December 2017 - 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in the comments for ttf-google-webfonts[1], this has caused all sorts of confusion and messages about the package being out-of-date or having invalid checksums.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] aurjson - Adding groups to the infos of a search
by Ricardo Band 03 Jan '18

03 Jan '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Ahoi, I'm building a AUR wrapper and I would like to display the package groups next to the search results when someone searches for a package like pacman does it for official repos. In the wiki [1] it says that the output of the aur rpc is just a list of info request outputs. But when I'm doing a search [2] I don't get the extra info I get with a info request [3]. What I would need is the "Groups" info. Could this be added to the list of elements that a normal search returns? It would speed up my wrapper alot. Atm I'm doing info requests for every single package that I get in the search request and I really don't like that. :/ [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AurJson#search_2 [2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=search&by=name-desc&arg=unrealtourn… [3]: https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=info&arg[]=unrealtournament - -- Greetings Ricardo Band https:// www.ricardo.band mailto:// email(a)ricardo.band -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEhyzgFNiV8yZuI1T5Gp1lfQa1gg4FAlo/AMsACgkQGp1lfQa1 gg4XJw//RaLlxBGfG9cYTMguWJhx6CPOQkSJrT6FJ4is1GnW1WZSgCtMu559N39w PqM/SxFODD58gZYlR9k31wwjoUFb/PujBVF8BDx0ulT5s2d+b45HM2kQkpAUnp66 7T8ww1v/PNcce6rA9wu3jZK64zdDxC8OF3+KJ+HOejCDwGmzBAf70o0rYHQZ5JHW +k//QebFpZmk7uegGTeCHZqX9RmrGfZBUHdtbUrVpijwOmU+qRSmT9e2DXtxvZjE 6hRcVX9MsOuxgjjXvMD37MVKO5ANSuzVOF0vwrbnoi7bh0qcV6iFyn5Ck9aiIn/t EhzCdr7FNlK5/cBMvEBfBvguOFebkckvXj1tO4v3oXOIdvF84U0BU07nZlMOefnp pT8cJICookjlToLj1xNyagKs+h7YYTBJdWLIA3AWzHR+r9k/Eyb3eqRMavGTABVz eq3a/S2umhuzYKEFu51mYnm1ws64Rc2/lDGj/O/Nv8BVZPG8xPHZNh7LzbhrLqcq jmGqoxyAvlDAOo2PHaZvU8gCp0PGlmsmpyTOJhqIQ1g73u0tRreM+qiFekOAy8V9 jNQmTQcZPA+Tp2+nBByo8ba0A5wLkf6ONKYzX8i7tOnSMBILdkmonbb3/zzDpKoY Ni+uVSrmFQnmGMcvNZHfp9JZ7+xZ8FPGmLqOsGIjNa5ibvbT6ac= =kpHV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] Rage-git package exists but pkg web page 404 + seems unmaintained
by Carsten Haitzler 30 Dec '17

30 Dec '17

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rage-git Is gone but repo is alive: git clone ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/rage-git.git Works. As does: git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/rage-git.git And I see no removal request on aur-requests: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/ (downloaded full mbox archive): $ grep rage-git aur-requests.mbox sickrage-git [3]: [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/sickrage-git/ No rage-git. What happened? It's unmaintained because it doesn't build (since July 20 when I removed the autotools based build upstream and moved to meson as the build system). I put in a comment on the pkg page that the AUR pkg build was broken ages ago and offered to take over maintenance in the package comments but got no reply and now the package page at least has disappeared. How about restoring it? I can also take over maintenance as I have kept a git clone of rage-git and moved it to meson locally (have not pushed). I also now maintain efl-git and enlightenment-git too (rage-git depends on efl). -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - raster(a)rasterman.com

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[aur-general] Wrong email address in AUR signup
by Curi0 28 Dec '17

28 Dec '17

Hi I used zCqri0(a)gmail.com instead of zKqri0(a)gmail.com username name is Curi0.

