Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

2015-08-11 Thread David Phillips
I suppose some may subscribe to the view that if someone wants it badly enough, they'll submit, maintain and stick with it.

Re: [aur-general] AUR Package deleted: pypy-setuptools

2015-08-11 Thread David Phillips
Hi, The thread on this list titled Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4 may be of use to you: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2015-August/031357.html Thanks

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

2015-08-11 Thread Antonio Rojas
David Kaylor dpkay...@gmail.com Wrote in message: - Second, uploading something to AUR4 then immediately orphaning it is stupid. Why not just hold onto it for a while and look for co-maintainers, or a new maintainer? By orphaning, you just became the thinned part of the herd. Just

[aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

2015-08-11 Thread Rob McCathie
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 8:30 AM, not...@aur.archlinux.org wrote: Kyrias deleted compiz-gtk-standalone. You will no longer receive notifications about this package. On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 8:32 AM, not...@aur.archlinux.org wrote: Kyrias deleted compiz-xfce. You will no longer receive

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

2015-08-11 Thread David Phillips
A certain TU went around deleting orphaned stuff… won't name them though ;-)

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

2015-08-11 Thread Antonio Rojas
Rob McCathie korr...@gmail.com Wrote in message: Just a query: Why were packages i added to AUR4, ensured were in good working order (and made an enhancement to one of the packages compared to the last release on AUR3), know are used by at least some users, and then orphaned so some

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

2015-08-11 Thread Justin Dray
On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 17:09 Antonio Rojas aro...@archlinux.org wrote: Rob McCathie korr...@gmail.com Wrote in message: Just a query: Why were packages i added to AUR4, ensured were in good working order (and made an enhancement to one of the packages compared to the last release on

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

2015-08-11 Thread Arch Website Notification
=== Signoff report for [community-testing] === https://www.archlinux.org/packages/signoffs/ There are currently: * 0 new packages in last 24 hours * 0 known bad packages * 0 packages not accepting signoffs * 0 fully signed off packages * 2 packages missing signoffs * 0 packages older than 14 days

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

2015-08-11 Thread Simon Hanna
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 07:36:53AM +, Justin Dray wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 17:09 Antonio Rojas aro...@archlinux.org wrote: Rob McCathie korr...@gmail.com Wrote in message: Just a query: Why were packages i added to AUR4, ensured were in good working order (and made an

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

2015-08-11 Thread David Kaylor
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Bruno Pagani bruno.pag...@ens-lyon.org wrote: Well, the first email states Kyrias did this… Le 11 août 2015 10:15:42 GMT+02:00, David Phillips dbphillip...@gmail.com a écrit : A certain TU went around deleting orphaned stuff… won't name them though ;-)

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

2015-08-11 Thread Bruno Pagani
Well, the first email states Kyrias did this… Le 11 août 2015 10:15:42 GMT+02:00, David Phillips dbphillip...@gmail.com a écrit : A certain TU went around deleting orphaned stuff… won't name them though ;-)

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

2015-08-11 Thread Johannes Dewender
Am 11.08.2015 um 14:08 schrieb Simon Hanna: On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 07:36:53AM +, Justin Dray wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 17:09 Antonio Rojas aro...@archlinux.org wrote: Rob McCathie korr...@gmail.com Wrote in message: Just a query: Why were packages i added to AUR4, ensured were in good

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

2015-08-11 Thread Ivy Foster
On 11 Aug 2015, at 3:48 pm +0200, Johannes Dewender wrote: [snip] I uploaded both to AUR3 and also to AUR4. I maintain the free branch, because I think this is the better variant. Having the original on AUR would be good, so I also updloaded these, but I personally don't want to maintain

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

2015-08-11 Thread Sam S.
Second, uploading something to AUR4 then immediately orphaning it is stupid. Why not just hold onto it for a while and look for co-maintainers, or a new maintainer? By orphaning, you just became the thinned part of the herd. Well, if it's orphaned another potential maintainer who comes across

Re: [aur-general] aurweb 4.0.0 released

2015-08-11 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini
Em 11-08-2015 02:58, Oon-Ee Ng escreveu: Just to note on this point - some (many?) Arch users would not have noticed anything during the migration process as their helpers would have continued to get the old PKGBUILDs from aur.archlinux.org during the migration process. It is only when aur4

[aur-general] My Packages Disappeared

2015-08-11 Thread Wayne Hartmann
All packages I was the maintainer of have all of a sudden disappeared. I do not remember all the packages I adopted, but this includes 'gnome-rdp' and 'bitdefender'. Not only do I maintain zero packages now, they are not even listed on the AUR now. Regards, Wayne Hartmann

