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[arch-dev-public] Dropping KDE4 libs
by Antonio Rojas 04 Sep '18

04 Sep '18

I think it's time to drop the KDE4 libraries. They were EOL months ago and most stuff that isn't yet ported to KF5 is dead upstream. This would allow dropping a number of qt4 libraries and reduce the qt4 reverse dependencies (qt4 has been EOL for 3 years now). Affected packages are: - recorditnow (there are many alternatives available) - ligthdm-kde-greeter (dead upstream, no signs of KF5 porting) - krecipes (dead upstream, no signs of KF5 porting) - kdiff3 (has been ported to KF5 for a while, just needs a release. Could be updated to a snapshot) - pidgin-kwallet (uses kwallet dbus API, so should work with the KF5 version without any modification) - libreoffice-still (would lose the KDE4 VCL, which is quite buggy anyway. LO-fresh has a new VCL that uses KF5 file dialog) - amarok: it has a WIP KF5 port, but it's not quite ready and development is stalled. IMO we should let it rest in peace - I can keep a KF5 snapshot in kde-unstable for a while but it doesn't look like it's going anywhere any time soon at the current development pace. There are a few alternatives in the repos. Comments?

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[arch-dev-public] Shutting down dragon (backup server)
by Florian Pritz 31 Aug '18

31 Aug '18

Hi, I'll turn off dragon.archlinux.org in 2 weeks unless someone objects. It used to host our backups, but these have since moved to vostok.archlinux.org. Evangelos and me checked if there are any important files left on there, but we couldn't find any. If someone else wants to check, you'll have two weeks to speak up. Otherwise I'll null the disks and cancel the contract. Florian

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[arch-dev-public] Replacing pycrypto with pycryptodome
by Evangelos Foutras 31 Aug '18

31 Aug '18

Antonio suggested on IRC to drop pycrypto in favor of pycryptodome. The latter is "an almost drop-in replacement for the old PyCrypto library" according to its documentation. pycrypto has been unmaintained for several years. [1] Unless someone objects in the next few days, I'll proceed to drop python-crypto and add replaces=() to python-pycryptodome. [1] https://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto/issues/173

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[arch-dev-public] Improving the package guidelines
by Morten Linderud 30 Aug '18

30 Aug '18

Yo! In April there was some discussion regarding how to properly do unit testing in Python PKGBUILDs[1]. Felix had some amazing notes that was super useful. But as pointed out we don't really strive to document these things[2]. To try help and spark some interest in improving the current package guidelines, I have spent a some time restructuring and rewriting parts of the Python and Golang package guidelines. I'd appreciate reviews on them! https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Foxboron/Python_packaging_guideli… https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Foxboron/Go_packaging_guidelines It really doesn't take that much time to note down what you know about packaging and what the current standards are. I think this helps both fellow maintainers and AUR maintainers in writing better PKGBUILDs and sharing knowledge. If people think editing wikis are annoying, maybe we could setup a github repository with example PKGBUILDs we can work on? [1]: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2018-April/029228.html [2]: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2018-April/029233.html -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16

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Re: [arch-dev-public] /r/linux AMA
by Alad Wenter 27 Aug '18

27 Aug '18

* /u/AladW * TU, Wiki admin/bureaucrat, IRC operator, being a general nuisance. * 10th september is fine. Alad

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[arch-dev-public] FFmpeg: drop deprecated libavresample
by Maxime Gauduin 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

Hi guys, libavresample was initially merged into ffmpeg to be a drop-in replacement for libav, but was never maintained by ffmpeg itself in favor of their own libswresample. According to upstream, libswresample can do everything libavresample can do and more [1], plus libavresample has been entirely deprecated at the end of last year [2]. Thus I would like to get rid of it in our package. Here are the packages still linking to it in our repositories, trying to build without libavresample gave mixed results: ffms2 -> OK libextractor -> NOK (looks unrelated) [3] libmgba -> NOK (looks unrelated) [4] libopenshot -> NOK [5] openscenegraph -> OK performous -> NOK [6] qtav -> OK If there are no objection, I'll start a new TODO so we can work on fixing the ones that don't build. [1] https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2012-April/123746.html [2] https://patchwork.ffmpeg.org/patch/6959/ [3] https://buildbot.alucryd.xyz/#/builders/109/builds/2/steps/8/logs/stdio [4] https://buildbot.alucryd.xyz/#/builders/108/builds/1/steps/8/logs/stdio [5] https://buildbot.alucryd.xyz/#/builders/105/builds/1/steps/9/logs/stdio [6] https://buildbot.alucryd.xyz/#/builders/104/builds/1/steps/9/logs/stdio Cheers, -- Maxime

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[arch-dev-public] Remove CAcert root certs
by Jan Alexander Steffens 21 Aug '18

21 Aug '18

Hi list, I completely agree with https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/59690 and would like to remove the ca-certificates-cacert package from our repos and our default providers. The ca-certificates package will lose the depends and gain a replaces and conflicts on -cacert. Any objections? Greetings, Jan

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[arch-dev-public] Raise default inotify limits
by Jan Alexander Steffens 21 Aug '18

21 Aug '18

Hi list, I would like to add a sysctl.d/10-arch.conf file to filesystem with the following content: # Raise inotify resource limits fs.inotify.max_user_instances = 1024 fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288 To fix https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/47830 and other issues; e.g. "flow", used for JS development, runs a cache daemon that silently malfunctions and uses old source file content when it cannot create any more watches. Any objections? Greetings, Jan

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[arch-dev-public] Dropping pyqt4/pyside1
by Antonio Rojas 17 Aug '18

17 Aug '18

Hi all, The latest pyqt4 release makes packaging more complex due to upstream's decision of requiring a private namespaced sip (for mysterious reasons). It is also the last release, so pyqt4 is now officially EOL. I would like to drop it from our repos. It's mostly used as an optional dependency of python packages that also support a pyqt5 backend, so it shouldn't cause much trouble. Other packages that require it (gnuradio, hgview) have alternative UIs (wxwidgets and ncurses respectively). And in any case, pyqt4 is not a build-time dependency, so the pyqt4 UI would still work by installing pyqt4 from AUR. Besides these, the only package that still needs it is ninja-ide. It is ported to PyQt5 in git, so it could be updated to a snapshot. I'd also like to drop pyside1, for the same reasons (unused/EOL). This would reduce the number of reverse qt4 dependencies, and bring us closer to dropping it. Any comments or objections?

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[arch-dev-public] Github Domain Verification
by Giancarlo Razzolini 10 Aug '18

10 Aug '18

Hi All, I have added verification for our organization's domain on github [0]. This is an extra security feature that shows a "verified" badge [1] on our organization's profile. This is to help avoid impersonations to both our users and to our developers. Make sure you're always seeing the verified badge when using it. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini [0] https://help.github.com/articles/verifying-your-organization-s-domain/ [1] https://paste.xinu.at/CgBNjk/

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