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Re: [aur-general] Why were my 'makedeb-beta' and 'makedeb-alpha' packages deleted?
by George Rawlinson 20 Dec '21

20 Dec '21

> On 18/12/2021, at 20:46, Hunter Wittenborn <hunter(a)hunterwittenborn.com> wrote: > > Unless you want to discuss anything further, could I just get a final answer on if my packages can be put back on the AUR, and then we can just leave it there? I really don't want to argue a ton, but there's a fair bit of frustration involved when I have packages that I'd like to be used in production just being deleted without a chance for me to even intervene. Yep, go for it. I didn’t see the posts on aur-general, having only searched aur-requests for any replies. That’s on me, apologies for that.

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[aur-general] Please disregard my deletion request for linux-slim
by kiasoc5＠tutanota.com 20 Dec '21

20 Dec '21

Please ignore my deletion request for linux-slim [1]. I thought the package would be too niche but there are some users of it per the package comments. Perhaps now is a good time to clarify what the wiki means by an "extremely specialized" package? [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2021-December/063787.html Thanks kiasoc5

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[aur-general] Why were my 'makedeb-beta' and 'makedeb-alpha' packages deleted?
by Hunter Wittenborn 18 Dec '21

18 Dec '21

Forwarded from mailto:aur-general@lists.archlinux.org, as it doesn't appear to have sent there. ============ Forwarded message ============ From: Hunter Wittenborn <hunter(a)hunterwittenborn.com> To: "aur-requests"<aur-requests(a)lists.archlinux.org> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 23:28:09 -0600 Subject: Why were my 'makedeb-beta' and 'makedeb-alpha' packages deleted? ============ Forwarded message ============ Hi, I just received some emails about an hour ago that my 'makedeb-beta' and 'makedeb-alpha' packages were deleted off of the AUR because they were duplicates of 'makedeb' [1] [2]. I'm a bit confused on how exactly they're "duplicates" of makedeb though, as they're literally the beta and alpha releases for makedeb, the lattermost being the stable release. The only other hypothesis I'd have is that the underlying program is the same, but these are all different releases, and they're all being published so users can use whichever channel they chose. My packages also aren't the only ones following a multi-channel packaging system on the AUR, so I'm not really sure why my packages got flagged like this in particular. Could I get an explanation for all of this? I'm quite confused on how I could have messed up - recloning the PKGBUILDs for 'makedeb-beta' and 'makedeb-alpha' on my local system is also still clearly showing the differences between the three packages. [1]: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2021-December/063223.html [2]: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2021-December/063222.html --- Hunter Wittenborn mailto:hunter@hunterwittenborn.com https://www.hunterwittenborn.com https://github.com/hwittenborn

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[aur-general] Regarding deletion request #30697 (waybox)
by Lex Black 16 Dec '21

16 Dec '21

Good day list, I'm currently a little bit stumped about this particular request. I wouldn't have said anything if there were the right reason named for deletion. One reason would be, that due to upstream stagnation the waybox release could only be compiled with an older wlroots versions. Would have been a fair point and I was aware of that restriction. But what happened instead? I got a OOD Mail, 2 min later a deletion request[0] was issued. And eight minutes down the road this request got already accepted. Hella speedy process. If I recall the requests I made, there was time involved for checking if I made a reasonable request. But again: There were reasons why a request could have been valid. So let us take look: Regarding the OOD message: Quote: "This branch is 32 commits behind wizbright:master." Well, yes. But we are talking about a release from a tagged release. We aren't talking about waybox-git. And yes, it wasn't the main repo, but it was the personal repo from the last active developer. He did tag only in his repo as he wasn't the owner[1]. Regarding the request: Quote: "th1nhhdk [1] filed a deletion request for waybox [2]: -There's no "release", only the git version exists -Maintainer's custom repo is outdated -Maintainer don't want to maintain this package anymore" Okay, first point is debatable. But from my point of view were the tags from someone who actively contributed in the main repo and knew what he was doing. Second point is in my opinion not valid, as it build from a tag. But what maintainer are we talking about? The waybox maintainer or the PKGBUILD maintainer? If the latter. Well... I have nothing to do with this so called custom repo. And now the third point: Again. What maintainer? I got reprimanded in the past for requests that made it difficult when looked at a later point. And this was only a few hours ago. Although I must admit I cannot recall if I pinned a comment regarding the status with recent wlroots packages. But I'm fairly sure I didn't orphan the package (well, I got the OOD-message) and I didn't leave a comment like the previous maintainer of the PKGBUILD, who wrote an agiated message when he dropped it. So what do I want, after I writing this wall of text? In a tone which will likely come around as angry (kinda, but only at the situation and how it went and not the persons involved). Nothing in particular. I won't reinstate the package, as a deletion request with the right argument could have been deemed valid. My main gripes with this request in particular is the following point: * No time for me to react as the whole thing went down in 10 minutes And as far as I can tell, there was no attempt in making contact beforehand. I was even attempting to look at this again as someone informed me about a possible missing build dep. And was there even a check if the arguments were valid? In the past it took some time before requests were accepted. Orphaned, ood and truly dead sources were removed faster of course, but it could still be vetoed. But this one? One with a fairly active maintainer? Not so much. But whatever. It happened. Best regards ____________ [0] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2021-December/063697.html [1] https://github.com/wizbright/waybox/issues/25

