Re: [aur-general] Removal request: torrenstream

2013-07-30 Thread Doug Newgard
> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:16:16 -0500 > From: palop...@gmail.com > To: aur-general@archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [aur-general] Removal request: torrenstream > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Jonas Heinrich > wrote: > >> Hello, >> please remove AUR packa

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Rob Til Freedmen
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:51:59PM +0200, Rob Til Freedmen wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:15:06PM +0200, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: > > > > On 30 July 2013 19:56, Rob Til Free

Re: [aur-general] Removal request: torrenstream

2013-07-30 Thread Pedro Alejandro López-Valencia
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Jonas Heinrich wrote: > Hello, > please remove AUR package "torrentstream" [1] since it's deprecated and > replaced by the program acestream [2]. > Thank you, > Jonas > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/torrentstream/ > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/package

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Sam Stuewe
On 2013-07-30 15:40, Ofir Balas wrote: I feel like a free for all tag system would end with a bunch of trolls spamming the AUR. Perhaps, and that's one of the downsides of tagging. My point was really that setting a category is a piece of cake for a maintainer to do. It takes about three second

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Ofir Balas
I feel like a free for all tag system would end with a bunch of trolls spamming the AUR. On Jul 30, 2013 9:34 PM, "Sam Stuewe" wrote: > On 2013-07-30 14:47, Dave Reisner wrote: > >> The current search interface might be insufficient and not optimal >>> regarding categories, >>> but should be cons

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Sam Stuewe
On 2013-07-30 14:47, Dave Reisner wrote: The current search interface might be insufficient and not optimal regarding categories, but should be consistent and predictably - which it isn't now. I tend to agree with the consensus that categories are meaningless, unmaintainable crap. I rather fit

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Dave Reisner
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:51:59PM +0200, Rob Til Freedmen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:15:06PM +0200, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: > > > On 30 July 2013 19:56, Rob Til Freedmen > > wrote: > > > > There are still >1000 packages without

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Rob Til Freedmen
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:15:06PM +0200, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: > > On 30 July 2013 19:56, Rob Til Freedmen > wrote: > > > There are still >1000 packages without 'Category' > > > - apparently not a hot topic. > > > > I think most of these p

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Dave Reisner
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:15:06PM +0200, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: > On 30 July 2013 19:56, Rob Til Freedmen wrote: > > There are still >1000 packages without 'Category' > > - apparently not a hot topic. > > I think most of these packages are created by uploading the PKGBUILD > using burp or a simi

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Rob Til Freedmen
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Daniel Micay wrote: > I think descriptions and dependencies include the required information > in almost every case. > Searching in a pool of >4 packages naturally leads to using a category in which to search for, doesn't it? And packages without category woul

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Ofir Balas
I think tags would be cool but really not worth the effort. Like Dan said, descriptions are king. On Jul 30, 2013 7:17 PM, "Daniel Micay" wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Lukas Jirkovsky > wrote: > > On 30 July 2013 19:56, Rob Til Freedmen > wrote: > >> There are still >1000 packages w

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Daniel Micay
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: > On 30 July 2013 19:56, Rob Til Freedmen wrote: >> There are still >1000 packages without 'Category' >> - apparently not a hot topic. > > I think most of these packages are created by uploading the PKGBUILD > using burp or a similar AUR upl

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Ofir Balas
The only really interesting category imo is the games one. And even that is mostly pointless. Who really searches the AUR by category after all. On Jul 30, 2013 7:01 PM, "Daniel Micay" wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Rob Til Freedmen > wrote: > > There are still >1000 packages without

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Lukas Jirkovsky
On 30 July 2013 19:56, Rob Til Freedmen wrote: > There are still >1000 packages without 'Category' > - apparently not a hot topic. I think most of these packages are created by uploading the PKGBUILD using burp or a similar AUR uploader. If the categories were to stay [1], it would be good if the

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Daniel Micay
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Rob Til Freedmen wrote: > There are still >1000 packages without 'Category' > - apparently not a hot topic. > > Maybe we add another line to Statistics on the AUR front page just to > let users know of packages not found by the package search function > - unless se

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Rob Til Freedmen
There are still >1000 packages without 'Category' - apparently not a hot topic. Maybe we add another line to Statistics on the AUR front page just to let users know of packages not found by the package search function - unless searched by using 'Category=All', clicked on 'Category' and reading all

Re: [aur-general] Removal request: torrenstream

2013-07-30 Thread Ike Devolder
Op dinsdag 30 juli 2013 16:46:57 schreef Jonas Heinrich: > Hello, > please remove AUR package "torrentstream" [1] since it's deprecated and > replaced by the program acestream [2]. > Thank you, > Jonas > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/torrentstream/ > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packag

[aur-general] Removal request: torrenstream

2013-07-30 Thread Jonas Heinrich
Hello, please remove AUR package "torrentstream" [1] since it's deprecated and replaced by the program acestream [2]. Thank you, Jonas [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/torrentstream/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=acestream pgpgqvRwEkpYc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [aur-general] disown request

2013-07-30 Thread Ike Devolder
Op dinsdag 30 juli 2013 08:00:12 schreef george: > hi.i own https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/haskell-haxml/ > > this package need uptade.(new version available on upstream) > > But it's depend other orphans haskell package(s) thats need update. > > e.g https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/haske

Re: [aur-general] TU application

2013-07-30 Thread Alexander Rødseth
Hi, I sneak-voted with a mobile phone while temporarily inactive and on vacation. - Alexander / xyproto

[aur-general] Signoff report for [community-testing]

2013-07-30 Thread Arch Website Notification
=== Signoff report for [community-testing] === https://www.archlinux.org/packages/signoffs/ There are currently: * 108 new packages in last 24 hours * 0 known bad packages * 0 packages not accepting signoffs * 0 fully signed off packages * 114 packages missing signoffs * 0 packages older than 14 d

[aur-general] disown request

2013-07-30 Thread george
hi.i own https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/haskell-haxml/ this package need uptade.(new version available on upstream) But it's depend other orphans haskell package(s) thats need update. e.g  https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/haskell-polyparse/ i don't know haskell. The reasons of above i wa