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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in the comments for ttf-google-webfonts[1], this has caused all sorts of confusion and messages about the package being out-of-date or having invalid checksums.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] gopro package check
by mickael foucaux 03 Jul '17

03 Jul '17

Hi ! I just realized my first PKGBUILD for gopro tool which is available here for now: https://github.com/mickro/gopro-tools-arch-package Gopro tools are made by https://github.com/KonradIT. That gives some useful tools for GoPro post production. And I think that can be usefull for many. I'm asking here for a PKGBUILD review, as suggested on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Submitting_packag… . cheers, Mickael

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[aur-general] Help with PKGBUILD for python-txtorcon
by Storm Dragon 30 Jun '17

30 Jun '17

Howdy, My package requires a new dependancy called python-txtorcon. I wanted to provide both python2 and python3 versions of this package, so I made the PKGBUILD using the package python-twisted as a guide. I think I have done pretty much everything right, and it works for me, but there are some who are having trouble with it: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/magic-wormhole/?comments=all I have attached the PKGBUILD for python-txtorcon. Can someone please take a look at it and see if there is anything wrong? Thanks for the help :) Storm -- Powered by Arch Linux! I am registered Linux user number 508465: https://linuxcounter.net/user/508465.html My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.tk/ get my public PGP key: gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 43DDC193 Twitter and Facebook are so ... yesteryear. Get your 2MB Social account TODAY! http://2mb.social/main/register How many Internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a lightbulb? http://goo.gl/eO4PJ "Every day is Halloween" Type O Negative - Black No. One

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[aur-general] Gcc-6.3: ldd shows wrong symbols
by Stefan Husmann 28 Jun '17

28 Jun '17

Hello, I have put gcc63 to AUR, merely to have a working gcj implemetation, but something is wrong with it. If I compile anything with it, ldd shows that the resulting binaries have wrong symbols. For instance, ldd ~/paketierung/meine_Pakete/fotoxx/pkg/fotoxx/usr/bin/fotoxx |grep -v usr linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffcbe5cf000) libstdc++.so.6 => /lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/6.3.1/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fd4fb0e7000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/6.3.1/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fd4fabbe000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fd4fe8d6000) IMHO it should be libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/6.3.1/libstdc++.so.6 What am I doing wrong? I do not know how to fix this. fotoxx is written in c++, but this happens also for programs compiled with gcc or gcj. The pdftk PKGBUILD especially suffers from this, as you can see in the AUR comments. Help is much appreciated. Best Regards Stefan

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[aur-general] https://aur.archlinux.org/ is down
by Ralf Mardorf 18 Jun '17

18 Jun '17

Hi, just in case it should be an unknown issue, https://aur.archlinux.org/ is down. Regards, Ralf

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[aur-general] Typo in email address
by Laurent van den Bos 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Dear all, Approximately an hour ago I tried to create an account for AUR but during the registration I made a typo in my email address. After a query on the forum (see [1]) I was referred to this list for help. I think it would be a bit odd if I just create a new account and ignore the other one (keeping the database a bit clean). What is the best thing I could do? The username I registered at AUR is Laurent and the correct email address should be the address of this email. Thanks, Laurent [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=227238

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[aur-general] saving AUR history (Re: TU Application: Thore Bödecker)
by Yardena Cohen 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 5:02 AM, Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 4:49 AM, Thore Boedecker via aur-general > <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> wrote: >> 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). > > That's very polite of you, and once you're a TU you're welcome to take > it over, but generally you don't need to ask permission. TUs have > taken my packages before, and that's just how it is. :) So, I just noticed that you took over my two packages: amavisd-new and perl-convert-uulib. Which is fine. But I also noticed that instead of preserving their git repo histories, you just started a new repo with the first commit called "import from AUR": https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/log/trunk?h=packages/amavi… https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/log/trunk?h=packages/perl-… I'm curious, other than my local backup, is this history now gone for good?

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[aur-general] MariaDB vs MySQL
by Konstantin Gizdov 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

Hi all, I saw today libmariadbclient was updated to 10.1.24 and dropped the line where it provides libmysqlclient. However, it still ships with the shared libs and conflicts libmysqlclient. I maintain a few packages that require libmysqlclient and I have some installed that require libmariadbclient. So with this conflict and no provision statement, my system is broken. As a temporary fix, the packages I maintain now require libmariadbclient with the hopes that it implicitly provides mysql support too. However, can I realistically depend on this as a fact or not? If not, isn't that a way bigger problem for others as well? Help and advice is much appreciated. Regards, Konstantin

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