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[aur-general] TU application for Eli Schwartz
by Eli Schwartz 26 Dec '17

26 Dec '17

Hello, all. :) My name is Eli Schwartz, better known as eschwartz on the forums[1], AUR[2], bugtracker[3], wiki[4] general mailing lists, IRC, and generally everywhere I can stick my nose in. With the aid of Bartłomiej Piotrowski, I am applying today to become a TU. I'm 24 years old, and currently studying Computer Science in the United States. I've been interested in Linux ever since I was first introduced to it in high school, when I asked "what would be the best Linux distro to install if I really want to learn how things work", and I was recommended to try out Arch Linux. It's a choice I haven't regretted since! Outside of Linux my main hobby is books/ebooks (primarily SF&F of all sorts). I have leveraged this nicely to feed back into software which deals with ebooks. :) ... I've now been an active member of the Arch Linux community for approximately 3.5 years, and in that time I've become a member of the Arch Bug Wranglers team, given an Arch Classroom tutorial[5], contributed a few small patches to various Arch projects, mainly pacman[6], and generally hung out on the forums and in IRC, trying to be helpful. Recently I've been doing a bit of general helping out in #archlinux-reproducible[7] as well. I've always been especially interested in packaging for Arch Linux, and have reviewed many PKGBUILDs on this mailing list as well as in the AUR Issues, Discussion & PKGBUILD Requests subforum and in #archlinux-aur, written a popular script for maintaining AUR packages[8], and featured the topic of packaging for Arch Linux in the above-mentioned Arch Classroom tutorial. I anticipate doing all^W^W^Wmost of this in a somewhat more formal role. :) I would like to become a TU in order to contribute more to Arch Linux in general (because it would be a shame to miss out on one particular angle I guess). It would also give me more scope to help fix simple packaging bugs that come up on the bugtracker, help resolve some policy TODOs[9], fix packages which no longer build due to e.g. missing sources (many such packages have been discovered in part due to the valiant efforts of Reproducible Arch Linux and Arch Linux 32), and of course to bring some packages to [community] that I feel would do well there. If given the opportunity, I would consider bringing the following packages to community: - firefox-extension-https-everywhere (I conmaintain this) - fanficfare (I maintain this) - git-crypt - advancecomp - llpp - wikicurses - ghi - dtrx - checkbashisms I would adopt the cinnamon desktop packages, as faidoc is not very active currently and arojas, who currently builds them, says he'd prefer someone who actually uses it to do so. I've also received permission to comaintain sigil and qbittorrent, as well as calibre and its dependencies (I maintain the -git packages for all three in the AUR, and have contributed most of the calibre PKGBUILD as well). [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=84187 [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=M&SB=n&K=Eschwartz [3] https://bugs.archlinux.org/?project=0&do=user&id=19965 [4] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Special:Contributions/Eschwartz [5] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Classroom#Previous_classes [6] https://github.com/eli-schwartz/pacman/commits/queue?author=eli-schwartz [7] https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/archlinux/archlinux.html [8] https://github.com/eli-schwartz/pkgbuilds [9] https://www.archlinux.org/todo/ -- Eli Schwartz

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[aur-general] Search for multiple words with the AUR RPC
by Ricardo Band 24 Dec '17

