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pre-releases (for systemd & co) in core-testing
by Christian Hesse 08 Jun '24

08 Jun '24

Hello everybody, I used to push later pre-releases for essential core packages (for example systemd and util-linux) to core-testing. The idea was to have some extra testing even before building the final packages. For some time this worked quite well... Lately this broke, though. Our current tooling (pkgctl from devtools) builds packages (at least core ones) in core-testing. We then moved a package that was built with util-linux 2.40rc2. It's dynamic linking was ok, but it required the symbol MOUNT_2_40 from libmount.so, still breaking. We had to move the util-linux pre-release packages to core to solve this. Of course this had not been detected before, because packages in testing were ok in that combination. So wondering how to solve this, and have some extra testing anyway. The more people testing pre-release packages the better... Having said that - I have set up a custom repository for now with systemd 256rc2. To test that add these lines to your pacman.conf: [testing] Server = https://pkgbuild.com/~eworm/$repo/$arch/ Feedback welcome! -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Best regards my address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* Chris cc -ox -xc - && ./x */b/42*2-3)*42);}

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Ruby 3.2.4
by Andreas 'Segaja' Schleifer 02 Jun '24

02 Jun '24

Hello, after a lot of work and some wrong avenues we are finally ready to update Ruby in Arch Linux to version 3.2.4. For this we will block staging from tomorrow (09.05.2024) on to do the rebuild, and it might take some time to complete. At the same time we also replace the approach of providing an /etc/gemrc with the more up-to-date approach of providing an operating_system.rb for ruby to rely on. This should solve several issues currently open for the ruby and the rubygems package. We know that Ruby 3.2.4 isn’t the latest version but we decided to do this one and maybe in a couple of months update to ruby 3.3.x once we are sure it is ready. During the update we will also drop some ruby default gem packages which are not needed anymore as we will not de-vendor all ruby defaultgems in the future. There might arise some dependency issues but we will have to face them when we see them. Best regards Segaja

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Stepping down
by Maxim Baz 27 May '24

27 May '24

Hi everyone Life got busier than ever, and I find myself unable to give nearly as much attention to packaging that it deserves. As such, I believe the most respectful course of action would be for me to step down as package maintainer now, and re-apply in the future if this makes sense. There's no immediate action needed for any of my packages, I have updated them all today. But here's the list of packages where I'm the sole maintainer, it would be awesome if some of them would earn your interest to adopt them: aspell-da browserpass browserpass-chromium browserpass-firefox curlie gocryptfs goimapnotify grub-btrfs kitty libu2f-server pam-u2f python-black python-i3ipc rebuild-detector swappy ttf-joypixels wire-desktop wldash yubikey-touch-detector Best wishes Maxim Baz

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Cleaning up some of my packages
by Filipe Laíns 24 May '24

24 May '24

Hi everyone, A while ago I wrote to the staff mailing list about my lack of activity. Thankfully, I think I am finally now slowly getting back up to speed with life and my open source commitments. If someone wants more details, I wrote a bigger explanation on [1] (tw: mental health). To help with this, I think I should do some cleaning up of my packages, I have disowned a bunch of them. Several of them, such as the Deepin, Budgie, and D packages, had a co-maintainer, so they should be alright. The ones that didn't are listed below. I tried to list the maintainers of the dependents to make it easier to identify. Packages with dependents: pyannotate (check dependency for python-py7zr, cc Caleb) python-dill (dependency for python-pylint, cc Caleb) python-future (dependency for a bunch of Felix's packages, and more) python-multipart (dependency for python-moto, cc Chih-Hsuan) python-py (dependency for python-pytest-forked, cc Felix) python-pypng (dependency for python-qrcode, cc Felix, Levente, Caleb) python-zc.lockfile (dependency for python-cherrypy and python-pytest-services, cc Thore and David) (check/optional dependencis for python-fastapi) python-aiomysql python-aiopg python-aiosqlite (also hard dependency for python-ypy-websocket, cc Antonio) python-asyncpg (also hard dependency for nominatim, cc Justin) python-databases D ecosystem packages without dependents: adrdox d-containers d-mir-core d-stdx-allocator gir-to-d glibd mustache-d General packages without dependents: bluefish budgie-extras dbxtool (deprecated — archived on Github, and replaced by fwupd) flterm fusesoc grub-theme-vimix log4cpp netcf pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa python-biopython python-bitcoinlib python-edalize python-euclid3 python-ipyxact python-litevideo python-litedram python-liteeth python-liteiclink python-litejesd204b python-litepcie python-litesata python-litescope python-litesdcard python-litevideo python-litex python-litex-boards python-livereload python-kikit python-markdown2 python-migen python-occ-core python-okonomiyaki python-pybars3 python-pymeta3 python-pypubsub python-pyvcd python-simplesat python-solidpython python-sphinx-typlog-theme python-svgwrite python-watchgod thefuck This lists includes flatenned dependency trees, so if you adopt any of the packages listed as without dependents, please be keep in mind they might depend on other packages on the list. You might want to pick up those too. [1] https://ffy00.github.io/blog/03-state-of-things-2024-04/ Cheers, Filipe Laíns

