Re: [aur-general] pandoc in community vs. pandoc-bin

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Javier Vasquez
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the question, but I'd like to understand if pandoc-bin in
> AUR offers something the new pandoc in community doesn't.

Try to find out what compile options does the upstream -bin one use or
ask on pandoc mailing list. BTW, http://pandoc.org/installing.html
links to a nonexistent AUR package instead to the brand new pandoc
package from the repos.

Re: [aur-general] Access old AUR3 database

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Félix Piédallu  wrote:
> That's perfect ! I just have to clone all the repos, then push back
> the useful ones to AUR. Thanks a lot.

See also 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Why_has_foo_disappeared_from_the_AUR.3F

Re: [aur-general] About my package snakecode

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:49 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini
grazzol...@gmail.com wrote:
 Em 19-08-2015 18:45, francisco dominguez escreveu:
 Hi to all, i had a package in aur, the pakcage name is snakecode, snakecode
 is a crypt engine in python very basic, but snakecode was deleted in aur,
 why?
 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Git_repositories_for_AUR3_packages

There's an even better wiki section to link to:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Why_has_FOO_disappeared_from_the_AUR.3F
:-)

Re: [aur-general] AUR activity log?

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini
grazzol...@gmail.com wrote:
 For packages not migrated, I don't think there is a repo there.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Git_repository ?

Re: [aur-general] aurweb 4.0.0 released

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Mauro Santos registo.maill...@gmail.com wrote:
 It would be nice to have an official archive, some packages do not have
 a maintainer but still work fine

If you care about them, upload them to aur4, if you don't care, no
need for an aur archive ;-)

Re: [aur-general] Why can't I search the packages not migrated to AUR4?

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Iru Cai mytbk920...@gmail.com wrote:
 I found some packages original in AUR3 can't be search in AUR4, but
 actually the package web page is in AUR4.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=200790 ;P

[aur-general] Removal requests

[Karol Blazewicz]

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kdebase-konsole-xterm/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/konsole2xterm/

Are we OK with such ... packages?

Re: [aur-general] VCS guidelines for svn-packages

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Stefan Husmann
stefan-husm...@t-online.de wrote:
 I know of at least two PKGBUILDs in AUR where the new makepkg puts an M 
 behind the pkgver
 after last pacman upgrade. Is ther any advice how to handle this?

How exactly are the pkgver created? Which PKGBUILDs are you talking about?

Re: [aur-general] Should we recommend removing comments from the AUR?

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Joakim Hernberg jhernb...@alchemy.lu wrote:
 On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:43:05 +0100
 LoneVVolf lonew...@xs4all.nl wrote:

 On 02-12-14 07:07, Nowaker wrote:
  A custom field in PKGBUILD that AUR will understand would really
  come in handy. Something like this:
  pkgissues='https://github.com/Nowaker/aur-packages/issues' p
  input type=submit value=Add Comment nbsp;nbsp; If you can't
  build the package, or the package is broken, please a
  href=https://github.com/Nowaker/aur-packages/issues;report an
  issue/a instead. /p

 Not a bad idea, but it would require makepkg to support it.
 Official repos have bug reports / add a new bug links on the
 package page, so they don't need this option.

 How about a similar field on AUR package page ?
 it should be empty by default, editable for maintainer

 I for one would really like to see a field on the AUR where I as
 buildscript maintainer can enter comments regarding the package, like X
 is broken right now, for y use workaround z, etc.

 --

Joakim

You can start a thread on the forums.

[aur-general] Should we recommend removing comments from the AUR?

[Karol Blazewicz]

AUR Comment for tmux-mem-cpu-load-git
from https://aur.archlinux.org//pkgbase/tmux-mem-cpu-load-git/
dlin wrote:

Please remove old comment or fixed issues to keep AUR clean.

2014/12/01 2.2.1.r3 remove 'v' in version and depends
2013/08/18 v2.2.1-1 use pacman 4.1 method to pull git source, added
pkgver()



What is your take on this idea?

Re: [aur-general] Removing my old package request

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 1:59 AM, Adrien Ferrand ferrand...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello,

 I'm developping a python script to do rsync backups over btrfs subvolume. I
 recently changed the name package from rsyncbtrfs to rsbtbackup. I uploaded
 the new package renamed on AUR. Could you please remove the old package
 named rsyncbtrfs ?

 Regards,

 Adrien Ferrand

Next time please file a request, like so
https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/rsyncbtrfs/request/

Re: [aur-general] Regex on search page

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:59 AM, David Phillips dbphillip...@gmail.com wrote:
So assumed there would be a helper that provides the kind of search you
 need, you won't use it, as a matter of principle and because there are
 freakish discussions about helpers?

 If (more or less) all it did was search the AUR, then I would look at
 using it. But the regex thing is such a trivial thing to implement on
 the AUR search.

Have you send a patch yet?
Maybe regex search is too much for the server to handle, maybe its too
expensive to enable it.

Re: [aur-general] Regex on search page

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:47 PM, David Phillips dbphillip...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi all,
 I started wondering today about whether or not we could benefit from
 having the option of searching for AUR packages using regular
 expressions on the search page. For example, today I wanted to list
 all ruby gems on the AUR, so I thought searching `ruby-` would be
 enough, but it's got a bunch of other packages like `chruby-git` in
 there too. If we could even just use basic regex techniques like start
 of line and end of line, it'd be a big help.

 What do you all think?

 --
 David Phillips
 GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B
 Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF  4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B

You can use an AUR helper.

[aur-general] How are AUR statistics computed?

[Karol Blazewicz]

https://aur.archlinux.org/ says 'Packages added in the past 7 days -
172', but I've got over 200 new AUR package notification through the
rss feed since Oct 18th. What exactly is being counted? Unique package
bases?

Re: [aur-general] How are AUR statistics computed?

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Doug Newgard scim...@archlinux.info wrote:
 On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 19:01:15 +0200
 Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote:

 https://aur.archlinux.org/ says 'Packages added in the past 7 days -
 172', but I've got over 200 new AUR package notification through the
 rss feed since Oct 18th. What exactly is being counted? Unique package
 bases?


 From https://projects.archlinux.org/aur.git/tree/web/lib/stats.inc.php

 $targstamp = intval(strtotime(-7 days));

 $q = SELECT COUNT(*) FROM PackageBases WHERE ModifiedTS =
 $targstamp AND ModifiedTS = SubmittedTS;
 $add_count = db_cache_value($q, 'add_count');

 So yes, it's counting pkgbases.

OK, thanks.
Not sure if any fix (rephrasing) is needed, nobody seems to care ;P

[aur-general] Is it OK to submit a package that is a dozen of one-line scripts?

[Karol Blazewicz]

Is it OK to submit a package that is a dozen of one-line scripts, like
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/b2b/ -
https://github.com/iorbitearth/b2b/tree/master/scripts ?

If it's frowned upon, maybe
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_packaging_standards should
be explicit about it?

Re: [aur-general] add

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Ali Abdul Ghani
blade.vp2...@gmail.com wrote:
 Alas
 It seems impossible
 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1465114#p1465114

 2014-10-11 20:30 جرينتش-07:00, Thiago Barroso Perrotta
 thiagoperrott...@gmail.com:

No top-posting, please.

Re: [aur-general] Pinning dependency versions in PKGBUILDs?

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Johannes Löthberg
johan...@kyriasis.com wrote:
 So now we have vim, vim-python3, gvim, gvim-python3, and vim-minimal. This
 is starting to feel a bit silly. ;p

You forgot about vim-runtime.

Re: [aur-general] AUR 3.4.0 released

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Lukas Fleischer
archli...@cryptocrack.de wrote:
 Hello,

 I am pleased to announce that AUR 3.4.0 has been released. The official
 AUR setup [1] has already been updated.

 This release includes several improvements to the package request
 feature and a couple of bug fixes. The PKGBUILD parser has been dropped,
 you can no longer upload source packages without meta data. Also, a new
 user group Trusted User  Developer was added. I already converted a
 couple of accounts to the new group; please let me know if I missed
 anyone.

 For a comprehensive list of changes, please consult the Git log [2]. As
 usual, bugs should be reported to the AUR bug tracker [3].

