[arch-dev-public] Signoff report for [testing]

2013-12-06 Thread Arch Website Notification
=== Signoff report for [testing] === https://www.archlinux.org/packages/signoffs/ There are currently: * 12 new packages in last 24 hours * 0 known bad packages * 0 packages not accepting signoffs * 5 fully signed off packages * 48 packages missing signoffs * 0 packages older than 14 days (Note:

[arch-dev-public] Integrity Check i686: core, extra, community 06-12-2013

2013-12-06 Thread repomaint
= Integrity Check i686 of core,extra,community = Performing integrity checks... == parsing pkgbuilds == parsing db files == checking mismatches == checking archs == checking dependencies == checking

[arch-dev-public] Integrity Check x86_64: core, extra, community, multilib 06-12-2013

2013-12-06 Thread repomaint
Warning : the repository multilib does not exist in /srv/abs/rsync/any === = Integrity Check x86_64 of core,extra,community,multilib = === Performing integrity checks... == parsing

Re: [arch-dev-public] Dropping sysvinit-tools

2013-12-06 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-10-26 12:29:42 -0400] Dave Reisner: The next release of procps-ng will contain pidof and clash with sysvinit-tools. It's now in [testing]. I'm open to arguments against this, but I suggest we drop sysvinit-tools after pidof is part of a release from procps-ng. Let's do that once

[arch-dev-public] Fwd: The Final Cleanup

2013-12-06 Thread Alexander Rødseth
Hi, This is the current situation: * Several packages in [community] (and maybe one package in [extra]) includes .desktop files * There is a 2 years, 8 months and 14 days old bug report, opened by Thomas Dziedzic, that opens with a few well chosen words, and is followed by a lengthy discussion:

Re: [arch-dev-public] Fwd: The Final Cleanup

2013-12-06 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-12-06 18:15:36 +0100] Alexander Rødseth: I think .desktop files should ideally be provided by upstream. But for cases where they are not currently being provided, we should provide them. Sure. That's exactly like service files, or rc.d files before that. Nothing new here. Regardless of

Re: [arch-dev-public] Fwd: The Final Cleanup

2013-12-06 Thread Florian Pritz
On 06.12.2013 18:56, Gaetan Bisson wrote: P.S. Why did you separately send this to arch-general? Now the discussion will be split over two mailing lists... I mentioned on IRC that not everyone reads arch-general when I saw the mail there and encouraged him to post to arch-dev-public, I didn't

Re: [arch-dev-public] [arch-general] The Final Cleanup

2013-12-06 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 7 December 2013 01:15, Alexander Rødseth rods...@gmail.com wrote: If there are no protests, I will, after some time (say, three days I don't think that's enough time to get the representative opinion. Anyway, on topic, I know I have at least a couple of packages where I provide the desktop

Re: [arch-dev-public] Fwd: The Final Cleanup

2013-12-06 Thread Alexander Rødseth
Hi, 2013/12/6 Gaetan Bisson bis...@archlinux.org: Regardless of if it is correct that upstream should provide the .desktop files or not, the current plan is not working. TUs and devs are slow at reporting this as bugs and upstream are slow at responding. At the current rate, this will take

Re: [arch-dev-public] [arch-general] The Final Cleanup

2013-12-06 Thread Alexander Rødseth
Hi, 2013/12/6 Rashif Ray Rahman sc...@archlinux.org: On 7 December 2013 01:15, Alexander Rødseth rods...@gmail.com wrote: If there are no protests, I will, after some time (say, three days I don't think that's enough time to get the representative opinion. You cut away the important part of

Re: [arch-dev-public] Fwd: The Final Cleanup

2013-12-06 Thread Gaetan Bisson
Well, You missed most of my points. That's okay. Let's focus on: [2013-12-06 21:08:30 +0100] Alexander Rødseth: 2013/12/6 Gaetan Bisson bis...@archlinux.org: Packages for whom nobody has yet bothered to write a desktop file just have no need for one... I disagree with this too. I think

Re: [arch-dev-public] [arch-general] The Final Cleanup

2013-12-06 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-12-06 21:33:26 +0100] Alexander Rødseth: I disagree, I think all .desktop files should be removed from our repositories, with the only exception being if a package maintainer wishes to keep his packages like they are right now. It's quite patronizing for you to assume that the silent