September 2017 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] add base-devel / multilib-devel group as makedepend to AUR packages ?
by LoneVVolf 18 Sep '17

18 Sep '17

Hi, I do have the impression that the number of aur comments about pacakges not building unless foo is installed has gone up. Very often foo turns out to be part of base-devel or multilib-devel. Answering that is easy, by linking to main AUR wiki page that clearly states base-devel is assumed to be installed when building aur packages. That part appears to be overlooked often though and results in unnecessary clutter in aur comments. Perhaps we could put base-devel group in makedepends of aur pacakages ? Lib32-* / multilib packages could list both multilib-devel and base-devel. Lone_Wolf

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[aur-general] [Review Request] PKGBUILD for bumblebee-status
by Tobias Witek 18 Sep '17

18 Sep '17

Hello, I'm the maintainer of a tiny small python project for i3 users (https://github.com/tobi-wan-kenobi/bumblebee-status) Turns out most of the people using it seem to be Arch users, so I'd like to provide an AUR package. Since I am not familiar with Arch myself, I'd kindly ask you to please have a look at the attached PKGBUILD just to make sure I'm not breaking anything for a majority of users (I will freely admit I have no clue what I am doing when it comes to building AUR packages). In particular, I am unsure about: * There is a git-based AUR already (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bumblebee-status-git/) the attached PKGBUILD is intended to be based on release-versions instead of the latest 'master'. Is it OK to use the same provides/conflicts in this case? * Since the sources are a git repo, I don't know how to provide any checksums for the package. Any insights on that would be much appreciated. Thank you very much for any input you can provide! Kr, Tobias

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[aur-general] deletion of packages
by Ricardo Band 18 Sep '17

18 Sep '17

Ahoi, I submitted a request to delete 2 of my packages a few days ago but nothing happened so far. The package yabat isn't develope dby me anymore. I deleted the upstream repo so the package can also go away. The package python-virtualfish will be combined with python2-virtualfish once the deletion is done. Would be nice if someone could do this. Happy weekend folks! -- Greetings Ricardo Band https:// www.ricardo.band mailto:// email(a)ricardo.band

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[aur-general] TU Application: Morten Linderud
by Morten Linderud 17 Sep '17

17 Sep '17

Hello Archers and Arch overlords! # Introduction: My name is Morten Linderud, or better known by Foxboron. I'm writing this application to join the TU team. My sponsor is Jelle van der Waa. # About me: I'm 23 years, and currently live in Bergen, Norway. I have a bachelors degree in Information science, and currently working towards a masters degree in the same field. I also work part-time with infrastructure and devops at a small company called Apility. I have been active with FOSS since 2012, and have contributed to several tools and projects. The most notable is probably Hylang[1] where I have been a core developer since 2013. In my spare time I enjoy playing guitar, learning photography, attending conferences and volunteer work for LAN-parties, the local Game Jam and student organizations "Beer and Programming", where we drink beer and discuss programming, and Fribyte, hosting and misc IT-services for student organizations in Bergen where i'm currently second in charge. # Arch Linux related: Arch Linux has been my daily driver since 2013, although I have worked with Linux and Ubuntu for few years prior as a secondary OS. I have maintained AUR packages since 2015, adopting orphaned packages and created new ones. During last years Chaos Communication Congress I got in touch with anthraxx and shibumi. They introduced me to their security meet up along with jelle and rgacogne. This ended up with me assisting the reviewing of security advisories, and i have now added as a CVE reporter to the team. I have also been added to the tester team, and done small contributions on the Archwiki and security-tracker, along with tedious amounts of rambling on #archlinux-offtopic.^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W # TU pledges: As a TU I'll move the following packages from the AUR to community: - protege - ttf-font-awesome - cryptomator - pass-otp - nageru And adopt the following packages from community: - rofi - go-md2man - python-xapp - python-send2trash - python-pycountry - python-autobahn I would also love to help out with Python and Go packages. # Other projects: signoff[2] is a tool I have written that helps testers with signing off on packages they have installed from testing. It comes with neat auto-completions and enough commands that it should replace the signoff page. Several testers are using this to signoff packages in the testing repositories. I have also worked on other tools that may benefit the Arch Linux community in the future. Most notable is a tool that could solve the remote GPG signing issue that was discussed on pacman-dev in 2011[3], with no solutions back then. I currently have a point of concept written in golang that could support this[4]. The end goal is to create an API and signing tool. The other project is a package build system[5] that uses docker as an OS abstraction, and builds packages proper with chroots inside. It builds on top of buildbot[6]. It's far from feature complete, but the plan is to support distributed package building, and dispatch rebuilds based on dependencies. I have been using it to manage my own AUR packages. Thanks for reading, and may the tacos be with you. # Links: [1]: http://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/ [2]: https://github.com/Foxboron/archweb-signoff-helper [3]: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2011-June/013333.html [4]: https://github.com/Foxboron/remote-sign [5]: https://github.com/Foxboron/arch-auto-build [6]: https://buildbot.net/ -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16

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[aur-general] Resigning from my TU position
by Anatol Pomozov 11 Sep '17

11 Sep '17

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[aur-general] Resignation as TU
by Timothy M. Redaelli 09 Sep '17

09 Sep '17

Hi, in the last few month my "offline" life + job on Red Hat took me too much time and I don't have enough time / motivation to continue as TU. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.

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[aur-general] Resignation as TU
by Thorsten Toepper 06 Sep '17

06 Sep '17

Hello, Over the last couple of months other things in live got higher priority and the amount of time I'm able to invest into Arch Linux shrinks. So after several years I now step down from my post as a TU. I only maintain a small number of packages and for most there are rarely new releases upstream and for the ones with more or less regular releases there sure will be someone to take care of them, however there's one package for which I . mathomatic is a great tool, but its original developer George Gesslein died several years ago and since then the original site vanished. There are sites like launchpad which still provide information about this software, but except for other distributions I never found a site that also provided the code of the last release, so as package source I use a backup of the last release in a github repository in order to be independent of other sites may dropping the tool as currently there's no one who develops this software further. As mentioned there's a launchpad site for the project, but the version provided there is 15.6.5 while the last release was 16.0.5. It would be nice if this package could stay in the repositories. Maybe not just relying on my backup copy on github, but hosting it on our own servers. Best Regards, Thorsten

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[aur-general] second maintainer
by mickael foucaux 06 Sep '17

06 Sep '17

Is it possible to add a second maintainer to an AUR package ?

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[aur-general] E-Mail forgotten
by Christian Dürr 01 Sep '17

01 Sep '17

Hello, I wanted to create a new AUR account and it seems like I have forgotten the email I used. I checked the one I used on the forums but that was not correct. According to the password reset form I should contact this place. The username I used was "UndeadLeech".

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