 [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/
 [2] https://projects.archlinux.org/aur.git/log/?id=v3.4.0
 [3] https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=2


https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=2do=indexswitch=1 says
 Note: The AUR is essentially in maintanence mode. No new features are planned.

which in light of
https://projects.archlinux.org/aur.git/log/?id=v3.4.0 doesn't sound
right (and I don't mean the 'maintanence' typo).
Should we remove this line?

Re: [aur-general] Wiki Community Day?!

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Johannes Löthberg johan...@kyriasis.com wrote:
 On 01/07, [AUR-ML] wrote:

 Hi,

 How about an ArchLinux Wiki Community Day each month eg.? Where we
 come together to improve the readability of certain Wiki pages and
 delete old stuff? Raises awareness and improves Wiki regularly.

 What do you think?


 Sounds fine, but belongs on arch-general, not aur-general.

 --
 Sincerely,
  Johannes Löthberg
  PGP Key ID: 3A9D0BB5

See 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User_talk:Lahwaacz.bot/Report_2014-04-05
Not many people were involved in the second run:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=User:Lahwaacz.bot/Report_2014-05-11action=history
Maybe a monthly ML reminder would help.

[aur-general] Anonymous comments in the AUR

[Karol Blazewicz]

Are anonymous comments something new?

Usually they're pretty old https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lpairs/
, the newest I stumbled upon is
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hydrogen-drumkits/

Were some users removed from the AUR db?

Re: [aur-general] Anonymous comments in the AUR

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 1:20 AM, WorMzy Tykashi
wormzy.tyka...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 27 June 2014 22:38, Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote:
 Are anonymous comments something new?

 Usually they're pretty old https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lpairs/
 , the newest I stumbled upon is
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hydrogen-drumkits/

 Were some users removed from the AUR db?

 Yep, a while ago [1]. Although the initial email suggest ste comments
 would be removed, this was revised later in the thread.

 [1a] 
 https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2014-January/027030.html
 [1b] 
 https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2014-February/027039.html

Thank you :-)

Re: [aur-general] [RFC] No compress aur packages before installing

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Timofey Titovets nefelim...@gmail.com wrote:
 When yaourt install packages from AUR, he do this steps:
 [1]. Download archive file with PKGBUILD to install
 [2]. Extract package and do compile || download  etc
 [3]. Compress package to install it with using packman
 [4]. Run pacman
 [5]. Pacman extract files, and install hims.

 I think if we can remove [3], this is speed up installing || upgrading
 process from AUR.

 --
 Best regards,
 Timofey.

Compression is not mandatory. I don't to this, I use a tar archive:

$ grep PKGEXT /etc/makepkg.conf
PKGEXT='.pkg.tar'


yaourt is just one of the available AUR helpers. It's not being
developed by Arch developers. You can suggest changes upstream
http://archlinux.fr/yaourt-en

Re: [aur-general] [HEADS-UP] Meta data and split package support in the AUR

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Lukas Fleischer
archli...@cryptocrack.de wrote:
 Hello,

 I plan to do the next major AUR release by late May or June and I
 thought this might be a good time to let people know what is going on
 behind the scenes.

 AUR 3.0.0 will be able to read metadata from source packages. These
 metadata will be read from a file called .AURINFO (contained in the
 source tarball). Dave wrote several tools [1], including mkaurball which
 can be used to automatically build a source tarball with metadata so you
 don't need to worry about creating this file on your own.

 Having this information available means that:

 1. We can drop the PKGBUILD parser from the AUR. The parser will still
be available in the upcoming release but it will be marked as
deprecated and a warning will be displayed whenever someone tries to
upload a source tarball without metadata.

 2. We can implement other things that were blocked by the AUR PKGBUILD
parser being incomplete and inaccurate. Specifically, the next
release will support split packages.

 Things that are on our TODO list:

 * Test the new AUR code. The split package code is still experimental.
 * Fix and extend the AUR RPC interface.
 * Test Dave's pkgbuild-introspection.
 * Move pkgbuild-introspection (or at least mkaurball) to [community].

 It would also be nice to get metadata generation integrated into makepkg
 so that people no longer need to install mkaurball to generate source
 tarballs for the AUR.

 Regards,
 Lukas

 [1] https://github.com/falconindy/pkgbuild-introspection

Cool :-)
Can you please send this to aur-dev too?

Re: [aur-general] Quick question about sl

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 8:16 AM, David Phillips dbphillip...@gmail.com wrote:
 Please excuse me if this isn't the right list for this (I feel
 confident it is), but is there any reason why is it that something
 that's as reasonably update- and maintenance-free as
 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sl not in community yet? It's got
 over three hundred votes; is there a reason for it staying out of
 community? I can understand the viewpoint of it being such a small
 package that it's not worth the time and space on mirrors, but still?

 Wow, I'm proof reading this message just now and it sounds more
 demanding than intended.

 Cheers all
 --
 David Phillips
 GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B
 Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF  4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B

It's not exactly essential. If some dev or TU wants to pick it, he
will. People tend to maintain packages they use.

Re: [aur-general] [Removal Request] lightworks

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Jeremy Audet ichimonj...@gmail.com wrote:
 Yeah, but Arch Linux TUs seem to prefer project name than package name
 proposed by the upstream. I have recently reported an issue stating that
 it's not possible to find PowerDNS with pacman -Ss powerdns.

 Excellent point. The principle of least surprise would dictate that
 packages have obvious names light lightworks or powerdns.

Status?
There still are two packages:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=lightworks

Re: [aur-general] Package of Questionable Legality

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Emil Lundberg lundberg.e...@gmail.com wrote:
 This doesn't matter though. The AUR does not host any software that
 may or may not be used for copyright infringement. The AUR is simply a
 collection of build scripts.

 Keep in mind that this exact argument was used by The Pirate Bay in
 Swedish court, and they were struck down for facilitation of
 copyright infringement if I recall correctly. I don't doubt that the
 proportion of illegal activity is substantially greater for The Pirate
 Bay than for the AUR, but what's the real difference except that they
 also made money from ads?

 I'm not saying it's wrong to allow the package in question, I just
 wanted to point this out. And even if this would tick someone off I
 doubt anyone would bother taking Arch to court for something like this
 anytime soon.

 /Emil

We had a discussion about warez in the AUR a few times:
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2011-October/016268.html
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2011-October/016282.html
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2012-January/017268.html

If you can legally buy a game (e.g. on gog.com), should the AUR
package be allowed to download the source (game data, not the source
code) from abandonia.com and friends?

Re: [aur-general] [Removal Request] lightworks

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Nowaker enwuk...@gmail.com wrote:
 I am the author of https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lightworks/ and
 request removal because of duplication.

 When I created the package I didn't see that:
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lwks already exists.


 Actually, the project name is lightworks, not lwks, so I'd suggest to remove
 lightworks, and then rename lwks to lightworks.

 --
 Kind regards,
 Damian Nowak
 StratusHost
 www.AtlasHost.eu

Merge lwks into lightworks and transfer maintainership to stjhimy, the
current lwks maintainer?

Re: [aur-general] [Removal Request] lightworks

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Jeremy Audet ichimonj...@gmail.com wrote:
 The lwks package includes the word Lightworks in the description, which
 means it can be found easily.

You're right, even though I prefer 'lightworks' :-)


 Also, the lwks package has 21 votes to lightworks 0.

'lightworks' has been uploaded to AUR only about 12 hours ago. 'lwks'
has been submitted a year ago.


 That said, I have no personal experience with lightworks or how other
 distributions treat the package, so I have no solid opinion on the matter.

 --Jeremy

Re: [aur-general] Package of Questionable Legality

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Sam Stuewe halosgh...@archlinux.info wrote:
 Free-cinema [1], appears to be of very questionable legality. It appears
 that it was designed specifically to be used for pirating movies. I don't
 know what the protocol is for dealing with this, just thought it was worth
 reporting.

 [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/free-cinema/

 --
 All the best,
 Sam Stuewe (HalosGhost)

Upstream url: 
http://kaveensblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/pirate-movie-downloader-for-linux-by-me/

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

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Rashif Ray Rahman sc...@archlinux.org wrote:
 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...@archlinux.org 
 wrote:
 Since there was no 'rstudio' at the time that user uploaded this one,
 there is no infringement of any rule or guideline per se. Just tell
 them to upload an 'r-studio' to mitigate the confusion that resulted
 from it. I don't think there is any need to merge unless there were
 relevant comments. It is up to the maintainer to update the PKGBUILD
 with the suggested changes.

