August 2026 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

RFC: Secretary-Treasurer
by Mark Hegreberg 08 Sep '26

08 Sep '26

A new RFC (request for comment) has been opened here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/70 Please visit the above link for discussion. Summary: In order to assist the Project Leader with the administrative tasks around finances, and to improve accountability, checks, and balances, Arch should have an appointed Secretary-Treasurer.

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Dropping ruby-bundler 4.0.17-1 from extra-testing
by Hyacinthe Cartiaux 28 Aug '26

28 Aug '26

Hi, ruby-bundler[0] 4.0.17-1 has been dropped from extra-testing. ruby-bundler is a standard gem[1], and as such, it should be updated together with the whole ruby environment later. If you're using the testing repositories, please downgrade to the version available in extra. Apologies for the inconvenience. Best, Hyacinthe [0] https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/ruby-bundler/ [1] https://stdgems.org/

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Dropping lmdb 1.0.0-1 and postfix 3.11.6-3 from [extra-testing]
by Robin Candau 23 Aug '26

23 Aug '26

Hi everyone, lmdb 1.0.0 has been in [extra-testing] for some time now and unfortunately resulted in a fair amount of incompatibilities and breakages [1]. As such, while waiting to have more free time to revisit this upgrade later and deal with the related implications, we have decided to drop lmdb 1.0.0-1 from [extra-testing] for the time being. Consequently, postfix 3.11.6-3 (a rebuild of the postfix package including patches for lmdb 1.0.0 support) has been dropped from [extra-testing] as well. If you're using the testing repositories, please downgrade lmdb and postfix to the versions available in the [extra] repository. Note that this may have eventual consequences for people that already migrated their DB schema to the lmdb 1.0.0 structure. Sorry for the inconvenience. [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/lmdb/-/work_items… -- Regards, Robin Candau / Antiz

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Announcement: New maintainer for mkinitcpio
by Robin Candau 11 Aug '26

11 Aug '26

Hi everyone, Following Morten Linderud (Foxboron) recent resignation from the Arch Linux project [1], the mkinitcpio tool (Arch Linux's default initramfs image creation utility) [2] was left without any active maintainer. As a long time contributor and past (co-)maintainer of the mkinitcpio project, nl6720 [3] (who is also a long time member of our staff as a ArchWiki maintainer / administrator) has offered to jump back in (which only received positive reactions from the rest of the staff). I am therefore happy to announce that nl6720 is now the new maintainer of the mkinitcpio project! Thank you for volunteering to take on this responsibility! [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.o… [2] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio [3] https://archlinux.org/people/support-staff/#nl6720 -- Regards, Robin Candau / Antiz

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Resignation
by Morten Linderud 02 Aug '26

02 Aug '26

Yo, I'm resigning as a package maintainer and developer of Arch Linux. It's been almost a decade since I met Jelle, Chris, Levente and Remi at 33C3 to be (peacefully) coerced into joining the security team, and almost 9 years since I became a package maintainer. It's time to let go. I've sent an internal email about misc responsebilities people are free to taken over, but for the benefit of the list I'll point out that mkinitcpio and arch-install-scripts is currently left without an active maintainer. Thanks to all the friends I made along the way. # Orphaned packages Below is a list of packages that have me as the sole maintainer. I think the following packages should be adopted by someone. Rest can be cleaned up at some other point. Note that I have not checked dependant packages. - fsverity-utils - flatpak-xdg-utils - pesign - libmakepkg-dropins - wpa_supplicant - all tpm2 packages λ ~ » pkgsearch -m Foxboron -l 1 acpid age-plugin-tpm bmusb bucklespring cilium-cli flatpak-xdg-utils fsverity-utils fuse-overlayfs gphoto2 grobi hy influx-cli influxdb jgmenu kakoune libmakepkg-dropins perl-anyevent-i3 perl-data-perl perl-gnupg-interface perl-moox-handlesvia perl-moox-late perl-strictures perl-sub-handlesvia perl-type-tiny pesign protege pwru python-adblock python-autobahn python-nltk python-pew python-pydbus python-pydocstyle python-pykka python-pypeg2 python-pytoolconfig python-pywal python-reportlab python-rope python-send2trash python-speaklater python-sphinx-autorun screenkey ssh-tpm-agent step-ca tpm2-pkcs11 tpm2-tools tpm2-totp tpm2-tss tpm2-tss-engine wpa_supplicant xdp-tools # Packages that lacks co-maintainers. Here is a list of packages I believe need another maintainer. - arch-install-scripts - archlinux-contrib - archlinux-keyring - archlinux-repro - debugedit - mkinitcpio - mkinitcpio-busybox - bolt - nvme-cli - crun - gopls - go-tools - pacman - sbctl λ ~ » pkgsearch -m Foxboron -l 2 arch-install-scripts archlinux-contrib archlinux-keyring archlinux-repro b4 bolt borg cni-plugins conmon crun debugedit delve dns-over-https docker-buildx git-lfs glider golangci-lint go-md2man gopls go-tools hexedit i2c-tools incus incus-ui lxcfs minicom mkinitcpio mkinitcpio-busybox mosh netavark nomad-driver-containerd nomad-driver-lxc nomad-driver-nspawn nomad-driver-podman nvme-cli pacman pass-otp patatt pdfjs -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16

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