Re: [aur-general] TU Application: David Runge

On 18 October 2017 at 18:40, Rashif Ray Rahman <sc...@archlinux.org> wrote: > The discussion begins now and will last until 23 October, after which > the voting period will begin on 24 October. Good luck David! The formal discussion period is over, please cast your votes! The v

Re: [aur-general] TU Application: David Runge

On 24 October 2017 at 11:50, Levente Polyak wrote: > At this point my feedback goes to the sponsor instead of the applicant: > > Sorry, but I must say that I really dislike sponsoring a TU applicant without > looking at any PKGBUILD and give some advice. In my world this

Re: [aur-general] TU Application: David Runge

On 18 October 2017 at 05:07, David Runge wrote: > Hi all, > > my name is David Runge. You may have come across me somewhere on the > wiki [1], the forums [2] (not so recently), the AUR [3] or the mailing > lists (mainly arch-general). I'm sponsored by Ray Rashif. I confirm my

Re: [aur-general] Doubts about Java {,bindings} packages

On 15 July 2015 at 18:27, Giovanni Santini giovannisantin...@yahoo.it wrote: The actual packages I'm referring to are opencv[1] and gettext[2], for which I've created {opencv,gettext}-java (see [3],[4]). For opencv, it has been an idle TODO for a very long while because of my downtime. [1] Now

Re: [aur-general] Upstream for jrosetta package gone down.

On 13 May 2015 at 00:44, Victor Dmitriyev mrvvi...@gmail.com wrote: Offtopic question, is there any information online about ftp.archlinux.org or sources.archlinux.org? If you're referring to hosting upstream sources, the former was used by our packagers only, and as a last resort (it was

Re: [aur-general] [arch-general] warning: foobar: local (1.0.0-2) is newer than community (1.0.0-1)

On 17 January 2015 at 18:23, Jan Alexander Steffens jan.steff...@gmail.com wrote: Resetting the pkgrel is indeed wrong. pkgrel should be bumped when moving to [community], and that has been my habit when moving packages from the AUR. I agree. Even I used to be guilty. Although this is not

Re: [aur-general] Rules about providing compiled documentation

On 6 January 2015 at 17:01, JoKoT3 jok...@gmail.com wrote: Also note that generating the info file is not a default target of the Makefile since version 4.6.4. Then forget about it (2), unless requested by other users. What upstream does not provide, don't go out of your way to do it yourself.

Re: [aur-general] What stops more packages moving from AUR to Community?

On 26 May 2014 15:19, Steven Honeyman stevenhoney...@gmail.com wrote: Either way, perhaps the Wiki should be changed to say 1000 votes instead :D Popularity is not the only criterion involved. A package may have deficiencies elsewhere that are preventing it from being supported in [community].

Re: [aur-general] Delete request: fluidr3

On 23 February 2014 05:02, Maxime Gauduin aluc...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Jerome Leclanche adys...@gmail.comwrote: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fluidr3/ Appears to be the same packaged data as https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/soundfont-fluid/ except it

Re: [aur-general] Delete request: fluidr3

On 27 February 2014 21:30, Maxime Gauduin aluc...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Rashif Ray Rahman sc...@archlinux.orgwrote: On 23 February 2014 05:02, Maxime Gauduin aluc...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Jerome Leclanche adys...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [aur-general] TU application sponsored by David Reisner

On 5 February 2014 12:57, Anatol Pomozov anatol.pomo...@gmail.com wrote: I still need to understand why Arch community is split into two groups 'developers' and 'trusted users'. They seems have similar responsibilities: maintaining packages and developing Arch toolset. For historical reasons:

Re: [aur-general] TU application, sponsored by Lukas Fleischer

On 25 January 2014 02:53, carstene1ns a...@carsten-teibes.de wrote: closing words: I know this reads in parts like a rant, but it is just to show you that also current TUs are not better in some aspects. Again it is not meant to blame speps (but seriously, just orphan some packages! :P) or

Re: [aur-general] Can we force the maintainer to change package name?

On 12 January 2014 23:42, Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Lukas Jirkovsky l.jirkov...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Rashif Ray Rahman sc

Re: [aur-general] Can we force the maintainer to change package name?

