September 2016 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] out of date packages - an observation
by Genes Lists 08 Sep '16

08 Sep '16

After the recent dicsussion(s) around this topic I thought it worthwhile to go through where things stand. I went through all the packages flagged out of date on the website and focused on what I viewed as the "more important" ones (this is IMHO of course ... I'm sure others have differnt views). Regardless of how out of date a package is, if a new package was in testing I did not include it here. Of those that passed my sufficiently important filter: I found only 2 packages more than 1 week old and 3 less than a week - 2 of which were released upstream today. One is more than 9 months out of date (refind-efi). Here's what I found orderd most out of date at the top.. refind-efi - Arch vesion 0.9.2 as of 9/22/2015 - Upstream has 0.10.3 from 4/24/2016 - this one is very out of date - - be good to have this updated. openssl - Arch has 1.0.2.h - Out of date as of 8/25/2016 - 1.1.0 was released upstream on 8/25/2016 dkms - Out of date as of 9/1/2016 - Arch Package website refers to dell.com should be changed to https://github.com/dell/ util-linux - 2.28.2 was released today - - arch has 2.28.1 released 8/11/2016 linux - 4.7.3 is out of date as of today -- Gene lists(a)sapience.com

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[arch-general] Fwd: [Tsukuba-ftp-servers:2874] About ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp
by Dragon ryu 08 Sep '16

08 Sep '16

Seems ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp died. Comfirmed by email from Kouhei Takahashi. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kohei Takahashi <flast(a)tsukuba.wide.ad.jp> Date: 2016-09-08 23:25 GMT+09:00 Subject: Re: [Tsukuba-ftp-servers:2874] About ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp To: Dragon ryu <knight.ryu12(a)gmail.com> Cc: tsukuba-ftp-servers(a)tsukuba.wide.ad.jp Hi Dragon, On 09/08/2016 09:18 PM, Dragon ryu wrote: > Seems your server died. not responding anything. Yes, the server crashes harder. So, I'm trying to repair it, ASAP. I apologize your inconvenience. Thanks, Kohei Takahashi

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[arch-general] sddm autologin doesn't immediately after boot - but systemctl restart sddm solves the problem. Timing issue - missing systemd service dependencies?
by Damian Nowak 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

Howdy! My sddm doesn't automatically log me in for a week now. It errors out with: > Could not start D-Bus. Can you call qdbus instead? Picture of the error here: https://x.virtkick.com/51c5d57e633799d45cf438026b4493ec87b1d19d/sddm-autolo… All I need to do after getting this error is switch to tty and call `systemctl restart sddm`. It feels like a timing issue - D-Bus not coming up on time. Does sddm systemd service correctly depend on everything it needs to successfully login? Currently: > After=systemd-user-sessions.service getty(a)tty1.service plymouth-quit.service I tried adding After=dbus.service and Depends=dbus.service but it didn't help. 1. Can anyone check if it's reproducible on their side? 2. Any ideas how to improve the service unit file to depend on the appropriate things? [Autologin] Relogin=false Session=plasma.desktop User=USERNAME [General] HaltCommand= RebootCommand= [Users] MaximumUid=65000 MinimumUid=1000 Thanks, Damian Nowak

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[arch-general] bitcoin-qt out-of-date
by Diego Viola 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

Hello, I flagged this package 10 days ago as out of date and I've been trying to contact the maintainer about it, with no response. https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/bitcoin-qt/ Is there any problem with updating this? Any reasons for the delay or lack of response? Thanks, Diego

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[arch-general] version update request for openconnect
by MohanR 05 Sep '16

05 Sep '16

Hi, Please update openconnect from version 7.06 to 7.07. There is one bug 7.06 (http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openconnect-devel/2016-June/ 003727.html) which was fixed in 7.07. I reported a bug, but it got closed saying I can only report bug and not a update request. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50535?string=&project=1&search_name=&ty pe%5B0%5D=&sev%5B0%5D=&pri%5B0%5D=&due%5B0%5D=&reported%5B0%5D=&cat%5B0 %5D=&status%5B0%5D=&percent%5B0%5D=&opened=mohan43u&dev=&closed=&duedat efrom=&duedateto=&changedfrom=&changedto=&openedfrom=&openedto=&closedf rom=&closedto= I hope someone will take this to the current maintainer of openconnect. Thanks, Mohan R

