April 2023 - 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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Autobot caught in use?
by Polarian 03 Jun '23

03 Jun '23

Hello, I was looking at the AUR today and I have realised a ton of packages with the prefix r-<package name> being updated within a minute of each other, and then found the user to be publishing them: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/BioArchLinuxBot By the name it seems this is a Bot, Anthraxx and Jelle have already discussed how this is not acceptable in a previous thread, see: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/m… https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/m… A draft has also been submitted on the ArchWiki to set this into stone: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Talk:AUR_submission_guidelines#Automation_… Therefore I am bringing this user, and the packages which this has occurred on to the TUs here. I have also attached an image to this email which is a screenshot of the recently updated packages, you can use the rss feeds to back this up as well, it clearly shows that a large number of r packages were updated BY THE SAME USER within the span of 10 minutes. Let me know what you think :) Have a good day, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Application as Trusted User - gromit
by Christian Heusel 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

Hello everyone! My name is Chris and I am a 24 year old computer science student from Heidelberg in southern Germany. With this mail I would like to apply to become part of the Trusted User group! I am happily using arch-based systems since 2016 and Archlinux since around 2018. Generally I use Linux systems since 2012, and have even worked as linux system administrator (paid and as volunteer) which was very fun! Aside from that I am trying my best to contribute to open source projects and the overall FOSS community, so far mostly by open sourcing personal projects, modifying & extending existing projets to my liking and reporting the bugs I find. Most of this activity is taking place on GitHub[0]. In my spare time I rock climb and hike, play the drums and I am an active youth lead in my local YMCA. In the last few years I also was very active in student politics but I am now winding down this involvement since I am about to finish my studies. Sometimes I can also be found in my local chaos computer club[1] chatting with other people about computers and stuff. In general you may know me better by the nick of "gromit" in IRC tho, under which I also participate in the various other arch resources: - Since 2018 I am part of the Arch Testing team to check packages in the various testing repos - I help out on the bugtracker[2] where I can, but I also just read a lot of it to keep up to date for support requests on IRC - I have some minor contributions on Gitlab[3], mostly around devtools and mkinitcpio - I participated in the proof of concept testing for the git package migration - I maintain packages on the Arch User Repository[4] and try to help out in the AUR comments aswell - I have some minor contributions on the wiki[5] - I also comment on /r/archlinux regularily (please note that reddit usernames[6] cannot be changed once created :p) To further extend this involvement and to help the arch community I am now applying as trusted user. Here is a collection of packages from [community] that I frequently use and could therefore possibly (Co-)Maintain: - bat 1 - blueberry 1 - borgmatic 1 - bpython 0 - gopass 2 - gopass-jsonapi 1 - gum 1 - lolcat 1 - mosquitto 1 - nemo 1 - nethogs 1 - pasystray 1 - polybar 1 - rofi-emoji 1 - scrcpy 1 - sxiv 1 - tailscale 1 - terminator 1 - unp 1 - variety 1 - yamllint 1 I especially selected these packages because they currently lack maintainers (except for gopass), but I am also open to help out with other packages! Additionally I could imagine bringing the following packages to the [community] repos, should I be accepted: - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ly - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nsxiv - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/systemd-boot-pacman-hook My sponsors are Morten Linderud (Foxboron) and Robin Candau (Antiz) which I am both very thankful for because they also guided me through the application process! Cheers, and thanks for reading until here! Christian "gromit" Heusel [0] https://github.com/christian-heusel [1] https://www.noname-ev.de/howtotreff.html [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/user/30483 [3] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/gromit [4] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/gromit [5] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Special:Contributions/Gromit [6] https://www.reddit.com/user/TheEbolaDoc

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AutoUpdateBot harmful
by j.r 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

Hello, just noticed that the denaro package [1] was updated by AutoUpdateBot two days ago. That account seems to be a bot based on some Github actions stuff [2]. This update broke the package, as it wasn't as simple as "change version number and checksum" (see my comment at the package site). Investigating a bit further I noticed this bot does not seem to do any checks if the package is still buildable or anything [3]. My question now: is there any policy about such bots? Are they allowed? Should they at least test if the package still builds before uploading the package update? Thanks j.r [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/denaro [2] https://github.com/arch4edu/aur-auto-update [3] https://github.com/arch4edu/aur-auto-update/actions/runs/4655655968/jobs/82…

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Re: Aur-general Digest, Vol 8, Issue 4
by eile_kerning 10 Apr '23