On 12 January 2014 23:42, Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Lukas Jirkovsky l.jirkov...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Rashif Ray Rahman sc

Re: [aur-general] pkgbuild.com

On 10 January 2014 10:28, Iru Cai mytbk920...@gmail.com wrote: 2014/1/10 Zuyi Hu hzy068...@gmail.com Who know how to get an account on pkgbuild.com?Thanks a lot! I think only TUs and developers can get an account. Yes, it is just to lend official packagers some processing and bandwidth

Re: [aur-general] Can we force the maintainer to change package name?

On 20 December 2013 06:42, Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Rashif Ray Rahman sc...@archlinux.org wrote: On 20 December 2013 01:11, Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rstudio/ is something

Re: [aur-general] Bundled applications policy?

On 20 December 2013 04:20, WorMzy Tykashi wormzy.tyka...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 December 2013 18:44, Rashif Ray Rahman sc...@archlinux.org wrote: Just provide for and conflict with the relevant packages and you don't give anyone any trouble. It's halfway there, it doesn't conflict

Re: [aur-general] Can we force the maintainer to change package name?

On 20 December 2013 01:11, Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rstudio/ is something entirely different than every other 'rstudio' package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=rstudio A few users suggested name change. I was fooled for a

Re: [aur-general] Bundled applications policy?

On 20 December 2013 01:36, WorMzy Tykashi wormzy.tyka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What is the policy regarding collection/amalgamation packages? 'manarchy' [1] is just a recent beta version of aircrack-ng (stable version in community) and an updated version of 'theharvester' [2] bundled

Re: [aur-general] Possible to switch the votes/comments for two packages?

On 8 December 2013 21:07, member graysky gray...@archlinux.us wrote: On Sunday, December 8, 2013, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: 1. Backup mprime 2. Merge mprime into mprime-bin 3. Delete non-relevant comments from mprime-bin 4. Reupload mprime from backup This should work to retain mprime

Re: [aur-general] Possible to switch the votes/comments for two packages?

On 8 December 2013 19:17, member graysky gray...@archlinux.us wrote: On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Felix Yan felixonm...@gmail.com wrote: Just had a look, but now 'mprime' also has comments for itself. So I'd suggest to merge mprime-bin (with its votes/comments) to mprime, then you just

Re: [aur-general] Changes in Arch packaging standards

On 6 December 2013 17:25, Sergej Pupykin m...@sergej.pp.ru wrote: Bartłomiej Piotrowski proposed packaging standard changes: Where is this proposal? I think he simply meant that it is the current practice. if there are 2 versions of some package foobar, then older version (1.0 for example)

Re: [aur-general] removal request for rt-tests-git

On 2 December 2013 00:31, Joakim Hernberg j...@alchemy.lu wrote: rt-tests-git is no longer needed as when there are changes a new tarball is published and covered by the rt-tests buildscript. It was only created when kernel.org had been hacked and there was a problem getting the tarballs.

Re: [aur-general] question about git package as a dependency

On 28 November 2013 02:27, Lieven Moors lievenmo...@gmail.com wrote: With devel functionality, do you mean header files? Wouldn't they be needed to build non-daw-git anyway? I meant experimental functionality (i.e. development branch). The problem is that ntk-git has been in a state of

Re: [aur-general] question about git package as a dependency

On 27 November 2013 04:43, Lieven Moors lievenmo...@gmail.com wrote: I think technically, ntk-git should provide ntk, and non-daw-git should depend on some git-release of ntk. You can depend on ntk-git, but a better approach is to have ntk-git provide ntk, and depend on that -- if devel

Re: [aur-general] Merge request: projectm-jack

On 3 November 2013 12:02, Allen Li cyberdup...@gmail.com wrote: It is possible to merge projectm-jack in the AUR with the one in community? I am the maintainer for the package in the AUR, and there's no need for it anymore since it is in community. Allen File a feature request at our

Re: [aur-general] Merge request: projectm-jack

On 3 November 2013 16:18, Allen Li cyberdup...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 03:21:54PM +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: On 3 November 2013 12:02, Allen Li cyberdup...@gmail.com wrote: It is possible to merge projectm-jack in the AUR with the one in community? I am the maintainer

