March 2023 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

bash 5.2.x status
by Tobias Powalowski 29 Oct '23

29 Oct '23

Hi, yesterday anthraxx stated this: - major breakage in potentially a lot of scripts including pacman, dbscripts, devtools and who knows what kind of packages. I tried devtools with 5.2.15 and fixed the only thing I ran into, with this MR: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/devtools/-/merge_requests/133 shopt handling seems to have changed a bit. I would like to proceed in getting latest bash version into our distribution. Adding bash 5.2.x to staging or testing repository and start fixing eventually borken stuff. Would this ok for you guys? greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Arch Linux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) https://www.archlinux.org <http://www.archlinux.org> tpowa(a)archlinux.org Archboot Developer https://bit.ly/archboot St. Martin-Apotheke Herzog-Georg-Str. 25 89415 Lauingen https://www.st-martin-apo.de info(a)st-martin-apo.de

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Call for participation: Git packaging POC 🚀🎉
by Morten Linderud 01 May '23

01 May '23

Hi everyone! Levente and I have been busy preparing a test environment for the new git package workflow, which is going to replace the svn repository. To test the new git package setup install `devtools-git-poc` from the [community] repository and use the new `pkgctl` utility. Please check each time if there is a new upgrade before playing around. The goal of the testing is to figure out UX issues, bugs and larger issues that would need to be dealt with before a git migration can happen. It's therefor very important that people sit down and play around with the tools :) Support and feedback will be dealt with in the #archlinux-projects channel. Report bugs in GitLab with the following additional information: - devtools-git-poc package version - full PKGBUILD or pkg repo including the Git hash - terminal input and output The workflow should be the following: Basic setup ----------- ### setup packager Make sure your personal `makepkg.conf` contains your packager identity and gpg key. ### authenticate to gitlab pkgctl auth maintain existing packages -------------------------- ### clone an existing package pkgctl repo clone existing-package ### build a package pkgctl build ### release a package pkgctl release pkgctl db update ### combined UX The last three steps can also be expressed as: pkgctl build --release --db-update ### rebuild into staging vim PKGBUILD pkgctl build --staging pkgctl release --staging pkgctl db update This can be completely condensed by: pkgctl build --rebuild --staging --release --db-update maintain new packages --------------------- ### create a new package repo without history pkgctl repo create new-pkgbase pkgctl repo clone new-pkgbase ### add existing AUR repo cd packagerepo pkgctl repo create pkgctl repo configure ### first official build/release Specify the target repo on first run, as the tool can't know it's destination automatically yet pkgctl build --repo extra pkgctl release --repo extra --db-update --- The packages are uploaded into a test group here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/bot-test/packages This test also includes junior developer and junior packagers. They can only push packages into staging and testing, and not release into the stable repositories. We currently have a couple of people with these permissions to try and figure out issues on that part of the setup. If anyone is interested helping out on this please reach out on the #archlinux-projects IRC channel on Libera. Background on the changes can be found here: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.o… Cheers!

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mate 1.27 pulled from community-testing
by Alexander Epaneshnikov 25 Mar '23

25 Mar '23

Hello! By mistake, I released version 1.27 of the mate desktop environment, which is an unstable version. ref[1] I now removed mate packages from community-testing if you upgraded to mate 1.27 please downgrade to mate stack from community. [1]: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/77918 -- Sincerely, Alexander | Trusted User

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Spring cleanup '23
by Antonio Rojas 22 Mar '23

22 Mar '23

Hello, It is that time of the year again: time for our yearly orphans cleanup. Please head to https://archlinux.org/devel/reports/unneeded-orphans/ and adopt packages that you'd like to keep in the repos. This is also a good opportunity to disown any packages you no longer want to maintain, so others can adopt them or they can be properly maintained in AUR if nobody is interested. If any non-dev TU wants to maintain some orphan in [extra], reply here and I'll move it to [community]. I will start dropping the leftovers to AUR on April 1st.

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squashfs-tools 4.6 dropped from testing
by David Runge 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

Hi all, squashfs-tools 4.6 has been dropped from testing due to a regression [1]. Please make sure to downgrade. Best, David [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/77914 -- https://sleepmap.de

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Arch Linux in February 2023
by Levente Polyak 18 Mar '23

