Re: [aur-general] Moving noip from [community] to AUR

2014-08-03 Thread Ido Rosen
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Alexander Rødseth wrote: > Hi Ido, > > > 2014-08-02 17:41 GMT+02:00 Ido Rosen : >> The noip client is GPL licensed F/OSS software (it's right there in >> the COPYING file in the tarball). Just because it connects to a >> commercial service does not mean it deserves

Re: [aur-general] Package ownership change request for yaourt-git

2014-08-03 Thread Jeremy Audet
> Anyone using VCS packages from the AUR, should be following the package upstream and rebuilding it as they go. Aha. This gets to the heart of things. I've been assuming that many VCS package users will install a VCS package and henceforth rely upon the package maintainer to update the VCS packag

Re: [aur-general] Package ownership change request for yaourt-git

2014-08-03 Thread Doug Newgard
On 2014-08-03 22:06, Jeremy Audet wrote: the only times an AUR VCS package is out-of-date is when it's broken in some way Assuming that AUR helpers are a common tool for interacting with the AUR, VCS packages in the AUR are out-of-date when their version number is... out-of-date. Finally, th

Re: [aur-general] Package ownership change request for yaourt-git

2014-08-03 Thread Johannes Löthberg
On 03/08, Jeremy Audet wrote: The official way of using the PKGBUILDs is manually with makepkg. I suspect that the usual use case for interacting with the AUR is with an AUR helper. I think this qualifies it as subject matter that a capable package maintainer should have some familiarity with,

Re: [aur-general] Package ownership change request for yaourt-git

2014-08-03 Thread Daniel Wallace
Anyone using VCS packages from the AUR, should be following the package upstream and rebuilding it as they go. It is not meant for someone that is just casually using the package. The package version should be updated each time you build the package, specified in the pkgver() function. https://w

Re: [aur-general] Package ownership change request for yaourt-git

2014-08-03 Thread Jeremy Audet
> Really, most ofthis is mostly irrelevant TBH. This is a common point of confusion. Because of this, I think it is worth addressing and therefore relevant. > The official way of using the PKGBUILDs is manually with makepkg. I suspect that the usual use case for interacting with the AUR is with

Re: [aur-general] Package ownership change request for yaourt-git

2014-08-03 Thread Johannes Löthberg
On 03/08, Jeremy Audet wrote: How can VCS packages be out of date at all? Client machines will only update a VCS package if: Really, most ofthis is mostly irrelevant TBH. The AUR is a repository of PKGBUILDs. The official way of using the PKGBUILDs is manually with makepkg. Whether an AUR

Re: [aur-general] Package ownership change request for yaourt-git

2014-08-03 Thread Jeremy Audet
> How can VCS packages be out of date at all? Client machines will only update a VCS package if: 1. The package maintainer updates a VCS package and gives it a newer version number than what is installed on a user's machine, and a user updates their packages. 2. The user explicitly requests that

Re: [aur-general] A bit strange - unusual packages

2014-08-03 Thread Rob Til Freedmen
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: > CCed to the maintainer of these packages. > > lib32- prefix is used for the 32bit packages that are meant to be used > with 64bit Arch, ie. with arch=('x86_64'). However, all your > lib32-distrho-* packages are arch=('i686'). You should pro

Re: [aur-general] Moving noip from [community] to AUR

2014-08-03 Thread Alexander Rødseth
Hi Ido, 2014-08-02 17:41 GMT+02:00 Ido Rosen : > The noip client is GPL licensed F/OSS software (it's right there in > the COPYING file in the tarball). Just because it connects to a > commercial service does not mean it deserves to be removed from the > official package repository. Take, for e

Re: [aur-general] Package ownership change request for yaourt-git

2014-08-03 Thread Andrew Crerar
Stefan and Johannes, Thank you for replying to the request, I've noted that requests should now be done through the web interface and will be updating the wiki shortly to reflect that. I was under the impression that the PKGBUILD was incorrect (pointing to the wrong repo, per the latest comment) b

Re: [aur-general] Package ownership change request for yaourt-git

2014-08-03 Thread Johannes Löthberg
On 02/08, Andrew Crerar wrote: Hi all, I (andrewSC) would like to request ownership of yaourt-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yaourt-git/) as it's been flagged out-of-date for some time now. Disregarding the fact that there seems to be nothing actually out of date with it, orphanship

Re: [aur-general] Package ownership change request for yaourt-git

2014-08-03 Thread Stefan Husmann
Am 03.08.2014 um 04:56 schrieb Andrew Crerar: Hi all, I (andrewSC) would like to request ownership of yaourt-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yaourt-git/) as it's been flagged out-of-date for some time now. Regards, Andrew What is wrong with the package? The AUR maintainer is the ups

[aur-general] Signoff report for [community-testing]

2014-08-03 Thread Arch Website Notification
=== Signoff report for [community-testing] === https://www.archlinux.org/packages/signoffs/ There are currently: * 2 new packages in last 24 hours * 0 known bad packages * 0 packages not accepting signoffs * 0 fully signed off packages * 5 packages missing signoffs * 0 packages older than 14 days