September 2026 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

Mailing list traffic
by Ralf Mardorf 14 Sep '26

14 Sep '26

Hi, the most recent email in the archive is from August 24. Has no one used the mailing list for the past three weeks, or is something wrong? I actually wrote to the mailing list myself on August 29, but it never went through. Regards, Ralf

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Public meetings?
by Vishal Kohli 12 Sep '26

12 Sep '26

Hi I am interested in learning OS development. Are there any public meetings that I can be part of to learn more about Arch Linux / OS development? Thank you

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gitlab Arch - [Code] -> download .zip, .tar, .tar.gz of .tar.bz2 all append .html and download the page instead of repo
by David C Rankin 09 Sep '26

09 Sep '26

Arch gitlab devs, I don't know if this is just the dhcp packge or all, but I just needed to grab a copy of the latest and rather than clone I was just going to download the .tar.bz2. Clicking the [Code] button and selecting the .tar.bz2 format provided the filename with .tar.bz2.html as the extension and the download result was the gitlab page (html) instead to the repository contents. I checked each of the other formats, same result. I ended up just cloning with --depth=1 for the same effect plus the .git config. Thought I would pass this along in case there is a config problem for the download of compressed formats. This was in Firefox 154. Logged in to gitlab or not made no difference (not that it should) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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IntelliJ IDEA packaging update proposal
by Cynthia Rey 08 Sep '26

08 Sep '26

Hello, I tried to get an account on the GitLab to open an issue on the packaging repo, but since the SSO allowlisting process is quite rocky I'm reaching out directly here. Last year, JetBrains announced [1] a new distribution model for IDEA, ditching the difference between "Community" and "Ultimate" editions in version 2025.3, in favour of a unified build, now known simply as "IntelliJ IDEA". They also formalised a new variant, "IntelliJ IDEA Open Source", clarifying that the officially distributed "Community Edition" was actually not entirely based on the open-source repository, and included proprietary components. Given these changes upstream, my proposal is to rename `intellij-idea-community-edition` to `intellij-idea-oss` moving forward. This would align with the new model, the "OSS" branding being already present both internally and user-facing [2]. Independently, the AUR package distributing `intellij-idea-ultimate-edition` should become simply `intellij-idea`, as this has been suggested on aurweb (the package maintainer is waiting for official repos to make the first move [3]). Cheers ~Cynthia PS: The maintainers in `intellij-idea-community-edition`'s PKGBUILD isn't accurate AFAICT ;) [1] https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2025/07/intellij-idea-unified-distribution-… [2] https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/5ada6f537896bdf5d549ac… [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/intellij-idea-ultimate-edition#comment-1…

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