18 Mar '23

## Git packaging sources All major workflow and usability requirements for the `pkgctl` tooling have been finished and a experimental `devtools-git-poc` package has been put into the repositories. Furthermore the proof of concept sandbox environment has been set up and rolled out to anyone interested in testing. In the current phase we will collect feedback to catch bugs and further usability improvements [0]. We are still very eagerly seeking for more testers. ## what can I do for Arch Linux Our new contributor website https://whatcanidofor.archlinux.org has been announced [1]. We would like to express gratitude towards the current, past as well as initial contributors for getting the ball on the road. There have been some changes since the announcement, including the Arch navbar more or less being implemented and a decent amount of work in general. ## FOSDEM 2023 A lot of arch staff has visited FOSDEM 2023 in Brussels, where we exchanged ideas, hacked on projects and participated in the open-source conference shenanigans. Overall it was a great event that yet again improved our team spirit. Foxboron held a talk at FOSDEM [2], he showcased how Arch Linux implemented support for debug packages in 2022, the improvement that was made to the pacman package manager, the infrastructure changes that were needed and how debug packages are distributed through debuginfod. [0] https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.o… [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.o… [2] https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/debug_packages/

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Orphan keenerd packages
by Jelle van der Waa 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

Hey all, All of these packages have no maintainer and are not required by anything. they should either find a new maintainer or be dropped: * armagetronad * bbe * bochs (gtk2.. ideally dropped) * bwm-ng * calc * cataclysm-dda-tiles and cataclysm-dda * cpuburn * curseofwar * dietlibc * dina-font * emelfm2 (gtk2 so will be dropped) * epdfview (gtk2) * ps_mem * pinfo * pcb * pacmatic (usefulish?) * pacgraph (useful!) * ngircd * nethogs * multitail * mg * memconf * mathomatic * lwm * keynav * jwm * hiawatha * hd-idle * gprolog * gnu-apl * gftp (gtk2) * gerbv * galculator * freedroid * fbv * fbgrab * fbdump * python-blessings I might have missed a few, but those will shown up when we drop the package/keenerd relationship in Archweb. As usual packages will be dropped after ~ 2 weeks. Greetings, Jelle

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Orphaning packages
by Tobias Powalowski 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

Hi guys, early spring cleanup on my adopted packages: - b43-fwcutter - dmraid (not maintained upstream anymore) - facile - edac-utils - mp3splt - mp3wrap - libmp3splt - libksba - libiscsi - libifp - libraw1394 - linux-atm - mdadm - testdisk - xinetd - Samba stack: I would be really really happy, if someone, who also is using this piece of software would adopt it. Volunteers please go ahead. - samba - smbclilent - libwbclient - iniparser - ldb - tdb - tevent Thanks. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Arch Linux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) https://www.archlinux.org <http://www.archlinux.org> tpowa(a)archlinux.org Archboot Developer https://bit.ly/archboot

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Dependencies from pkg-config files
by Balló György 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Hi all, I implemented a new rule for namcap [1] to check if dependencies from pkg-config .pc files are satisfied. These are used by the 'pkg-config - -cflags --libs <library name>' command to set the appropriate CFLAGS and LDFAGS when building any dependent (direct and indirect) packages. If any of dependencies specified in 'Requires' or 'Requires.private' fields are missing, pkg-config throws an error. These dependencies are mostly covered by link-level dependencies, but there are some exceptions. Some packages already aware about this (e.g. glib2 -> libsysprof-capture; libx11 -> xorgproto), so we only need to fix a few others. I checked 590 core packages, and I found 13 packages with missing dependencies. [2] I propose the following solutions: - Some missing dependencies (gobject-introspection, systemd, util- linux) are caused because the pkg-config files are packaged separately from the libraries. This shouldn't happen in our distribution, because we don't split development packages. pkg-config files and the related header files should be in the same package where the library is found. - Some packages depend on specific header or data files (xorgproto, wayland-protocols) without linked library in it. Sometimes just a struct is needed from a header file in another package (libxi -> libxfixes). [3] Sometimes a library is used by dlopen() instead of linking (libepoxy -> libglvnd). [4] These should be added as dependencies if defined in a pkg-config file. - If you are sure that the dependency is unnecessarily, then contact with upstream. If no objections, I'll open tasks in Flyspray for these issues. [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/namcap/-/merge_requests/28 [2] https://md.archlinux.org/s/iXr206Xb1 [3] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxi/-/blob/08431d0684f9a1edf199f6… [4] https://github.com/anholt/libepoxy/blob/8db879f810e2dbc63824c43c17eeea0d3db… #L547-L559 -- Balló György Package Maintainer / Trusted User

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Cython packages need rebuild on all Python interpreter updates
by Filipe Laíns 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Hi, It has recently come to my attention that Cython uses CPython's private API, which is unstable, see [1]. From https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/stable.html: > Names prefixed by an underscore, such as _Py_InternalState, are private API > that can change without notice even in patch releases. Meaning that packages that ship Cython modules are dependent on the interpreter version, and need to be rebuilt on all python release updates, including patch releases. [1] https://github.com/cython/cython/issues/5275 Cheers, Filipe Laíns

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