November 2020 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] TU application - rgacogne
by Remi Gacogne 06 Dec '20

06 Dec '20

Hello everyone, My name is Remi Gacogne, and I hereby apply to join the Trusted Users team, kindly sponsored by Levente Polyak and Morten Linderud. I'm 37 years old and live in Paris, France. My journey with Linux started around 1999 with Mandrake, quickly replaced by Slackware which has been my favourite distribution until I fell in love with Arch, around 2009. Since then I have been involved in several aspects of the life of the Arch community like the wiki and the bug tracker [1], but my main contributions have been to the security team, often bugging you folks with security issues in your packages :) You can find me on Freenode and OFTC under the nick of rgacogne. I have contributed to many FOSS projects over the years, mainly by writing and fixing C, C++ and Python code, hopefully not introducing too many bugs in the process. Some of them can be found on my GitHub profile [2]. I have held positions as a sysadmin, security engineer and software engineer in the past, and am currently working for the PowerDNS [3] open-source company as a software engineer. In my spare time I enjoy climbing, hiking, paragliding and trail running, as well as drinking beers. I'm also involved in a few non-profit organisations, far away from computers. I am currently maintaining a few packages in the AUR [4], although most of the popular ones I used to maintain having been moved to community by existing TUs along the way, with my blessing and gratitude. As a TU I would like to move two of the remaining ones to community: - bgpq3 - dnsdist My main motivation for becoming a TU is however not to move those, but to relieve the workload of other TUs by helping maintain and/or adopting existing community packages. For obvious reasons I have already discussed adopting the powerdns and powerdns-recursor packages from anthraxx, but I would also be interested in adopting some orphans here and there, like for example hiredis, libopenraw and nsd. I should also mention that being a TU would be very useful to my work on the security team, since I would then be able to help fix critically vulnerable packages. My preferred, old-fashioned, way of keeping track of packages updates is to subscribe to mailing-lists, but I have come to appreciate the use of tools like nvchecker in doing so as well :) Cheers, Remi [1]: https://bugs.archlinux.org/user/9172 [2]: https://github.com/rgacogne [3]: https://www.powerdns.com [4]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=rgacogne

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[aur-general] Proposing knot-resolver for community repo
by Tomas Krizek 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

Hi, I'd like to ask if you'd consider adopting knot-resolver from AUR [1] into the community repo. The main reason is that the Knot DNS dependency is in the community repository and a soname bump requires a rebuild of Knot Resolver. This happens about twice a year. As you can see from the AUR comments, the users are often confused if they don't do the rebuild and Knot Resolver breaks. Any further debugging is probably quite complicated, since if they use the software as their system resolver, it effectively breaks the DNS resolution, thus preventing access to internet. The knot-resolver package should be quite low maintenance. We (upstream) use sysusers & tmpfiles, ship ready-to-use systemd units and the build time is less than a minute on my laptop. We also have our own upstream PKGBUILD we keep up-to-date [2], so a simple diff of this file against PKGBUILD should be sufficient for any significant changes. It'd be great if any TU (preferably Knot DNS maintainer) could maintain this package in the community repo. Thank you for the consideration! [1] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/knot-resolver/ [2] - https://gitlab.nic.cz/knot/knot-resolver/-/blob/master/distro/arch/PKGBUILD -- Tomas Krizek PGP: 4A8B A48C 2AED 933B D495 C509 A1FB A5F7 EF8C 4869

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[aur-general] Fwd: Change committer name
by Cyrusmg 24 Nov '20

24 Nov '20

Hi, could any Trusted User please change committer name for the latest commit I have pushed for "eobcanka" package to "Cyrusmg <aur(a)kulovany.net>" just like I have in previous commits ? I have used my corporate identity and that's not good. "" It should be possible as per "Modify committer or author identity" in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines) Thank you! Cyrus

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[aur-general] TU removal: Evgeniy 'arcanis' Alekseev
by Morten Linderud 17 Nov '20

