[aur-general] Advise on updating/uploading binary package

I've been using cin-git for a while (which draws on cinelerra-gg project). For those who are unfamiliar, there's the 'original' (old and out-of-date) cinelerra, and a newer cinelerra-heroine, and the most popular one is cinelerra-gg. The 'cin-bin' PKGBUILD on AUR points to the original website,

[aur-general] Spammy post on cntlm's AUR page

Latest post, the only one by this account - https://aur.archlinux.org/account/RonaldSteele - post unrelated to other comments on cntlm and links to dodgy blog. Account just registered today. Surprised there's only one post so far.

Re: [aur-general] On TU application, TU participation and community/ package quality

Third-party non-involved user chiming in, but I do not think any sort of tenure/seniority requirement as mentioned in the final point below would be a good idea. Something based on recent activity would be better. On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 1:38 AM Bruno Pagani via aur-general <

Re: [aur-general] Could someone please bring back the skypeforlinux-beta-bin package?

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 10:51 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 11/13/2017 09:35 AM, Michael Kogan wrote: > > @1) Sorry, I am using the GMail web interface and forgot that it is > quoting > > previous mails automatically. > > I feel so sorry for you! :D I hope you have the

Re: [aur-general] Suggestion to add a pinned comment to PKGBUILDs of high risk vulnerable software

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 13:25:09 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng via aur-general wrote: > >This is the primary question here. If it's the maintainer then... what > >is this email thread even for? > > It's ab

Re: [aur-general] Suggestion to add a pinned comment to PKGBUILDs of high risk vulnerable software

On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jul 2017 03:49:10 -0400, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote: > > >Even if it weren't entirely up to the maintainer to pin comments, who > >are you proposing should be responsible for determining what

Re: [aur-general] aurweb 4.0.0 released

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Giancarlo Razzolini grazzol...@gmail.com wrote: snip orphan and unmaintained packages anyway. I guess that if all of the Arch users didn't needed them in more than the two months that it took to migrate AUR3 to AUR4, it is a safe bet to say that there won't be

Re: [aur-general] We've got a spam issue in our AUR

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 3:43 AM, Johannes Löthberg johan...@kyriasis.com wrote: Not all spam is automated , so just requiring a CAPTCHA wouldn't be very useful. I think a slightly better approach would be to add the comment to a queue if it fails the spam filter, and require a TU to approve it.

[aur-general] Should I request deletion for packages in this transition period?

I'm only now looking at the AUR4 migration guidelines, and I only have a few packages so I've been uploading to AUR4 manually. However, in the process I've found old packages which I no longer use or wish to maintain. Some of which should may be deletion candidates. Of course, those all belong

Re: [aur-general] Trusted User application: Levente Polyak

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:05 AM, Levente Polyak anthr...@archlinux.org wrote: On top of this I also had a look at the currently orphaned packages in [community] and I would like to adopt the following packages: ansible, awesome, cclive, codeblocks, fail2ban, fish, ncmpcpp, id3v2. Adopting

Re: [aur-general] Discussion about AUR packages signing

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Dave Reisner d...@falconindy.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 09:57:24PM +0200, Fabien Dubosson wrote: Hi, I want to start a discussion about AUR packages signing. If this debate already happened, it means that I'm not really good with Google or unfortunate

Re: [aur-general] Delete request: python34

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Felix Yan felixonm...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, March 20, 2014 16:37:42 Jerome Leclanche wrote: It is with great joy that I'm requesting the deletion of this package, as it's now available as community/python. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python34/

Re: [aur-general] Merging request.

On 24 Aug 2013 07:23, William Gathoye will...@gathoye.be wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, Could elementary-icons-bzr be merged into elementary-icon-theme-bzr to be in sync with elementary-icon-theme from [community] ? Merged, thx. Let me join the

Re: [aur-general] google-earth - Integrity checks (md5) fail

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Alexander Rødseth rods...@gmail.com wrote: Rarely, if ever, do people simply dump command output on aur-general and expect anything to come of it. You're the minority. This is a logical fallacy and an appeal to popularity, this doesn't make him wrong. As a

[aur-general] Remove request - magic-background

Personal project of the author that he's lost the sources to (confirmed via email conversation with him). Please delete https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/magic-background/

[aur-general] Please delete evolution-plugins-experimental

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/evolution-plugins-experimental/ External Editior plugin is now enabled in evolution in the repos I'm the submitter and maintainer.

