel Velásquez
2011/2/5 Gergely Imreh imr...@gmail.com: Hi, Recently a couple of my packages have been moved to Community but the process feels a little uneasy to me. First of all remove that my before packages, that's a problem, some maintainers thinks that they're owners of the PKGBUILD, and isn't like

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 11:45:20AM -0700, Thomas S Hatch wrote: Greg, You have a valid point, personally I have always asked the maintainer of a package for objections before moving a package into community. I also want to continue to express my deep gratitude for the packagers who contribute

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Lukas Fleischer archli...@cryptocrack.dewrote: On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 11:45:20AM -0700, Thomas S Hatch wrote: Greg, You have a valid point, personally I have always asked the maintainer of a package for objections before moving a package into community. I

Re: [aur-general] poppler rebuilds will soon move - one buggy pkg in Community

2011-02-05 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 10:32 +0100, Jakob Gruber wrote: On 02/05/2011 10:08 AM, Andreas Radke wrote: So far I only know of one broken pkg in community where a fix is available: epdfview - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22734. That fix you mentioned is already applied in the current

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 02/05/2011 08:31 PM, Gergely Imreh wrote: Hi, Recently a couple of my packages have been moved to Community but the process feels a little uneasy to me. I moved a lot of packages from AUR in community/extra and every time i did sent a thank you note. From that amount of messages i sent,

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Isaac Dupree
It would be technologically helpful if moving a package to Community (or just deleting it from the AUR) did not consign its AUR comments to the eternal bit bucket in the sky. At any rate, I often wish I could see what was on the AUR page just before it was moved. ((if you want an example::

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Nicky726
Hi, fellow Archers, I feel a need to express my support to the opinion stated by Greg Imreh and Thomas Hatch. There is an unique relation between the contributor/maintainer and the PKGBUILD. This relation calls for respect. So please TUs/devs act as people and show it by letting first the

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Thomas S Hatch thatc...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Lukas Fleischer archli...@cryptocrack.dewrote: On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 11:45:20AM -0700, Thomas S Hatch wrote: Greg, You have a valid point, personally I have always asked the

[aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Maxime Wack
I had the same problem a few weeks ago, when the polipo package I was maintaining was moved to [Community] without any notice. I got aware of this when yaourt told me my version of polipo was not the same as in the repos… imagine my surprise when I didn't find my package on AUR anymore. Not

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Ray Rashif
On 6 February 2011 02:31, Gergely Imreh imr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Recently a couple of my packages have been moved to Community but the process feels a little uneasy to me. This has come up a couple of times before, and we all know it is very wrong to move a package from [unsupported]

Re: [aur-general] deletion request: dino-git

2011-02-05 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from masutu's message of 2011-02-04 18:22:35 +0100: Hi TUs, can you please delete dino-git ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33598)? I'm the maintainer of this package and want it to be deleted because a) PKGBUILD is broken, outdated and i can't get current git versions to

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 21:00 +0100, Maxime Wack wrote: I had the same problem a few weeks ago, when the polipo package I was maintaining was moved to [Community] without any notice. I got aware of this when yaourt told me my version of polipo was not the same as in the repos… imagine my

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Thomas Dziedzic gos...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Thomas S Hatch thatc...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Lukas Fleischer archli...@cryptocrack.dewrote: On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 11:45:20AM -0700, Thomas S Hatch

Re: [aur-general] deletion request: dino-git

2011-02-05 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Philipp Überbacher hollun...@lavabit.comwrote: Excerpts from masutu's message of 2011-02-04 18:22:35 +0100: Hi TUs, can you please delete dino-git ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33598)? I'm the maintainer of this package and want it to be

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Stéphane Gaudreault
Le 5 février 2011 13:45:20, Thomas S Hatch a écrit : On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Gergely Imreh imr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Recently a couple of my packages have been moved to Community but the process feels a little uneasy to me. My impression is that AUR is treated as a second

