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#1 2006-08-07 18:30:57

dojo: Member; Registered: 2005-11-02; Posts: 97

Add description to AUR New Package Notification Mail?

Hi,

in my opinion it would be very nice feature to have the package description in the AUR New Package Notification Mail. What do you think?

Greets

dojo

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#2 2006-08-07 19:11:26

Cerebral: Forum Fellow; From: Waterloo, ON, CA; Registered: 2005-04-08; Posts: 3,108; Website

Re: Add description to AUR New Package Notification Mail?

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/3214

I think it's already been brought up.

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#3 2008-05-01 16:17:03

marxav: Member; From: Gatineau, PQ, Canada; Registered: 2006-09-24; Posts: 386

Re: Add description to AUR New Package Notification Mail?

Hum, Why is there nothing done about it ? This is today's notifications email I got :

I think a description would not hurt. It would avoid me to visit on every single package url that could be of interest to me.

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#4 2008-05-01 18:20:29

tomk: Forum Fellow; From: Ireland; Registered: 2004-07-21; Posts: 9,839

Re: Add description to AUR New Package Notification Mail?

marxav wrote:

Why is there nothing done about it ?

Because the people who actually do all the work on the AUR, in their free time, have not had the time and/or interest to do this, and/or they have noted the request but given it a lower priority than some of the many other fixes and enhancements they have implemented.

If this facility is important to you, please feel free to implement it yourself and submit a patch.

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#5 2008-05-01 18:50:31

marxav: Member; From: Gatineau, PQ, Canada; Registered: 2006-09-24; Posts: 386

Re: Add description to AUR New Package Notification Mail?

I see, would you be kind enough to tell me where/how to get started. I would be delighted to help.

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#6 2008-05-01 18:59:54

kingjorge: Member; Registered: 2008-03-05; Posts: 16

Re: Add description to AUR New Package Notification Mail?

Another solution would be to use the RSS feed instead.

http://aur.archlinux.org/rss2.php

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#7 2008-05-01 19:07:42

marxav: Member; From: Gatineau, PQ, Canada; Registered: 2006-09-24; Posts: 386

Re: Add description to AUR New Package Notification Mail?

kingjorge wrote:

Another solution would be to use the RSS feed instead.
http://aur.archlinux.org/rss2.php

I knew about RSS feed, but I don't always have access to a reader as I have more than one machine, away from home, etc...

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#8 2008-05-01 19:29:52

tomk: Forum Fellow; From: Ireland; Registered: 2004-07-21; Posts: 9,839

Re: Add description to AUR New Package Notification Mail?

AUR git repo here: http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=aur.git;a=summary

AUR development mailing list here: http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aur-dev

Any and all help is appreciated, thanks.

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#9 2008-05-01 19:49:02

marxav: Member; From: Gatineau, PQ, Canada; Registered: 2006-09-24; Posts: 386

Re: Add description to AUR New Package Notification Mail?

Hey not bad, I found the newpackage-notify script. Just a matter of learning python now... and figure out how I can test the script.
Looking forward to help.

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