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Deletion request: "fuck" (empty repo, no package)
by Ronan Hevenor 16 Mar '26

16 Mar '26

Hi, I'd like to request deletion of the AUR repo "fuck" ( https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/log/?h=fuck) The repo was created by eshnd in September 2025 with three throwaway commits ("test", "added all", "/"). No valid PKGBUILD or .SRCINFO was ever pushed, so the package doesn't appear in AUR search or have a package page. It's effectively a name squat on an empty repo. I have a legitimate package I'd like to publish under this name. Thanks, Ronan

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Package Maintainer Application - Jonathan Grotelüschen
by tippfehlr 12 Mar '26

12 Mar '26

Hi everyone, I’m Jonathan, also known as tippfehlr. I am a computer science student at KIT in Karlsruhe, Germany, and I hereby apply to become a Package Maintainer. My Linux journey began with a Raspberry Pi 1B I received as a gift in 2017. After that, I hosted a few Minecraft servers on Linux Mint (though not on the 1B). A few years later, I did an internship in a company using openSUSE, but one person used Arch Linux and Neovim and impressed me a lot at the time. In 2021, I started using an old laptop for school and installed 32-bit Debian on it, but quickly switched to Arch Linux when I discovered it was a 64-bit CPU. With the experience I had from my laptop, I finally installed Arch on my PC in 2022. I had installed Manjaro before, but Arch was the first distro that replaced Windows for me. Since then, it always just worked. When I got a new laptop, Arch was simply the easiest thing to install. I started contributing to the AUR in late 2023, when I needed an INAV related package that was not yet available. Since then, I learned a lot about packaging and about the Arch community in general. A few years ago I also started self-hosting services for my family and realized that I enjoy the Sysadmin and DevOps side of software a lot. I mostly used Docker Compose until now, but I would like to learn more. So if there is need, I’d like to help there as well. Generally, I love tinkering and configuring, which probably isn’t surprising in this community. Just recently, I annoyed my brother because I ended up modding a game instead of actually playing it with him :) Outside the digital world, I love to play the Cello and like to read fantasy. I am also active in my local community: In my dorm, I lead the 3d-printing lab and volunteer in the network department, where we are currently doing a big Wi-Fi upgrade. We also maintain an Arch Linux mirror at https://files.hadiko.de/pub/dists/arch/! Since a friend in school introduced me to FPV drones, I also like to tinker with/fly my model airplane. If you want to take a look, most of my personal projects and contributions to other projects are on Codeberg [1] or on GitHub [2]. Over time, I collected a list of packages I use and would like to maintain in the official repositories: Development tools: - git-extras - dockerfile-language-server - emmet-language-server - dprint RC Flight: - betaflight-configurator - inav-configurator Games: - heroic-games-launcher - modrinth-app - osu-lazer Misc: - jellyfin-desktop (was jellyfin-media-player) - pfetch-rs I’m using Neovim without Mason and usually install language servers with pacman. I took some time to look through packages with only one maintainer and noticed a few language servers (for example arduino- and typescript-language-server) where I’d be happy to help out as a co-maintainer. My application is sponsored by Christian Heusel (gromit) and Peter Jung (ptr1337). Thanks for the nice talk and all the feedback so far! Best, Jonathan Grotelüschen [1] https://codeberg.org/tippfehlr [2] https://github.com/tippfehlr AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&SeB=M&K=tippfehlr&outdated=&SB=p&SO=…

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First PKGBUILD (hpsahba-git), any tips?
by Fermín Olaiz 02 Mar '26

02 Mar '26

Hey guys! I just made my first PKGBUILD [1] for a tool I use and would like to see what could be improved. I've been maintaining some things for a while but they don't have that much use and this is the first one I make from scratch. So far I've checked things with namcap. Thank you! Fermín Olaiz [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hpsahba-git

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Hello
by Salah Warlike 02 Mar '26

