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[aur-general] TU application - alex19EP
by Alexander Epaneshnikov 10 Aug '21

10 Aug '21

Hello, my name is Alexander Epaneshnikov. and I'd like to join the Trusted Users team to further improve the Arch Linux accessibility for people with disabilities. I am sponsored by David Runge <dvzrv> and Sven-Hendrik Haase <svenstaro>. I started using Arch Linux in 2018 and since then it has become my main distribution. I also do my best to help blind people learn about arch and start using it. regarding minimum basic requirements: * I know how to script some things. I use zsh on a daily basis, but I can work with bash / sh too. * I maintain a few packages in the AUR[1]. I also have a couple of pkgbuilds on github[2]. * I definitely know how to google. (using surfraw for that) * my involvement with the arch mailing lists and IRC is rather low, but I am very active in blind specific lists and IRC channels. There I help users, create bug reports about a11y related problems for projects and of course talk about Arch. I can be found on irc on oftc and liberachat under the alex19EP nickname. As I already said, I would like to become a TU to further improve the appeal of Arch for people with disabilities, so I want to maintain packages that are related to a11y: * lightdm-slick-greeter - the most accessible lightdm greeter. * rhvoice - Open source speech synthesizer. (I am one of the upstream maintainers) * fenrir - A user space console screen reader written in python3 Additionally, I would like to move some packages which are popular and that I use personally to the [community] repository. * etc-update * glulxe-term * bitwarden and bitwarden-cli - eh electron I know, but it is the only cross-platform password manager which is accessible. * hunspell-ru * magic-wormhole * yadm I can also help maintain packages which are already in community: * espeakup - I am now the upstream maintainer for this project. * espeak-ng * matrix-synapse My biggest and perhaps most significant contribution to Arch is the addition of accessibility features for blind people to archiso [3] [4]. I have also written and kept documentation for installing Arch with accessibility options [5] up-to-date. my other open source contributions: I maintain RHVoice [6] and espeakup[7]. Gladly I will answer any comments or questions. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=3D0&SeB=3DM&K=3Dalex19EP [2] https://github.com/alex19EP/pkgbuilds [3] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archiso/-/merge_requests/79 [4] https://archlinux.org/news/accessible-installation-medium/ [5] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Install_Arch_Linux_with_accessibility_opti… [6] https://github.com/rHVoice/rHVoice [7] https://github.com/linux-speakup/espeakup Arch project accounts: Wiki: Alex19EP Forums: alex19EP (inactive there) Flyspray: https://bugs.archlinux.org/user/28985 -- Sincerely, Alexander

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[aur-general] Stepping down as TU
by alad 10 Aug '21

10 Aug '21

Hi all, For some time now my involvement as TU has been limited, particularly on the packaging front. I'd always thought I'd get more time, but I keep getting more on my plate from my graduate studies. With the steady influx of fresh blood to the TU team, it now seems a good time for me to resign. I'll stay around as wiki administrator and IRC op (as well as maintainer of aurutils). List of packages in [community] where I'm the sole maintainer: asoundconf cabextract datamash edbrowse expac innoextract nawk pslist qpdfview sigil sylpheed time udevil wimlib xsettingsd Of those, the following are required by other packages: cabextract expac time xsettingsd Cheers and thanks for all the fish! Alad

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[aur-general] Created account with incorrect email
by Maxwell G 03 Aug '21

03 Aug '21

Hi, I just created an AUR account with the username gotmax23. I'm usually more careful, but I mistyped my email address, despite the clearly posted warning. I believe I added an extra x to gotmax in my email address gotmax@.e.email. Could you please set the email address on that account to gotmax(a)e.email so I can set my password? If you need verification, I can send the IP address that I used to create the account in private. Thank you so much, Maxwell -- Maxwell G Pronouns: He/Him/His gotmax(a)e.email

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[aur-general] Strange pikaur behaviour
by Peter Nabbefeld 02 Aug '21