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Re: pre-releases (for systemd & co) in core-testing
by Christian Hesse 23 May '24

23 May '24

Genes Lists <lists(a)sapience.com> on Thu, 2024/05/23 06:27: > On Thu, 2024-05-23 at 09:16 +0200, Christian Hesse wrote: > > Christian Hesse <list(a)eworm.de> on Wed, 2024/05/15 11:08: > > > .. > > > Feedback welcome! > > > > Pushed systemd 256rc3-1 last night. All the same applies... > > Please keep testing! > > Hi Christian > > For feedback do you plan to make this visible in the package > signoffs page [1] or do you want a quick email with ack/nack? > > For now: > > mkinitcpio-39.1-1.1 - all good > systemd-256rc3-1 - all good > > gene > > [1] https://archlinux.org/packages/signoffs/ Good point! I would have to push to core-testing repository for the packages to be visible for signoffs. That's what I tend to avoid now with pre-releases. So short notice via mail or messaging is fine. Thanks! -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Best regards my address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* Chris cc -ox -xc - && ./x */b/42*2-3)*42);}

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Re: pre-releases (for systemd & co) in core-testing
by Christian Hesse 15 May '24

15 May '24

Randy DuCharme <radio.ad5gb(a)gmail.com> on Wed, 2024/05/15 05:06: > Suggestion (s). This is open source real life comes first, always. > > People that volunteer to help are genuinely real but being ignored wins > ZERO.... even if they have 27 years of C C++ No idea what you want to tell me... Really. Please try again if this is a serious suggestion related to the topic. -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Best regards my address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* Chris cc -ox -xc - && ./x */b/42*2-3)*42);}

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Mesa pulled from testing
by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) 08 May '24

08 May '24

I've removed Mesa 1:24.0.7-1 from testing as the radeonsi driver crashes immediately, somewhere deep in LLVM. This concerns the following packages: • libva-mesa-driver • mesa • mesa-vdpau • opencl-clover-mesa • opencl-rusticl-mesa • vulkan-intel • vulkan-mesa-layers • vulkan-nouveau • vulkan-radeon • vulkan-swrast • vulkan-virtio • lib32-libva-mesa-driver • lib32-mesa • lib32-mesa-vdpau • lib32-opencl-clover-mesa • lib32-opencl-rusticl-mesa • lib32-vulkan-intel • lib32-vulkan-mesa-layers • lib32-vulkan-nouveau • lib32-vulkan-radeon • lib32-vulkan-swrast • lib32-vulkan-virtio

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Orphaning some packages
by Chih-Hsuan Yen 04 May '24

04 May '24

Hi all, I'm going to orphan some packages that I no longer need or depend on, so that I can better focus on my other packages. Here is the package list: * fcitx-chewing * nextcloud-client * python-nbdime * python-nbval * python-openpyxl * python-pg8000 * python-prctl * python-scramp * python-sure * python-testing.postgresql (may be dropped - depends on python-nose, no upstream commits since 2017) * scim-chewing * web-ext Please adopt packages you need, thanks! Best Regards, Chih-Hsuan Yen (yan12125)

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time64 ABI fix coming to upstream glibc
by Florian Weimer 02 May '24

02 May '24

The <utmp.h> and <utmp.h> headers had a bug that the on-disk structures defined there could change size on some targets when _TIME_BITS was set to 64. This is obviously wrong because the files are not going to magically change their layout because the application accessing them was built in a specific way. We're going to fix this in glibc upstream on the stable release branches, going all the way back to glibc 3.34 (the first release with this kind of time64 support). After the fix, the _TIME_BITS definition will no longer impact struct layout. Usually, that means epoch fields are 32-bits wide, to match co-installable architectures. To extend the usable life-time of these interfaces somewhat, glibc 2.40 changes epoch fields to unsigned types in these structures. This change is specific to the upcoming glibc 2.40 release, I do not plan to backport it. Thanks, Florian

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