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[aur-general] Customize testing in PKGBUILD
by Jan Kohnert 14 Dec '21

14 Dec '21

Hi, I'm maintaining the eccodes aur package and would like to enable some extra tests in PKGBUILD. This can be done by downloading extra testdata and put that into the main build dir. As good as this may seem, it significantly blows up the build time of the package. So I thought about somehow let the user decide whether to run those expensive extra tests at build. Unfortunately I could not find a recommended way of doing so. Would it be an option to check an environment variable, call it ENABLE_EXTRA_TESTS or so, and run those stuff only if set? And otherwise just run the usual tests without the extra data? Any thoughts? Thanks! -- MfG Jan

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[aur-general] TU application - Segaja
by Andreas 'Segaja' Schleifer 07 Dec '21

07 Dec '21

Hi everyone, My name is Andreas Schleifer, in the internet also known as Segaja, and I would like to apply to the position of a Trusted User. My sponsors are Levente Polyak and Jelle van der Waa, thanks for that ;) I'm a 34 years old DevOps engineer in the same company as Levente is currently working in. I have started as a (PHP) developer and have over time migrated to also doing devops work. My Linux "career" started around 2005/2006 during my university time with Ubuntu. A few years later a friend of mine kindly pointed me to Arch Linux. At the beginning it was a bit uncomfortable for me but I quickly embraced the fact that there was no UI to configure anything and that you have to work directly on the configuration files. In the past year I have started to become more interested in packaging for Arch which made me adopt two orphaned AUR packages ([1] and [2]) and upload one new package [3]) to AUR. Some packages I started as AUR packages were later moved by Levente into the official community repository: [4], [5] At some point I also got interested in the reproducible builds topic and helped out there a bit [6]. This is also where I got in contact with Jelle and we talked a few times on IRC back then. When I got interested in becoming a TU I talked with Levente about this and he suggested that I should try to get some more packaging experience, so he suggested me to try to (re-)package schleuder [8] which was in a very old and broken version in AUR back then. It took me quiet a while and I learned a lot, but in the end I eneded up packaging schleuder [9] and schleuder-cli [10]. The biggest learning from that for me was 1) that packaging is much more then "dumping" an upstream tool into a PKGBUILD file to be installed on a users system and 2) that the ruby ecosystem can be very annoying to deal with. A lot of inconsistent tools to be used for testing and a lot of cyclic dependencies which makes writing PKGBUILD files with check() functions very difficult. In the process of packaging the schleuder packages I also ended up with a host of other ruby packages which were needed [11]. In order to be able to package the schleuder packages I also worked closely with the upstream maintainers to resolve issues that came up in the Arch Linux build environment. I have some devops experience from my daily work and I would like to also offer this to Arch Linux over time. I already talked with Jelle and Levente about some of the devops projects that were going on in the past. I'm currently also working on an ansible role to install schleuder on Arch Linux infrastructure [12] in order to handlesecurity(a)archlinux.org [13]. As TU I would also like to help out Levent and other package maintainers to keep their awesome packages up to date with upstream changes/releases (e.g. [4], [5], [7]). I would also like to migrate hss [1] and stern [2] to the official repositories, as I believe they are both very useful tools for people who work with servers (hss) and kubernetes (stern) often. If you have any questions or want to know more you can also reach me on IRC in #archlinux Best regards Segaja [1]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hss/ [2]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/stern/ [3]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/prometheus-dnsmasq-exporter-git/ [4]https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/aliyun-cli/ [5]https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/alicloud-vault/ [6]https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2020-06/ [7]https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/ls++/ [8]https://schleuder.org/ [9]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/schleuder/ [10]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/schleuder-cli/ [11]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=Segaja&SeB=m [12]https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/merge_requests/4… [13]https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/issues/178 GET | 200 | 709 ms | cloudflare

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[aur-general] doctest: Package appeared in Community-Testing, breaking AUR pk
by justiceoz 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Hi, I am the maintainer of the aur package [doctest](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/doctest/) and I was pretty late at updating the package. Today, I finally remembered and found the time to update it but apparently it is already in [community-testing](https://archlinux.org/packages/community-testing/any/doc…. I get the following error: > remote: error: package already provided by [community-testing]: doctest > remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master Should I request a deletion of the aur package or any other suggestions? Best Oz