Re: [aur-general] Please delete evolution-plugins-experimental

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Evangelos Foutras evange...@foutrelis.com wrote: On 26 June 2013 02:41, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/evolution-plugins-experimental/ External Editior plugin is now enabled in evolution in the repos I'm

Re: [aur-general] Unused account on BBS and AUR web interface

On May 4, 2013 11:34 PM, William Gathoye will...@gathoye.be wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, I would like to contribute to the AUR, but it appears the account 'wget' has already been registrered, but no one seems to currently use it. It looks like someone has

Re: [aur-general] iniparser moved to community?

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Barton bar...@bcdesignswell.com wrote: It seems that iniparser-git [1] has become iniparser [community] [2], but I could be wrong. The second has a more recent date on it. -barton [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/iniparser-git/ [2]

Re: [aur-general] Delete request: 2299thegame

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Limao Luo luoli...@gmail.com wrote: I'm requesting deletion of my package 2299thegame [1] because the binary (from an older release) segfaults, there is no source I could find anywhere else, and even the original Realstudio source files cause a segfault when I

Re: [aur-general] TU Application

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote: Daniel Micay wrote: I'll even forgive you for being a closet iPhone user. :) In light of this revelation and by section 5, subsection 3, paragraph 2 of the TU bylaws, I hereby move for summary rejection of this application.

Re: [aur-general] NVIDIA drivers

On Jan 27, 2013 4:59 AM, Rob Til Freedmen rob.til.freed...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe I'm missing something ... but what could possible go wrong if we go with nvidia-utils instead of nvidia-utils=${pkgver} ? There's only one package named nvidia-utils build from the same source and always

Re: [aur-general] NVIDIA drivers

On Jan 26, 2013 6:10 AM, Rob Til Freedmen rob.til.freed...@gmail.com wrote: There is a dependency in nvidia/PKGBUILD which is totally wrong depends=( [...] nvidia-utils=${pkgver}) It leads to a circular dependency at ***build*** time and isn't really needed at run time for nvidia to work.

Re: [aur-general] NVIDIA drivers

On Jan 26, 2013 7:42 AM, Maxime Gauduin aluc...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 26, 2013 6:10 AM, Rob Til Freedmen rob.til.freed...@gmail.com wrote: There is a dependency in nvidia/PKGBUILD which is totally wrong

Re: [aur-general] NVIDIA drivers

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Maxime Gauduin aluc...@gmail.com wrote: That means downloading the x86_64 blob 2 times and the i686 one 1 time (I'm using a dkms version to not download them one more time for each of my kernels). Symlinks, man I fail to see the benefit beyond download

Re: [aur-general] NVIDIA drivers

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:19 AM, SpinFlo sl1pk...@gmail.com wrote: well, i ve upload this package for the reason explain by @alucryd, need download up to 4 times the nvidia blob drivers for install dkms-nvidia-beta (was mine and left to use this package), nvidia-utils-beta,

Re: [aur-general] NVIDIA drivers

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:32 AM, SpinFlo sl1pk...@gmail.com wrote: i ve use yaourt, yes, yaourt when make and install sucessful package delete all sources., then the symlink don't work Don't use yaourt then. On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:37 AM, SpinFlo sl1pk...@gmail.com wrote: sorry for the

[aur-general] Please delete glselect and pselect related packages

Hi, [1] and [2] are old outdated and non-working packages. [3] was someone's project but the github doesn't exist anymore. [1] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-173xx-utils-glselect/ [2] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-96xx-utils-glselect/ [3] -

Re: [aur-general] Please delete glselect and pselect related packages

On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Felix Yan felixonm...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/02/2012 07:16 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: Hi, [1] and [2] are old outdated and non-working packages. [3] was someone's project but the github doesn't exist anymore. [1] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-173xx

Re: [aur-general] Systemd service files

On 28 Nov 2012 05:13, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Stefan J. Betz i...@stefan-betz.net wrote: Never enable any service on install ;-) +1 Please keep arch passive. No automated configs, no automated breakage I'll have to search for. Thank you.

