Re: [arch-dev-public] Unannounced mass edit of community PKGBUILDs

2012-10-25 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On 25/10/12 10:07, Evangelos Foutras wrote: - Double quotes were changed to single quotes even though /usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD.proto uses single quotes Correction: I meant to say that /usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD.proto uses *double* quotes for the pkgdesc field.

[arch-dev-public] Build failures in [core]

2012-10-25 Thread Allan McRae
Here is the current list of what packages in [core] fail to build from SVN trunk: licenses - source checksum issues libusb-compat: core.c:91:2: warning: 'enum usbi_log_level' declared inside parameter list [enabled by default] core.c:91:2: warning: its scope is only this definition or

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

2012-10-25 Thread Arch Website Notification
=== Signoff report for [testing] === https://www.archlinux.org/packages/signoffs/ There are currently: * 60 new packages in last 24 hours * 0 known bad packages * 0 packages not accepting signoffs * 17 fully signed off packages * 359 packages missing signoffs * 0 packages older than 14 days

Re: [arch-dev-public] Build failures in [core]

2012-10-25 Thread Eric Bélanger
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: Here is the current list of what packages in [core] fail to build from SVN trunk: licenses - source checksum issues libusb-compat: core.c:91:2: warning: 'enum usbi_log_level' declared inside parameter list [enabled by

Re: [arch-dev-public] Unannounced mass edit of community PKGBUILDs

2012-10-25 Thread Thorsten Töpper
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:07:09 +0300 Evangelos Foutras evange...@foutrelis.com wrote: I noticed that all of my community packages were modified by r78782 [1] (Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages). This was not discussed beforehand as it should. I would have been against it and we probably

Re: [arch-dev-public] Unannounced mass edit of community PKGBUILDs

2012-10-25 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-10-25 10:07:09 +0300] Evangelos Foutras: I noticed that all of my community packages were modified by r78782 [1] (Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages). Being a fierce proponent of single quotes myself, your message gave me the impression that those changes were sane and that you were

Re: [arch-dev-public] Unannounced mass edit of community PKGBUILDs

2012-10-25 Thread Sébastien Luttringer
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Gaetan Bisson bis...@archlinux.org wrote: [2012-10-25 10:07:09 +0300] Evangelos Foutras: I noticed that all of my community packages were modified by r78782 [1] (Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages). Being a fierce proponent of single quotes myself, your

Re: [arch-dev-public] Unannounced mass edit of community PKGBUILDs

2012-10-25 Thread Alexander Rødseth
Hello, First of all, sorry for not communicating this before making the changes. I honestly thought this would be considered to be such a minor change and such a minor issue (even though it affects many packages), that it would not be worth communicating first. If I had been aware of previous

Re: [arch-dev-public] Unannounced mass edit of community PKGBUILDs

2012-10-25 Thread Stéphane Gaudreault
Le 2012-10-25 07:39, Alexander Rødseth a écrit : All that aside, would it be okay for you all if I removed An ..., A ... and Application is ... from the start of all package descriptions (and making the first letter an uppercase letter)? This adds no information to the description and (IMO)

Re: [arch-dev-public] Unannounced mass edit of community PKGBUILDs

2012-10-25 Thread Dan McGee
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Alexander Rødseth rods...@gmail.com wrote: When it comes to double vs single quoting, can we change PKGBUILD.proto to use single quotes? The character '$' only occurs in the package description in 3 of the community packages, and those 3 can still use double

Re: [arch-dev-public] Unannounced mass edit of community PKGBUILDs

2012-10-25 Thread Alexander Rødseth
Hi Dan, 2012/10/25 Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com: I think you also missed this case, given that the single quote ' is used quite regularly in the English language: You're jumping to conclusions here. If you check the changes I made, you will see that single quotes within double quotes were

Re: [arch-dev-public] Unannounced mass edit of community PKGBUILDs

2012-10-25 Thread Xyne
Alexander Rødseth wrote: All that aside, would it be okay for you all if I removed An ..., A ... and Application is ... from the start of all package descriptions (and making the first letter an uppercase letter)? This adds no information to the description and (IMO) looks ugly. Just this change,

Re: [arch-dev-public] Unannounced mass edit of community PKGBUILDs

2012-10-25 Thread Alexander Rødseth
Hello Xyne, 2012/10/25 Xyne x...@archlinux.ca: The lack of communication really is the key issue here. It is disrespectful to other packagers to improve their packages this way. I disagree with you here, for two reasons. Firstly, I view the package ownership as a collective ownership, where

Re: [arch-dev-public] Unannounced mass edit of community PKGBUILDs

2012-10-25 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 26 October 2012 01:23, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote: Alexander Rødseth wrote: All that aside, would it be okay for you all if I removed An ..., A ... and Application is ... from the start of all package descriptions (and making the first letter an uppercase letter)? This adds no information

Re: [arch-dev-public] Unannounced mass edit of community PKGBUILDs

2012-10-25 Thread Alexander Rødseth
I fully agree with Rashif on this. Thank you. - Alexander

Re: [arch-dev-public] Unannounced mass edit of community PKGBUILDs

2012-10-25 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-10-25 20:58:48 +0200] Alexander Rødseth: Of course, if people cling to their packages, believe every man is an island and put much pride in their package descriptions, I can understand why it can be perceived as disrespectful Adding insult to injury - way to go my friend! Guess where

Re: [arch-dev-public] Unannounced mass edit of community PKGBUILDs

2012-10-25 Thread Alexander Rødseth
Hi, Den 25. okt. 2012 23:41 skrev Gaetan Bisson bis...@archlinux.org følgende: Adding insult to injury - way to go my friend! Way to ignore all my points. Guess where the only pride I can see comes from... Pride is a large topic. I think it's good to be proud of the work you do and whatever