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[aur-general] some questions mainly about deletion...
by zoorat 30 Nov '21

30 Nov '21

Hi everyone, I have been hunting for broken packages and filing deletion requests against them for a while now... afaik, only 2 rejections in more than 500 requests. maybe, I should have asked those questions much earlier... anyway... 1. to TU's, how do you guys are checking if a package should be deleted or not ?? I want to know it to make the right call and not to spam... I'm kinda asking for a list of scenarios with some comments... example list from my experience: "broken dependency and orphan" dead for sure. "problem was reposted a long time ago and not fixed" dead. "Flagged out-of-date" better giving this info while making the request. "orphan but nothing broken" false request. you can also tell me, what makes a package is good and healthy... 2. how to file deletion requests for split packages ?? tried to find out about it but google was unhelpful... when I file a deletion request, it is going to be a request for the base package like the vote. isn't it?? then if one of the base packages is broken and needed to be removed then what I should do then ?? file a request saying it's for only that package ?? or tell the maintainer to remove that package's code from the PKGBUILD ?? and what I should do if the package is orphan ?? 3. inactive maintainer is not fixed... there is a lot of packages which is not orphan but the maintainer is not fixing the problem after reporting. saw this a lot when I was testing font packages... what should I do in this case ?? If it's a package not being dependent on others, can I file a deletion request after a certain time ?? how long should I wait ?? If the answer to the last question is "disown and maintain" and if I'm not interested in maintaining that package, how I should let other people know who might want to maintain ?? this aur-general mailing list ?? 4. font source problem... I tested 1104 font packages that start with 'ttf-' or 'otf-' (got the list on 2021-11-17) if their source works and checksum matches or not and also for broken dependency. Font sources are weird. like for some, you need the browser to download (you know how mega.nz downloads), certificate error on curl/wget but not on firefox, file hash changes like fontspace.com, the URL is temporary, the original source is dead but you know there is a lot of mirrors. it's pretty common... so can I ask maintainers to download from a mirror that is not in archwiki/Font_package_guidelines, or set up a github/lab mirror themselves and download from there ?? or should they make the package like "ttf-ms-win10" which lets the user know how to get the file to make this package ?? don't know if this kinda package is allowed... 5. how to get the exact number of requests I had to make and how many of them got accepted... do you know any easy to get that info?? or do I have to somehow parse and count mbox files from aur-requests archives? Don't know if I'm nitpicking... Tell me, if I'm doing something wrong or not. yours, zoorat. p.s. I hope I didn't mess up anything.

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[aur-general] aur/virtualbox-bin or extra/dkms is broken
by Ralf Mardorf 27 Nov '21

