September 2021 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

Re: [aur-general] Why were my packages gtkwrite, gtkwrite-git, and gtkate deleted from AUR? (Tinu Weber)
by zoorat 14 Sep '21

14 Sep '21

Hi Tinu, In the last mail, I tried to explain the reasons behind my deletion request message, where I should have sent this one. sorry. > Was there any comment or anything to let the maintainer know about the issue? Filing a deletion request right away seems a little harsh. sorry about that. From now on, I will let the submitter know first, then submit a deletion request. How long I should wait tho?? > If there *was* an upstream release, why not simply use the "out of date" flag? No. The last commit was on "May 29, 2019" and the last release was on "Feb 26, 2019". > Is there a need to constantly "update" PKGBUILDs? What about software that doesn't see upstream releases very often? I added this part to show "it's kinda dead". Nothing serious. > Of course if there is an issue for over 2 years, that's another thing. But again, was the author previously notified about the issue at all (e.g. via AUR comment)? there was nothing anywhere. no comment, no vote, no out of date. I would have added that comment and out-of-date note, if there was any. ok, let me tell you what I did before submitting the request... 1. when I tried to build with default, it failed. 2. I changed "gtksourceview2" to "gtksourceview3" and "gtksourceview4", build failed. 3. then I went to https://github.com/drankinatty/gtkwrite to try building but the first paragraph said... > A small fast standalone text editor written in C using Gtk+2 and optionally GtkSourceView2 to provide syntax highlighting... you need "gtksourceview". > The editor can be compiled with or without GtkSourceView. Without GtkSourceView it will compile as gtkedit. it's gtkwrite we are talking about. > With GtkSourceView it compiles as gtkwrite (requires GtkSourceView 2.x). and you need "gtksourceview2" and only v2 to build gtkwrite. we need that app's code to be updated or "gtksourceview2" package alive again. after getting no hope of fixing the PKGBUILD, I submit that deletion request. I hope it's not a mistake. ps, what else I should do to avoid wrong requests ?? your's zoorat.

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Re: [aur-general] Why were my packages gtkwrite, gtkwrite-git, and gtkate deleted from AUR?
by zoorat 13 Sep '21

13 Sep '21

Hi David, I'm zoorat. I'm the guy who sent deletion requests to "gtkwrite" and "gtkwrite-git". no clue about "gtkate" tho. The reason for deletion are 1. Missing dependency (gtksourceview2) with that broken dependency, you can't build any of those packages. and I tried by removing the dependency but build will fail. 2.Last Updated: 2019-02-21 00:53. or Last Updated: 2019-02-26 10:41. It's been more than 2 years... If you think I made a mistake please let me know. If you need those packages clone "https://aur.archlinux.org/gtkwrite-git" and "https://aur.archlinux.org/gtkwrite".

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[aur-general] Want A Comaintainer For Your Project?
by Kevin Morris 13 Sep '21

13 Sep '21

Hello AUR users, My name is Kevin Morris, also known as kevr. I've been getting interested in possibly helping out more with packages in general. I do not own too many in the AUR myself. Most of them are scripts that I developed and wanted to share with the community. My AUR Packages: - python-paginate - sprunge - sprunge-git - hastebin - hastebin-git - multiwatch I do want to help with more, but most of the things I can think of to add into the AUR already exist. So, I'd like to offer to any maintainers out there who may be interested: If you would like a comaintainer on your package, I am willing to take on that responsibility, as long as it is a package I am comfortable working on. This includes, in general, back-end (non-gui) packages -- especially packages which may serve as some sort of server. API, websites, web frameworks, libraries, and so on. But, I may be open to other kinds of packages as well -- the non-gui would just make testing and verification more simple for me. I definitely have more to learn each day, but I do have a pretty good understanding of the PKGBUILD format and build process as it is; enough that I can package things correctly (I believe; feedback on my current packages is welcome, of course). You can reply here or contact me personally if you wish. Thank you for your time, and thanks for being a part of sharing software with the world. I hope that I can be of some service. Regards, Kevin -- Kevin Morris Software Developer Identities: - kevr @ Libera

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[aur-general] Oauth client IDs inside AUR package
by j.r 13 Sep '21

13 Sep '21

Hi, I'm currently trying to package multimc5 as VCS package. They recently added support for logging into your Minecraft account via a Microsoft account. But this requires a Microsoft client ID during compile. Now the devs decided to not make the client ID for their own builds public. Which they are okay to do, but this now comes with the problem that there is no client ID that a AUR package could use for oauth with Microsoft. I'm able to build it with my own client ID locally, but my question is now if there is any best practice on how to include such things into a package? Should we require users to create their own client secret, which is pretty bad UX? Best regards j.r

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[aur-general] Why were my packages gtkwrite, gtkwrite-git, and gtkate deleted from AUR?
by David C. Rankin 13 Sep '21

13 Sep '21

All, Who authorized the removal of my packages gtkwrite, gtwrite-git and gtkate from AUR? I check my dashboard regularly and there was nothing flagged and there was no notice that the packages were going to be removed. Why were they removed and why wasn't I informed before the removal? I have been a member of the Arch community for 12 years and I have never seen anything like this before. cc: Allan -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[aur-general] New maintainer
by Jason Kercher 11 Sep '21

11 Sep '21

Hello my name is Jason. I just published my first package to the AUR. It is a text-processing program called fql. I was surprised how simple it was. I'm pretty good with bash and have previously maintained a personal Linux from scratch build so I'm pretty good at getting things complied. I was wondering if there is a place (or if this is that place) to find packages in need of a maintainer? if anyone has a minute to look at my PKGBUILD, that would be great. One of the tools listed in the wiki said it was missing something about contributors so maybe I missed a variable? Otherwise, I think I got it right.

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[aur-general] Procedure for reviving a deleted AUR package
by Yash Karandikar 04 Sep '21

04 Sep '21

Hi all, Recently the AUR package magic-wormhole was deleted by its maintainer. Because of this, I want to now go ahead and maintain it myself. Is there some procedure to reviving deleted AUR packages? I know there was something about how the git repo isn't truly deleted. Thanks, Yash Yash Karandikar d5c4 1cbc 071b 41b3 f235 da13 f01e 92cd 2390 f369

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[aur-general] Can't git push, 'detached HEAD' state
by Fabio Loli 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

Hi, I can't git push in a pkgbuild I have recently adopted and don't know how to fix this. Logs for git clone and git push can be seen here: https://bin.disroot.org/?5bcc8b5042367adc#5mWdBewwCSZ3UrqvArYpe3rCfey5uEK85… https://bin.disroot.org/?da0c1f97d7791bec#DLKBzdobn82V6zs3tS1dNy692ed6CMfa2…

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