 The question is whether the maintainer is still active at all. Hist
 last action is 2012-08-27 and he has only two packages, both over the
 year old with one being flagged out of date since February.

 Lukas

 e-mail sent.
 If he doesn't respond in two weeks, maybe a TU can reupload and disown
 it, or remove it from the AUR altogether, whichever is deemed the
 correct action.

 The maintainer has taken no action and didn't respond to my e-mail.

 Did your e-mail actually get through to that address? It's being
 returned here, and if we'd known this before we could've just gone
 ahead and done what we wanted. An non-existent e-mail address is close
 to meaning a non-existent user.


 --
 GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1

It wasn't returned. I e-mailed him and got no response, neither
automated nor personal, no error, nothing.

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

[Karol Blazewicz]

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...@archlinux.org 
 wrote:
 Since there was no 'rstudio' at the time that user uploaded this one,
 there is no infringement of any rule or guideline per se. Just tell
 them to upload an 'r-studio' to mitigate the confusion that resulted
 from it. I don't think there is any need to merge unless there were
 relevant comments. It is up to the maintainer to update the PKGBUILD
 with the suggested changes.

 The question is whether the maintainer is still active at all. Hist
 last action is 2012-08-27 and he has only two packages, both over the
 year old with one being flagged out of date since February.

 Lukas

 e-mail sent.
 If he doesn't respond in two weeks, maybe a TU can reupload and disown
 it, or remove it from the AUR altogether, whichever is deemed the
 correct action.

The maintainer has taken no action and didn't respond to my e-mail.

[aur-general] Package removal request

[Karol Blazewicz]

Please remove https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/geany-sf-git/ - it's
the same as https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/geany-git/

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

[Karol Blazewicz]

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...@archlinux.org 
 wrote:
 Since there was no 'rstudio' at the time that user uploaded this one,
 there is no infringement of any rule or guideline per se. Just tell
 them to upload an 'r-studio' to mitigate the confusion that resulted
 from it. I don't think there is any need to merge unless there were
 relevant comments. It is up to the maintainer to update the PKGBUILD
 with the suggested changes.

 The question is whether the maintainer is still active at all. Hist
 last action is 2012-08-27 and he has only two packages, both over the
 year old with one being flagged out of date since February.

 Lukas

e-mail sent.
If he doesn't respond in two weeks, maybe a TU can reupload and disown
it, or remove it from the AUR altogether, whichever is deemed the
correct action.

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

[Karol Blazewicz]

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.

Can we force the maintainer to change package name? Does the package
have to be properly disowned and reuploaded with a different name?

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

[Karol Blazewicz]

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 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 second. I thought this was just another R Studio.

I'm guilty of not reading the package description too:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1361971#p1361971


 Can we force the maintainer to change package name? Does the package
 have to be properly disowned and reuploaded with a different name?

 Yeah, they have to conform to existing naming schemes. I say rename it
 to r-studio, though that doesn't really look that much more helpful.

I can e-mail the maintainer and we can wait the customary 2 weeks, but
what exactly should I tell him?
He did provide a description, so maybe uploading an r-studio package
using the PKGBUILD provided by gbc921 would be enough?




 --
 GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1

Re: [aur-general] AUR Registration

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Daazed McFarland
daazedjmcfarl...@gmail.com wrote:
 Not really sure if I am going about this the correct way.
 I have attempted to register in the AUR and I still have not received
 a confirmation email. I think I registered about 2 days ago.

Did you check your spam folder?

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

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:18 PM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng)
techlivezh...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hey, I wonder if it is possible to query the `provides` of a package in AUR?

Is e.g. 'cower -ii wine-git' good enough?

[aur-general] Is it OK to provide the binary inside the PKGBUILD?

[Karol Blazewicz]

I noticed mp4join doesn't provde an upstream url and the PKGBUILD
looks ... interesting:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mp/mp4join/PKGBUILD

package() {

cat  'ENDEVOMGELAENDE' | openssl base64 -d  mp4join

code goes here

ENDEVOMGELAENDE
  chmod 755 mp4join
  install -D -m755 ./mp4join ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/mp4join
}


Is it kosher?

[aur-general] Removal request

[Karol Blazewicz]

* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/io-git-simply/
There already is https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/io-git/ , as
mentioned in io-git-simply's description.
This package doesn't build because the PKGBUILD doesn't list
dependencies and makedependencies. It's in 'emulators' category for
some reason.

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

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Rashif Ray Rahman sc...@archlinux.org wrote:
 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
 arch-haskell project.

 I only use it for Rust's documentation generator, and don't want to be
 frequently rebuilding 30+ libraries for a language I don't use.

 Our packaging standards don't make much sense for Haskell because there are
 little gains from dynamic linking. There's not nearly enough sharing of
 code for it to come close to being efficient, and no stable ABI either.

 That's a shame, I am really dependent on it these days. But thanks for
 maintaining it until now :)


 --
 GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1

[haskell] unofficial repo has haskell-pandoc 1.11.1-16.

The unmaintained packages uploaded by arch-haskell guys to the AUR
have been removed a couple months ago
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2013-June/023951.html

Do you want to keep the haskell packages you dropped to the AUR in the
AUR because it makes it easier to move them to the official repos some
time down the road or ...?
Maybe the unofficial repo is enough and there's no need for the AUR packages?

[aur-general] Source packages in the AUR

[Karol Blazewicz]

Is it OK to upload PKGBUILDs like
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ga/gawk-source/PKGBUILD ?

Re: [aur-general] Source packages in the AUR

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Sébastien Luttringer se...@seblu.net wrote:
 On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Karol Blazewicz
 karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote:
 Is it OK to upload PKGBUILDs like
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ga/gawk-source/PKGBUILD ?

 This package doesn't do bad things like duplicate an official one or
 violate a copyright.

That's right.


 It seems perfectly useless btw.

This is what I meant :-)



 Cheers,

 --
 Sébastien Seblu Luttringer
 https://www.seblu.net
 GPG: 0x2072D77A

Re: [aur-general] Delete request: acxi

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 11:37 PM, member graysky gray...@archlinux.us wrote:
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/acxi/

 Package is not maintained and other more powerful alternatives exist.
 See comments therein.  Note I am not subscribed so plz cc me if you
 need me to read it :p

What do you mean by not maintained? Just because it's orphaned in
the AUR and the upstream hasn't recently been most active doesn't mean
it should be deleted.

Re: [aur-general] Unmerge mpv-build-git

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 8:05 PM, SpinFlo sl1pk...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi. Please unmerge mpv-build-git. This package use diferent repository .
 Mpv-git use mpv repository, my pakage use mpv-build repository

 See mpv-player in github

 Https://github.com/mpv-player

The PKGBUILD file is here
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mp/mpv-build-git/PKGBUILD but I
think the install file is gone.

[aur-general] Delete request

[Karol Blazewicz]

mpv is in the official repos now
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=q=mpv , please remove
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mpv/

Re: [aur-general] Delete request

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski b...@bpiotrowski.pl 
wrote:
 On 2013-09-02 13:09, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
 mpv is in the official repos now
 https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=q=mpv , please remove
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mpv/


 I'll remove it after I move mpv to [community]. AUR package has been
 left intentionally.

 --
 Bartłomiej Piotrowski
 http://bpiotrowski.pl/


Ah, OK.
Sorry, didn't know that it was intentional.

Re: [aur-general] Is it OK to package oneliners?

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote:
 Karol Blazewicz wrote:

Are we OK with packages like https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/last-git/ ?
Unless I'm missing something it's just
https://raw.github.com/vanceza/last/master/last

BTW, I don't understand what does it do  /usr/bin/last-line doesn't
seem to work.
$ echo 1 2 3
1 2 3
$ history 2 | head -n1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f4-
1 2 3
$ cat foo
cat: foo: Is a directory
$ history 2 | head -n1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f4-
foo

 Deleted with the following message:

A single-line shell command is not worth its own package, let alone a project 
on git hub. Such commands are better off as aliases.

 Seeing that was definitely a skypalming wtf moment.

