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[arch-dev-public] News draft: ghostpcl>=9.53.2-2 and ghostxps>=9.53.2-2 updates require manual intervention
by Jan Alexander Steffens 27 Sep '20

27 Sep '20

The ghostpcl and ghostxps packages prior to version 9.53.2-2 were missing a soname link each. This has been fixed in 9.53.2-2, so the upgrade will need to overwrite the untracked files created by ldconfig. If you get any of these errors ghostpcl: /usr/lib/libgpcl6.so.9 exists in filesystem ghostxps: /usr/lib/libgxps.so.9 exists in filesystem when updating, use pacman -Syu --overwrite /usr/lib/libgpcl6.so.9,/usr/lib/libgxps.so.9 to perform the upgrade.

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Re: [arch-dev-public] News draft: Arch Conf 2020 schedule
by Morten Linderud 23 Sep '20

23 Sep '20

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 11:01:33AM -0400, Santiago Torres-Arias wrote: > > > I think it's pretty clear from the drop down on the right (it also lets > > > me choose my local TZ)... > > > > What :D I don't see any drop downs 🙃 > > > > I'll add a link to https://everytimezone.com/ regardless to make it easier after > > an offlist suggestion from Stapelberg. > > Ok, the more the merrier, but am I crazy for seeing this? (ss attached). > > -Santiago We sorta deduced on IRC that this is probably shown when you are outside of the conference timezone. Which is a tiny bit non-obvious :) But I'll add the timezone link regardless so people in UTC+2/CEST don't ask. -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16

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Re: [arch-dev-public] News draft: Arch Conf 2020 schedule
by Morten Linderud 23 Sep '20

23 Sep '20

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 09:38:31AM -0400, Santiago Torres wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 02:48:59PM +0200, Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 11:43:16AM +0200, Morten Linderud wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 11:56:43PM +0200, Morten Linderud wrote: > > > > > > > > On the 10th and 11th of October there is going to be an online edition of Arch > > > > Conf. The conference is going to have presentations from the Arch team along > > > > with community submitted presentations and lightning talks. > > > > > > > > We are proud to announce the first revision of the schedule! > > > > > > > > ${LINK_TO_SCHEDULE} > > > > > > > > Updates and additional information can be found on the conference page: > > > > https://conf.archlinux.org > > > > > > > > See you there! > > > > > > https://pretalx.com/arch-conf-online-2020/talk/ > > > > I'll add a note about the timezone for the conference is CEST/UTC+2 > > (Europe/Oslo) as it's not clear from the schedule. Unsure if it's any good way > > to have this note somewhere on the schedule page itself. > > > I think it's pretty clear from the drop down on the right (it also lets > me choose my local TZ)... What :D I don't see any drop downs 🙃 I'll add a link to https://everytimezone.com/ regardless to make it easier after an offlist suggestion from Stapelberg. -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16

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[arch-dev-public] News draft: Arch Conf 2020 schedule
by Morten Linderud 23 Sep '20

23 Sep '20

Yo! I'd like to poste a news item about the schedule for Arch Conf. I reckon the front page has better reach then the planet RSS feeds. Currently waiting for the last of the talks to be confirmed before posting. 8<<<<< On the 10th and 11th of October there is going to be an online edition of Arch Conf. The conference is going to have presentations from the Arch team along with community submitted presentations and lightning talks. We are proud to announce the first revision of the schedule! ${LINK_TO_SCHEDULE} Updates and additional information can be found on the conference page: https://conf.archlinux.org See you there! >>>>>8 Cheers! -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16

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[arch-dev-public] Orphaning packages/ request for co-maintainership
by David Runge 19 Sep '20

19 Sep '20

Hi all, I'm orphaning the following packages as I don't use them and/or took them over from someone who is now not a team member anymore: # [extra] ddrescue easytag (can be moved to [community]) # [community] autorandr cacti flac123 flyspray gmm gpa grub-customizer libircclient libmusicxml libopenshot libopenshot-audio libquicktime marsyas minitube nfoview nomacs openshot plowshare pound smplayer-skins smtube wiiuse zopfli The above [community] packages (if possible) will be moved to the AUR if no maintainers are found until 2020-09-28. Additionally I have many packages that I'd be happy to find co-maintainers for. If packages that you are interested in co-maintaining are not in the list below (e.g. all the pro-audio stuff) just let me know - the list would have gotten too long otherwise :P # [extra] raptor rasqal redland scons # [community] hyperkitty irker mailman3 mailman3-hyperkitty postorius qtile quodlibet radicale slimit sigal solfege subdownloader tmuxp tuna waf Best, David -- https://sleepmap.de

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[arch-dev-public] Call for Participation - Arch Conf 2020 Online
by Morten Linderud 18 Sep '20

18 Sep '20

Hello everyone! We are super excited to announce that the Arch Linux Conference 2020 is going to be held online on the 10th and 11th of October. The CFP has been published and everyone is free to submit talks and lightning talks from today until the 18th of September. If you have other ideas please do reach out! https://pretalx.com/arch-conf-online-2020/cfp # Pre-recorded talks All talks should be pre-recorded and sent to the team by the video submission deadline. You will be notified if the talk has been accepted shortly after the submission deadline has passed. # Important Dates * Conference date: 10th - 11th of October * Submission deadline: 18th of September * Video submission deadline: 5th of October # Streaming Streaming details are going to be published through September as there is still some more planning required for this part :) # Contributing We are still going to hold regular meetings over mumble and general planning in #archlinux-conf @ freenode until the conference starts in October. If you want to get involved and help out please do reach out and join the meeting :) Cheers from the Conference Team!