27 Nov '21

Hi, I have to work, so there's no time to check log files before the weekend and I couldn't find something related at https://bugs.archlinux.org/ or https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/virtualbox-bin/ . However, maybe somebody noticed this, too. I build and installed virtualbox-bin 6.1.30-1 from AUR. The output of dkms didn't mention something to worry about, but actually no modules were installed. For testing purpose I downgraded virtualbox-bin to the previous version that worked before, but now the modules were also missing. After downgrading dkms from 3.0.2-1 to 3.0.1-1, dkms build and installed the virtualbox-bin modules again. So at the moment I have no idea if dkms is broken or if virtualbox-bin needs a fix to fit to the latest dkms package. Regards, Ralf [rocketmouse@archlinux aur]$ sudo pacman -U current/virtualbox-bin-6.1.30-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst [snip] warning: virtualbox-bin-6.1.30-1 is up to date -- reinstalling [snip] :: Running pre-transaction hooks... (1/2) Remove upgraded DKMS modules ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.211-rt91-0.300-pussytoes ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.212-rt92-0.300-securityink ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.214-rt93-0.300-cornflower ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.217-rt95-0.1000 ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 5.15.4-arch1-1 [snip] (5/8) Install DKMS modules ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.217-rt95-0.1000 ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 5.15.4-arch1-1 ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.214-rt93-0.300-cornflower ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.212-rt92-0.300-securityink ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.211-rt91-0.300-pussytoes ==> depmod 4.19.212-rt92-0.300-securityink ==> depmod 4.19.211-rt91-0.300-pussytoes ==> depmod 4.19.217-rt95-0.1000 ==> depmod 4.19.214-rt93-0.300-cornflower ==> depmod 5.15.4-arch1-1 (6/8) Updating icon theme caches... (7/8) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache... (8/8) Updating the MIME type database... [rocketmouse@archlinux aur]$ sudo pacman -U old/virtualbox-bin-6.1.28-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst old/virtualbox{-bin-sdk,-bin-guest-iso,-ext-oracle}-6.1.28-1-any.pkg.tar.zst [snip] warning: downgrading package virtualbox-bin (6.1.30-1 => 6.1.28-1) warning: downgrading package virtualbox-bin-sdk (6.1.30-1 => 6.1.28-1) warning: downgrading package virtualbox-bin-guest-iso (6.1.30-1 => 6.1.28-1) warning: downgrading package virtualbox-ext-oracle (6.1.30-1 => 6.1.28-1) [snip] :: Running pre-transaction hooks... (1/2) Remove DKMS modules ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.211-rt91-0.300-pussytoes ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.212-rt92-0.300-securityink ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.214-rt93-0.300-cornflower ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.217-rt95-0.1000 ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 5.15.4-arch1-1 [snip] (5/8) Install DKMS modules ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.28_non_OSE -k 5.15.4-arch1-1 ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.28_non_OSE -k 4.19.211-rt91-0.300-pussytoes ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.28_non_OSE -k 4.19.214-rt93-0.300-cornflower ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.28_non_OSE -k 4.19.217-rt95-0.1000 ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.28_non_OSE -k 4.19.212-rt92-0.300-securityink ==> depmod 4.19.212-rt92-0.300-securityink ==> depmod 4.19.211-rt91-0.300-pussytoes ==> depmod 4.19.217-rt95-0.1000 ==> depmod 4.19.214-rt93-0.300-cornflower ==> depmod 5.15.4-arch1-1 (6/8) Updating icon theme caches... (7/8) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache... (8/8) Updating the MIME type database... [rocketmouse@archlinux aur]$ grep 3.0.2 /var/log/pacman.log | grep dkms [2021-11-21T13:30:15+0100] [ALPM] upgraded dkms (3.0.1-1 -> 3.0.2-1) [rocketmouse@archlinux aur]$ sudo downgrade dkms [snip] warning: downgrading package dkms (3.0.2-1 => 3.0.1-1) [snip] [rocketmouse@archlinux aur]$ sudo pacman -U current/virtualbox-* [snip] Packages (4) virtualbox-bin-6.1.30-1 virtualbox-bin-guest-iso-6.1.30-1 virtualbox-bin-sdk-6.1.30-1 virtualbox-ext-oracle-6.1.30-1 [snip] :: Running pre-transaction hooks... (1/2) Remove DKMS modules ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.28_non_OSE -k 4.19.211-rt91-0.300-pussytoes rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.28_non_OSE -k 4.19.212-rt92-0.300-securityink rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.28_non_OSE -k 4.19.214-rt93-0.300-cornflower rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.28_non_OSE -k 4.19.217-rt95-0.1000 rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.28_non_OSE -k 5.15.4-arch1-1 rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory [snip] (5/8) Install DKMS modules ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.217-rt95-0.1000 ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 5.15.4-arch1-1 ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.214-rt93-0.300-cornflower ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.212-rt92-0.300-securityink ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.211-rt91-0.300-pussytoes ==> depmod 4.19.212-rt92-0.300-securityink ==> depmod 4.19.211-rt91-0.300-pussytoes ==> depmod 4.19.217-rt95-0.1000 ==> depmod 4.19.214-rt93-0.300-cornflower ==> depmod 5.15.4-arch1-1 (6/8) Updating icon theme caches... (7/8) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache... (8/8) Updating the MIME type database...

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[aur-general] TU application - artafinde
by Leonidas Spyropoulos 24 Nov '21