 Regards,
 Xyne



Please remove some other oneliners by that user:
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/owns-git/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wordcount-git/notify/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/asciicam-git/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/current-network-git/

He has a few other packages that are fewliners e.g.
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dzen-clock-git/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/changed-files-git/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/export-chrome-bookmarks-git/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/random-git/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/noise-git/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/webcam-picture-git/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/retry-git/

IMHO at least some of them should be removed too.

Re: [aur-general] Is it OK to package oneliners?

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 6:02 PM, oliver oli...@first.in-berlin.de wrote:
 It would possibly make sense to have something like a
 oneliner's sampler, a set of aliases or .bashrc's or
 so. Then there woiuld be one package with
 say 20, 50 or 200 oneliners.

 But a package for a oneliner obviously is overhead-nonsense.

 (How to bloat the oneliner with a PKGBUILD that is much bigger
 than the packaged code)



 Ciao,
Oliver

We already have a collection of scripts, oneliners etc.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56646

[aur-general] Is it OK to package oneliners?

[Karol Blazewicz]

Are we OK with packages like https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/last-git/ ?
Unless I'm missing something it's just
https://raw.github.com/vanceza/last/master/last

BTW, I don't understand what does it do  /usr/bin/last-line doesn't
seem to work.
$ echo 1 2 3
1 2 3
$ history 2 | head -n1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f4-
1 2 3
$ cat foo
cat: foo: Is a directory
$ history 2 | head -n1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f4-
foo

[aur-general] Package removal request

[Karol Blazewicz]

Dear TUs,
when adding a package to the repos, please check if there's one in the
AUR with the same name.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/caps/
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/caps/


Please remove caps from the AUR.

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

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:40 PM, 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 addition process, but for somehow are being ignored for stuff
 like quorum and removal procedures, some TUs look to otherside when we
 mention this subject.

 So, what's the point of having a Bylaw if you will not follow it?, why
 don't modify it and remove that part that you don't want to be aware?,
 being a TU is not about just delivering packages and orphaning /
 splitting packages on the AUR, TUs must work as a group, and it used to
 be like that when I was part of the team (I still feel part of the team
 but seems that oficially I am not a TU, a corner case that is not well
 documented on the Bylaws btw).

 So, according to that, I don't want to say names (i did said those names
 on the irc channel when I found the quorum situation on the last SVP but
 as I've said nobody react .. bad bad bad, guys.. dissapointing I must
 say), but I still feel that TUs must do that, not a guy which is not
 completely a TU -yes, me-.

 Please check the last SVP and check who didn't voted, and some TU call
 the rest of the group for either following the Bylaws, or call for a
 modification of these Bylaws and allow these cases.

 In my opinion, (now as a dev) we don't want to control what you do,
 because we as a user and devs trust a group of people that have their
 own defined rules, but if the TUs won't start following these rules, is
 simply stupid to have these rules there.

 Please don't kill the messenger, this is nothing personal against anyone
 or the group, I really appreciate most of the people who contribute to
 the Arch Linux project and I am grateful as an user for that.

 Let this discussion begin.

 --
 Angel Velasquez
 Arch Linux Developer

 angvp @ irc.freenode.net
 http://www.angvp.com.ar


This is a pet peeve of mine: if there are rules, they should be followed.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=163484

[aur-general] Dropping packages from the repos

[Karol Blazewicz]

Compiz was removed from the repos
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-May/024956.html
but appeared in the AUR a good while later - 2013-07-11 , even though
Allan inquired about it in late May:
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-May/025022.html

Recently ndiswrapper and cdfs have been removed from the repos but I
don't see them in the AUR. What is the rationale for this? Are the
other ndiswrapper / cdfs packages that are already in the AUR deemed
sufficient? Is https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fuse-cdfs-git/ the
same as 'cdfs' package that used to be in the repos?
A word about why the package has been dropped .e.g 'doesn't work with
linux 3.10 kernel' would be helpful.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rusxmms/ has a comment that says
'removed from community'. Mentioning
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36229 would be helpful.

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

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Willem willem...@gmail.com wrote:
 What about the package users?

 Will users who have voted for a package be emailed that the package is about
 to be deleted (automatically)? And be asked whether he wants to become the
 maintainer?

I'm confused. Are we talking about orphaning or deleting packages?
Even if there's no comment left about the package being orphaned, you
can periodically run e.g. aurphan to check.

There's also https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31851

Re: [aur-general] TU application

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Connor Behan connor.be...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 20/07/13 09:53 AM, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
 4) Speed
 It avoid pacman to checks version for each deps. This save a lot of
 useless computing (parsing and comparing two version)[1].
 Even if it's not a big deal on last intel processor, this is
 noticeable on slow processor (like raspberry pie, alix or soekris).

 We can resume these 4 points by saying : It's more simple.

 Of course there is drawback for people not updating the whole system.
 It's unsupported.

 Those processors are no more supported than partial updates.

pacman doesn't have Arch Linux-specific stuff but other distros /
systems should be running on powerful processors because pacman devs
don't care about slower ones?

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

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Alexander Rødseth rods...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,


 Some of these packages are out of date and some have better PKGBUILDs
 in the comments:
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=phiSeB=m

 Last activity from the user was over two years ago: 2011-03-17 (the
 brother-hl2030 package)

 The two packages that are out of date has not been updated for three years.

 My plan is to orphan all his packages if nobody thinks that's a
 horribly bad idea.

 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 orphan them after a similar investigation of the
 situation.

 --
 Sincerely,
   Alexander Rødseth
   xyproto / TU

There are quite a few orphaned packages nobody is maintaining or
updating even though they have updated PKGBUILDs posted in the
comments.
Users can always ask for a package to be orphaned.

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

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Daniel Micay danielmi...@gmail.com wrote:
 As long as it fires off a warning email or two (at 1 month
 out-of-date, and again at 2), I don't see any problems with doing
 that.

This.

We have a policy of e-mail the maintainer and wait 2 weeks for
response so disowning a package w/o trying to contact the maintainer
seems to contradict the way we've done things for awhile.

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

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:39 AM, Anatol Pomozov
anatol.pomo...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi

 On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Phillip Smith li...@fukawi2.nl wrote:
 On 19 July 2013 10:28, John D Jones III unixgeek1...@gmail.com wrote:
 I like this... though I think 6 months would be better than 3 on the 
 initial Orphaning. There should for sure be a final DUDE!!! Fix your crap 
 Warning email sent to the maintainer, like above, perhaps a 7 day warning?

 A daily process to automatically disown abandoned packages would be
 great, but it needs to account for the last modified date too:

 1. Find packages flagged out of date  1 month and last modified  1
 month == Send reminder email. (Package out of date, please update).
 2. Find packages flagged out of date  2 month and last modified  1
 month == Send warning email. (Package still out of date, automatic
 disown in 1 month).
 3. Find packages flagged out of date  2.75 month and last modified 
 1 month == Send warning email. (Last chance!).
 4. Find packages flagged out of date  3 month and last modified  1
 month == Disown, send notification email, add comment so others who
 are subscribed to comments is aware it has been disowned (You lost
 it).

 Is there any style checker tool for PKGBUILD files? Something similar
 to lint? If yes then it worth checking for style violations as well,
 e.g. PKGBUILD does not have package() function.

makepkg?

 So bot can send a
 note to owner and mark the package somehow e.g. Needs improvements
 If no improvement has been done during some period then the package is
 disowned.

Re: [aur-general] Removal request: green

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Felix Yan felixonm...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 09:38:36 Edoardo Maria Elidoro wrote:
 Hi everyone,
 this package [1] is four years old, upstream developement has stopped
 (around four years ago) and seems to not compile anymore. I request
 its removal from AUR.

 [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/green/

 Thanks,
 Edoardo

 Removed, thanks.

 Regards,
 Felix Yan

Can somebody please explain again, what does it mean dead upstream?
Since the sources are available, I thought we should keep it.
Is the policy remove the broken package - if someone knows how to fix
this, they will upload a fixed package or let it be, maybe somebody
someday will post a patch?

