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[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in the comments for ttf-google-webfonts[1], this has caused all sorts of confusion and messages about the package being out-of-date or having invalid checksums.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] TU Application: André Silva
by André Silva 27 May '17

27 May '17

Hi all, I'm André Silva (known as Emulatorman) that was one of main full-time Parabola devs between 2012-2017 [0] maintaining around 800 packages [1], mainly Linux-libre kernels and personal ones such as the Linux-libre in combination with Knock [2], Grsecurity+Knock [3]. I will happy to maintain some of my packages with the other TUs and my sponsor (nicohood) in [community]. The following packages that i would maintain are: * ath9k-htc-firmware * linux-libre-firmware * openfwwf * linux-libre * linux-libre-lts Regards, André Silva GPG ID: C92B AA71 3B8D 53D3 CAE6 3FC9 E697 4752 F970 4456 [0]:https://git.parabola.nu/hackers.git/tree/users/1007.yml [1]:https://lists.parabola.nu/pipermail/dev/2017-April/005094.html [2]:https://wiki.parabola.nu/Knock [3]:https://wiki.parabola.nu/Grsecurity%2BKnock

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[aur-general] TU Application: Thore Bödecker
by Thore Boedecker 24 May '17

24 May '17

Hey folks, My name is Thore Bödecker (a.k.a. foxxx0, or just foxxx depending on nick availability) and finally I have taken the time increase my involvement with Arch Linux. I'm 26 years old now and living in small town called Falkensee, near Berlin in Germany. First of all thanks to Florian Pritz (Bluewind) who is sponsoring my TU application. I heard you like stories so I'm happy to tell you about my way through the Linux world. I have been using Linux in various flavours for a long time, if memory serves correctly it all started with Ubuntu 6.10 somewhere in 2006 while I was still in school. At first it was merely some experimentation and exploring a whole new world but quickly I got really interested. Being a totally addicted gamer at that time it was not a real option for daily usage but I went ahead to build a small fileserver with it and continued to learn new stuff while doing so. After switching back and forth between Ubuntu and Debian for a couple of years and a bit of Gentoo in the middle I ended up renting a server to host some stuff with Debian. In October 2010 my bachelor studies in some sort of technical computer science started at HTW Berlin (for the German speaking people, the course of studies was called "Informationstechnik/Vernetzte Systeme"). This surely had quite some influence and not much later Arch Linux was the OS on my laptop. And oh it was good and enjoyable (even without systemd back then! :P). During my studies I had less and less time for gaming which eventually made me install Arch on my desktop at home. At that point it was already quite clear that there was no alternative for me. Having used Arch for some years on a daily basis made me more and more annoyed with my rented server, that was still running Debian. I got really upset with APT and the "Debian-way" of doing things, having seen how simply and enjoyable they were on Arch Linux. You can pretty much guess what happened, I ended up with Arch on my rented server as well. And a second one. And on my router at home. I even build a custom archiso for home PXE setup, doing which is really pleasing too. Please bear with me, I'll try to wrap things up :) Since October 2013 I am studying computer science at the TU Berlin which has been quite an adventure thus far and if everything works out I'm on track to start my master thesis near the end of this year. As I am also providing hosting services on that server to a small group of customers, the PHP 7 release was quite cumbersome. I had to find a way to provide support for two different PHP versions on my server. Gladly I found a fellow sufferer in Mickaël Thomas (mickael9 in the AUR) and we started working on the php56 AUR package [1]. It was a bit messy at first but in the end it worked out and I've been running php56 together with the upstream Arch Linux php packages for over a year now. I have been a co-maintainer of that package ever since and tried to push the security releases out as quickly as possible. In order to retain as much features of php56 as possible, I created some additional packages for that, which could co-exist with upstream Arch repo packages as well: [2] php56-apcu [3] php56-geoip [4] php56-memcache [5] php56-memcached [6] php56-xdebug So why am I doing this all? I love using Arch Linux, it has been a joyful journey most of the time and I'm looking forward to what might come. But why do I want to be a TU some of you might ask. As I am providing hosting services for customers I am also acting as an email service provider for my customers (and for myself too). Over the last few month there were some nasty spam mails glitching through my spamassassin setup. Naturally I investigated and found that I couldn't really do *anything* while using Arch Linux repo packages only (which I highly prefer for critical infrastructure). I have been in touch with Florian very, very much over the last few years and we shared the same desire: amavisd-new. So last week I did an experiment with a combination of opendkim + opendmarc + amavisd-new. When I discovered that there was no AUR package for amavisd-milter I went ahead and created one. But somehow when I tried to push my package to AUR it said "Permission denied". As it turned out, another fellow Arch Linux user has done the exact same thing and pushed to the AUR a couple of hours before me. So I got in contact with said Person, Karol Babioch (kbabioch) and he was happy to let me take ownership of amavisd-milter [7]. I countinued to experiment and it seemed the opendmarc internal SPF check wasn't really working in the Arch Linux repo version. This made me build opendmarc using libspf2 which did the trick and I've put that together in opendmarc-libspf2 [8]. To make all these parts easily and comfortably available to all Arch Linux users I would like to move these few packages to [community] (if Yardena Cohen a.k.a. yar agrees for amavisd-new). As you guys want to make sure that I am capable of writing high quality PKGBUILDs, Florian pointed out some AUR packages that were orphaned and could use some makeover. So I went ahead and tried my best to get them back into shape, feel free to give feedback: [9] awl [10] davical [11] webalizer You can find all packages that I currently maintain here: [12]. Last but not least I would like to throw in my own open source project, that I created to easy management of my hosting: [13] vhost-api It is currently undergoing a rewrite in order to improve the modularity, expandability and maintenance. Sadly my time for that is a bit scarce right now and it is not urgent as has been working quite well thus far. The packages that I would like to move to [community], if the current maintainers agree, are: - amavisd-new - amavisd-milter - perl-convert-tnef (required for amavisd-new) - perl-convert-uulib (required for amavisd-new) - libspf2 Additionally I would like to take maintainership of opendmarc if that is okay with Sergej, in order to build it against libspf2. Apart from maintaining the mentioned packages I am also quite capable regarding server and service hosting and happy to assist in maintaining and improving the Arch Linux infrastructure. :) The best ways to reach me are either through email: me [at] foxxx0 [dot] de Or over on split^Wfreenode: freenode/foxxx0 Thanks for taking the time to read all this and for considering my application. Cheers, Thore [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/log/?h=php56 [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/php56-apcu [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/php56-geoip [4] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/php56-memcache [5] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/php56-memcached [6] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/php56-xdebug [7] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/amavisd-milter [8] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/opendmarc-libspf2 [9] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/awl [10] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/davical [11] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/webalizer [12] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=foxxx [13] https://github.com/vhost-api --

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[aur-general] Cabal-install-git package
by Markus Ongyerth 14 May '17

14 May '17

Hello, I created a PKGBUILD for cabal-install (from git) and wanted to upload it to the aur. [1] When I fetched the repository from the server, I got a PKGBUILD that already exists, but isn't listed on the website. #archlinux on freenode told me, that can happen when a repository was deleted from the aur. Is it possible to get my version in? Or was it removed, because a git HEAD version of cabal-install is considered superseeded by something from the official repos? ongy [1] https://github.com/Ongy/cabal-install-PKGBUILD

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