Re: [aur-general] Backslash to split lines in `depends` array

On 3 November 2013 20:29, Fabien Dubosson fabien.dubos...@gmail.com wrote: The problem doesn't seem to appear with `yaourt` [3] . So before filling a bug request to `aura`, I wanted to be sure that it is allowed/common to use `\` to split lines in the `depends` array? For an even more

Re: [aur-general] Support for source mirror lists in PKGBUILD

On 1 November 2013 18:58, alexande...@gmx.com wrote: Are you trying tio re-implement Metalinks? They have become standartized way to do what you want ages ago. They are even supported by curl! Add metalink file to package (or reference one from upstream), redefine DLAGENTS to something

Re: [aur-general] Support for source mirror lists in PKGBUILD

On 2 November 2013 00:14, Ido Rosen i...@kernel.org wrote: If metalinks/some external file are the only way to do this, you would need a local source entry for the metalink / mirrors file AND a reference to each file to pull from that metalink/mirrors file in the source array: (1) This breaks

Re: [aur-general] please remove lib32-wineasio

On 30 October 2013 10:22, Joakim Hernberg j...@alchemy.lu wrote: I created https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib32-wineasio/ by mistake. It's not needed so please remove it. Sorry for the noise! Done. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1

Re: [aur-general] pandoc moved back to the AUR for the time being

On 19 September 2013 05:40, Daniel Micay danielmi...@gmail.com wrote: I've moved pandoc back to the AUR because the latest version picked up too many new dependencies. It was convenient to have it in [community], but it's much saner to maintain these with the automation used by the

Re: [aur-general] uppity replaces curlpaste in [community]

On 18 September 2013 06:18, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote: Jonathan Steel wrote: $_gitname is $srcdir/$_gitname, not $startdir/$_gitname, so it's fine. To double-check I set $SRCDEST to point somewhere else and it builds fine still. You're right. Looking at the source of makepkg, I see now that

Re: [aur-general] MSN Messenger and Google Reader

On 17 August 2013 11:08, Connor Behan connor.be...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/08/13 07:17 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger) has been deprecated. Is it OK to remove the various MSN clients from the AUR? What about programs relying on the discontinued Google

Re: [aur-general] [tu-bylaws][PATCH]

On 11 August 2013 18:29, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote: The current by-laws try to automate a process that requires human discretion. This version retains automation for extreme cases and relies on human discretion for the rest. Alright, this justifies those changes. Good to go on the rest,

Re: [aur-general] [tu-bylaws][PATCH]

On 9 August 2013 19:29, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote: ... * remove distinction between active and inactive TUs So now what happens when so-called active or inactive TUs do not vote and prevent quorum from being established? No action is taken? I see these changes cover disappearing TUs, but not

Re: [aur-general] [tu-bylaws] [PATCH] Honor TUs who become active/inactive during votes

On 6 August 2013 20:19, Lukas Fleischer archli...@cryptocrack.de wrote: On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 01:12:32PM +0200, Sébastien Luttringer wrote: On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Lukas Fleischer archli...@cryptocrack.de wrote: On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 08:24:20AM +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote

Re: [aur-general] [tu-bylaws] [PATCH] Honor TUs who become active/inactive during votes

On 7 August 2013 04:54, Rashif Ray Rahman sc...@archlinux.org wrote: I think we need more opinions. Xyne? Anyway, if anyone's looking for some bylaw amendment history: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2007-December/000127.html https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur

Re: [aur-general] TUs and their following of the Bylaws

On 5 August 2013 07:00, Lukas Fleischer archli...@cryptocrack.de wrote: I don't really like the idea of having to specify an exact end date. If you are inactive due to, say, a long hospital stay or a lack of an internet connection after moving you will have to update the end date continuously.

Re: [aur-general] [tu-bylaws] [PATCH] Honor TUs who become active/inactive during votes

On 6 August 2013 05:53, Lukas Fleischer archli...@cryptocrack.de wrote: Instead of counting the number of active TUs when a vote begins, update the number whenever a TU becomes active/inactive during a voting period. What happens when a TU becomes inactive after casting a vote? Would her vote

Re: [aur-general] TUs and their following of the Bylaws

On 4 August 2013 21:35, Lukas Fleischer archli...@cryptocrack.de wrote: Trying to automate this, I just submitted a couple of AUR patches to aur-dev [1]. Based on this, we could: * Add another simple patch that simply displays whether a vote is accepted or not. This leaves no room for