Re: [aur-general] craftbukkit getting frequently flagged

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Schala Zeal schalaalexiaz...@gmail.comwrote: On 11/02/2012 07:32 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: Just post a comment on the package? When this happens to my own packages I end up just leaving it marked out of date to save myself the emails, then tell people 'if its

Re: [aur-general] craftbukkit getting frequently flagged

Just post a comment on the package? When this happens to my own packages I end up just leaving it marked out of date to save myself the emails, then tell people 'if its really out of date, post a comment'. On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Schala Zeal schalaalexiaz...@gmail.comwrote: I would

Re: [aur-general] nvidia-ice needs to be updated

maintaining the nvidia-mainline package and I think it's better to keep them seperate as the nvidia-mainline package regularly needs patching to compile against the mainline kernel. On 25 October 2012 01:38, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: Shameless plug - why not just use nvidia-all

Re: [aur-general] nvidia-ice needs to be updated

Shameless plug - why not just use nvidia-all (or nvidia-beta-all if that floats your boat). nvidea-X packages, where X is some custom kernel, tend to have very low usage since usage of X kernel to begin with is pretty low, and nvidia-X usage must be a subset of that. On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:03

[aur-general] python-foo and python2-foo - should they conflict?

Was just trying out some python packages and I realized I can't have both the python and python2 variants installed at the same time for python-networkx. Of course, there's conflicts with the license files and perhaps documentation, but other than that I wonder whether there's a use-case for

Re: [aur-general] python-foo and python2-foo - should they conflict?

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Felix Yan felixonm...@gmail.com wrote: As mentioned in the Arch Packaging Standards [1]: /usr/share/doc/{pkg}Application documentation You should rename the documentation folder of your packages to /usr/share/doc/$pkgname, so there would be not anymore

Re: [aur-general] Delete request

On Oct 7, 2012 6:03 PM, Miguel A. M. zodiac...@yahoo.es wrote: Hi! These packages are discontinued, please delete: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49488 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50619 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50621

[aur-general] Multiple Kernel modules in the AUR [WAS: Disown request: nvidia-pae]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Dave Reisner d...@falconindy.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 09:38:30PM +0200, Robert Knauer wrote: Hello, please disown nvidia-pae[1], it's outdated for more than a month now and I mailed the maintainer on 1st of September and got no answer. Thanks,

Re: [aur-general] Orphan request

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera h...@osvaldobarrera.com.ar wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, opensmtpd [1] seems to be abandoned. I marked it out of date, and left the author some tips on how to improve the PKGBUILD over a month ago, and there

Re: [aur-general] [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] final leg of /lib removal

On Jul 4, 2012 3:38 AM, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: We all know that no one reads the news items, nor dev-public, so I think adding an extra warning should save us a few hundred mails/forumposts/IRC conversations. -t I see a good opportunity to start pruning the list of users of all

Re: [aur-general] testificate user massive spamming

2012/6/20 Callan Barrett cal...@zoocar.org: Hey guys posting +1 can you please quit it. The irony is making my head explode. +1 =p

[aur-general] Please delete dovecot-systemd

Please delete dovecot-systemd [1], I am the maintainer. Reason: systemd support already to dovecot in [extra] (bug-report closed here [2]) [1] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47523 [2] - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22601

Re: [aur-general] Idea for AUR improvement

On Jun 1, 2012 10:03 PM, Marcin apos;sirmacikapos; Karpezo mar...@karpezo.pl wrote: Hi there! Few days ago I’ve installed Archlinux on my laptop again. One of the first changes I’ve noticed in my *.archlinux.org accounts was loosing all packages I was maintaining in AUR. It’s completely

Re: [aur-general] Catalyst/Nvidia cleanup

Sorry for top posting, android phone has a word limit for editing in line... As author of the (hacky) nvidia-*-all package, I can safely say that they're not meant to replace individual nvidia-*. Unnecessary rebuilding when only one kernel is updated and just not being the most kiss solution for

Re: [aur-general] Vote results for speps' TU application

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:20 AM, speps sp...@gmx.com wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2012 21:26:40 +0200 Thorsten Töpper atsut...@freethoughts.de wrote: Hello, the vote for speps' application is over so it's time to publish the results: Yes:           20 No:             1 Abstain:        2