02 Aug '21

Hello, I'm currently trying to build meshroom-git. I removed the old installation to replace alembic-qfix by community/alembic, and I'm able to build meshroom-git (with some problems). 1. For installation, I use "pikaur -Sa meshroom-git". 2. pikaur tells me about missing alembic-qfix, though latest PKGBUILD does not refer to it as a dependency. 3. I can only build meshroom-git after making some change (commenting/uncommenting a print instruction). 4. When I try again, I'm again told about dependency alembic-qfix not found in AUR. Also, when building meshroom-git, two outdated dependencies are built first and removed after the build. Obviously, there's still an earlier version of PKGBUILD located somewhere which is not deleted (and I don't know where to find it, as removing ~/.local/share/pikaur/aur_repos/meshroom-git and ~/.cache/pikaur/{build,pkg}/meshroom-git does not seem to be enough). Any idea? Kind regards, Peter

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[aur-general] PKGBUILD review request (REXPaint)
by Vince 01 Aug '21

01 Aug '21

Hello aur-general, Thank you for your help in the previous threads. I'm immensely grateful for the feedback I got, and hope that I'm not polluting too much. I have completed a PKGBUILD for REXPaint. I would be grateful if someone could take a look and make sure that it ticks all the boxes, and give me any constructive criticism that may apply. All the best, Vince

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[aur-general] Cannot build alice-vision-git
by Peter Nabbefeld 01 Aug '21

01 Aug '21

Hello, after I managed to build cctag (by insertion of "cd" commands into PKGBUILD), now I have problems building alice-vision-git. The problem: Minor versions of OpenEXR (3.0.x) and Imath (3.1.x) differ. To fix the problem, I added "-DOPENEXR_IMATH_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/libImath-3_1.so" to PKGBUILD. This worked in one (or some) case(s), but it does not work for libAlembic: /usr/bin/ld: warning: libImath-3_0.so.28, needed by /usr/lib/libAlembic.so.1.8, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libAlembic.so.1.8: undefined reference to `Imath_3_0::half::convert(int)' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libAlembic.so.1.8: undefined reference to `Imath_3_0::half::_eLut' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libAlembic.so.1.8: undefined reference to `Imath_3_0::half::_toFloat' /usr/bin/ld: Linux-x86_64/libaliceVision_sfmDataIO.so.2.4: undefined reference to `Alembic::AbcGeom::v12::XformSample::setMatrix(Imath_3_1::Matrix44<double> const&)' It seems, QmlAlembic does not honour the config option "OPENEXR_IMATH_LIBRARY". Kind regards, Peter

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[aur-general] Pushing rc version of package to aur
by Jan Kohnert 01 Aug '21

01 Aug '21

Hi, I maintain the gnudatalanguage package on the aur. The current release is 0.9.9 (from 2019); however, there is 1.0.0-rc.3 available on their webpage. I recall having read somewhere in the docs that pushing rc version is generally discouraged on the aur, but got a out-of-date flagging today. So the question is simply: Whould it be ok to push 1.0.0-rc.3 to the aur? And if so; how to specify the version tag correctly? Thanks in advance! -- MfG Jan

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[aur-general] Request for Public Review of REXPaint package
by Vince 31 Jul '21

31 Jul '21

Hi everyone! Thank you for the help on the the thread eariler, I found the advice and examples very useful. I have posted a request for review of my PKGBUILD over IRC, but I would appreciate any criticism here too. I have uploaded the PKGBUILD, and two files that would come with it (launcher.desktop and launcher.sh). There are a couple decisions I made that are unconventional, so I'll list them here: 1. As George suggested, I renamed my package from `rexpaint-bin` to just `rexpaint`, since there are no sources available. 2. The server hosting the program blocks Curl's user agent. As far as I can tell, the convention is to use "Mozilla" as a user agent instead. However, I have opted to use "PKGBUILD" as the agent, so I avoid accidentally messing up any statistics that may be collected upstream. 3. I have used standard package permissions as far as I can tell, except for `/usr/share/rexpaint/images`. The program saves data into this directory, so it must be 777. 4. I am not sure what to do with `/usr/share/rexpaint/data`. It contains data such as fonts and palettes, which might be edited by the user during usage. Right now I have assumed that the user will not do that, so it is not listed in `$backup` and its mode is 755. I have sent an email upstream asking about this, and am waiting for a response. 5. The program tries to write logs into the Working Directory (`/usr/share/rexpaint`), but it cannot do this because I have set its mode to 755. However, giving the everyone write permissions in `/usr/share/rexpaint` seems insecure. Please advise. As stated before, I have emailed upstream to ask if it's okay that I publish this packaging to the repositories. This is not required by the license, but I am too young to be making enemies, and it would be nice to have some upstream. I will publish it when I get the goahead, or if he takes more than 24h to reply. All feedback is appreciated. Thank you in advance, Vincent