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[arch-general] Package versioning
by Magnus Therning 02 Sep '16

02 Sep '16

When packaging Haskell packages there's a bit of a twist to the version numbers that I'm looking for a solution to. Upstream versions have two numbers, a version number (set by the upstream developer) and an "xrev" that's bumped when minor changes are made to packages on Hackage (Haskell's CPAN/PyPi/RubyGems/...). Then the packaging has a release. So far I've been using versions of the form <upstream version>_<xrev>-<pkgrel> But that isn't good enough, `pacman` has for instance reported that's ~~~ warning: haskell-vector-algorithms: local (0.7_1-2) is newer than haskell-core (0.7.0.1_0-1) warning: haskell-monadrandom: local (0.4_2-1) is newer than haskell-core (0.4.1_0-1) ~~~ which isn't correct since 0.7 < 0.7.0.1 0.4 < 0.4.1 It seems `pacman` treats underbar like a period, which isn't at all what I was hoping for. I'm hoping for some help to find something better. Any suggestions on how I should do this properly? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0x927912051716CE39 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem. — John Tukey

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[arch-general] extra repository is messed up and broken AGAIN
by Sebastian Lau 02 Sep '16

02 Sep '16

Hi folks, again, some trusted user destroyed our extra repository again. I heard rumors about who did it, but I can not verify it yet. Maybe he has more than one account and he is destroying arch. At the moment I'm trying to clean up my beloved collaborative Arch, but it is not patchable at the moment. Why the fuck is gtk software depending on a bunch of kdelibs? A log from just before: sebastian@nullptr ~ % ps gwenview resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... warning: dependency cycle detected: warning: kinit will be installed before its kio dependency Package (34) New Version Net Change Download Size extra/attica-qt5 5.25.0-1 0.84 MiB extra/baloo 5.25.0-1 1.91 MiB extra/convertlit 1.8-7 0.16 MiB extra/ebook-tools 0.2.2-3 0.07 MiB extra/gpgmepp 16.04.3-1 0.77 MiB extra/kactivities 5.25.0-1 0.46 MiB extra/kbookmarks 5.25.0-1 0.85 MiB extra/kcompletion 5.25.0-1 0.45 MiB extra/kcrash 5.25.0-1 0.05 MiB extra/kdbusaddons 5.25.0-1 0.17 MiB extra/kded 5.25.0-1 0.13 MiB extra/kdelibs4support 5.25.0-1 17.36 MiB extra/kemoticons 5.25.0-1 2.23 MiB extra/kfilemetadata 5.25.0-1 0.68 MiB extra/kglobalaccel 5.25.0-2 0.50 MiB 0.13 MiB extra/kidletime 5.25.0-1 0.12 MiB extra/kinit 5.25.0-1 0.49 MiB extra/kio 5.25.0-1 20.58 MiB extra/kitemmodels 5.25.0-1 0.35 MiB extra/kjobwidgets 5.25.0-1 0.55 MiB extra/kparts 5.25.0-1 0.86 MiB extra/kservice 5.25.0-1 1.19 MiB extra/ktextwidgets 5.25.0-1 1.37 MiB extra/kunitconversion 5.25.0-1 8.30 MiB extra/kwallet 5.25.0-1 2.05 MiB extra/kxmlgui 5.25.0-1 3.61 MiB extra/libkdcraw 16.04.3-1 0.12 MiB extra/libkipi 16.04.3-1 0.32 MiB extra/libraw 0.17.2-1 2.14 MiB extra/libzip 1.1.3-1 0.23 MiB extra/lmdb 0.9.18-1 0.51 MiB extra/solid 5.25.0-1 2.10 MiB extra/sonnet 5.25.0-1 2.06 MiB extra/gwenview 16.04.3-1 4.43 MiB Total Download Size: 0.13 MiB Total Installed Size: 78.03 MiB :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] ^C Interrupt signal received I wished, I had the time to clean it now with the other Trusted users, but I'm no TU yet. I talked to a person who gave in, it was his plan to do it like this and we had this problem before. At the moment I cannot come into ts or irc, but some friends of mine will. Please find this fucked up dependency circles, fix them, block him and so on. I think, it could be the same person half a year before. Bye and good luck, nullptr_t

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