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Fwd: [PATCH v6] kbuild: add script and target to generate pacman package
by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) 16 Jul '24

16 Jul '24

Hi, recently there's been an effort to add a `pacman-pkg` target to the Linux kernel build system, which uses a PKGBUILD to build `linux-upstream` packages for Arch Linux. Since this is of interest to us, I'm forwarding the latest patch email to our list here to give you a chance to provide feedback to the author. I can see this making bisection of kernel issues (or just testing patches) much easier, especially for users. It's also quite an unusual way of calling makepkg. The email is also available at [lore.kernel.org](https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kbuild/20240716-kbuild-pacma…. Greetings, Jan PS: My apologies for sending this twice; the first email was sent with "Markdown" formatting in Evolution, which didn't quite do what I think it would. This one uses "Markdown as HTML", which should have both `text/plain` and `text/html` variants.

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Fwd: [PATCH v6] kbuild: add script and target to generate pacman package
by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) 16 Jul '24

16 Jul '24

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AUR Maintenance Saturday 13 July 12:00 UTC
by Jelle van der Waa 13 Jul '24

13 Jul '24

Hi all, We are having some performance issues with the AUR's git repository which requires some maintenance. [1] This means that the AUR will be unavailable for some time starting 12:00 UTC till it is done (hopefully 2 hours, could be more). [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/issues/599

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Urgent news draft: The sshd service needs to be restarted after upgrading to openssh-9.8p1
by Robin Candau 01 Jul '24

01 Jul '24

Hi everyone, As you might have heard by now (or experienced it already), the latest openssh-9.8p1 release requires the sshd daemon to be restarted otherwise new connections cannot establish (the one used to upgrade the package remains intact though). To prevent people from eventually blocking themselves out any further, we would like to introduce a `post_upgrade` transaction for the openssh-9.8p1 package which will restart the sshd service (a MR for that is being worked on [1]), accompanied by an urgent news entry (similarly to what was done for the openssh-8.2p1 release) [2]. Given the urgent aspect of the news, it would be nice to have some quick feedback if possible. I intend to post the news as soon as openssh-9.8p1-2 is released with the `post_upgrade` transaction. --------------- News draft: # The sshd service needs to be restarted after upgrading to openssh-9.8p1 After upgrading to openssh-9.8p1, the existing SSH daemon will be unable to accept new connections. (See https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/openssh/-/issues/5) When upgrading remote hosts, please make sure to restart the SSH daemon using `systemctl restart sshd` right after upgrading. If you are upgrading to openssh-9.8p1-2 or higher, this restart will happen automatically. --------------- [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/openssh/-/issues/… [2] https://archlinux.org/news/sshd-needs-restarting-after-upgrading-to-openssh… -- Regards, Robin Candau / Antiz

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Taking a break soon
by Orhun Parmaksiz 26 Jun '24

26 Jun '24

Hey! I will be taking a break from computers between the dates 29-06-2024 and 26-07-2024. During this period I won't have access to the internet so I will be pretty much unreachable. But if there is something hella urgent drop me a call on my cell - I might or might not call back. Let me know if there is anything (in the following days) and feel free to bump my packages. P.S. everything is fine, just need some time to reset :) Have a nice summer everyone!

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glib2-devel split from glib2
by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) 11 Jun '24

11 Jun '24

Hi, Thanks to Fabian, as of 2.80.3-1, the development utilities requiring additional dependencies (*python*, *python-packaging*, *libelf*) have been split from *glib2* into *glib2-devel* with proper depends. You may need to add *glib2-devel* to the makedepends of your packages to get them to build again. At the same time, consider removing *python* or *python-packaging* from the makedepends if they were only added to run gdbus-codegen, glib-genmarshal or glib-mkenums. Greetings, Jan

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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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Adding Emil Velikov as maintainer of libudev0-shim
by Morten Linderud 05 Jun '24

05 Jun '24

Yo, `libudev0-shim` is a udev compat shim that some of our packages, most notably stream, and a few other downstreams utilize. It was written 8 years ago by Dave Reisner and has seen no development since then, but Valve/Steam has sent a couple of changes to this project. I originally asked on IRC if anyone wanted to maintain this, but after no response Emil replied on a PR that he would gladly take over maintainership of this project. Emil has been around for a few years on bugreports and misc patches to upstream projects, and generally is a nice guy. I can't see anyone objecting to this so I've asked devops to add them to the Github repository. This emailserves as a headsup that Emil is now the maintainer of the project. https://github.com/archlinux/libudev0-shim -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16

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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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