[aur-general] Various requests

[Karol Blazewicz]

Google Reader is gone, does it make these packages obsolete?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vim-googlereader/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/conkygooglereader-bzr/


What do we do about packages flagged by the robot:
I am a robot. AUR guidelines suggest to not include binaries.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/client4rj/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mac4lin-gtk2-theme/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/splashy-themes


Merge
* Votes from https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gxneur-svn/ with
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gxneur-unstable/ ?
According to the comments on
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gxneur-svn/ gxneur uses hg now +
the svn version source is unavailable.
* Votes from https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lazr.restful/ with
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-lazr-restful/

* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kontrollerlab-svn/
== Connecting to sourceforge.net SVN server
svn: E195012: Unable to find repository location for
'https://kontrollerlab.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kontrollerlab/trunk'
in revision 168
== ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...

There is non-svn kontrollerlab in the AUR that is up to date and
maintained - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kontrollerlab/ , so I
think we can remove or  merge kontrollerlab-svn.

Re: [aur-general] Massive orphan request II

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Frank Vanderham twelve.eig...@gmail.com wrote:
 Karol Blazewicz asked an excellent question. What's next, do you want to
 adopt them?

 I may adopt a few but not all. I am hoping that by orphaning them, an
 active
 maintainer may pick them up and fix/update them.

 That list is huge. I can certainly pick up a couple, but some of them look
 horribly outdated; is it an option to delete the ones that haven't been
 updated in - say - 12 months just to bring it down to a manageable number?
 It would be a waste of resources to spend time on a package that nobody is
 using anymore.

I'm afraid it's not possible to remove old and unmaintained packages,
unless e.g. the upstream is dead i.e. the source is missing:
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2013-June/023923.html

Re: [aur-general] Removal requests

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Karol Blazewicz
karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote:
 Source gone:
 * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hyphen-nb/
 * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hyphen-nn/
 * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hunspell-nb/
 * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hunspell-nn/
 * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kommute/
 * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/klaptopdaemon/
 * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/imageshack-uploader/
 * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jpgfdraw/
 * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib32-ubuntulooks/
 * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libdraw-hg/
 * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libopensync-plugin-sunbird/
 * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lightum-xbacklight-git/
 * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-powersave-scripts/

 * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libnotify-hack/ - I get stuck at
 == Connecting to GIT server
 Cloning into 'libnotify-hack'...
 Username for 'http://github.com': egrajeda
 Password for 'http://egraj...@github.com':

 * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/harmonyseq-bzr/ - I get stuck at
 == Connecting to Bazaar server
 You have not informed bzr of your Launchpad ID, and you must do this to
 write to Launchpad or access private data.  See bzr help launchpad-login.

 * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ettercap-drizzbsd/ - I get studk at
 == Connecting to GIT server
 Cloning into 'ettercap'...
 Username for 'https://github.com':

 * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/craftbukkit-plugin-spout-git/ - I
 get stuck at
 == Connecting to GIT server
 Cloning into 'spoutplugin'...
 Username for 'https://github.com':

 * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/itmages-service-bzr/ - I get stuck at
 == Starting build()...
 You have not informed bzr of your Launchpad ID, and you must do this to
 write to Launchpad or access private data.  See bzr help launchpad-login.

 Am I doing something wrong?


All gone.


 Source partially gone:
 * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ibus-table-chinese-git/ - file
 mentioned in source array is gone, but the git repo works OK.
 * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kdestyle-lipstik-vistesque/ -
 found the patch, can't find the source

 Not sure if this warrants removal.

These were kept.


The TU that did the cleanup forgot to send an e-mail to the ML so I did it :P

Re: [aur-general] Massive orphan request II

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Frank Vanderham
twelve.eig...@gmail.com wrote:
 That list is huge. I can certainly pick up a couple, but some of them
 look
 horribly outdated; is it an option to delete the ones that haven't been
 updated in - say - 12 months just to bring it down to a manageable
 number?
 It would be a waste of resources to spend time on a package that nobody
 is
 using anymore.

 I'm afraid it's not possible to remove old and unmaintained packages,
 unless e.g. the upstream is dead i.e. the source is missing:
 https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2013-June/023923.html

 [sorry, accidentally hit Send too soon]

 Can we create a zombie / placeholder status for those packages that need
 to be kept as Xyne mentions:  Even if the PKGBUILD is an ancient relic
 from the age of Judd in need of a complete rewrite, we tend to leave them
 as placeholders. I just don't think it's feasible to maintain all packages
 that were created once upon a time, since *anyone* can create a package on
 AUR?

What is the cost of maintaining these packages?

Re: [aur-general] Merge request: Songbird

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Diego Principe cdprinc...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi TUs!
 Unfortunately Songbird is no longer maintained, it is a dead project.
 Some time ago it was forked in Nightingale which is still developed.

 Whereby I propose to merge:

 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/songbird-bin/
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/songbird-bin64/
 IN
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nightingale/

 AND

 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bin32-songbird-nightly/
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/songbird-nightly-bin/
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/songbird-svn/
 IN
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nightingale-git/

 Diego

See https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2013-June/023942.html
 Felix Yan
 As Nightingale is just a forked version, I don't feel the need - people could 
 choose whatever they want on AUR.
 (And songbird-bin still has 341 votes which could be somewhat an evidence for 
 popularity)

Re: [aur-general] Merge request: Songbird

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Pedro Alejandro López-Valencia
palop...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hmmm... Songbird is folding down and out very soon. Quite probably binaries
 and source code packages will be removed as the servers and domain go dark.

 http://blog.songbirdnest.com/you-gotta-know-when-to-fold-em/


I know, I did include the link to the blog in my request, still the TU
decided otherwise.

Re: [aur-general] Massive orphan request II

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Kevin Vesga 31337h4c...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have contacted the maintainers for the following list of packages
 and they have not responded for 1 month. Furthermore I checked that
 the packages have been marked as out-of-date for at least 1 month as
 well:

 166 packages


Do you want to maintain them all?

Re: [aur-general] Delete request - cacheclean

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 2:07 AM, Rob Til Freedmen
rob.til.freed...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski 
 b...@bpiotrowski.plwrote:

 On 2013-07-05 20:57, Rob Til Freedmen wrote:
  On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 10:50 AM, member graysky gray...@archlinux.us
 wrote:
 
  https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cacheclean/
 
  Now that paccache is out, I have deleted the upstream code from my
  github and my http server.  Recommend removing the PKGBUILD from the
  AUR since I am upstream.
 
 
  I can't find ' paccache' anywhere in the repos...
 

 $ pkgfile paccache
 core/pacman


 Searched on Packages:

 'We couldn't find any packages matching your query. Try searching again
 using different criteria, or try searching the
 AURhttps://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=paccacheto see if the
 package can be found there.'

 Searched on AUR:

 'No packages matched your search criteria.'

 Is there any secret repository?

Please read the wiki ...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FAQ#Q.29_In_which_package_is_X.3F

[aur-general] Removal requests

[Karol Blazewicz]

Source gone:
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hyphen-nb/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hyphen-nn/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hunspell-nb/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hunspell-nn/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kommute/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/klaptopdaemon/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/imageshack-uploader/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jpgfdraw/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib32-ubuntulooks/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libdraw-hg/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libopensync-plugin-sunbird/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lightum-xbacklight-git/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-powersave-scripts/

* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libnotify-hack/ - I get stuck at
== Connecting to GIT server
Cloning into 'libnotify-hack'...
Username for 'http://github.com': egrajeda
Password for 'http://egraj...@github.com':

* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/harmonyseq-bzr/ - I get stuck at
== Connecting to Bazaar server
You have not informed bzr of your Launchpad ID, and you must do this to
write to Launchpad or access private data.  See bzr help launchpad-login.

* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ettercap-drizzbsd/ - I get studk at
== Connecting to GIT server
Cloning into 'ettercap'...
Username for 'https://github.com':

* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/craftbukkit-plugin-spout-git/ - I
get stuck at
== Connecting to GIT server
Cloning into 'spoutplugin'...
Username for 'https://github.com':

* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/itmages-service-bzr/ - I get stuck at
== Starting build()...
You have not informed bzr of your Launchpad ID, and you must do this to
write to Launchpad or access private data.  See bzr help launchpad-login.

Am I doing something wrong?


Source partially gone:
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ibus-table-chinese-git/ - file
mentioned in source array is gone, but the git repo works OK.
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kdestyle-lipstik-vistesque/ -
found the patch, can't find the source

Not sure if this warrants removal.

