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[aur-general] Duplicate yt-dlp packages
by Maxwell Gottlieb 10 Oct '21

10 Oct '21

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

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[aur-general] poe-git maintainership
by Strahinya Radich 07 Oct '21

07 Oct '21

Hi, I am the author of the program poe (https://sr.ht/~strahinja/poe) When I wanted to create an AUR package for my program, I found out that someone (with the username fossdd) already made a package for my program, called poe-git. The version of the package in the AUR, however, is 0.1.alpha.r11.g4a843ea-1 and I've moved on to v1.3.3. Granted, when poe-git is installed through an AUR helper, the latest source is pulled, but the PKGBUILD doesn't use the intended command for the installation (which is now PREFIX=... ./do install, I've added respecting the PREFIX environment variable), but instead uses the install(1) program manually, so the manpage isn't installed. I would be fine with fossdd maintaining poe-git AUR package if it is kept up-to-date, but I would prefer maintaining it myself. I tried contacting fossdd today early in the morning about this, but got no response yet. I would appreciate an advice on this.

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Re: [aur-general] Not receiving password reset emails for new account
by Ken Taylor 27 Sep '21

27 Sep '21

I am having the same problem as jake. New account, email is correct (won't let me create another one with the same email address -- taylork(a)alum.mit.edu) Have tried reset password for a couple days and no emails. Thanks, -Ken On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 6:25 PM Jake Barnes <me(a)jakebarn.es> wrote: > > Hi, > > Last week I tried creating the account `vivi` for automating releases of our package (also `vivi`), instead of using my personal account `DuBistKomisch`. The email address should be `devops at vivi.io`, which is a shared mailbox on my company's Office 365. I didn't receive the initial password reset after registration, nor any requested from the password reset page. > > If I made a typo in the email, could it please be corrected? Otherwise, please advise anything else I can do here. > > Thanks, Jake

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[aur-general] Special removal of inactive Trusted User Brad Fanella (cesura)
by David Runge 24 Sep '21

24 Sep '21

Hi all, I would like to raise the special removal [1] of the Trusted User Brad Fanella (cesura) due to inactivity. * last vote: 124 * last AUR login: 2020-11-08 * last action: 2020-08-19 13:33 * the user has no packages in the official repositories I have tried to reach out to Brad via e-mail on 2021-08-10 granting a three week grace period (which has now passed by more than a week), but did not receive a reply. After a three day discussion period I will start a vote. Best, David [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/tu-bylaws/-/blob/master/tu-bylaws.ad… -- https://sleepmap.de

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[aur-general] Question about AUR submission rules
by networkException 23 Sep '21

23 Sep '21

Hello, I maintain the ungoogled-chromium packaging for Arch Linux as an officially supported platform. As a quick overview, ungoogled-chromium is a set of patches that aims to remove all dependencies on Google services from Chromium. Compiling Chromium is a quite resource and time intensive task, which is why I use both Open Build Service and GitHub Actions for offering binary releases. As the packing is Arch Linux specific, both build systems produce a package archive for pacman. A highly requested feature by users is to offer such a binary release in the AUR as it is more convenient for them compared to adding a custom repository for example. In the past there were already ungoogled-chromium-bin packages in the AUR, usually submitted by people not affiliated with the project and removed for some reason at some point in time. The most recent one would download a pacman package from an OBS repository and install it by extracting files manually. In the delete request removing this last package (#19142) it was stated that "the AUR is not intended to provide an index for PKGBUILDs that repackage the build package originally created by another PKGBUILD". While I understand that the AUR would want to avoid to just include repackaged entries like that, I am now wondering what the best way to offer a binary package in the AUR would be in my situation. Building Chromium separately into a non makepkg archive just for the AUR on GitHub Actions for example seems wasteful and would defeat the way package checksums are currently handled, as such making it harder for end users to quickly verify that the binary an AUR helper for example would download is legitimate. I tried looking for a rule that explicitly states the mentioned repackaging restrictions, but I was unable to find one. I have also found another AUR package which is normally available that repackages a pkg.tar.zst (codelite-bin). Thank your for taking the time to reading, I hope it will be possible to find a way to submit ungoogled-chromium-bin properly. Kind regards, networkException