Re: [aur-general] TUs and their following of the Bylaws

On 3 August 2013 02:40, Angel Velásquez an...@archlinux.org wrote: Hi people, First of all, i'm writting this mail as an ex TU and user, not as a dev who want to push you how to proceed or follow the bylaws. Having that set, I am shocked about how the bylaws are being just used just for

Re: [aur-general] TU application

On 28 July 2013 01:53, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote: I'm sorry to have to point this out, but the proposal has not been accepted according to our bylaws. Xyne, thank you for actively verifying the result of the vote. You remind me of Loui, who used to be very particular about these things. We

Re: [aur-general] TU application

On 28 July 2013 02:49, Rashif Ray Rahman sc...@archlinux.org wrote: We simply cannot ignore the bylaws. This serves as a reminder to show us all the numbers when declaring results. And I failed to provide that myself: 24/36 = 0.66 ... = ~0.67 0.66 according to this list, we have 36 active

Re: [aur-general] TU application

On 20 July 2013 21:21, Dicebot pub...@dicebot.lv wrote: It is nothing of real importance but question is, what harm does explicit versioning do? It has no direct or immediate harmful consequence, but it is a packaging convention here. Most of our uses for versioning dependencies come during

Re: [aur-general] About orphaning all packages of inactive users

On 19 July 2013 05:24, Alexander Rødseth rods...@gmail.com wrote: I'm also interested in comments about what should be done for similar situations in the future. I assume most users would be happy just to see the pacakges being updated instead of hoarded and would think it was fine if TUs just

Re: [aur-general] Guake-Solarized-Colors

On 29 May 2013 18:35, Maxime Gauduin aluc...@gmail.com wrote: What Felix said. Also such a simple patch can be achieved with a sed command. Just a note here: While the above is true for simple one-liners, I would recommend against getting in the habit of using sed to accomplish patching. A

Re: [aur-general] Fwd: please add -depth 1 to makepkg git clone

On 6 April 2013 15:25, Tai-Lin Chu tailin...@gmail.com wrote: yes, i agree with you. But as a person who commits patches and needs to test, I think using --depth 1 makes initial cloning faster and decreases the load of remote git server. Think about this 100 people clones vlc.git with shadow

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

On 6 April 2013 18:21, Cédric Girard girard.ced...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: The problem is that makepkg will update the pkgver of the downloaded PKGBUILD, so there is no reliable way of detecting an update without either bumping the epoch,

Re: [aur-general] Fwd: please add -depth 1 to makepkg git clone

On 7 April 2013 09:19, Tai-Lin Chu tailin...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, if you're going to be doing shallow clones, you may as well just get the dang tarballs. This is totally flying in the face of what the -git packages really are, development packages. Once you download it, you never have to

Re: [aur-general] realtimeconfigquickscan merge request

On 1 April 2013 05:26, Rob Til Freedmen rob.til.freed...@gmail.com wrote: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/realtimeconfigquickscan/ orphaned build from an outdated repo; 18 votes https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/realtimeconfigquickscan-git/ maintained by hermes14 build from a current

Re: [aur-general] TU application from graysky - voting period

On 25 March 2013 03:30, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote: Sébastien Luttringer wrote: Objections were raised and then countered with arguments. If anyone felt that the objections were still valid after that then they should have replied with their reasons. That is the point of the discussion

Re: [aur-general] TU application from graysky

On 12 March 2013 04:24, member graysky gray...@archlinux.us wrote: Hi All. Inspired by Allan's talk @ SINFO XX, I decided to throw my hat into the ring and formally apply to be a TU. My linux history started with RH and SUSE over a decade ago. I discovered Debian and Ubuntu. I found myself

Re: [aur-general] [arch-general] Winter Cleanup of [community]

On 29 January 2013 19:02, Alexander Rødseth rods...@gmail.com wrote: A TU that pays extra care to packages that are well suited for blind users would be an asset for Arch Linux. And for several years that person was Chris :) -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Daniel Micay (thestinger)

On 7 December 2012 02:34, danielmi...@gmail.com wrote: I began contributing back to the community in 2010 by putting my efforts into improving the wiki, and in September of 2011 I joined the ArchWiki administration team. Oh, the mysterious wiki guy! -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1

Re: [aur-general] python-foo and python2-foo - should they conflict?