Re: [aur-general] Removal requests

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski b...@bpiotrowski.pl 
wrote:
 On 2013-07-02 01:39, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
 Source gone

snip

 * https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-activity-journal-bzr/

snip


 All deleted, thanks.

 --
 Bartłomiej Piotrowski
 http://bpiotrowski.pl/


Almost, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-activity-journal-bzr/
is still there.

Re: [aur-general] Aggressive deletions?

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Felix Yan felixonm...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tuesday, July 02, 2013 10:21:40 enderst wrote:
 Not sure how pkgs are checked before deletion but Autoscan was deleted
 reason was no source.

 It’s just a broken link:

 http://autoscan.fr/download_files/autoscan-network-1.50.tar.gz

 Should be:

 http://autoscan-network.com/download_files/autoscan-network-1.50.tar.gz

  Clearly they've changed domains and haven't updated their links.

 So source is available and binaries for major platforms:
 http://autoscan-network.com/download/

 You could still grab the source package here: 
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/au/autoscan/autoscan.tar.gz

 And feel free to fix it and upload again.

 Regards,
 Felix Yan

I update SourceForge links because they're trivial to find and I try
to fix packages that are needed to build other packages.
If I stumble upon the working download urls, I do post them in the
comments, but I generally do not look for them.

[aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Starting work on TeXLive 2013

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Tuesday, July 02, 2013 09:15:06 Rémy Oudompheng wrote:
 The packages are ready but they will tend to install /etc/texmf files
 as .pacnew instead of replacing the old ones. When it happens fmtutil
 will not unhappy and the things will be unusable until the user
 overwrites the old files with the pacnews then re-runs fmtutil --all
 as root.

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Rémy Oudompheng
remyoudomph...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 2013/7/2 Rashif Ray Rahman sc...@archlinux.org wrote:
 An official announcement is useful here because it requires user
 intervention. An install message is not appropriate (i.e. not
 sufficient for the problem at hand).

 So, yes, if there is no other way to solve this you should post a news
 announcement explaining the reason why this intervention is required
 and the steps to take in order to solve it.

 I think we can try that. I will upload the current version of packages
 to [testing]. I don't think it is a common practice to sliently
 overwrite files in /etc, but I don't understand why new files get
 installed as .pacnew.

 I have tried the upgrade path from a clean Texlive 2012 install and it
 does not replace the old files.

 Rémy.

.pacnew files get created when the old files have been altered - user
edited https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacnew_and_Pacsave_Files#.pacnew
I have no idea what /etc/texmf hold and why would one edit them, but
if you updated from a clean Texlive 2012 install I guess no edits were
made to these files and thus no .pacnew files got created .

[aur-general] Removal requests

[Karol Blazewicz]

Source gone
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libping/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lovewallpaper/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lua-gd/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/apache-jena/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aster-mpi/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/axkb/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/axr-prototype-git/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/b43-tools-git/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bickley-git/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bmpanel-themes/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bongo-svn/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cinnamon-extension-win7-alt-tab/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/couturier/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cplay-mplayer/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/enso-bzr/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/falcon-qt4-svn/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-nightly-i18n-ru/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/flashget/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gxmms2/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gget-svn/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-shell-extension-axe-menu/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/eclipse-qtjambi/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/eclipse-i18n-es/

Obsolete according to the comments
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/anyremote2html/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/biblatex-historian/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/intel-composer-compiler-suite/
but he maintains it anyway ...
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/alx-driver-e2200/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bnfc/

Re: [aur-general] Removal requests

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Maxime Gauduin aluc...@gmail.com wrote:
 All gone, except imwheel, upstream is still there and package is not an
 orphan.

 --
 Maxime

imwheel wan not meant to be removed, I included the link for
convenience. No Idea why there's a newline after the colon:

 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/imwheel-enchanced/ - the diff is
 gone, w/o it it's a plain imwheel:
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/imwheel/

In my next e-mails I'll use bulletpoints to avoid confusion and will
try not to include urls of packages that are not meant to be merged or
removed:

* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/foobar - the diff is gone, w/o it
it's a plain foo


Thanks,
Karol

[aur-general] Removal requests

[Karol Blazewicz]

Source gone
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dcp130c/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/abook-call/ - the diff is gone,,
the regular abook is in the repos
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=q=abook
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/eclipse-i18n-packbidi/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/emesene-smilies/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aircrack-ng-unstable-svn/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/arcemu-svn/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/autoscan/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/awesome-wm-themes-collection/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bochs-dbg/ - no source available
for this version
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bdf2psf/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cardapio/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/clamav-devel/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/clamav-git/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/flashplugin_src/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fortune-mod-ferengi_rules_of_acquisition/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gimp-plugin-apng/
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-activity-journal-bzr/


Source unavailable - not necessarily gone, I simply may be too dumb to
figure it out:
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ffgtk-svn/ - I get stuck at
Authentication realm: http://svn.tabos.org:80 Suberversion Repository
Password for 'root':

* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/flightgear-aircrafts/ - I get stuck at
Connecting to ftp.de.flightgear.org
(ftp.de.flightgear.org)|134.91.82.67|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ...
Login incorrect.

* 
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-shell-extension-activities-button-git/
- I get stuck at
== Connecting to the GIT server...
Cloning into 'GNOME-3.2-Shell-extensions'...
Username for 'https://github.com':

[aur-general] Removal requests

[Karol Blazewicz]

Source gone
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/indicator-lookit/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/imwheel-enchanced/ - the diff is
gone, w/o it it's a plain imwheel:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/imwheel/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ispell-czech/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ispell-da/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ipwraw-ng/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ipkg-utils/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/joomla-ru/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jpegpixi/ - it's a dep for
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mapivi/ ...
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jpgraph/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jre5/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jetty8/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jdeveloper-studio/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/javafx-sdk/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kaid/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kaconnect/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kdeplasma-addons-applets-rosapanel/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kdeplasma-themes-panels-collection/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kdeutils-tweakkde-svn/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kdm-theme-lucid/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kopete-cryptography/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kicad-doc/

Re: [aur-general] Various requests

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Karol Blazewicz
karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote:
 Is it OK to merge (transfer votes)
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gedit-classbrowser/ with
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gedit-classbrowser-git/ ? The
 former is missing source and even the website is gone, so I don't know
 if it's the same software.

 I asked for removal of other -wz packages and that left
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pplive-wz/ hanging so I guess it
 makes sense to remove it too.

 I reqested merging
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/eduke32-polymer-hrp/ with
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/eduke32-hrp/ because according to
 the comments, the former is obsolete. These packages are not merged,
 so either they slipped through or there's a reason not to merge them
 the TU forgot to share :-)

 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/claws-pdf-viewer/ and others below
 seem to be candidates for removal but
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/notification_plugin_unread/ says it
 sometimes makes sense to keep them
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rssyl/
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/claws-mail-notification/
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/claws-mail-gtkhtml2viewer/
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/claws-mail-fancy/
 Most of them have maintainers but the sources are gone.

Bump.

[aur-general] Removal requests

[Karol Blazewicz]

Source gone
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-uvc-utils-svn/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lsit/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lua-batteries/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lopster-it/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/logjam/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lualpm-git/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lumaqq/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/antlrworks/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aoscompiler-git/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/craftbukkit-plugin-permissions/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cinnamon-applet-vbox-launcher/

Obsolete according to the comments
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lua-alt-getopt/

[aur-general] Removal requests

[Karol Blazewicz]

Source gone
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/craftbukkit-plugin-defaultpermissions/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/craftbukkit-plugin-griefalertr-permissions/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kdeicons-aqua_project/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kdeicons-ekisho_project/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kdeicons-futurosoft/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kdeicons-glossy_project/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lnotify/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bin32-icedtea-web/ - it was getting
the code from Arch repos
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bin32-jdk-java5/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bin32-skype-oss/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fluxbox-styles/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cups-usblp/ but according to the
comments it's still useful - how can this be if I can't get the
source?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dictd-devils/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dictd-elements/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dmenu-xinerama/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dotclear/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dysnomia/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/eclipse-dbeaver/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/eclipse-m2eclipse/ and a package
that depends on it -
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/eclipse-m2eclipse-extra/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/eclipse-pdt-all-in-one/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/emu8051/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gajim-mpd/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gajim-notify-osd/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/galicesms/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qseedfuck/
I wonder how can https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cinnamon-applets/
work, as https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cinnamon-applet-screensaver-inhibit/
and https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cinnamon-applet-recent/ are
missing sources.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gconnman-git/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/glassified-splash/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-shell-extension-righthotcorner/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-shell-extension-theme-selector/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-shell-extension-gnote/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-theme-sonar/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gpup/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtmess-beta/

Re: [aur-general] Orphaned and outdated haskell packages

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org wrote:
 As far as the arch-haskell team is concerned *all* packages uploaded
 by the user arch-haskell and currently unmaintained can be removed
 from AUR.