24 Dec '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Ahoi, I'm trying to find out how I can search for multiple words with the AUR RPC interface. Using something like pacaur gives me 5 results: pacaur -Ss unreal bonus aur/unrealtournament-bonuspack1 20000225-3 (2, 0.00) Bonuspack 1: The Epic Pack for Unreal Tournament. aur/unrealtournament-bonuspack2 20000104-3 (2, 0.00) Bonuspack 2: The Digital Extremes Pack for Unreal Tournament. aur/unrealtournament-bonuspack3 20000511-3 (2, 0.00) Bonuspack 3: The Inoxx Pack for Unreal Tournament. aur/unrealtournament-bonuspack4 20001223-3 (2, 0.00) Bonuspack 4: The Christmas 2000 Pack for Unreal Tournament. aur/ut2004-cbp 1-1 (0, 0.00) Community Bonus Pack 1 & 2 for Unreal Tournament 2004 (ut2004) This only searches for bonus and gives me 6 results: https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=search&by=name-desc&arg=unreal&arg=… These searches for the exact term and gives me zero results: https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=search&by=name-desc&arg=unreal,bonus https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=search&by=name-desc&arg=unreal+bonus https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=search&by=name-desc&arg=unreal%20bo… This gives me an error saying "Query arg too small." https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=search&by=name-desc&arg[]=unreal&ar… - -- Greetings Ricardo Band https:// www.ricardo.band mailto:// email(a)ricardo.band -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEhyzgFNiV8yZuI1T5Gp1lfQa1gg4FAlo+/XUACgkQGp1lfQa1 gg6HcQ//bcYRik9CGscuAlBx2w4kdNpF14Nbg5b0CjQFd/hcKnYbxHvv8t8C5Ilb AVcvw5+7SlNRulcK8kECGZex+pZ+Jh0+FnvVW81zJRcBDL906lQoR8isoU2w6UxT q5U4LMC5oe+9xqi6dVT5HBSccYRcG3hx8KijADlDItg2/eOuFyCcxkvnMYpxR+LA 872I6tTOAE7pVbddCZy7xBIf28y1zbu1fVhi0sRIbB7wAOqkAIqr76iLBLYamL8M QNUE3vAv32AReMmNyL9Uh0zpWRQPf28wgbas6QFrR92XVE+dZcrPSlDyVJWGNHCS Tu5qXsiw7dJIEYbIgtUEcv0Eq8uf2Qi86kv6xllHd9pkw1x8/yY8T/0+mTaq0JIn qodFUwELypVwNKoTMEGpYSbfLac78pn6Pbn/6JXh7Y27c3flEQtsBjudu5aUk7gj S05OkWJbOTIaloCOsyl5pbsRN+RqZATqeMlpfsV5HfzGBBOCBw/C5GbIpd7uMx0k KaEGAE4dFRNKy0frPCrvWDJ50IKjAdzQFsX9n8O2VC3gkAtHn0+wUrXOLjGOl6N3 SZabPAdasMRsLt9VWYoVbEt+xG3G/q2ZCqUgf95N7yZhWfqStVEYq+gyVUQVMIHX vGATcZajxUAaHpNtDSrGR4fLlK+18j/gbd6xB+CE2uoqolBQ4TM= =vzmY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] Voice Message from Outside Caller (2m 43s)
by Voice Message 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

Voice Message Arrived on Tue, 19 Dec 2017 14:16:33 +0200 Name: Outside Caller Number: Unavailable Duration: 2m 43s _________________ ARCHLINUX.ORG SV9100 InMail

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[aur-general] python-nfqueue package
by Leonardo Korndorfer 20 Dec '17

20 Dec '17

Hello, I was looking for the nfqueue-bindings pkg in aur and found a mail thread from 2013: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2013-November/026059.html Basically it was merged at some point to python2-nfqueue, but then the pkg was lost somewhere. Does anybody know how to get it, by any chance? ---- Leo.

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[aur-general] What should guile-git be named on AUR?
by 藍挺瑋 09 Dec '17

09 Dec '17

I am going to upgrade guix to 0.14.0 on AUR. It requires a new library called 'guile-git', which is a guile binding for libgit2 and it can be found on https://gitlab.com/guile-git/guile-git. However, there is already a package called guile-git on AUR, which is the git snapshot version of 'guile' package. What is the recommended name for this new package to avoid conflict?

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[aur-general] [community] Looking for fzf adopter
by Pierre Neidhardt 06 Dec '17

06 Dec '17

I've stopped using fzf a while back and I'm not interested in maintaining its community package anymore. Anybody happy to take over? -- Pierre Neidhardt

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