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[arch-dev-public] Kanboard Deprecation
by Frederik Schwan 14 Sep '20

14 Sep '20

Hi people, as part of our ongoing unification of Arch services in order to ease operational overhead, DevOps would like to move the kanboard service to the GitLab instance [0]. GitLab has a comparable feature in the form of issue boards [1]. The current kanboard isn't getting used much and we'd like to focus our efforts. See below for an overview of the usage lately: Board Owner lowest "days in this column" Infrastructure Florian 513 Bug todos Eli -empty- Reproducible Arch Linux Bartłomiej 629 Archweb Jelle 489 dbscripts Eli 660 Security Team Jelle 445 Conf Jelle 377 Packaging David 393 General Bartłomiej 239 Docker Image Santiago 244 We are not interested in flat out deleting everything and realize that there might still be important information there somewhere. Please have a look at the boards and check if there's anything you know needs to be migrated. At a quick glance, many issues are simply out of date and superseded or already done. If necessary, please migrate the board to GitLab or feel free to create a DevOps ticket [2] so that we can handle the migration. We seek to finish the migration by October 31st. Cheers, Frederik [0] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/issues/16 [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/boards [2] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/issues

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[arch-dev-public] Away on vacation until 25th September
by Thore Bödecker 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

Hi, just wanted to give a quick notification that I will be mostly away from the digital world until 2020-09-25. I might sporadically check my mails or pop briefly into IRC, but not engage actively in other duties like packaging. Feel free to bump any of my packages in the mean time, just be advised that both the consul and the ceph package do need some work again and might not even rebuild in their current version against our current repo. I just haven't had time to deal with that yet. Cheers, Thore -- Thore "foxxx0" Bödecker GPG ID: 0xEB763B4E9DB887A6 GPG FP: 051E AD6A 6155 389D 69DA 02E5 EB76 3B4E 9DB8 87A6

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[arch-dev-public] News draft: Bug wrangling day
by Frederik Schwan 06 Sep '20

06 Sep '20

Hi people, given the large amount of open bugs, I'd like to invite all users to help out with an official announcement. ----> Kill Arch Bugs: Help us on the 13th of September! We would like to hold a bug wrangling day on the 13th of September to reduce the large amount of open tickets. If you cannot take part in the bug wrangling day, then feel free to help us any time before that event. How? Please review all bugs that were reported by you and check if they are still valid. Please request a task closure on the bug tracker if the task may be closed. Otherwise please provide further information so that we can continue to work on the bug. We cannot fix bugs without your feedback. Questions? Join us at #archlinux-bugs channel on irc.freenode.net during 13th of September. As we life in different timezones not all devs and bug wranglers will be available at the same time, but feel free to report your issues to any dev available. Also please check your mailboxes that may contain notifications about comments made on your tickets <---- Parts of this news are derived from this post: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=31568 Cheers, Frederik

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[arch-dev-public] Bug tracker migration
by Frederik Schwan 30 Aug '20

30 Aug '20

Hi folks, I'd like to migrate the beloved Flyspray bug tracker to our new Gitlab instance. TLDR: - Bug wrangling day on the 13th of September; see 1) - Flyspray will be read-only after we rewrite the Archweb URLs - new bug tracker -> Gitlab 1) I'd like to hold a bug wrangling day, where our goal is to close as many bugs as possible. Any TU, Reporter and bug wrangler is invited to help out :) Unfortunately I can't offer any cookies that day :/ Rules: a) Bug with no reply for at least 6 months which has been submitted for a different version than the current one in the repos shall be closed with a message that a reopen request may be filled if this issue is still present. b) Any infrastructure ticket shall not be touched. This will be handled by $DevOps. 2) Afterwards we will point the bug tracker links in the Archweb to the new location and opening new tickets in Flyspray will be disabled. The project structure of the future Gitlab bug tracker will be discussed in a seperate mail and is not part of this mail(thread). 3) When enough tickets are closed or when $DevOps is tired enough of Flyspray, we'll migrate the rest of the tickets to Gitlab. We seek to keep Flyspray as a static homepage to allow the reference in the new bug tracker to old tickets and to keep the integrity of search engine results. Please make sure you all have a working account at our Gitlab instance. Cheers, Frederik

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