If I got this right, there're 1252 such packages:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0C=0SeB=sK=arch-haskelloutdated=SB=nSO=aPP=50do_Orphans=Orphans

The cleanup policy seems to be old packages stay in the AUR unless
the source (upstream) is gone, but I have nothing against making an
exception for arch-haskell submissions :-)

[aur-general] Multiple requests

[Karol Blazewicz]

Removal:
Source gone
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dklibs/ Comments suggest using
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dktools/ - is it OK to merge the
votes?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/doxygen2qthelp/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dratmenu-xywh-xft/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/echo-nest-remix-svn/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/exaile-plugin-mmkeys/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fluxbox-colorflux-themes/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/freecraft/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fsirc-git/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/furiusconverter/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/funracing/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/glaciertool-git/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gmpc-coveramazon/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-shell-mgse-git/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-splashscreen-manager/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnupoly/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/guilt/

Uses hg now
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xneur-svn/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gxneur-svn/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xneur-subversion/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gxneur-subversion/

https://aur.archlinux.org/account/DELETETHIS ?

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/flashplugin-no-sse2/ there's
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/flashplugin-nosse2/, looks like a
name change; there's even an up to date
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/flashplugin-sse2-nosse2/

Warez?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dune2/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hmm2/

Obsolete according to the comments
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ffmpeg-vdpau-vaapi/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gedit-pkgbuild-highlight/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gmpc-glyros-git/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gns3-vbe/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnu2busybox-diffutils/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnu2busybox-findutils/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnu2busybox-grep/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/google-gears-svn/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gotoblas2/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins-ossv4/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gstreamer0.10-oss4/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gstreamer0.11-base-git/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gstreamer0.11-good-git/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gstreamer0.11-bad-git/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gstreamer0.11-ugly-git/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk-elegant-arch-theme/ (obsoleted
by https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk-theme-elegant- revisited/)
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk-xfce-engine-light/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk2-theme-holo/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk3-theme-holo/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hydrogen-svn/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hvr1600-cx23418-firmware/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hesinfo/


Merge:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/djl_py2/ with
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/djl/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/eduke32-polymer-hrp/ with
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/eduke32-hrp/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/enigma-dev-svn/ with
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/enigma-dev-git/


Sorry if I got any of them wrong. I do pay attention to feedback I get
from TUs so hopefully I'll understand stuff better next time.

[aur-general] Removal requests

[Karol Blazewicz]

Source gone
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/i2400m-fw/ merge with
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/i2400m-firmware/ ?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/i2400m-supplicant/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/icc/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ifort/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/intel-compilers-common/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/iscan-v100/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/iscan-v100-rpm/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jotify/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jahplayer/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jahshaka/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kdeicons-crystalproject/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kerneloops/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kftpgrabber/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libexpat1-wz/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libhildon-1-wz/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libhildondesktop0-wz/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libhildonfm2-wz/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libhildonmime0-wz/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libhildonwm0-wz/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libhildonthumbnail0-wz/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libircclient-qt/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bukkit-authorize/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libosso1-wz/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libproplist/


Obsolete according to the comments
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/icns2png/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/input-wacom/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/isotostick/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/keepass2-bin/


Copy of official repo package?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ldc-bin/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib32-opencl-nvidia/

[aur-general] Orphaned and outdated haskell packages

[Karol Blazewicz]

There's over 200 packages submitted by arch-haskell that are marked
out of date and are not maintained anymore.
Some of them have been updated in the past year, so maybe there's no
need to remove them, I'm just reporting something I noticed.

Some packages were hosting their source on github e.g.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/haskell-warp/ and they now returns
404.

[aur-general] Deletion requests

[Karol Blazewicz]

1. 4dtris-git has been renamed by the developer to ntris 2 months ago
(see comment in https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/4dtris-git/ ).
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/4dtris-git/ returns 404 for the
source while https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ntris/ looks
maintained.

Please remove 4dtris-git
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/4dtris-git/ (no votes, single
comment)


2. acpi-handle-hack-lenovo-git and hack-lenovo have become obsolete as
the fix has been included upstream - see comments on
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hack-lenovo/
Does it mean both these packages should be removed from the AUR? They
need to be updated to work with the current kernel but there seems to
be no need for them.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/acpi-handle-hack-lenovo-git/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hack-lenovo/

Re: [aur-general] AUR cleanup policy

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote:
 On 2013-06-18 13:48 +0200
 Karol Blazewicz wrote:

What's the policy wrt to packages that have been submitted years ago
and are neither developed upstream nor maintained in the AUR since
then? Just let them be or get rid of them as they're of no use?
If there're old unmaintained packages foo and foo-git, is it OK to
request removing at least one of them? Which one?

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/a4/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/a4-bzr/

The PKGBUILD need updating but it still builds and runs so I can pick
it up, update and orphan it. I don't know which filetypes does it open
(.odp is not recognized) and the editor doesn't work, so you can't
create a new presentation from scratch.
It's man page is of no help.


 Packages should only be removed if they conflict with policy (copies of
 official repo packages, malware, illegal packages) or if upstream is dead. 
 Even
 if the PKGBUILD is an ancient relic from the age of Judd in need of a complete
 rewrite, we tend to leave them as placeholders.

AUR lacks 'mark package as broken' feature, I guess I can leave a
comment that says it's broken + post compile errors etc. Maybe
somebody will post a fix ...

With regard to dead upstream, do I have to Google around to see if
they moved it somewhere or is it OK to lazily submit for deletion? I'm
talking about orphaned packages w/o an updated PKGBUILD in the
comments or at least a comment that says upstream moved to a different
place.


 .odp is a Libre-/OpenOffice file extension btw.

I know, I didn't expect it tow work, but I have no idea what kind of
presentations are they talking about.

 Regards,
 Xyne

Re: [aur-general] Orphaned and outdated haskell packages

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote:
 On 2013-06-19 19:28 +0200
 Karol Blazewicz wrote:

There's over 200 packages submitted by arch-haskell that are marked
out of date and are not maintained anymore.
Some of them have been updated in the past year, so maybe there's no
need to remove them, I'm just reporting something I noticed.

Some packages were hosting their source on github e.g.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/haskell-warp/ and they now returns
404.

 The ones that lack sources should be removed. I have deleted haskell-warp. 
 Feel
 free to report others.

 Thanks

See the comments for
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/haskell-binary/ - is it enough to
remove it?
If ghc provides it and it clashes with the virtual package ..?


https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/haskell-implicit/
Comment by the submitter: This package was an accident and should be
deleted from the AUR. The replacement is implicitcad. 
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/implicitcad/ is maintained by him.

Re: [aur-general] [Removal Request] blender2.6-bin

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote:
 On 2013-06-19 16:55 +0200
 Edoardo Maria Elidoro wrote:

Hi everyone,
I think this package (
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/blender2.6-bin/ ) should be removed
from AUR because it won't install Blender 2.6.
Also, there's a package that works and provides Blender 2.6:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/blender2.62-bin/

Have a nice day,
Edoardo

 I think they should both be deleted. Do we need an old version in the AUR?
 Given that there are no votes, I would say no.

 Does anyone disagree?

According to the sources, it pulls blender 2.49b (and not 2.6), which
is available from A.R.M. anyway.

 Regards,
 Xyne

Re: [aur-general] AUR cleanup policy

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Karol Woźniak wozni...@gmail.com wrote:
 I am against removing dead upstream packages, unless upstream is
 completely gone, i.e. there is no way to obtain necessary files. I am
 maintaining at least two packages with upstream long dead, but (after my
 patches, of course) they're still working and are used by some people.