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Xyne
Gergely Imreh wrote: Hi, Recently a couple of my packages have been moved to Community but the process feels a little uneasy to me. My impression is that AUR is treated as a second class source of packages compared to the official repos. Not surprising, of course, so many packages have

[aur-general] Request removal: pngout-static-athlon, pngout-static-pentium4

2011-02-05 Thread Lou
I just adopted and updated pngout-static, but there are some additional pngout-static packages available that are old, outdated, and orphaned. Nobody cares about these and nothing depends on them either. pngout-static-athlon http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38727 pngout-static-pentium4

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Gergely Imreh
2011/2/6 Ángel Velásquez an...@archlinux.org: 2011/2/5 Gergely Imreh imr...@gmail.com: Hi, Recently a couple of my packages have been moved to Community but the process feels a little uneasy to me. First of all remove that my before packages, that's a problem, some maintainers thinks that

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Ángel Velásquez
2011/2/5 Nicky726 nicky...@gmail.com: To Angel Velasquez: the nature of the relation is not like an ownership, but more like an authorship. Is it that much to show your respect to the author by a polite question? After all we are people, not mindless machines nor animals. Hi Nicky, This is

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Hilton Medeiros
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:00:32 +0100 Maxime Wack maximew...@free.fr wrote: I had the same problem a few weeks ago, when the polipo package I was maintaining was moved to [Community] without any notice. I got aware of this when yaourt told me my version of polipo was not the same as in the

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Ángel Velásquez
2011/2/5 Gergely Imreh imr...@gmail.com: 2011/2/6 Ángel Velásquez an...@archlinux.org: 2011/2/5 Gergely Imreh imr...@gmail.com: Hi, Recently a couple of my packages have been moved to Community but the process feels a little uneasy to me. First of all remove that my before packages, that's

Re: [aur-general] Request removal: pngout-static-athlon, pngout-static-pentium4

2011-02-05 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Lou l...@fakeoutdoorsman.com wrote: I just adopted and updated pngout-static, but there are some additional pngout-static packages available that are old, outdated, and orphaned. Nobody cares about these and nothing depends on them either. pngout-static-athlon

[aur-general] Introduce kernel26-tools

2011-02-05 Thread Seblu
Dear Arch Users/Dev/TUs, I read some times ago on this mailing list words about shortly introducing new cool packages. I'm starting. From some times now, I discovered the power of a kernel embeded tools named perf, which is really useful to get information about your kernel performances and hunt

Re: [aur-general] Request removal: pngout-static-athlon, pngout-static-pentium4

2011-02-05 Thread Lou
On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 23:31:55 +0200 Evangelos Foutras foutre...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Lou l...@fakeoutdoorsman.com wrote: I just adopted and updated pngout-static, but there are some additional pngout-static packages available that are old, outdated, and orphaned.

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Maxime Wack
Le -10/01/-28163 20:59, Hilton Medeiros a écrit : Now, that is outrageous. Stealing your package is already a very nasty thing to do, but not replying to your email is unforgivable! From today onwards we shall call him: Jelle, the Soulless. Wow, I didn't expect to be trolled on

[aur-general] Orphan request: gnome-paint

2011-02-05 Thread György Balló
Please orphan gnome-paint package [1], because it's outdated for a while, and my e-mail to the maintainer was rejected (the address is not exists). [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32487 -- City-busz

Re: [aur-general] Orphan request: gnome-paint

2011-02-05 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 02/05/2011 11:49 PM, György Balló wrote: Please orphan gnome-paint package [1], because it's outdated for a while, and my e-mail to the maintainer was rejected (the address is not exists). [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32487 -- City-busz done -- Ionuț

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Maxime Wack maximew...@free.fr wrote: Le -10/01/-28163 20:59, Hilton Medeiros a écrit : Now, that is outrageous. Stealing your package is already a very nasty thing to do, but not replying to your email is unforgivable! From today onwards we shall call