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[aur-general] Not receiving password reset emails for new account
by Jake Barnes 23 Sep '21

23 Sep '21

Hi, Last week I tried creating the account `vivi` for automating releases of our package (also `vivi`), instead of using my personal account `DuBistKomisch`. The email address should be `devops@vivi.io`, which is a shared mailbox on my company's Office 365. I didn't receive the initial password reset after registration, nor any requested from the password reset page. If I made a typo in the email, could it please be corrected? Otherwise, please advise anything else I can do here. Thanks, Jake

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[aur-general] [neard] neard release v0.17
by Krzysztof Kozlowski 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

Hi all, v0.17 ===== After quiet period, the neard user-space counterpart of Linux kernel NFC stack, gets a new release - v0.17. The release includes several fixes (including potential security fixes) and improvements, plus few new features. Source code release: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/nfc/neard.git/tag/?h=v0.17 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/nfc/neard.git/snapshot/neard-0.17.ta… Few notes on new names and maintainers ====================================== The neard package was previously maintained Samuel Ortiz and Marcel Holtmann, which were also main contributors. Last years Mark Greer was looking after neard. I joined in 2021, both as a maintainer of Linux kernel NFC stack and the neard. The project development still happens via linux-nfc mailing list but also got a second home on GitHub: https://github.com/linux-nfc/neard Under GitHub I set up also Continuous Integration: https://github.com/linux-nfc/neard/actions Feel free join and hack via both channels. Best regards, Krzysztof

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[aur-general] RPC v1-v4 Deprecation Notice
by Kevin Morris 20 Sep '21

20 Sep '21

Hello AUR users, With the advent of FastAPI aurweb development, we've done some reviewing of the RPC API. With each increasing version to the RPC, it has become quite a heavy component of aurweb to maintain in complete back-compatibility mode for legacy RPC version users. These legacy versions reduce flexibility in the implementation and there are several bugs with the legacy versions which will not be addressed in favor of moving forward and focusing on the current highest version: 5 and future unreleased versions. For these reasons, we have decided to deprecate the following RPC versions: - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 Undeprecated versions: - 5 A deprecation warning has been patched into the RPC soon for all requests which use a version less than 5. This notice will be shown to users under the "warning" key of JSON output for a minimum of one month before true deprecation occurs: 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. After one month has passed (from now), the RPC API should be seen to only support v5. Users should update their code to use v5 before this time to avoid any imminent client breakage. See https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc for documentation on working with version 5. NOTE: Upcoming changes which completely remove v1-4 from operation will require your clients to supply a valid `v` query argument. Currently, this defaults to version 1, and that will change with the completion of the deprecation. A changelog will be posted to aur-general regarding RPC when this occurs, but this is a bit of forewarning so that users may prepare without issues. Example: https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc?v=5&type=multiinfo&arg[]=package We thank you all for your understanding and look forward to improving the API in future versions (v6) which development will have begun after the FastAPI initial port is complete. We'd like to thank you all for your contributions to the AUR; without you, the AUR would simply not be a useful tool. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but we do feel that this is the right direction for the project; especially since we'll be adding more features to the API in the very near future, this allows us to more easily develop and release these additions. Thank you for reading, aurweb Development Team -- Kevin Morris Software Developer Identities: - kevr @ Libera

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[aur-general] Problem downloading a source package with new curl version
by Jan Kohnert 20 Sep '21