10 Apr '23

unsubscribe Sent from Proton Mail mobile -------- Original Message -------- On Apr 10, 2023, 04:08, wrote: > Send Aur-general mailing list submissions to aur-general(a)lists.archlinux.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to aur-general-request(a)lists.archlinux.org You can reach the person managing the list at aur-general-owner(a)lists.archlinux.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Aur-general digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Application as Trusted User - gromit (Brett Cornwall) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2023 14:39:25 -0700 From: Brett Cornwall Subject: Re: Application as Trusted User - gromit To: aur-general(a)lists.archlinux.org Message-ID: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hb5gxynovta7s3x6" On 2023-04-07 10:35, Christian Heusel wrote: >Hello everyone! Hi, Chris! >My name is Chris and I am a 24 year old computer science student from >Heidelberg in southern Germany. >With this mail I would like to apply to become part of the Trusted >User group! > >I am happily using arch-based systems since 2016 and Archlinux since >around 2018. Generally I use Linux systems since 2012, and have even >worked as linux system administrator (paid and as volunteer) which was >very fun! > >Aside from that I am trying my best to contribute to open source >projects and the overall FOSS community, so far mostly by open >sourcing personal projects, modifying & extending existing projets to >my liking and reporting the bugs I find. Most of this activity is >taking place on GitHub[0]. > >In my spare time I rock climb and hike, play the drums and I am an >active youth lead in my local YMCA. >In the last few years I also was very active in student politics but I >am now winding down this involvement since I am about to finish my >studies. >Sometimes I can also be found in my local chaos computer club[1] >chatting with other people about computers and stuff. > >In general you may know me better by the nick of "gromit" in IRC tho, >under which I also participate in the various other arch resources: >- Since 2018 I am part of the Arch Testing team to check packages in >the various testing repos >- I help out on the bugtracker[2] where I can, but I also just read a >lot of it to keep up to date for support requests on IRC >- I have some minor contributions on Gitlab[3], mostly around devtools >and mkinitcpio >- I participated in the proof of concept testing for the git package >migration >- I maintain packages on the Arch User Repository[4] and try to help >out in the AUR comments aswell >- I have some minor contributions on the wiki[5] >- I also comment on /r/archlinux regularily (please note that reddit >usernames[6] cannot be changed once created :p) I like the dedication to keeping packages managed rather than just bringing in a whole bunch of new packages. :) The quality of the packages is good! I like your commitment to following the wiki guidelines. I also appreciate your useful commit messages. I like that there's a TODO on one of your packages to upstream a patch: It's important to make sure all distros benefit, not just Arch! I love that you have comments telling *why* you do something out of the ordinary instead of randomly doing something with no explanation. It's worth noting that only two packages have been maintained for more than a month; The rest of your packages were adopted/created only recently! I guess if you've had good commits, good adherence, and good community engagement, there's not much else to "prove". -------------- next part -------------- A message part incompatible with plain text digests has been removed ... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 228 bytes Desc: not available ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Aur-general mailing list -- aur-general(a)lists.archlinux.org To unsubscribe send an email to aur-general-leave(a)lists.archlinux.org ------------------------------ End of Aur-general Digest, Vol 8, Issue 4 *****************************************

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Re: Application as Trusted User
by Anton Hvornum 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

Addendum! On 3/14/23 12:29, Anton Hvornum wrote: > Hi! > > I hereby apply to become a Trusted User! > According to ChatGPT3 becoming a TU is like becoming a wizard, I will > learn how to cast complex spells on package bugs and conjure releases. > And apparently I get to wear a robe too so sign me up! > > I have the following sponsors: > > * Artafinde > * dvzrv (David will happily let someone else sponsor if they feel > like it tho) dvzrv hands over the torch to alerque to distribute the sponsorships more evenly. So new sponsor list is: * Artafinde * alerque > > My involvement spans mostly across maintaining archinstall, but I also > have a finger in archweb, repod, archiso, mkinitcpio and lately I've > become a mirror admin. So I'm getting pretty well rounded. Some links to profiles, ongoing projects and involvements: * GitHub: https://github.com/Torxed/ * GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/torxed * Archinstall: https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall * Flyspray/Bugs: https://bugs.archlinux.org/user/15638 * AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/archinstall-git (I have a few others that I've cleaned out as they were my very first AUR packages that never gained popularity) * ArchISO: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archiso/-/merge_requests/251 * mkinitcpio: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio-archiso/-/merg… & https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio-archiso/-/merg… * repod: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/repod/-/merge_requests?scope=all&sta… (Mainly contributed in terms of PR reviews and participating in developer discussions) Aside from the above, I'm also active on BBS forum, IRC, Reddit, Discord and Matrix in various channels. I mainly run all the archinstall related channels and servers. But I'm subscribed to more or less all the mailing lists, but specifically `arch-general`, `arch-mirrors` and `arch-projects`. My goal is to ease packaging and bug reports, as of today I have to rely on others to do packaging for projects I maintain and administrate. The main packages I aim to co-maintain the following packages: * python-pyparted (added 2023-03-14) * python * synapse * keycloak * rdesktop * python-* (there's a 50+ list I would like to help out with that I use every day) I'm sure the list will grow, but those are the main ones I have my eye on currently. Overall, I'm a very enthusiastic tech geek and I'm committed to enhance the Arch Linux experience further in various ways. I've been an active developer for years, have plenty of devops experience as well as a programming and security background. I plan to translate my experience into the Arch Linux echo system as well as offer my support to the community in any way I can. > > I'm aiming to continue the work on the above, but gradually I'll also > help out with testing and packaging of Python libraries. > > //Anton "Torxed" Hvornum >

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How to change the author of a package's commit？
by ShiZhi Huang 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

I recently accidentally used a different computer to submit the patch and the author information is wrong, is there a way to change it? I tried the ` https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3042437/how-to-change-the-commit-author… method, but it gets rejected when git push -f.

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