24 Nov '21

Hello, I'm Leonidas Spyropoulos and I'd like to apply to become a Trusted User. I'm particularly instersted in packaging dependencies which are required for the ongoing python porting of Aurweb and anything related performance. I'm sponsored from Jelle van der Waa <jelle> and Sven-Hendrik Haase<sventaro>. I'm a 39 years old Software Developer living in London originally from Greece. I've been an Linux user for almost 20 years and an Arch Linux for more than 15. Previous distributions include Suse and Debian but I find Arch Linux suits me more. I've been a big supported of FOSS philosophy and projects and try to contribute where possible (check my github). I'm a developer in my day-to-day job working mostly with JVM languages and DevOps. For the minimum requirements: - I know my way around shell scripting, mostly bash but I've done some ksh due to my work maintaining old server. These days almost all scripting is in bash and POSIX compliant. My daily shell is ZSH. - I've been maintaining some packages in AUR [1] and some have moved to community (i.e. neomutt, dvdstyler). I believe some of the current ones are good enough PKGBUILDs to be moved to community repository. - I've suscribed to most mailing lists and replied a few times, but I'm easier to be contacted in IRC. My forum activity is low since I find IRC more responsive. - I can Google around - For packages I want to maintain see list below My contributions so far in Arch Linux are mostly: - AUR packaging [1] - AUR development (aurweb) with code reviews, testing and development in python porting (and some php) [2] - DevOps keycloak theme packaging [3] - DevOps patches for various issues [4] - Actively involved in DevOps IRC for pitching in solutions to current issues/discussions AUR packages (I maintain) interested in moving to Community - Any package which will be a requirement for python ported Aurweb version - aarchup - python-prometheus-fastapi-instrumentator - freeplane - intellij-idea-{ce,ue}-eap (Provided their license is allowing that) - gdu AUR packages interested in moving to Community - abook - bfg - clean-chroot-manager - goland - jdtls - jetbrains-toolbox - tectonic I'd also be interesting in maintaining some Community packages which are orphan or co-maintain some: orphans: - elasticsearch packages I use and interested in {co-}maintaining: - ansible - aurpublish - aws-cli - ccache - cpupower - docker - docker-compose - go - gradle - kotlin - kubectl - lrzip - neomutt (used to be co-maintainer in aur) - notmuch - profile-sync-daemon - alot - android-file-transder - android-tools - android-udev - beets - bpytop - dvdbackup (used to maintain in aur) - cuda - fstrim - gcc10 (required for cuda) - handbrake - kitty - ncmpcpp - ninja - nextcloud-client - nlohmann-json - packer - pacman-contrib - pandoc - profile-cleaner - python-* (packages required for Aurweb see list from INSTALL) - screenfetch - spellcheck - signal-desktop - wxsvg (required from dvdbackup) - zsh-completions Github: https://github.com/inglor AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/artafinde Forums: https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=17838 Bugs: https://bugs.archlinux.org/user/10369 IRC: artafinde | inglor [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=M&K=artafinde&outdated=&SB=n&SO… [2]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/merge_requests?scope=all&st… [3]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/artafinde/keycloak-archlinux-theme/-/tree/mult… [4]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/merge_requests?scop… I'm looking forward to contributing more to Arch Linux. It's a great community and I've thoroughly enjoyed my time so far. Kind Regards, Leonidas -- Leonidas Spyropoulos A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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[aur-general] Leaving Arch Linux
by Simon Legner 20 Nov '21

20 Nov '21

Hey, earlier this year I've stared using macOS and Fedora. With mixed feelings I'm leaving Arch Linux (for now). Currently I'm the co/maintainer of 106 AUR packages: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=simon04&SeB=m Is there a standard procedure for safely un-maintaining all packages? Just abandoning all packages is not the best idea, is it? I'd like to find caring maintainers for my packages. Thank you for great thirteen years, simon04

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[aur-general] Remove my "package_name.git" repo
by David C. Rankin 17 Nov '21

17 Nov '21

I accidentally hit return with: git clone ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/package_name.git Cloning into 'package_name'... warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository. (I forgot to change "package_name" so I'm now blocked from submitting the correct name for the blank repo so I can populate it) Can somebody please undo what I did over on the server so I can get a new blank repo under the correct name? Thank you! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [aur-general] New AUR Metadata Archives
by zoorat 12 Nov '21

12 Nov '21

On 11/11/21 06:22, aur-general-request(a)lists.archlinux.org wrote: > Hello AUR users, > > In addition to pre-existing archives, we've introduced two new > archives that can be used instead of bulk queries against the RPC. > > Pre-existing archives: > > - packages.gz > - Listing of all packages separated by line break. > - pkgbase.gz > - Listing of all package bases separated by line break. > - users.gz > - Listening of all users separated by line break. > > Metadata archives: > > - packages-meta-v1.json.gz > - A complete `type=search` formatted JSON package archive. > - packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz > - A complete `type=multiinfo` formatted JSON package archive. > > All archives support Last-Modified and ETag. Each archive is updated > on a rough ~5 minute interval. For any bulk users of the RPC, we ask > that you consider these archives as a solution to repeated searches > or bulk multiinfo requests. > > All archives are available for download athttps://aur.archlinux.org/archive-name.gz > > Using these archives will drastically help the AUR with the amount > of traffic required for API clients. Particularly with clients who > are able to query by themselves en masse. > > We thank you all for contributing to the world of AUR and helping > those who can use your maintained software as a result. > > Regards, > Kevin > > -- > Kevin Morris > Software Developer That's awesome kevin, I got into a problem while downloading the 'packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz' with wget. I somehow corrupted it ... so, is there any hash I can check against ?? like '.sig' file for '.iso' files but, as a hash is a text file maybe ??... sorry if I'm being dumb. yours, zoorat.

