December 2022 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] TU rename Bylaws amendment vote
by Konstantin Gizdov 25 Oct '23

25 Oct '23

Hi, As per the TU Bylaws following the discussion to rename the Truster Users [1], the Trusted Users themselves must vote to approve the renaming. Hence, please, cast your vote on whether you agree the Bylaws be amended and the "Trusted User" role is renamed into "Package Maintainer". Vote is located at - https://aur.archlinux.org/tu/140 -- Regards, Konstantin [1] - https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/7

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I'm out of commission for a while
by Jonathon Fernyhough 10 Jan '23

10 Jan '23

Hi all, I'm out of commission for a while (not sure how long) so I won't be able to update my packages. If any TU wants to bump the obvious ones (e.g. firefox-esr) please feel free. Best, Jonathon

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Removal of Benjamin Denhartog (sudoforge) as a Trusted User
by Morten Linderud 29 Dec '22

29 Dec '22

Yo, This is a motion for for "Special Removal of an Inactive TU" [1] for Ben Denhartog (sudoforge) based on prolonged inactivity. sudoforge has largely been unresponsive for 6 months after trying to get his key signed by our master key holders. https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archlinux-keyring/-/issues/174 Attempts have been made to establish contact, and 2 weeks ago I got a positive response from Ben that he would submit a resignation. However no emails has appeared thus this removal request has been submitted instead. The discussion period will last for three days, after that I will open the vote, which will last for five days. -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16

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request for review of PKGBUILD
by Greg Minshall 26 Dec '22

26 Dec '22

hi. i'm trying to submit my first package to AUR. my package files are here: ---- https://git.sr.ht/~minshall/aur-orgtbl-query/tree ---- if anyone has a chance to look over my PKGBUILD (and any other of the files), and has any comments, i'm all ears. cheers, Greg

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SPAM in AUR comment rvm package
by Eduardo Hernández 21 Dec '22

21 Dec '22

Hello, see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rvm Comments by users malkovich and alaina are spam

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Re: Removal of Benjamin Denhartog (sudoforge) as a Trusted User
by Morten Linderud 16 Dec '22

16 Dec '22

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 10:35:34AM -0700, Ben Denhartog wrote: > consider this my resignation, and no contest on the removal due to inactivity > -- i have not had the time i thought i would to contribute. I would greatly appreciate if you could sign this email. -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16 > On Fri, Dec 16, 2022, at 10:29, Morten Linderud wrote: > > Yo, > > > > This is a motion for for "Special Removal of an Inactive TU" [1] for Ben > > Denhartog (sudoforge) based on prolonged inactivity. > > > > sudoforge has largely been unresponsive for 6 months after trying to get his key > > signed by our master key holders. > > > > https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archlinux-keyring/-/issues/174 > > > > Attempts have been made to establish contact, and 2 weeks ago I got a positive > > response from Ben that he would submit a resignation. However no emails has > > appeared thus this removal request has been submitted instead. > > > > The discussion period will last for three days, after that I will open > > the vote, which will last for five days. > > > > -- > > Morten Linderud > > PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16 > > > > Attachments: > > * signature.asc

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git in makedepends?
by Greg Minshall 16 Dec '22

16 Dec '22

hi, again. if git is needed only for the "source" line of PKGBUILD (i.e., to download, and optionally verify, the source file(s)), does git need to be listed in "makedepends"? cheers, Greg

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XMPP support for Arch Linux
by Polarian 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

Hello, So currently there is two methods (which I know of) with communicating with the Arch Community, those are email (mailing list) and IRC (I believe on libera.chat?!?!?). Is there any plans to support XMPP? Thanks, Polarian

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Java code in AUR
by Polarian 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

Hello, I have discovered an annoying issue with java within the AUR. One of the projects I aim to wrap is written in java, however it contains a lot of other dependencies in java, and I have been thinking about the idea of how to package, and installing a jar with all the dependencies compressed within it defeats the purpose of packaging. I assume I should have each dependency as its own package, which means its more maintainable and each dependency can be bumped manually, but I doubt it is conventional to put .jar's in with shared objects (.so) within the libraries directory. Does anyone have any ideas how you would package a large Java codebase with the dependencies separated to be more maintainable? I am aware Java is such a pain to package, distributions such as gentoo do not even bother sometimes and do not support java packaging that well. Thanks, Polarian

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Submitting packages to AUR
by Polarian 14 Dec '22

14 Dec '22

Hello, I have read both the submission guideline and also aur packages, but I am a little confused on how to actually create the repository. Does cloning a pkgbase (whatever name you want to call the package) automatically create the remote repository? What if you have got a local repository already (using git init) and want to push it to a AUR remote, but it does not yet exist? Thank you, Polarian

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