Re: [aur-general] TU application - speps

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Massimiliano Torromeo massimiliano.torro...@gmail.com wrote: I never had a problem revealing my real-life identity on the internet but I also don't think that it actually changes anything since, as everyone else already pointed out, I think GPG identities are

Re: [aur-general] Compiz* package cleanup

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera h...@osvaldobarrera.com.ar wrote: The following packages should be deleted (or merged in some cases). It's great that you're clearing thing up, good job =). You really should include package names in the email as well for posterity's sake

Re: [aur-general] Automated Package Removal

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: On 09/04/12 17:56, Daniel Campbell wrote: I would contribute if a. My dev machine had internet and b. If i thought my work had a chance of being considered. Given that I'm not a TU or a regular among the devs, my work

Re: [aur-general] Deletion Request

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Seblu se...@seblu.net wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 1:25 AM, BxS bxs...@gmail.com wrote: Dear TUs, please delete package [1], it as been replaced by package [2]. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57910 [2]

Re: [aur-general] Removal request: google-chrome-mini

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Taylor Lookabaugh jesus.christ.i.l...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried emailing him personally? Obviously, from the reply seen earlier in the thread.

Re: [aur-general] Removal request: google-chrome-mini

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Daniel Wallace daniel.wall...@gatech.edu wrote: this is the email I just got On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:55:16PM -0700, Tai-Lin Chu wrote:    i really dont think removing a pkgbuild just because they are    similar is a    good idea, given that we have tons of

Re: [aur-general] Removal request: google-chrome-mini

On Mar 16, 2012 8:49 PM, Det nimetonma...@gmail.com wrote: This is not even funny: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57611 - A clone of 'google-chrome-dev' - Otherwise the same but the build and dependencies somehow more 'minimal' - In practice completely useless

[aur-general] AUR helpers and AUR standards

Splitting off from the TU application thread that's becoming more of a discussion on the above:- My (user) perspective - when did being able/not to install packages from a helper (for example yaourt) become a benchmark for deciding how 'correct' a PKGBUILD is?

Re: [aur-general] AUR helpers and AUR standards

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am Fri, 2 Mar 2012 07:45:34 +0800 schrieb Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com: Splitting off from the TU application thread that's becoming more of a discussion on the above:- My (user) perspective - when did being able

Re: [aur-general] Disown Request cellwriter

On Feb 28, 2012 9:39 PM, Adonay Sanz Alsina ado...@kademar.org wrote: It's flagged out-of-date cause not compile. I can mantain it. Again, please don't do that, out-of-date doesn't mean has a bug

Re: [aur-general] removal request kde icon tasks

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Alexander Rødseth rods...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, If a dev/tu adds a package to one of the official repos, they are supposed to also remove the AUR packages for the same software, as part of the process. Though I guess in this case this won't be done until it

Re: [aur-general] [Removal Request] r8169

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Jason St. John jstj...@purdue.edu wrote: I am requesting that AUR package r8169 ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44317 ) be removed. The r8169 package seems to have been created because of a bug in the 2.6.36 kernel which has already been fixed,

Re: [aur-general] Deletion request

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote: rafael ff1 wrote: lib32-gail has a broken URL, is not updated for long time (since October 2008) and this software is implemented by Gnome's ATK since version 3.0. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17078 Please delete.

Re: [aur-general] GPG Key Signing

On Dec 1, 2011 9:38 PM, Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: On 01/12/11 14:27, Ángel Velásquez wrote: 2011/12/1 Xyne x...@archlinux.ca: Hi Allan, I'm in the process of getting my key signed (Pierre has signed, Thomas and Ionut should sign soon, not sure if Dan will sign due to not

[aur-general] Please remove emesene2

Hi, emesene2[1] is in [community] and should be deleted. 1 - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48535

[aur-general] Please delete pidgin-gtalk-shared-status

pidgin-gtalk-shared-status[1] should be deleted, as pidgin-gtalksharedstatus [2] is a better (my subjective opinion) name and pre-dates it, plus has more votes (and is actually up-to-date). I just disowned [2] myself since I don't use it anymore, but found [1] while searching for it, so I thought