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Nicky726
Hi Angel, This is opensource world dude, can you see it?, so forget those autorship and license of those PKGBUILD, plus, in many cases, many of the packages went from one people to another. Btw I don't know why people refers to packages when we are talking about aurballs containing PKGBUILD,

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Ray Rashif
On 6 February 2011 03:35, Ionuț Bîru ib...@archlinux.org wrote: I moved a lot of packages from AUR in community/extra and every time i did sent a thank you note. From that amount of messages i sent, only once i got a reply. ONCE. Should i be dissapointed? I guess yes. I am? No. No need. The

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Ray Rashif
On 6 February 2011 06:01, Thomas S Hatch thatc...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think that Hilton was trolling you Maxime, just poking a little fun at Jelle. He was so engrossed with moving a package (think about the excitement he must have had) that he forgot about the formalities involved.

Re: [aur-general] Introduce kernel26-tools

2011-02-05 Thread Cédric Girard
Hi, On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Seblu se...@seblu.net wrote: Dear Arch Users/Dev/TUs, I read some times ago on this mailing list words about shortly introducing new cool packages. I'm starting. It is indeed a great idea. From some times now, I discovered the power of a kernel embeded

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Eric Waller
I have contributed a few PKGBUILDs to AUR. I do it because I enjoy it -- all I ask is for is recognition. Yes, this is an open source project and it is implicit that the work can and (hopefully) be adopted and improved. But recognition of each person who contributed should be maintained. I am

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Kaiting Chen
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: I apologize for taking your package without emailing or notifiying you and more I feel bad for not replying to your email. And now i am ashamed on the mailing list, I won't forget to mail the next time I adopt packages

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Kaiting Chen
I always send the maintainer a 'thank you' afterwards telling them that I've moved their package to [community] and asking them if they have any specific advise about the package. My personal opinion is that it is not necessary to ask beforehand when moving a package simply because in my

Re: [aur-general] Moving packages to Community

2011-02-05 Thread Allan McRae
I'll just add here that I used to use moving packages to [community] as a TU recruitment ground. If the package I wanted to move to [community] was obviously well maintained, I usually offered to sponsor the maintainer to be a TU when I let them know I was going to move their package. I

[aur-general] deletion request

2011-02-05 Thread KESHAV P.R.
Can someone please delete efibootmgr http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11899 . It was moved into 'extra' repo http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/efibootmgr/ by tpowa about 2 days back. Thanks in advance. - Keshav

Re: [aur-general] deletion request

2011-02-05 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 06.02.2011 07:19, KESHAV P.R. wrote: Can someone please delete efibootmgr http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11899 . It was moved into 'extra' repo http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/efibootmgr/ by tpowa about 2 days back. Thanks in advance. - Keshav I destroyed it with

Re: [aur-general] deletion request

2011-02-05 Thread KESHAV P.R.
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:51, Sven-Hendrik Haase s...@lutzhaase.com wrote: On 06.02.2011 07:19, KESHAV P.R. wrote: Can someone please delete efibootmgr http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11899 . It was moved into 'extra' repo http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/efibootmgr/ by

Re: [aur-general] deletion request

2011-02-05 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 06.02.2011 07:23, KESHAV P.R. wrote: On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:51, Sven-Hendrik Haase s...@lutzhaase.com wrote: On 06.02.2011 07:19, KESHAV P.R. wrote: Can someone please delete efibootmgr http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11899 . It was moved into 'extra' repo

[aur-general] Errors on submission: Invalid name: only lowercase letters are allowed

2011-02-05 Thread andrew thomas
I tried adopted this package (kernel26-yi) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37895 But when I tried to upload an updated PKGBUILD. I got rejected with Invalid name: only lowercase letters are allowed I used makepkg --source to generate a file named kernel26-yi-2.6.37-1.src.tar.gz. Why am