June 2014 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] ttf-google-webfonts{,-distilled,-git,-hg} mess
by Jason St. John 19 Jun '19

19 Jun '19

I am the current maintainer of the AUR package ttf-google-webfonts-hg[4], and I'm bothered by the mess of various packages there are for Google's Web Fonts project. It's not at all KISS in its current state. There are currently four different AUR packages[1][2][3][4] that essentially supply the same files, and all four packages conflict with each other. Around August of 2012, the package named ttf-google-webfonts[1] was orphaned, and user w0ng created a GitHub repository[5] that mirrors the Mercurial repository[6] on Google Code (why?). Then, the new maintainer changed the original ttf-google-webfonts package from a VCS-type package that simply lacked "-hg" in the name to a package that pulls tarballs from w0ng's GitHub repo[5]. As you can see in the comments for ttf-google-webfonts[1], this has caused all sorts of confusion and messages about the package being out-of-date or having invalid checksums. To get around these issues, user epinephrine created the package ttf-google-webfonts-git[3] that clones w0ng's GitHub repo[5] instead of pulling tarballs from it, which significantly reduces the maintenance required on the package. Then, user Gently created a package named ttf-google-webfonts-distilled[2] that pulls a tarball from w0ng's GitHub repo[5] and only installs a small subset of the fonts therein. Shortly after ttf-google-webfonts[1] was changed from being a Mercurial-based package and not liking the direction that the package was taking, I reuploaded the original ttf-google-webfonts package as ttf-google-webfonts-hg[4] for people that simply wanted the old package back that uses the actual Google Web Fonts repository to download the files. To clean up this mess, I propose that ttf-google-webfonts-distilled[2] and ttf-google-webfonts-git[3] be deleted outright, for what should be obvious reasons. I also propose that ttf-google-webfonts[1] be deleted because of how frequently the Web Fonts project is updated and because the project lacks version numbers. If people really feel strongly about keeping that maintenance nightmare, then let them have it, but I really don't see what advantage it provides over the original ttf-google-webfonts-hg[4] other than one less makedepends. I apologize for the huge email, but this situation really is a mess. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-webfonts/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-webfonts-distilled/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-webfonts-git/ [4] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-webfonts-hg/ [5] https://github.com/w0ng/googlefontdirectory [6] https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/ Jason

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[aur-general] A bit strange - unusual packages
by Rob Til Freedmen 28 Sep '14

28 Sep '14

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[aur-general] [HEADS-UP] Meta data and split package support in the AUR
by Lukas Fleischer 27 Jul '14

27 Jul '14

Hello, I plan to do the next major AUR release by late May or June and I thought this might be a good time to let people know what is going on behind the scenes. AUR 3.0.0 will be able to read metadata from source packages. These metadata will be read from a file called .AURINFO (contained in the source tarball). Dave wrote several tools [1], including mkaurball which can be used to automatically build a source tarball with metadata so you don't need to worry about creating this file on your own. Having this information available means that: 1. We can drop the PKGBUILD parser from the AUR. The parser will still be available in the upcoming release but it will be marked as deprecated and a warning will be displayed whenever someone tries to upload a source tarball without metadata. 2. We can implement other things that were blocked by the AUR PKGBUILD parser being incomplete and inaccurate. Specifically, the next release will support split packages. Things that are on our TODO list: * Test the new AUR code. The split package code is still experimental. * Fix and extend the AUR RPC interface. * Test Dave's pkgbuild-introspection. * Move pkgbuild-introspection (or at least mkaurball) to [community]. It would also be nice to get metadata generation integrated into makepkg so that people no longer need to install mkaurball to generate source tarballs for the AUR. Regards, Lukas [1] https://github.com/falconindy/pkgbuild-introspection

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[aur-general] Orphan Request
by mytbk920423＠gmail.com 13 Jul '14

13 Jul '14

python-colorama[1] and python2-colorama[2] has been flagged out of date for a very long time, and I'd like to adopt them. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-colorama/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-colorama/

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[aur-general] Merge request: python2-liblzma -> python2-pyliblzma
by Levente Polyak 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

Please merge python2-liblzma [1] into python2-pyliblzma [2] because its a duplicate and pyliblzma [3] is the official name. Description: I contacted all old (hard and opt) dependencies of python2-liblzma [1] (like bfsync [4], binwalk [5] etc.) and they all made the transition to python2-pyliblzma [2] some time ago. I also helped a bit out by cleaning up the PKGBUILD for python2-pyliblzma [2]. However, the maintainer of python2-liblzma [1] did not yet respond to any of my mails (but thats already more then a month ago). cheers Levente [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-liblzma/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-pyliblzma/ [3] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyliblzma [4] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bfsync/ [5] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/binwalk

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[aur-general] python-rst2beamer
by sinma 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

I guess the package name needs to be edited to python2-rst2beamer to conform to Arch package naming convention. -- mon site web: hack-libre.org

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[aur-general] New mailing list for AUR requests (delete, merge, orphan, ..)
by Florian Pritz 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

Hi, As requested by Lukas, I've created a new mailing list for AUR related requests such as deletion, merge or orphan requests. The AUR will soon feature a web interface to create such requests and for history and discussion purposes mails will be sent to this new list. Please start using it for new requests already (maybe wait a couple hours so TUs can subscribe). Discussion about anything apart from such requests should stay on aur-general. You can subscribe here[1]. [1]: https://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aur-requests I expect traffic on aur-general to go down quite a lot due to this change, so if you aren't subscribed because of this request traffic feel free to give it another try now.

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[aur-general] Stumped on python split package
by Storm Dragon 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Hi, I must be missing something. When I install python-pypump-git or python2-pypump-git, I get the same package. I have other split packages installed and they install correctly. Can someone look at this PKGBUILD and let me know what I did wrong? Thanks Storm -- -- Registered Linux user number 508465: https://linuxcounter.net/user/508465.html My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.us/ get my public PGP key: gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 43DDC193 How many Internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a lightbulb? http://goo.gl/eO4PJ "Serpent's kin, born of sin. Dark within, father of the wolf!" Amon Amarth - Father of the Wolf

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[aur-general] Git version
by ccy＠free.fr 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Hi My PKGBUILD is available at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf/xfreq-2.0-git/PKGBUILD where source code comes from git Whenever I update a piece of code, I would like the version be reflected in pkgver also, so AUR tools like yaourt can inform the user. Any suggestion ?

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[aur-general] package blacklist?
by Mike Hobbs 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

I maintain the xorg-server-bug54168 package in AUR, which is a replacement for xorg-server that contains a small bug fix that upstream is not addressing. Anyway, when I submit a new version for the xorg-server 1.15.2 update, it tells me that "xorg-server is on the package blacklist, please check if it's available in the official repos". I've not seen this error before when updating my package. Is there any documentation about what this blacklist is, or how to avoid it, or how to petition for an override? I've done the standard searches, but have only come across random forum and mail list posts; nothing comprehensive. Thanks, - Mike

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