August 2018 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-dev-public] FFmpeg: drop deprecated libavresample
by Maxime Gauduin 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

Hi guys, libavresample was initially merged into ffmpeg to be a drop-in replacement for libav, but was never maintained by ffmpeg itself in favor of their own libswresample. According to upstream, libswresample can do everything libavresample can do and more [1], plus libavresample has been entirely deprecated at the end of last year [2]. Thus I would like to get rid of it in our package. Here are the packages still linking to it in our repositories, trying to build without libavresample gave mixed results: ffms2 -> OK libextractor -> NOK (looks unrelated) [3] libmgba -> NOK (looks unrelated) [4] libopenshot -> NOK [5] openscenegraph -> OK performous -> NOK [6] qtav -> OK If there are no objection, I'll start a new TODO so we can work on fixing the ones that don't build. [1] https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2012-April/123746.html [2] https://patchwork.ffmpeg.org/patch/6959/ [3] https://buildbot.alucryd.xyz/#/builders/109/builds/2/steps/8/logs/stdio [4] https://buildbot.alucryd.xyz/#/builders/108/builds/1/steps/8/logs/stdio [5] https://buildbot.alucryd.xyz/#/builders/105/builds/1/steps/9/logs/stdio [6] https://buildbot.alucryd.xyz/#/builders/104/builds/1/steps/9/logs/stdio Cheers, -- Maxime

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[arch-dev-public] Remove CAcert root certs
by Jan Alexander Steffens 21 Aug '18

21 Aug '18

Hi list, I completely agree with https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/59690 and would like to remove the ca-certificates-cacert package from our repos and our default providers. The ca-certificates package will lose the depends and gain a replaces and conflicts on -cacert. Any objections? Greetings, Jan

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[arch-dev-public] Raise default inotify limits
by Jan Alexander Steffens 21 Aug '18

21 Aug '18

Hi list, I would like to add a sysctl.d/10-arch.conf file to filesystem with the following content: # Raise inotify resource limits fs.inotify.max_user_instances = 1024 fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288 To fix https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/47830 and other issues; e.g. "flow", used for JS development, runs a cache daemon that silently malfunctions and uses old source file content when it cannot create any more watches. Any objections? Greetings, Jan

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[arch-dev-public] Dropping pyqt4/pyside1
by Antonio Rojas 17 Aug '18

17 Aug '18

Hi all, The latest pyqt4 release makes packaging more complex due to upstream's decision of requiring a private namespaced sip (for mysterious reasons). It is also the last release, so pyqt4 is now officially EOL. I would like to drop it from our repos. It's mostly used as an optional dependency of python packages that also support a pyqt5 backend, so it shouldn't cause much trouble. Other packages that require it (gnuradio, hgview) have alternative UIs (wxwidgets and ncurses respectively). And in any case, pyqt4 is not a build-time dependency, so the pyqt4 UI would still work by installing pyqt4 from AUR. Besides these, the only package that still needs it is ninja-ide. It is ported to PyQt5 in git, so it could be updated to a snapshot. I'd also like to drop pyside1, for the same reasons (unused/EOL). This would reduce the number of reverse qt4 dependencies, and bring us closer to dropping it. Any comments or objections?

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[arch-dev-public] Github Domain Verification
by Giancarlo Razzolini 10 Aug '18

10 Aug '18

Hi All, I have added verification for our organization's domain on github [0]. This is an extra security feature that shows a "verified" badge [1] on our organization's profile. This is to help avoid impersonations to both our users and to our developers. Make sure you're always seeing the verified badge when using it. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini [0] https://help.github.com/articles/verifying-your-organization-s-domain/ [1] https://paste.xinu.at/CgBNjk/

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