20 Sep '21

Hi, one of my aur packages (eccodes) has a problem getting the source package using the new version of curl (7.79.0). The output of the old curl version looks like: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- jankoh@kohni-mobil ~/projects/eccodes $ curl -v https://confluence.ecmwf.int/ download/attachments/45757960/eccodes-2.23.0-Source.tar.gz?api=v2 * Trying 136.156.180.232:443... * Connected to confluence.ecmwf.int (136.156.180.232) port 443 (#0) * ALPN, offering h2 * ALPN, offering http/1.1 * successfully set certificate verify locations: * CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt * CApath: none * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1): * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2): * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11): * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12): * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server finished (14): * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16): * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1): * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20): * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20): * SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 * ALPN, server did not agree to a protocol * Server certificate: * subject: jurisdictionC=GB; businessCategory=Non-Commercial Entity; serialNumber=ISBN: 9780101820028; C=GB; ST=West Berkshire; L=Reading; O=European Cen tre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts; CN=confluence.ecmwf.int * start date: Mar 29 16:16:45 2021 GMT * expire date: Mar 29 16:26:00 2022 GMT * subjectAltName: host "confluence.ecmwf.int" matched cert's "confluence.ecmwf.int" * issuer: C=NL; O=QuoVadis Trustlink B.V.; CN=QuoVadis Europe EV SSL CA G1 * SSL certificate verify ok. > GET /download/attachments/45757960/eccodes-2.23.0-Source.tar.gz?api=v2 HTTP/ 1.1 > Host: confluence.ecmwf.int > User-Agent: curl/7.78.0 > Accept: */* > * Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse < HTTP/1.1 200 200 < Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 19:48:11 GMT < Server: Apache < Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate < Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT < X-Confluence-Request-Time: 1632080871142 < Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=659BDBFF1F03F2DC7848A7BEECF3CCC3; Path=/; HttpOnly < Last-Modified: Mon, 19 Jan 1970 20:46:07 GMT < Accept-Ranges: bytes < X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff < Content-Disposition: inline; filename="eccodes-2.23.0-Source.tar.gz" < Content-Type: application/x-gzip;charset=UTF-8 < Content-Length: 12037258 < Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15552000 < Warning: Binary output can mess up your terminal. Use "--output -" to tell Warning: curl to output it to your terminal anyway, or consider "--output Warning: <FILE>" to save to a file. * Failure writing output to destination * Closing connection 0 * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS alert, close notify (256): jankoh@kohni-mobil ~/projects/eccodes $ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The new version outputs: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- jankoh@kohni-mobil ~/projects/eccodes $ curl -v -i https:// confluence.ecmwf.int/download/attachments/45757960/eccodes-2.23.0- Source.tar.gz?api=v2 * Trying 136.156.180.232:443... * Connected to confluence.ecmwf.int (136.156.180.232) port 443 (#0) * ALPN, offering h2 * ALPN, offering http/1.1 * successfully set certificate verify locations: * CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt * CApath: none * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1): * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2): * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11): * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12): * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server finished (14): * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16): * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1): * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20): * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20): * SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 * ALPN, server did not agree to a protocol * Server certificate: * subject: jurisdictionC=GB; businessCategory=Non-Commercial Entity; serialNumber=ISBN: 9780101820028; C=GB; ST=West Berkshire; L=Reading; O=European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts; CN=confluence.ecmwf.int * start date: Mar 29 16:16:45 2021 GMT * expire date: Mar 29 16:26:00 2022 GMT * subjectAltName: host "confluence.ecmwf.int" matched cert's "confluence.ecmwf.int" * issuer: C=NL; O=QuoVadis Trustlink B.V.; CN=QuoVadis Europe EV SSL CA G1 * SSL certificate verify ok. > GET /download/attachments/45757960/eccodes-2.23.0-Source.tar.gz?api=v2 HTTP/ 1.1 > Host: confluence.ecmwf.int > User-Agent: curl/7.79.0 > Accept: */* > * Unsupported response code in HTTP response * Closing connection 0 * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS alert, close notify (256): curl: (1) Unsupported response code in HTTP response jankoh@kohni-mobil ~/projects/eccodes $ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I see the response code is 200 200, which has an additional errournous 200. Since the upgrade my automated daily test builds fail, so I'd like to know if I should file a bug report either upstream or the arch bugtracker. I can download the file using chrome or wget, so it might be a workaroud if I could tell makepkg to use wget instead of curl. However, executing ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- sudo sed -i -r "s/(http[s]?::)\/usr\/bin\/curl\ -qgb\ \"\"\ -fLC\ -\ --retry\ 3\ --retry-delay\ 3 -o/\1\/usr\/sbin\/wget\ --no-cookies\ --retry-connrefused\ -t\ 3\ --waitretry\ 3 -O/" /etc/makepkg.conf ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- inside the build container will not help users that upgrade or install the package. I could post the workaround to the packages page, but this will also affect other packages to be build, and wget needs to be installed before that workaround will actually work. Any tips on how to go on? TIA -- MfG Jan