How can I get the sources? If you provide a mirror, I think it's OK.
When talking about ded upstream, I'm not talking about upstream
website being 404, I'm talking about the sources for the package being
gone.

BTW, please don't top-post.

[aur-general] Multiple requests

[Karol Blazewicz]

1. Question:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bacula/ is basically the same as
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bacula-mysql/ . They both are
orphans, but the latter is more up to date. Is it OK to merge bacula
with bacula-mysql or let them both be?


2. Deletion:
According to the comment, the package is obsolete. The source is gone too.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/biblatex-apa/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/claws-tnef-plugin/

According to the comment, the package is obsolete.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/breqn/

According to the comment, it's OK to remove it.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bogo/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/clingcon/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/covim-git/

The source is gone.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bin32-openjdk6/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bin32-pando/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bin32-prism/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bluemote-k700i/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/conky-google-reader/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/concordance/


3. Songbird stuff: http://blog.songbirdnest.com/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bin32-songbird-nightly/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/songbird-bin/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/songbird-nightly-bin/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/songbird-bin64/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/songbird-svn/

The last package has a comment that says the Nightingale project
maintains a mirror for songbird:
http://sourceforge.net/p/ngale/songbird-mirror/ci/master/tree/
Is it OK to remove songbird packages?


4. Merge:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bukkit/ with
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/craftbukkit/
bukkit's description says You are probably looking for the
'craftbukkit' package. The PKGBUILD doesn't list a proper source ...

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/claws-mail-extra-plugins-cvs/ with
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/claws-mail-git/
Same maintainer, see comment for claws-mail-extra-plugins-cvs:
Claws-mail moved to git, so please do not use this package but
install claws-mail-git:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cloud9-git/ with
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cloud9

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cockatrice/ with
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cockatrice-git/
Have a look at the comment on cockatrice about CD from Hasbro
http://www.cockatrice.de/

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/compcache/ with
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zramswap/
http://code.google.com/p/compcache/: compcache-0.6.2 is marked
deprecated (so nothing available for download now). Please use the
version available in the mainline (drivers/staging/zram).

(No idea if it makes sense, see comments)
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cross-arm-elf-binutils-sysroot/ ,
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cross-arm-elf-base/ and
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cross-arm-elf-newlib/ with
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/arm-elf-newlib/

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cross-arm-elf-gcc/ with
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/arm-elf-gcc/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cross-arm-elf-gdb/ with
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/arm-elf-gdb/

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/curator/ with
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/curator-hg/
See drcouzelis' comment on curator.


Hey, TUs, do you prefer shorter, bite-sized mails or longer ones?
Separate mails for merging, deleting and other stuff?
If a package has e.g. one vote and no important comments, do I still
have to suggest merging with a suitable package or is it OK to just
delete it? I have no idea which is faster and which is the proper way.

Re: [aur-general] AUR cleanup policy

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Karol Woźniak wozni...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 19 June 2013 23:49, Doug Newgard scimmi...@outlook.com wrote:
 

 I don't think anyone's suggesting just removing them en mass, but removing 
 them if upstream is gone, they don't build, and haven't been updated in a 
 long time. In that situation, what would the reason be to keep them?


 For example there might be some patches already applied which could
 help a possible future maintainer to bring the package back to life.
 And even if not, someone might find an application he needs through
 our search and then adopt it. I sometimes do it myself, instead of
 googling around for something, I go straight to yaourt -Ss with some
 keywords :).

The search returns a dozen unmaintained packages and you have to look
through them, check the PKGBUILDs for any bits that are still
relevant, find where upstream has gone etc. Sometimes the first
package will be what you need, other times none of them will fit.
I don't want to remove valuable info, but I prefer to have a
reasonable signal-to-noise ratio.


 --
 Pozdrawiam,
 Karol Woźniak
 aka Kenji Takahashi
  @  kenji.sx
 Don't shoot the messenger.

[aur-general] Multiple requests

[Karol Blazewicz]

Removal
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/prism/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/prism-svn/


Google Reader stuff - as Google Reader will be gone shortly, will it
make these packages obsolete?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vim-googlereader/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/conkygooglereader-bzr/


Spam by JOYOAUTO
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2013-May/023640.html
There are at least a few spam comments left
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/arbtt/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cnijfilter-mp610/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/Catalyst-hook/

Can you search and remove them or do you need the urls like the ones above?

[aur-general] Deletion request

[Karol Blazewicz]

Previous maintainer of kate-syntax-markdown-git orphaned it 3 weeks
ago because the syntax patch it provided has been included upstream.

I thinks it's OK to remove it
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kate-syntax-markdown-git/

[aur-general] AUR cleanup policy

[Karol Blazewicz]

What's the policy wrt to packages that have been submitted years ago
and are neither developed upstream nor maintained in the AUR since
then? Just let them be or get rid of them as they're of no use?
If there're old unmaintained packages foo and foo-git, is it OK to
request removing at least one of them? Which one?

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/a4/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/a4-bzr/

The PKGBUILD need updating but it still builds and runs so I can pick
it up, update and orphan it. I don't know which filetypes does it open
(.odp is not recognized) and the editor doesn't work, so you can't
create a new presentation from scratch.
It's man page is of no help.

Re: [aur-general] ttf-google-webfonts{,-distilled,-git,-hg} mess

[Karol Blazewicz]

The package should be called Google fonts, not webfonts, like
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-fonts-hg/

http://googlewebfonts.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-new-look-and-name-for-google-web-fonts.htmlsays
This week, Google Web Fonts got a simpler, cleaner look that makes
searching and accessing your fonts easier than ever. And in the spirit of
simplicity, today Google Web Fonts is now just “Google Fonts.” It’s still
the same great collection of free fonts you know and love, but with a new
name.

Re: [aur-general] Remove libsc?

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Karol Blazewicz
karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote:
 The project's name is libbsc and not libsc, libsc PKGBUILD hasn't been
 updated in a while, while libbsc PKGBUILD provides the latest version.
 Both were submitted by the same person and judging from the submission
 time I think libsc was just a typo.

 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libbsc/
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libsc/

Status?

Re: [aur-general] Remove libsc?

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Connor Behan connor.be...@gmail.com wrote:
 Aaah, sorry this went under the radar. Removed!

No problem and thanks :-)

Re: [aur-general] Motif is opensource now

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Sergej Pupykin m...@sergej.pp.ru wrote:

 Hello,

 as you may know motif released under GPL2.1 and uploaded into
 sourceforge. I just updated openmotif package to original motif
 sources. What do you think about dropping lesstif and using one motif
 version?

User init0 asked to post a +1 from him:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=151494

Re: [aur-general] [pacman][Feature Request] make pacman case-insensitive.

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Dave Reisner d...@falconindy.com wrote:
 On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 08:43:53PM +0800, Tianjiao Yin wrote:
 Hello, all:

 When we run pacman -S Firefox, we will get error: target not found:
 Firefox because there is only firefox, not Firefox, in repo. IMHO it
 could be better if pacman is case insensitive.

 Regards,
 Mizuchi

 Pardon? This is already the case:

Are you sure?

$ sudo pacman -S Firefox
error: target not found: Firefox
$ type -a pacman
pacman is /usr/bin/pacman

Re: [aur-general] ttf-kix is on blacklist, why?

[Karol Blazewicz]

ue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Marcel Korpel marcel.li...@gmail.com wrote:
 So, why is ttf-kix on the package blacklist and can it be removed from it?
There already is such package in the AUR:
//aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=ttf-kix

[aur-general] What happened to mnogosearch?

[Karol Blazewicz]

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1165219

Re: [aur-general] Please remove my AUR account

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Alexander Rødseth rods...@gmail.com wrote:
 The current PKGBUILD for xbmc-addon-polish-media consists mainly of
 lines like this:
 msg SPAM! SPAM! SPAM!

 Removing the package. Interested parties can submit a new package to AUR.

I'm not sure (the package has already been removed, along with the
comments), but haven't swiftgeek posted a link to a fixed PKGBUILD?


Do we have a rule that says it's best to communicate in English
everywhere (wiki talk pages, AUR comments etc.)? This could have
helped a bit.