02 Mar '26

join

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Telegram
by Salah Warlike 01 Mar '26

01 Mar '26

Android

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Very old AUR account recovery
by Katie Bohnenkamper 22 Feb '26

22 Feb '26

Hello! I'm trying to gain access to an AUR account I haven't touched in years: KittyKatt (email: kittykatt(a)archlinux.us) The "Forgot password" page directed me to send a message here if I couldn't remember my username or email. That's not exactly the case, but hopefully I can get help here anyways. Unfortunately that email address has been dead for probably close to 6-7 years so there is no way for me to recover this by normal means. Is there any way to gain access back into this account or any way I can verify my identity? Thank you, Katie

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Internal Server Error in AUR while trying to login
by Javier Tia 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

Hi, Today I have been unable to log in to AUR because of this error: 500 - Internal Server Error A fatal error has occurred. Details have been logged and will be reviewed by the postmaster posthaste. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. It was working yesterday. I have checked this Arch Linux forum and the several arch-general mailing lists for any reported issues, but I have not seen any. Thanks, » Javier Tia ✍

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Temporarily suspend matthewq337 user
by Michał 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

Hello, I've seen this user squats many packages dropped which are either dropped to AUR or abandoned, and then adds other people who are actually interested in said packages to co-maintainers. I've had this happen to me with 3 packages, which are also mentioned in examples list below. In the past few months I have seen this user push various nonsense commits to many packages. Some examples are: ruby-rails (and dependencies) where only pkgver was bumped, without testing any build. This resulted in build failures for simple reasons such as missing files: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=ruby-actionview&id=a98abc6… https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-actionview#comment-1019144 pyload-ng, pushing changes without pulling first and other nonsense "updated" commits without testing also visible in git log https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=pyload-ng&id=c91cc2cb90daa… librewolf-hg, package "fixed" which resulted in pkgbuild being unusable https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/librewolf-hg#comment-981229 python-dukpy, changing license file name from right to wrong which prevented install: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=python-dukpy&id=2ddc02e9fa… https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=python-dukpy&id=9d7aab0205… python-glfw, bumping pkgver, but this did not actually result in new version being built: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=python-glfw#n13 These examples are not from malice or anything, but from not testing changes and incompetence. "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone", but I think that such over such long period of time (~6 months at least) mistakes in packaging without seemingly any improvement show that matthewq337 doesn't care about state of packages. I am therefore calling for moderator action, to prevent this from happening so that Matthew can reflect. Kind regards, micwoj92

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Invisible pkgbase "radicle" prevents pushing — database intervention needed?
by Ivan Shapovalov 15 Feb '26

15 Feb '26

Hi, I am trying to push a pkgbase `radicle` consisting of one pkgname `radicle-node` (with the intention of subsequently asking the maintainer of `radicle-cli` to merge). There is no package `radicle` or `radicle-node` visible in the search or via direct URLs: https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/radicle -> 404 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/radicle -> 404 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/radicle-node -> 404 However, I am unable to push `radicle` via Git: ``` $ git remote add origin https://aur.archlinux.org/radicle $ git push -u origin master To aur.archlinux.org:radicle ! [rejected] master -> master (fetch first) error: failed to push some refs to 'aur.archlinux.org:radicle' hint: Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do not hint: have locally. This is usually caused by another repository pushing to hint: the same ref. If you want to integrate the remote changes, use hint: 'git pull' before pushing again. hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details. ``` The PKGBUILD on the AUR server under this repo is severely out of date. Would it be possible for AUR admins to manually clean up this repo, so that I could push the package I intend to maintain? Thanks, -- Ivan Shapovalov / intelfx /

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makepkg - Debug Package
by Björn Försterling 14 Feb '26

14 Feb '26

Hello, when creating and installing a custom package with `makepkg -i -c` how can I prevent that a "*-debug-*" package will be created and installed? I could not find any related information in `man 5 PKGBUILD` or `makepkg -h`. Regards Björn

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