On 16 October 2012 16:48, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: python-foo and python2-foo - should they conflict? Absolutely not. At least, ideally. I may work with both Python versions and in that case will need libraries for each. Shared files have been a problem, and so far the (painful)

Re: [aur-general] ibus orphans in [community]

On 17 October 2012 00:55, Allen Li cyberdup...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to point out that ibus does Japanese and Korean, whereas fcitx only does simplified Chinese (at least according to the wiki). Thus ibus is one of the only input options for those languages on arch at the moment

Re: [aur-general] ibus orphans in [community]

On 17 October 2012 02:05, Yichao Yu yyc1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Yichao Yu yyc1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Rashif Ray Rahman sc...@archlinux.org wrote: On 17 October 2012 00:55, Allen Li cyberdup...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like

Re: [aur-general] TU resignation: Chris Brannon

On 7 October 2012 23:30, Chris Brannon ch...@the-brannons.com wrote: Hello all, I regret that it has come time for me to resign from Arch Linux, at least for now. I have a lot of things going on in my life, with a new job, a major cross-country move, and so forth. I haven't really been

Re: [aur-general] away

On 2 August 2012 00:30, Ike Devolder ike.devol...@gmail.com wrote: Op woensdag 1 augustus 2012 12:15:43 schreef Stéphane Gaudreault: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 2012-08-01 12:04, Ike Devolder a écrit : Op woensdag 1 augustus 2012 18:03:20 schreef u: Op woensdag 1

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Andrzej Giniewicz (giniu)

On 13 July 2012 16:24, Andrzej Giniewicz ggi...@gmail.com wrote: On 13.07.2012 07:41, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: With 13 yes votes, 1 no vote, and 5 abstain votes, I would like to welcome Andrzej (giniu) as a new tu. Thanks everyone, I hope we will have a wonderful time working (not to mention

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred)

On 10 June 2012 11:23, Daniel Wallace daniel.wall...@gatech.edu wrote: I don't really have any packages that I think really need to be pulled to community, maybe at some point later, but I would really like to start making zsh completion for a lot of packages which do not have it already.  

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred)

On 10 June 2012 19:07, Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: A list of AUR maintained packages would be useful, so below is the url. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0K=gtmanfreddo_Search=Godetail=1C=0SeB=mSB=nSO=aPP=50outdated= Jelle, it's there. Footnote no. 3. -- GPG/PGP ID:

Re: [aur-general] jabref maintainer wanted

On 8 June 2012 15:18, Hector Martinez-Seara hse...@gmail.com wrote: It's a pitty as it is a very useful program basic for the work of many of us, Hector It is indeed. If only it didn't look so crappy or there wasn't any alternative I would've bothered to adopt it. However, look forward to

Re: [aur-general] AUR and unsuported architectures

On 2 June 2012 11:21, Connor Behan connor.be...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/06/12 08:17 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: Given that this question (is arm/ppc allowed in AUR?) has had a bit of mixed responses, can I expect a bit more of discussion on this, or should I consider the no final? Thanks,

Re: [aur-general] TU application - speps

On 27 April 2012 03:26, speps sp...@gmx.com wrote: Since I'm involved into the Arch Audio project by submitting several build scripts and binary packages to its repository, I'd surely add the most popular in [community] (ex. supercollider, csound, pd, lv2 plugins), and I would help Ray

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - György Balló

On 3 March 2012 11:38, Balló György ballog...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, thanks for the question. I looked at your AUR packages and saw that you are maintaining the unity desktop. I never used this desktop environment, but as a curiosity is it something you want to eventually bring into

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - György Balló

On 4 March 2012 00:12, Ionut Biru ib...@archlinux.org wrote: Unity is only a Canonical project, not a project that can be used by anyone. It's just about accessibility, so as to not deprive anyone and allow no-one to say there is no foo in Arch :D But I guess if it's that much PITA then it

Re: [aur-general] Inactivity

On Feb 6, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski barthal...@gmail.com wrote: I'll be absent to end or (20th) of February, mostly because of my mother's death. If someone wants, it would be nice to upgrade Kadu (0.10.1 → 0.11.0) and rebuild nginx and winefish against new pcre. I will be