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[aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day September 20th 2021
by Daniel M. Capella 16 Sep '21

16 Sep '21

Our requests system has been running awfully smoothly lately; luckily our bi-yearly AUR Cleanup Day is here to shake things up! This year it lands on this coming Monday, but as usual, feel free to start as soon as you like. See the AUR Cleanup Day wiki article[1] for details, and/or jump right in to the collaborative doc for this year's event[2]. IRC and Matrix users can chat and ask questions in #archlinux-aur on Libera.Chat. PS: Previously the wiki article was an option for collaboration. It's now locked down and will probably be made static, with an about section and a link to the template[3] for the collaborative doc. [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:AUR_Cleanup_Day [2]: https://md.archlinux.org/amew_bGZSyySAHsQKig3AQ?both [3]: https://md.archlinux.org/pFMvWHrSRYi3buy3nBjFkA -- Best, Daniel<https://danielcapella.com>

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Re: [aur-general] [aur-requests] [PRQ#28202] Deletion Request for obsidian-insider
by Alexander Epaneshnikov 16 Sep '21

16 Sep '21

On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 04:31:11AM +0000, notify--- via aur-requests wrote: > lishid [1] filed a deletion request for obsidian-insider [2]: > > Duplicate of https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/obsidian > > Also hotlinking of insider builds are illegal by the software's > license. I have already rejected PRQ # 28198 on the grounds that aur does not distribute any illegal content. maybe someone has other suggestions? > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/lishid/ > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/obsidian-insider/ -- Sincerely, Alexander | Trusted User

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

14 Sep '21

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 07:15:13AM +0000, zoorat via aur-general wrote: > 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. > 1. when I tried to build with default, it failed. > > 2. I changed "gtksourceview2" to "gtksourceview3" and "gtksourceview4", build failed. --------------cut-------------------------- Today I downloaded the git repository for gtkwrite. I followed the instructions in the README.md and compiled and generated gtkedit. I inspected my include directory for the gtksourceview* directories and found that I had both gtksourceview-3 and gtksourceview-4 installed. I suspected that I also could have installed gtksourceview-5 from AUR if I had wanted. As per the README.md file: $ make clean $ make with=-DWGTKSOURCEVIEW-4 and generated the gtkwrite executable. I did not install the program because I was not familiar with the PKGBUILD file. Because this package has been withdrawn I do not know how this will build against the PKGBUILD file. I suspect PKGBUILD will need to be modified. John

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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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Re: [aur-general] Cycled dependencies in AUR
by Mikhail f. Shiryaev 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

Hello. Today I tried to build ruby-rubocop [1] package and it's in a strange state. A lot of packages for the package are cross-dependent for the check, for example ruby-ruby-progressbar [2] and ruby-fuubar [3]. The proposal of how to solve it from Mario [4] is to skip the check() phase, see comment [5]. The same is valid for package ruby-rubocop-performance [6] that is dependency for rubocop check and requires it to be built IMHO the state when the packages aren't able to be built by the simple AUR helper command like `yay -S ruby-rubocop` should be considered as room for improvement. If I'm wrong, please say so. But I'd like to have AUR packages in an easily installable state and not passing additional arguments like `--nocheck` for makepackage commands. [1] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-rubocop [2] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-ruby-progressbar/ [3] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-fuubar/ [4] - https://aur.archlinux.org/account/supermario [5] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-rubocop-rspec/#comment-823420 [6] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-rubocop-performance/ Best regards, Mikhail f. Shiryaev p.s. Mario, sorry for sending you two messages. >

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[aur-general] What's happened with URxvt upstream? And how to build dependent packages now?
by Radislav Golubtsov 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

