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[arch-dev-public] Upcoming PHP 8.1 update
by Pierre Schmitz 25 Apr '22

25 Apr '22

Hi all, a little heads up as it takes longer than expected. I'll start the PHP 8.1 update and the required rebuilds soon. I noticed some unexpected incompatibilities and I'd like to look into these first. I'll also evaluate if we could drop the php7 packages at the same time. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

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[arch-dev-public] News draft: QEMU >= 7.0.0 may need manual intervention
by David Runge 23 Apr '22

23 Apr '22

Hi all, with qemu 7.0.0 now in [staging] we have a more extensive split package setup (see accompanying TODO [1]). Under certain circumstances this will require manual intervention (or rather a specific upgrade) to regain the previous functionality: ``` With the update to qemu 7.0.0 the package has been turned into a more fine grained split package. The `qemu` package now only carries a few common files and tracks all of its leaf packages as optional dependencies. Much of the previous summarized functionality is now available via meta packages: * The functionality of `qemu` prior to 7.0.0 is replaced by `qemu-desktop` (**the transition to this package is manual**!) * The functionality of `qemu-headless` prior to 7.0.0 is replaced by `qemu-base` (the transition to this package is automatic). * The functionality of `qemu-arch-extra` and `qemu-headless-arch-extra` prior to 7.0.0 is replaced by `qemu-emulators-full` (the transition to this package is automatic). Furthermore, the meta package `qemu-full` provides all qemu related packages (excluding `qemu-docs`). As such, users that relied on the functionality of the `qemu` package prior to 7.0.0 should update using `sudo pacman -Syu qemu-desktop`. ``` Best, David [1] https://archlinux.org/todo/qemu-700-packaging-changes/ -- https://sleepmap.de

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[arch-dev-public] Spring cleanup '22
by Antonio Rojas 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

Hello, Spring (in the northern hemisphere) is here and with it 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 oportunity to disown any packages you no longer want to maintain, so others can adopt them or they can be dropped 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 in about 10 days.

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Re: [arch-dev-public] Bi-weekly arch-repo-management meeting
by David Runge 06 Apr '22

06 Apr '22

On 2022-04-06 15:49:54 (+0200), Luna Jernberg wrote: > Hey! > Will miss the meeting today, and missed the one 2 weeks ago (if there was > one?) > But would gladly read the writeup or see a recording when i have time Hi! Yes, see the mail on archlinux-projects [1]. However, I might be a few minutes late myself. :) Best, David [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-projects/2022-March/005435.html -- https://sleepmap.de

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[arch-dev-public] Arch Linux in March 2022
by Levente Polyak 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

## Staff We would like to welcome sudoforge among the Trusted Users [0]. ## RFC We have ratified a RFC to store upstream signing keys alongside the packaging sources [1]. This will allow easier successive builds without the need to continuously rely on remote keyservers to retrieve the upstream signing keys. ## security-tracker After a lot of work and with the amazing help of multiple people we have finally finished the SSO integration of our security tracker [2][3]. This is one step closer to a uniform authentication and role management across our services. Furthermore several incompatibility changes have been resolved which finally allowed us to upgrade to SQLAlchemy 1.4. [0] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2022-March/036842.html [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/11 [2] https://github.com/archlinux/arch-security-tracker/pull/181 [3] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/merge_requests/545

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[arch-dev-public] Disowning Atom
by Nicola Squartini 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

Hi, I'm disowning the following packages: apm atom electron9 Atom is basically a rotten project, it gets minimal updates and relies on obsolete dependencies, so it has become a burden to maintain. Let me know if you intend to adopt it. Thanks. Regards, Nicola

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[arch-dev-public] RFC Final Comment Period: Store PGP keys for source file signatures alongside PKGBUILDs
by Allan McRae 27 Mar '22

27 Mar '22

An RFC has now entered Final Comment Period. In 14 days, discussion will end and the proposal will either be accepted, rejected or withdrawn: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/11 Please visit the above link for discussion. Summary: Store the PGP signing keys listed in a PKGBUILDs `validpgpkeys` array alongside the PKGBUILD in our VCS. Motivation: The PGP keyserver infrastructure has become increasingly brittle over recent years. This can make helping with updates or rebuilds of packages difficult due to lack of access to the valid signing key. Having the signing key exported alongside the PKGBUILD would allow for anybody to import the key into their keyring and verify the source.

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[arch-dev-public] RFC: Forbid dummy packages from AUR
by Brett Cornwall 24 Mar '22

24 Mar '22

A new RFC (request for comment) has been opened here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/12 Please visit the above link for discussion. Summary: Reject AUR packages that fulfill package dependencies without providing the files/binaries of the package in question.

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[arch-dev-public] sdl12-compat
by Jelle van der Waa 18 Mar '22

18 Mar '22

Hi all, SDL1 has been deprecated for a while now but we still have some games and programs which depend on it. Fedora started using SDL's compatbility library sdl12-compat which implements sdl1 using sdl2 which means you can run games under wayland, get better controller support and an actual maintainer library. [1] I've packaged sdl12-compat in [community-testing] and it replaces sdl, it was tested with chromium-bsu, caph and dwarffortress which all runs fine under the compatibility layer. Virtualbox and caph were successfully recompiled to test if we can still rebuild SDL1 programs. Please go forth and test :) [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SDL12onSDL2 Greetings, Jelle van der Waa

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[arch-dev-public] Disowning some packages
by Felix Yan 17 Mar '22

17 Mar '22

Hi, I am disowning the following packages as an attempt to shorten my TODO and focus on packages I still use. certbot certbot-apache certbot-dns-cloudflare certbot-dns-cloudxns certbot-dns-digitalocean certbot-dns-dnsimple certbot-dns-dnsmadeeasy certbot-dns-gehirn certbot-dns-google certbot-dns-linode certbot-dns-luadns certbot-dns-nsone certbot-dns-ovh certbot-dns-rfc2136 certbot-dns-route53 certbot-dns-sakuracloud certbot-nginx dart python-acme python-jaraco.envs python-pkginfo python-readme-renderer python-sqlalchemy python-telegram-bot python-tqdm ruby-bundler treefrog-framework twine Please consider adopting what you or your packages use. Thanks. -- Regards, Felix Yan

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