Re: [aur-general] Please delete pidgin-gtalk-shared-status

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Evangelos Foutras evange...@foutrelis.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: pidgin-gtalk-shared-status[1] should be deleted, as pidgin-gtalksharedstatus [2] is a better (my subjective opinion) name and pre-dates

[aur-general] Please delete conky-lua-nv-old

conky-lua-nv-old [1] is an exact duplicate (deleting two commented lines) of conky-lua-nv [2]. The latter is out-of-date, but has more votes and predates (and was updated more recently) than the former. Please delete [1]. [1] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47051 [2] -

Re: [aur-general] VCS Packages

On Sep 10, 2011 9:09 AM, Stefan Husmann stefan-husm...@t-online.de wrote: Am 09.09.2011 14:45, schrieb Thomas Dziedzic: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 5:38 AM, gadget3000gadget3...@msn.com wrote: *Repo has moved:* audacious-hg (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25204) now uses git and

Re: [aur-general] Package merge request: kernel26/linux-ice and kernel26/linux-rt-ice

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Evangelos Foutras evange...@foutrelis.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, please remove kernel26-ice [1] and merge comments/votes with linux-ice [2]. Also, I would prefer that kernel26-rt-ice [3] be removed

[aur-general] Package merge request: kernel26/linux-ice and kernel26/linux-rt-ice

Hi, please remove kernel26-ice [1] and merge comments/votes with linux-ice [2]. Also, I would prefer that kernel26-rt-ice [3] be removed and comments/votes merged with linux-rt-ice [4]. The slight problem with that is that nvidia proprietary driver users will not be able to use linux-rt-ice,

Re: [aur-general] OK! changing a PKG's name and retaining votes/comments

On Aug 21, 2011 3:38 AM, Ray Rashif sc...@archlinux.org wrote: On 11 August 2011 22:25, Lukas Fleischer archli...@cryptocrack.de wrote: On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 07:09:44PM +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 05:35:00PM +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at

Re: [aur-general] Deletion request

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Alessio Sergi ase...@archlinux.us wrote: Hi TUs, please delete the following packages: ccsm++ [1] replaced by ccsm-git [2]; compiz-core++ [3] replaced by compiz-core-git [4]; compiz-plugins-extra++ [5] replaced by compiz-plugins-extra-git [6];

[aur-general] Please delete mplayer-vdpau-pulse and mplayer-vdpau-pulse-svn

Please delete mplayer-vdpau-pulse [1] and mplayer-vdpau-pulse-svn [2], mplayer from the repos already has pulse support. I believe it has vdpau support as well (mine does, here) but based on a quick browse at the deps couldn't confirm that. [1] - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40575 [2]

Re: [aur-general] removal of pidgin-gtalkinvisible

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Ray Rashif sc...@archlinux.org wrote: On 17 June 2011 20:56, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: snip Actually, after some consideration his naming is more appropriate, since that's

Re: [aur-general] removal of pidgin-gtalkinvisible

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Ray Rashif sc...@archlinux.org wrote: On 17 June 2011 10:34, Thomas Dziedzic gos...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: please delete pidgin-gtalkinvisible [1], I'm the maintainer and announced deprecation

Re: [aur-general] removal of pidgin-gtalkinvisible

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: please delete pidgin-gtalkinvisible [1], I'm the maintainer and announced deprecation in favor of pidgin-gtalk-shared-status [2] a month ago. cheers! mar77i [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30136 [2]

Re: [aur-general] GDeskCal

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:39 PM, pauline martin 321enil...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if this project has been discontinued or not, but it is flagged as out of date and I have spent a good amount of time trying to find

Re: [aur-general] Deletion request

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Thomas Dziedzic gos...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:40 AM, roland karim roland...@yahoo.de wrote: I would suggest to delete the crossover-games-unsupported package, because there is no crossover beta package at the moment. Roland target

[aur-general] Please delete kdelibs-nohal

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39002 kdelibs from [extra] no longer depends on hal, so this package is outdated, orphaned, and no longer needed.