17 Nov '20

Yo, I would like to start the discussion period for a Trusted User removal of Evgeniy Alekseev, also known as 'arcanis' on the grounds of 'Special Removal of an Inactive TU' [1]. Evgeniy's last action on archweb was '2019-12-25 20:41', and the last vote they participated in was the removal of shiv 13 montsh ago. I have also attempted sending them an email two times the past 5 months, along with Alad having sent them an email. There has been no replies. The voting procedure will commence after seven days of discussion period, in which Evgeniy can state his case. Cheers, [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/trusted-user/TUbylaws.html#_special_removal_of_an… -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16

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by .shaia .algahtni 15 Nov '20

15 Nov '20

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[aur-general] Need a password reset for AUR login.
by Derek Taylor 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

I have forgotten my password for login to the AUR page. On the page, it says "If you have forgotten the user name and the primary e-mail address you used to register, please send a message to the aur-general mailing list." My user name should be dwt1. But when I click on "forgot password" I never receive any email for a reset (I waited more than a day).

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[aur-general] TU application - bastelfreak
by Tim Meusel 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

Hi! I'm Tim Meusel and I want to spent more time in the Arch Linux community and increase the package quality. I first got in touch with open source some years ago in the Puppet Community [0] where I started to love Puppet and FOSS. At the moment I'm employed at a big ISP where I maintain a few thousand systems. My solution of choice for configuration management is Puppet because it fulfills all requirements and is easy to extend. For a few projects I require up2date systems with modern software, that's why i choose Arch Linux. Since Puppet was already present in the company, the Arch Linux boxes were puppetized as well. I wrote or contributed to multiple packages related to Puppet on Arch Linux. foxxx0 and shibumi were so kind to continue maintaining them in the official repositories: * puppet [1] * puppet5 [2] * facter [3] * libwhereami [4] * ruby-deep_merge [5] * ruby-httpclient [6] * ruby-sync [7] * ruby-puppet-resource_api [8] * ruby-semantic_puppet [9] Besides working on open source projects, I spent a huge amount of time for my second passion, cooking and doing BBQ. From time to time I also attend ice hockey events as visitor but also as hobby-referee or player. As a trusted user I would like to co-maintain those packages, enable tests on the PKGBUILDs where tests are currently missing (for example ruby-puppet-resource_api, ruby-semantic_puppet and Puppet), fix the remaining namcap warnings (for example on facter and libwhereami) and also import some other Puppet related tools into the official repository. Some of them are already in the AUR (not all maintained by myself): * fluent-bit (not Puppet related) [10] * ruby-gettext-setup [11] * ruby-minitar [12] * ruby-puppet_forge [13] * ruby-rr [14] * ruby-cri [15] * ruby-test-unit-rr [16] * ruby-fast_gettext [17] * ruby-gettext [18] * ruby-locale [19] * ruby-text [20] * ruby-colored2 [21] * r10k [22] If you check my AUR packages, you might notice the awful ruby-log4r package. That's a dead project where the source code is gone. It's a dependency for r10k. I'm "maintaining" ruby-log4r in the AUR, so I can test and build r10k, but I'm also in contact with the upstream developers to replace this dead dependency. I've no intention to get log4r into any official repository. I talked to shibumi and hashworks in the past days, both reviewed the packages and agreed to sponsor my application. I'm available on Freenode as bastelfreak. I'm pretty active in #archlinux.de and #voxpupuli. My GPG key fingerprint is C10B6298A584A5632E254DA304D659E6BF1C4CC0 best regards, Tim [0] https://voxpupuli.org [1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=pack… [2] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=pack… [3] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=pack… [4] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=pack… [5] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=pack… [6] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=pack… [7] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=pack… [8] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=pack… [9] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=pack… [10] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fluent-bit#comment-749760 [11] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-gettext-setup/#comment-725838 [12] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-minitar/#comment-723296 [13] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ruby-puppet_forge [14] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ruby-rr [15] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ruby-cri [16] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ruby-test-unit-rr [17] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-fast_gettext/#comment-723301 [18] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-gettext/#comment-725388 [19] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-locale/#comment-723294 [20] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-text [21] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-colored2/#comment-771053 [22] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/r10k/#comment-770978

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