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[aur-general] New AUR Metadata Archives
by Kevin Morris 11 Nov '21

11 Nov '21

Hello AUR users, In addition to pre-existing archives, we've introduced two new archives that can be used instead of bulk queries against the RPC. Pre-existing archives: - packages.gz - Listing of all packages separated by line break. - pkgbase.gz - Listing of all package bases separated by line break. - users.gz - Listening of all users separated by line break. Metadata archives: - packages-meta-v1.json.gz - A complete `type=search` formatted JSON package archive. - packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz - A complete `type=multiinfo` formatted JSON package archive. All archives support Last-Modified and ETag. Each archive is updated on a rough ~5 minute interval. For any bulk users of the RPC, we ask that you consider these archives as a solution to repeated searches or bulk multiinfo requests. All archives are available for download at https://aur.archlinux.org/archive-name.gz Using these archives will drastically help the AUR with the amount of traffic required for API clients. Particularly with clients who are able to query by themselves en masse. We thank you all for contributing to the world of AUR and helping those who can use your maintained software as a result. Regards, Kevin -- Kevin Morris Software Developer Identities: - kevr @ Libera

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Re: [aur-general] New AUR Metadata Archives
by Dmitry Marakasov 11 Nov '21

11 Nov '21

Hi! > In addition to pre-existing archives, we've introduced two new > archives that can be used instead of bulk queries against the RPC. Thanks a lot for doing this, I'm switching Repology right onto the new dump. This simplifies and speeds up repository metadata update in many ways and also provides consistent information from one point in time. I've verified that the contents I've been getting through the API (/rpc/?v=5&type=info for all packages from packages.gz) are the same except from minor differerences in License ordering (can you confirm that it's stable?) and the fact that unicode characters in descriptions are now correctly represented (abra package as example). Just FYI. I wonder how hard it will be to also provide download URLs in this dump. For instance, Repology uses these to report dead URLs. -- Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D amdmi3(a)amdmi3.ru ..: https://github.com/AMDmi3 https://amdmi3.ru

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Re: [aur-general] [PRQ#29045] Deletion Request for hugo-bin
by B 10 Nov '21

10 Nov '21

grawlinson made a deletion request on this package after I updated it to v0.89.1, and they immediately approved their own request. The community package is flagged out-of-date and is at v0.88.1. First, this violates the AUR community guidelines that requests a user be contacted before a package is removed. Additionally, I find that they are making a request and then immediately approving their own request without any discussion to be concerning. I do not think you should be deleting AUR packages, unless they are malicious. If they are not being maintained, then you should be contacting the users before deleting them. Otherwise, there is no harm in having an AUR and trusted package, as many times they be actually be different or the trusted package is the one not actively getting updated. On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 2:00 PM notify at aur.archlinux.org <ra%2Bxgepysjjbcltexbfrteyggrkpgpclsgvngecpizxwjpvijvgp(a)simplelogin.co> wrote: > > grawlinson [1] filed a deletion request for hugo-bin [2]: > > Hugo is available in the community repository. > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/grawlinson/ > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/hugo-bin/

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[aur-general] Do not remove filezilla-bin
by 山田ハヤオ 03 Nov '21

03 Nov '21

A request to remove filezilla-bin has been submitted (PRQ#28985]) [1] aur/filezilla-bin, unlike community/filezilla, provides binaries already officially built. Please do not delete the currently submitted deletion request as it is incorrect. Yamada Hayao [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2021-November/060268.html

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[aur-general] packaging question for optional-wayland optional-xorg package
by todd freed 03 Nov '21

03 Nov '21

Hello, First-time AUR packager here. I am working on a PKGBUILD for a program that optionally supports wayland, and optionally supports xorg. When you configure the program, you specify one, the other, or both, of --enable-wayland and --enable-xorg. Specifying either option implies a build-time and a run-time dependency on the relevant client libraries. I could build a single package with dependencies on both, but I suspect most wayland users would want the wayland-only package, and vice-versa for xorg. Is this a use-case for split-package? Trying not to overcomplicate things. Thanks. -hossbeast

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[aur-general] Spam account
by Kr1ss 30 Oct '21

30 Oct '21

Hi TUs, could somebody pls take care of this new spam account and their comment(s): https://aur.archlinux.org/account/EngineeringQ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/freetube-bin/#comment-833607 Thanks, cheers ! Kriss -- PGP: 7A19 4E3F 7A8F 867B EA8A 5339 023F 0788 62AC FE50 https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-keyid/023F078862ACFE50

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[aur-general] FastAPI aurweb Testing Announcement
by Kevin Morris 30 Oct '21

