April 2021 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-dev-public] Spring cleanup '21
by Antonio Rojas 11 May '21

11 May '21

It's been over a year since our last package cleanup and orphans keep piling up. Please head to https://archlinux.org/devel/reports/unneeded-orphans/ and adopt packages you'd like to keep in the repos. If you are not a dev and would like to adopt some orphan in [extra], reply here or ping me on IRC and I'll move it. I'll start dropping the remaining packages to AUR in about 10 days.

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[arch-dev-public] archlinux.org update
by Jelle van der Waa 01 May '21

01 May '21

Hi All, Today I've updated archlinux.org with some interesting changes for packagers. Two new reports have been added: * A new report which includes all required orphan packages in our repositories. [1] * A new report which which includes all orphan non reproducible packages [2] The non reproducible packages dashboard now includes links to the build log and diffoscope output of the packages. Which should help fixing those packages. Lastly archweb now parses the links databases which exists in our repository. So as alternative to 'sogrep' curl -s "https://archlinux.org/packages/sonames?name=libwebsockets.so" | jq '.[].pkgname' "kismet" "libwebsockets" "ardour" "csound" "mosquitto" "kismet" "libwebsockets" This is still a bit alpha-ish as there seems to be some issues with updating the data. [4] Feedback is welcome, as I just realized it shows packages for all repositories so some people might want a filter on "stable" or "testing" or "staging" repositories. Finally what sonames the package requires is shown in the package detail page [6] [1] https://archlinux.org/devel/reports/required-orphan/ [2] https://archlinux.org/devel/reports/orphan-non-reproducible-packages/ [3] https://archlinux.org/devel/reports/non-reproducible-packages/jelle/ [4] https://github.com/archlinux/archweb/issues/342 [5] https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libwebsockets/ [6] https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libwebsockets/ Greeting, Jelle van der Waa

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Re: [arch-dev-public] Spring cleanup '21
by Antonio Rojas 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

> Unless there be dragons, I could happily pick up munin and > procinfo-ng... Moved munin. procinfo-ng is in [core], I'll give people a few days to raise objections against moving it out (hopefully joined by an offer to maintain it).

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[arch-dev-public] archlinux-tools group
by Jelle van der Waa 25 Apr '21

25 Apr '21

Hi All, I've introduced a new group "archlinux-tools" for arch-rebuild-order and orhun will add it to arch-repro-status. I'm planning to add arch-signoff, and ask Fox to add archlinux-contrib as well. The idea is that Arch Linux related tools which benefit packaging get added to the archlinux-tools group. P.S. check out arch-repro-status, it's an awesome tool to inspect your non-reproducible packages! Greetings, Jelle van der Waa

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[arch-dev-public] Dropping arptables/ebtables
by Sébastien Luttringer 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Hello, I would like stop maintaining arptables and ebtables and drop them in [unsupported]. The future in the linux kernel is clearly nftables and keeping them in the repository present is of little interest these days. ebtables is still an hard dependency on others packages, but the iptables-nft package ship a remplacement based on nftables. I have not tested the compatibility, so if someone think it's not possible, please let me know. If you have spare time, I suggest you take a look at the nftable package and become a master in nft-fu. It is much more convenient and efficient than the iptables / ipset / ebtables / arptables solution. For the less enthusiastic about the command line, firewalld has an nftables backend. Regards, Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer

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[arch-dev-public] Dropping packages to AUR
by alad 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

Hi, As I no longer use them, I will drop the following packages to AUR unless someone picks them up: * deadbeef * mit-scheme * mksh * python-kitchen * qjournalctl * diffstat * rtv * xkcdpass The following packages are dependencies of existing packages, and could equally use a new maintainer: * diffstat (dependency for quilt) Cheers, Alad

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