Re: [aur-general] mksrcinfo bug: PKGBUILD stdout appears in mksrcinfo

2015-08-15 Thread Sam S.
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Bruno Pagani wrote: > Maybe that’s a stupid question, but why do you need printing something to stdout in a > PKGBUILD, especially outside of any function ? The only good reason I can think of, is to tell users that (and how) they need to provide a source archive

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

2015-08-12 Thread Sam S.
> Note that we do keep the Git repositories of deleted packages, > so if anybody wants to maintain the package later, he can always clone > the repository of the deleted package, fix the package and simply push > it afterwards Can you give some details on that? For example the libtiff4 package (w

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

2015-08-12 Thread Sam S.
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Lukas Fleischer wrote: > Wikipedia defines orphan as > > [...] a child whose parents are dead or have abandoned them > permanently ...but new parents may want to adopt them, if given the opportunity. Deleting *long-time* orphaned packages may increase th

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 a

Re: [aur-general] Adopt orphan packages on AUR 4 now!

2015-07-09 Thread Sam S.
Thanks

Re: [aur-general] Adopt orphan packages on AUR 4 now!

2015-07-09 Thread Sam S.
The 'bastion' package[1] is not disowned, even though no AUR4 version exists[2]. Unless there's a reason for it being held back, I'd like to adopt it please. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bastion/ [2] https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=bastion

Re: [aur-general] Merge request braid -> braid-hib

2015-07-09 Thread Sam S.
OK

[aur-general] Merge request braid -> braid-hib

2015-07-09 Thread Sam S.
I uploaded my previous AUR package "braid" to AUR4 under the new name "braid-hib". Can comments and votes be merged please?

Re: [aur-general] Copy.com dueling packages

2014-05-01 Thread Sam S.
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > There are 2 packages for the Copy.com client software package: > > copy - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/copy/ > copy-agent - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/copy-agent/ > > [...] > I'm not really sure how this should be resolved, mos

Re: [aur-general] 'provides' info in AUR

2013-12-11 Thread Sam S.
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Jerome Leclanche wrote: > I don't understand why makepkg -S > doesn't include the .PKGINFO file from makepkg (and subsequently the > AUR would use that if present instead of the grep system which fails > as soon as variables/expansions are involved which is every

[aur-general] Merge request: aquaria-hib-git -> aquaria-git

2013-06-22 Thread Sam S.
Hi, Could you please merge https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aquaria-hib-git/ into https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aquaria-git/ ? I'm the submitter and maintainer of both packages. Reasoning: Currently, aquaria-hib-git takes the proprietary Aquaria game data from the Humble Bundle archi

Re: [aur-general] AUR cleanup policy

2013-06-20 Thread Sam S.
> The search returns a dozen unmaintained packages and you have to look > through them [...] I prefer to have a reasonable signal-to-noise ratio. This could be solved by having search results list "stale" packages last (and/or greyed-out or something). "stale" could be defined as "is unmaintained