30 Oct '21

Hello AUR users, It is my pleasure to finally announce the initial "beta" testing stage of the FastAPI aurweb implementation. This development has majorly happened in the background, so it may come as a surprise to some. For those who want a quick check, we've deployed aurweb's development branch `pu` onto https://aur-dev.archlinux.org. More details about the instance can be found in the aur-dev.archlinux.org Testing page [1]. Below, there are several sections about different components of this adventure: - Proposal - Changes and Plans - Testing - Reporting == Proposal == In May of 2020, a proposal [2] was made to the project to port the existing PHP code over to a more modernized language and framework. The discussion settled on using the following stack: - Python - SQLAlchemy - Alembic - FastAPI == Changes and Plans == Along with this porting, we have fixed a few bugs and changed a few things. Following is a listing of a partial UX changelog: - The last Requests page no longer goes nowhere. - Requests can now be viewed as a normal User, filtered only to requests that the user created. - Users can now close requests they created by themselves. - The Trusted User page now allows users to page through the different tables independently. - The `get-comment-form` type has been removed from the RPC and implemented in a non-RPC route. - Performance of the homepage has been improved. - Performance of the package search page has been improved. - Performance of the `info` RPC type has been improved. - Most form-related actions have been changed. - Emitted cookies in production are now `Secure`, `HttpOnly` and `SameSite=strict`. - CSRF token inputs have been removed. - We may consider this in the future. - Many form pages now more correctly show errors or success messages on submission. - ...among several more... After the port is completely finished and deployed in production, we will be making improvements and sanitizations anywhere we see them being useful. There are quite a few features we already have tasked up for that point. However, more feature requests are welcome at any time. Note: The RPC is not yet completely implemented. It is not advisable to test against FastAPI's RPC implementation at the moment, but patches will be coming in soon and testing tasks will be added for it. == Testing == We have reached the point in development where we believe the majority of features have a working implementation. For this reason, we're now looking for crowdsourced user testing of the new platform. The developers of this new implementation were not historical experts of aurweb; the work was done with a fresh perspective and during exploration of the PHP code-base. We are sure there may be some mishaps around, and so this testing stage would be incredibly useful for us to put the finishing touches on the project with the end-goal of swapping to FastAPI in production 1-2 months from now. To get started with testing, visit the Testing Guide wiki page [3], which gives straight-forward direction on selecting and using a testing method. It is suggested to read the entire page, as all details are useful for those wishing to contribute feedback and utilizing the test systems. We're taking advantage of GitLab issues for tracking this test progress. An overview of the project's testing can be viewed in our progress issue [4]. Each task listed in the table on the overview page has its own issue, linked in the Status column. Testers should view these task-specific issues for details specific to the test. == Reporting == If you are interested in testing the platform, we very much appreciate your help and effort. That being said, the best way you can contribute to the project by testing is to report bugs or feedback about the routes (or tasks) you've tested. Please follow the procedure for reporting bugs or feedback noted in the Testing Guide [3]. == Thanks == Again, we very highly appreciate all of you for participating in the AUR and its well-being. == Footnotes == Contributions of all kinds are welcome and appreciated. Bug reports, patches, feature requests, documentation, or any other kind. Come visit us in Libera's #archlinux-aurweb if you'd like to chat specifically about the project. == References == [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/wikis/aur-dev.archlinux.org… [2] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-dev/2020-May/004848.html [3] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/wikis/Testing-Guide [4] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/issues/161 -- Kevin Morris Software Developer Identities: - kevr @ Libera

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[aur-general] problem with yt-dlp package.
by zoorat 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

Hi everyone. I'm the maintainer of python-spotdl. and my package needs `yt-dlp` as a dependency. but, as the AUR/yt-dlp got deleted, I got into a problem. I am not a python programmer, so I might be wrong... but what I found after testing my program needs files of `/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/yt_dlp/` folder. but, community/yt-dlp package dose not have files of `/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/yt_dlp/` folder. It only contains the binary to be used by the terminal. so it can not work as a dependency. And AUR/youtube-dlp-bin is the same. only the binary. And there is AUR/yt-dlp-git which have `/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/yt_dlp/` folder with all the files needs to be a dependency but it is a git package... I already wrote a package by the name python-yt-dlp which is built the way a python package is supposed to be built. As any of them can't function as a dependency should I upload it ?? or should I make a bug report in community/yt-dl ??. yours, zoorat.