Re: [aur-general] My Packages Disappeared

2015-08-11 Thread Wayne Hartmann
I found a partial answer in the archives (new to the mailing list). Seems all aur3 packages are gone forever? Regards, Wayne Hartmann On August 11, 2015 at 1:47 PM Wayne Hartmann wa...@bitstorm.pw wrote: All packages I was the maintainer of have all of a sudden disappeared. I do not

Re: [aur-general] My Packages Disappeared

2015-08-11 Thread Jens Adam
Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:47:33 -0400 (EDT) Wayne Hartmann wa...@bitstorm.pw: All packages I was the maintainer of have all of a sudden disappeared. I do not remember all the packages I adopted, but this includes 'gnome-rdp' and 'bitdefender'. Not only do I maintain zero packages now, they are not

Re: [aur-general] AUR Package deleted: pypy-setuptools

2015-08-11 Thread Chi Hsuan Yen
On 8 August 2015 at 21:32, not...@aur.archlinux.org wrote: Kyrias deleted pypy-setuptools. You will no longer receive notifications about this package. Sorry why is this package deleted? I didn't find any deletion request on aur-requests aur-reque...@archlinux.org. Best Regards, Yen Chi

Re: [aur-general] My Packages Disappeared

2015-08-11 Thread Daniel Micay
On 11/08/15 01:47 PM, Wayne Hartmann wrote: All packages I was the maintainer of have all of a sudden disappeared. I do not remember all the packages I adopted, but this includes 'gnome-rdp' and 'bitdefender'. Not only do I maintain zero packages now, they are not even listed on the AUR now.

Re: [aur-general] My Packages Disappeared

2015-08-11 Thread Ben Oliver
On 11 August 2015 at 18:47, Wayne Hartmann wa...@bitstorm.pw wrote: All packages I was the maintainer of have all of a sudden disappeared. I do not remember all the packages I adopted, but this includes 'gnome-rdp' and 'bitdefender'. Not only do I maintain zero packages now, they are not even

Re: [aur-general] My Packages Disappeared

2015-08-11 Thread Ben Oliver
On 11 August 2015 at 18:54, Wayne Hartmann wa...@bitstorm.pw wrote: I found a partial answer in the archives (new to the mailing list). Seems all aur3 packages are gone forever? Regards, Wayne Hartmann On August 11, 2015 at 1:47 PM Wayne Hartmann wa...@bitstorm.pw wrote: All

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

2015-08-11 Thread David Kaylor
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Lukas Fleischer lfleisc...@archlinux.org wrote: Hi, There seems to be quite some confusion about the package migration process and about package deletion. I would like to clarify my point of view. Hopefully it serves as a basis for discussion (i.e. technical

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

2015-08-11 Thread Justin Dray
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 at 15:37 Rob McCathie korr...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/08/15 13:49, Doug Newgard wrote: In my case, I have some that I'm actively trying to get maintainers for; in the mean time, I'm looking after them even though they are listed as being orphaned. Is this not to be

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

2015-08-11 Thread David Kaylor
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 5:23 PM, David Phillips dbphillip...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose some may subscribe to the view that if someone wants it badly enough, they'll submit, maintain and stick with it. Exactly.

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

2015-08-11 Thread Lukas Fleischer
Hi, There seems to be quite some confusion about the package migration process and about package deletion. I would like to clarify my point of view. Hopefully it serves as a basis for discussion (i.e. technical discussion without attacking anybody personally). As already mentioned a couple of

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

2015-08-11 Thread David Kaylor
Several notification emails were sent directly rather than via aur-general. Yes, but that isn't the same thing. Being subscribed to the list would (should?) have made people aware of most of the issues surrounding the migration, including the motivations behind it and the expectations of

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

2015-08-11 Thread Rob McCathie
On 12/08/15 13:49, Doug Newgard wrote: In my case, I have some that I'm actively trying to get maintainers for; in the mean time, I'm looking after them even though they are listed as being orphaned. Is this not to be allowed now? Should all orphan packages in the official repos be deleted,

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

2015-08-11 Thread Doug Newgard
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 05:16:03 +0200 Lukas Fleischer lfleisc...@archlinux.org wrote: Hi, There seems to be quite some confusion about the package migration process and about package deletion. I would like to clarify my point of view. Hopefully it serves as a basis for discussion (i.e.

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

2015-08-11 Thread Justin Dray
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 07:24 David Phillips dbphillip...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose some may subscribe to the view that if someone wants it badly enough, they'll submit, maintain and stick with it. In my case, I uploaded a perfectly working package for LSI raid controllers, but someone commented

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

2015-08-11 Thread Daniel Micay
Thanks for clarifying your point of view Lukas. I think some AUR maintainers are out-of-the-loop on the migration issues, for one reason or another. I suspect some simply weren't subscribed to this list over the last few months. Several notification emails were sent directly rather than via