Hi guys, First of all, I’d like to say, I’m a long-time and happy user of the URxvt terminal emulator and more precisely — of its AUR package "rxvt-unicode-better-wheel-scrolling" [1]. It’s the very good complement to a WM of my choice (Window Maker) for many years. From aside, I didn’t updated Arch on my laptop around a year (11 months with a couple-triple of extra days). And in the end of last eek I’ve decided to do so (with help, of couse, pacman-static from the private repo of Eli Schwartz [2] — and then with the stock pacman straight out). Finally, my system is running well with all the official packages updated and those from the AUR too, except one mentioned for this asking — URxvt. AFAIK, and as checked out some of the AUR packages, resembling and augmenting functionality of the URxvt terminal emulator, — they are all pulling out the upstream tarball in their PKGBUILDs from Mark Lehmann’s website. The latter is currently unavailable, unfortunately. And the URxvt tarball is also unavailable for downloading. What to do now with this, guys? — Maybe some of you know where to get aforementined URxvt tarball (another URL, publicly advertised, or someone hosted it on their website). Thanks in advance for a suitable solution or direction to solve this out there. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rxvt-unicode-better-wheel-scrolling/ [2] https://pkgbuild.com/~eschwartz/repo/x86_64-extracted/ -- Kind regards, Radislav (Radicchio) Golubtsov

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Re: [aur-general] [PRQ#27846] Deletion Request for iwlwifi-7265-ucode
by Ramadan Ali 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

iwlwifi-7265-ucode [1] contains two different files `iwlwifi-7265-14.ucode` and `iwlwifi-7265-14D.ucode` wich are not present in linux-firmware [2] Maybe `iwlwifi-7265-ucode` can be renamed as `iwlwifi-7265-14-ucode`, but I think it's not necessary alicavus [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/iwlwifi-7265-ucode/ [2] https://archlinux.org/packages/core/any/linux-firmware/ On 8/30/21 2:12 AM, notify(a)aur.archlinux.org wrote: > yochananmarqos [1] filed a deletion request for iwlwifi-7265-ucode > [2]: > > This is included in the linux-firmware package. > > Also with PRQ#27845, I meant to say linux-firmware, not the kernel. > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/yochananmarqos/ > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/iwlwifi-7265-ucode/ >

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[aur-general] Package Request and/or TU Application
by Kevin Morris 20 Aug '21

20 Aug '21

Hi aur-general, I've come across a Python library which serves a nice purpose for aurweb's FastAPI implementation, but noticed that it is not yet maintained in the Arch official repositories. For aurweb, we'd like to stick to packages which exist within our official repositories, and so I'm here to start a chat about either someone picking it up or applying as a TU to maintain it. Upstream: https://github.com/Pylons/paginate Description: A Python pagination module I've put together an AUR package for this project to share/demonstrate its PKGBUILD that could be used to produce a [community] package, located at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-paginate/. There are other python-*-paginate libraries around the AUR, but they are not meant to be as standalone as Pylon's paginate seems to be (out of the box, at least). For any TUs out there, could you perhaps give some feedback as to your thoughts on the package topic? It'd be greatly appreciated. That being said, I could maintain the package, but I have not really reached out to TUs to get any sort of sponsorship in regards to this, as I do not really have many packages that I know of to pick up. My main goal here is to get `python-paginate` into [community], however that may be achieved. Would this be possible? Thanks for your time and willingness to read this. Regards, Kevin Morris -- Kevin Morris Software Developer Identities: - kevr @ Libera

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[aur-general] Request for deletion process?
by S Shaikh 16 Aug '21

16 Aug '21

Hello, I'm relatively new to the AUR, and one of my packages[1] has been requested (marked?) For deletion. Naturally I believe that there's a case for the package. I plan to respond on the package page itself, but am a little lost on the actual process in general. Is there a specific audience I should frame my case to? What are the timings for deletion? Should the discussion be had here or there? Does the fact that it's even got this far mean there's no turning back (or can anyone file a request for further approval?). Thanks! Shak [1]https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/i3blocks-contrib-install-git/

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