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Re: [aur-general] problem with yt-dlp package.
by zoorat 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

>> I am not a python programmer, so I might be wrong... >> but what I found after testing my program needs files of ` >> >> / >> >> usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/yt_dlp >> >> / >> >> ` folder. >> >> but, >> community/yt-dlp package dose not have files of ` >> >> / >> >> usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/yt_dlp >> >> / >> >> ` folder. It only contains the binary to be used by the terminal. so it can not work as a dependency. >> And AUR/youtube-dlp-bin is the same. only the binary. >> And there is AUR/yt-dlp-git which have ` >> >> / >> >> usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/yt_dlp >> >> / >> >> ` folder with all the files needs to be a dependency but it is a git package... >> >> I already wrote a package by the name python-yt-dlp which is built the way a python package is supposed to be built. As any of them can't function as a dependency should I upload it ?? >> or should I make a bug report in community/yt-dl ??. > > might not be the right solution, but? > > the /usr/bin/yt-dlp file is actually a python package as a zip > archive, that has all the python modules in it. > > even this works `PYTHONPATH=yt-dlp python` and then you can import > from the yt_dlp > package. > > you might use this as a kind of a fix > > -- > damjan that certainly works. but why this weird solution ?? why that 'yt-dlp' package is an archive in /bin ?? why it's not like a normal python package so that it can be used as a normal terminal utility and a library at the same time ?? I don't get it. a simple package like this works just fine => https://gist.github.com/z00rat/48283ea15353ff86c3222316feaca649 it just works as a command and as a library. btw, it has that GUI (yt-dlg) too. TBH, i would rather prefer a universal way to do those things... ps: am i supposed to get mail or in an aur-general Digest when ever someone mail in my thread ?? i only get email as a digest....

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[aur-general] RPC v1-v4 Deprecated Support Ended
by Kevin Morris 17 Oct '21

17 Oct '21

Hello AUR Users, The RPC version 1-4 deprecation period has now ended. At this time, users should rely on the fact that support for version 1-4 may be dropped at any time. If you own a project which uses the RPC API, you'll want to comply with the version 5 API immediately. See the Deprecation Notice [1] for a more elaborate explanation of the deprecation and how to move forward. Deprecation warning which was patched into the RPC API 31 days ago: The use of versions lower than 5 is now deprecated and will soon be unsupported. To ensure your API client supports the change without issue, it should use version 5 and adjust for any changes in the API interface. See https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc for documentation related to v5. Again, if you have not yet migrated, now is the time to do so. Completion of the FastAPI port is quite near to completion, and when we deploy FastAPI in production on aur.archlinux.org, support for 1-4 will be non-existent. Thank you all for your selfless contributions to user-driven software as a whole. You are what makes the AUR a usable and attractive feature of Arch Linux and keeps developers wanting to improve the project in general. References: [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2021-September/036579.html Thank you for your attention, Kevin 'kevr' Morris -- Kevin Morris Software Developer Identities: - kevr @ Libera

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[aur-general] Package name conflict (package name is already taken)
by Matej Dujava 13 Oct '21

13 Oct '21

Hello, I am looking into publishing mine first package [0] into aur. I have working PKGBUILD with 2 split packages (only 2 out of 4 run on python3 now; client side for now). Problem is that I would like to use "beaker" as a pkgbase, since original packages has this basename in rpm based distros [1]. Currently beaker aur package is used for [2] [3], which is also in packages: beaker-appimage beaker-browser-bin beaker-browser-git beaker-git I contacted package maintainers, after week no reply. I was thinking of renaming them to beaker-browser-{,-bin,-git,-appimage} [0] https://github.com/beaker-project/beaker [1] https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=23875 [2] https://beakerbrowser.com [3] https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker Thank you, Matej Dujava

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Re: [aur-general] Duplicate yt-dlp packages
by Maxwell G 11 Oct '21

11 Oct '21

Oct 10, 2021 4:19:07 PM Alexandre Mendes <reversebob(a)gmail.com>: > Hello, > > This package was my first package ever created, and I used a script to do it, but have been informed the convention is not respected (python- should apparently be for libraries). > Anyway, my package needs to disappear. > Should I delete it myself ? What exactly is the correct process ? > > > > On Sun, 10 Oct 2021 at 22:41, Maxwell Gottlieb <gotmax(a)e.email> wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I hope you are having a good weekend! >> >> There are several duplicate packages for yt-dlp[1] available on the AUR. >> There are two regular packages (yt-dlp and youtube-dlp), as well as two >> Git packages (yt-dlp-git and python-yt-dlp-git). I think we should keep >> yt-dlp and yt-dlp-git, because they are the most popular, but I wanted >> to ask before creating any deletion requests. >> >> I have CC'd the maintainers of the aforementioned packages. >> >> Thanks, >> Maxwell >> >> [1]: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp >> >> -- >> Maxwell G (@gotmax23) >> Pronouns: He/Him/His >> gotmax(a)e.email Hi Alexandre, I'm not sure what the process of deleting packages looks like. One of the Trusted Users can chime in on that. Please make sure that you reply to the entire mailing list and not just me. I think you have to subscribe[1] to the mailing list before posting. Thanks, Maxwell [1]: https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general -- Maxwell G Pronouns: He/Him/His gotmax(a)e.email

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