[aur-general] Please delete cairo-tee and cairo-xcb-tee

cairo in [extra] already has tee support. cairo-tee[1] and cairo-xcb-tee[2] can be deleted. Maintainer for [2] has said as much, and [1] has no maintainer since the previous maintainer disowned it once [extra] got cairo with --enable-tee. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45693 is

Re: [aur-general] Orphan Request

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Mark Foxwell fastfre...@archlinux.org.uk wrote: Hi, Please can you orphan offlineimap-git: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24202 I suggested changes to the PKGBUILD (see comments) and contacted the maintainer directly by email but no reply in two

Re: [aur-general] Effective acne skin care

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 15:39 +0300, Bergen .. wrote: spammy crap Oh this is very usefull , is there some 3rd party repo providing this package? -- Jelle van der Waa Oh, are we feeding trolls now? =)

[aur-general] Web-client for emails: [WAS:Reflector]

Re-subject - this is going OT. On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Peter Lewis ple...@aur.archlinux.org wrote: On Mon, 04 Apr 2011, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: I'll correct myself then, gmail+pentadactyl does not like the combination of mailing lists I'm on. Some of them are badly configured (thankfully

Re: [aur-general] Reflector

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote: Oon-Ee Ng wrote: Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I've moved the new Reflector to [community]. Given that it is a direct replacement for the old one, I didn't see any reason to pass through the AUR voting stage

Re: [aur-general] Reflector

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote: Oon-Ee Ng wrote: Indirectly comparing your old project to excrement? Indirectly comparing it to a dead body. But hey, if you bury excrement in your back yard, who am I to judge you? At least it's not as bad as what Kaiting

Re: [aur-general] Reflector

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Wieland Hoffmann themi...@googlemail.com wrote: Oon-Ee Ng wrote: On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote: p.s. Please stop CC'ing me replies. It just sends duplicate messages to other folders. Sorry about that, gmail doesn't like MLs

Re: [aur-general] Reflector

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote: Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I've moved the new Reflector to [community]. Given that it is a direct replacement for the old one, I didn't see any reason to pass through the AUR voting stage. Oh, and I buried the old

Re: [aur-general] Should nvidia(-beta)-all replace all the other nvidia-* packages in the AUR?

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Rémy Oudompheng remyoudomph...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/3/31 Det nimetonma...@gmail.com: Not to keep bugging your mailboxes but I suppose the only real reasons for keeping all those nvidia-specific-kernel packages in the AUR boils down to these: 1) The user wants

Re: [aur-general] Should nvidia(-beta)-all replace all the other nvidia-* packages in the AUR?

Thanks for your response Rémy, On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Rémy Oudompheng remyoudomph...@gmail.com wrote: My definition was not about interactivity but dynamic nature. nvidia-beta-all is dynamic in the sense that it *computes* local variables that influence the resulting package. A

[aur-general] When should pkgrel be updated?

I've seen (in the past) various packages on the AUR which jumped by 3 or 4 pkgrels in a very short period of time. Sometimes it happens like this:- 1. Maintainer changes something and breaks the package with pkgrel=2 2. Bug reported on comments. Maintainer reverts change and makes pkgrel=3 It

Re: [aur-general] Should nvidia(-beta)-all replace all the other nvidia-* packages in the AUR?

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Det nimetonma...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/26/11, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: I can assure you that nvidia-beta-all (and nvidia-all which Det maintains) builds the modules for all installed kernels. I do? I didn't even know that. The Maintainer: None

Re: [aur-general] Please remove firefox-bin

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Det nimetonma...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/27/11, Ionuț Bîru ib...@archlinux.org wrote: i do prefer to have them in aur, but the maintainer should follow firefox-bin as stable, firebox-beta-bin as beta. now there isn't any beta version available and it should be

Re: [aur-general] Adopting the paccheck package

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Ionuț Bîru ib...@archlinux.org wrote: On 03/27/2011 05:13 PM, Bernard Baeyens wrote: IgnorantGuru doesn't intend to continue maintaining the paccheck package, which is now broken after the pacman 3.5.1 upgrade. I wrote an updated version which can be used

Re: [aur-general] Should nvidia(-beta)-all replace all the other nvidia-* packages in the AUR?

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Det nimetonma...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/19/11, Ike Devolder ike.devol...@gmail.com wrote: For me its all the same, you can remove the nvidia-bede package from aur i'll keep it in my own source tree because the nvidia-all package assumes the kernel version as