March 2018 - 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in the comments for ttf-google-webfonts[1], this has caused all sorts of confusion and messages about the package being out-of-date or having invalid checksums.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] PKGBUILD
by Guilherme Machado 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

Could you review this PKGBUILD? If possible, I'd like to see it on AUR.

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[aur-general] packaging error in network manager?
by Tom Zander 19 Mar '18

19 Mar '18

I just updated my machine and rebooted, the network manager failed to get up. Checking the journal logs I get message that /usr/bin/NetworkManager can't read the shared library libpsl.so.6 I only have libpsl.so.5 on my system. Did packaging go wrong somewhere? -- Tom Zander Blog: https://zander.github.io Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel

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Re: [aur-general] Password Recovery
by Alexey Andreyev 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Hello! I've lost my password for aa13q user. No replys about how to restore. Any chances to get new account? I want to contribute to anbox-git and dbus-cpp with patches: https://github.com/anbox/anbox/issues/637#issuecomment-373219750 30.11.2017, 14:18, "Alexey Andreyev" <aa13q(a)ya.ru>: > Hello, I've lost my password for aa13q user. > Any chances to recover an account?

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[aur-general] TU Application - Robin Broda
by Robin Broda 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Hello, I'm Robin 'coderobe' Broda, born in '99, and I'm writing to become a Trusted User. I've been an Arch user since ~2014, using it on several devices including most of my servers. I'm more or less active on IRC, very interested in open-source development[0], federated networks, & reproducible builds - and would like to increase the amount of reproducible packages in Arch. I maintain a couple of PKGBUILDs in the AUR and I'm looking to adopt more[2]. Eli Schwartz has agreed to sponsor my application. After becoming a TU, I'd like to look into promoting a couple of packages from the AUR over time, including but not limited to `rutorrent`, `psensor`, `glava` (currently `glava-git`, waiting for tagged releases), `gtkhash`, `streem`, & `polybar` - assuming that no issues preventing the packaging (& inclusion in the repos) turn up and the popularity/votes are high enough to warrant inclusion. I would also like to potentially tackle some of the TODOs[1]. As mentioned earlier, I also plan to look into reproducibility issues and improving the infrastructure around reproducible builds (and the verification thereof). I'm available on IRC with the username 'coderobe' (Freenode), on Matrix[3] (@coderobe:cdr.li), and via e-mail - should you have questions about anything. My timezone is UTC+1. Thank you for considering. Regards, Rob [0] https://github.com/coderobe [1] https://www.archlinux.org/todo/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=M&K=coderobe&outdated=&SB=n&SO=… [3] https://matrix.org/

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[aur-general] Wrong package version and more wrong attributes displayed
by Sebastian Lau 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

Hello, I've updated my package [0][1], but the web form is displaying the update with the old version and old attributes (i.e. I've updated to v2.1.0-1 and it is displayed as a new v2.0.0-2 version, which is a bug in the web UI). [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/giteye/ [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=giteye&id=4ee6ae7ad84adaa0… It would be great, if this bug is patched with a future version of AUR. Greetings, Sebastian Lau (nullptr_t)

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[aur-general] Go package dependencies
by Adam Levy 04 Mar '18

04 Mar '18

Hi there, I am co-maintaining a few AUR packages written in Golang and I just ran namcap on my built package. I got the following output on a few of my golang packages: $ namcap influxdb-1.4.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz influxdb E: Dependency glibc detected and not included (libraries ['usr/lib/libpthread.so.0', 'usr/lib/libc.so.6'] needed in files ['usr/bin/influx_inspect', 'usr/bin/influx_stress', 'usr/bin/influx', 'usr/bin/influx_tsm', 'usr/bin/influxd']) However 'glibc' is in the base group, and I thought that it wasn't necessary to declare dependencies from the base group since it should always be installed on a fresh OS install. Am I wrong about this point? Should I be including 'glibc' as a dependency in this package? Should I be including 'bash' as a dependency in packages with scripts that use bash? Thank you! Adam Levy (alaskanarcher)

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Re: [aur-general] [PRQ#10789] Merge Request for remarkable-webkit2gtk
by Mikael Blomstrand 04 Mar '18

04 Mar '18

I just made a merge-request for a package I maintain. But I'm curious about what this actually means in practice when it's merged. Will current users be notified in some way? Will they be redirected to the new package? Or is it just about the votes? If users are not notified, is there a smart way to make them move to the new package before deleting? --- Micke On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 11:03:03PM +0000, notify(a)aur.archlinux.org wrote: > chawlindel [1] filed a request to merge remarkable-webkit2gtk [2] into > remarkable [3]: > > I'm maintainer of both packages. Decided to patch `remarkable` for > webkit2gtk. > > Aside: Will this mean that people trying to update remarkable- > webkit2gtk will get redirected to remarkable? > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/chawlindel/ > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/remarkable-webkit2gtk/ > [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/remarkable/

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[aur-general] Qutebrowser update
by Pierre Neidhardt 02 Mar '18

02 Mar '18

Qutebrowser 1.1.2 is out: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/releases. I'm the current PKGBUILD maintainer but I won't have access to an Arch Linux system before a while, so if anybody wants to update it for me, go ahead, that'd be very nice! Cheers! -- Pierre Neidhardt

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