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-general] [aur] cctag build error
by Peter Nabbefeld 31 Jul '21

31 Jul '21

NOTE: Moving discussion to aur-general - please don't reply on arch-general. Am 31.07.21 um 12:39 schrieb Ralf Mardorf via arch-general: > On Sat, 31 Jul 2021 12:09:37 +0200, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: >> Unknown CMake command "CUDA_ADD_LIBRARY". >> >> How can I fix this? > Hi, > > the very first thing to do by yourself, before even posting to an > appropriate mailing list, is trying to build without an AUR helper. > > Since you get a CUDA related error mesage, you probably should mention > what environment variables you used. > > "CUDA_ARCH=x.y to build for specific GPU architecture ( Supports: > single arch (5.2) the list of archs (5.2;6.0), arch name (Maxwell) or > auto (Auto) ) > > DISABLE_CUDA Build without cuda support" - > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cctag/#pinned-818726 > > My guess is, that there is a reason for the pinned comment. > > Taking a look at the mailing list archive you frequently sent AUR > related requests. Actually I don't know if those requests belong to > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general , but it's likely more > appropriate than this mailing list is. > > Regards, > Ralf Thank You for Your answer! I rarely get build errors, even with AUR packages - with the exception of alice-vision and its dependendencies -, so I'm not much used to handle such problems (the disadvantage of a stable system ;-) ). And I'm no C programmer, which makes it difficult for me to fix cmake related errors myself - I can only try to track problems until some level of complexity. In this case I thought the makefile would miss some dependency. As I'm using the nouveau driver instead of nvidia's, I'm pretty sure there's no CUDA support (but I'll not render complex graphics often, so some more processing time won't hurt). However, I plan to setup my Linux installation by the end of the year, so some modules and parameters may change in the future. I've added the following two lines between "# Maintainer" and "#Configuration" at the top of PKGBUILD: DISABLE_CUDA=1 ENABLE_APPS=1 Now I get a missing dependency for devil2. Without "ENABLE_APPS" I get the following error (among some others, but this is probably the cause for the others): CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.21/Modules/WriteBasicConfigVersionFile.cmake:43 (message): No VERSION specified for WRITE_BASIC_CONFIG_VERSION_FILE() Kind regards, Peter

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[aur-general] Question about PKGBUILD guidelines
by Vince 31 Jul '21

31 Jul '21

Hello, This is my first time interacting with a mailing list, so please let me know if I've done something wrong, or I'm asking in the wrong place. I plan to submit a binary PKGBUILD for REXPaint, and since it's distributed as a portable binary for WINE, I have a couple questions about the guidelines: 1. Is it right that it should be installed into /usr/share? 2. How do I properly include files that are necessary for use, but not included in the upstream source? In my case, this would be a .desktop file and a bash script in /usr/bin. My intuition is to use "echo" during the prepare() phase, but I was wondering if there was a cleaner way to do this. 3. In accordance with the Nonfree guidelines, I will name my package 'rexpaint-bin'. However, since there is no open source version yet, do I need to conflict it with 'rexpaint'? Thanks in advance, Vincent

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[aur-general] [Request] Drop community/wings3d to AUR
by mpan 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

Hi, community/wings3d is orphaned and the current package (2.2.5-4) is no longer working due to errors at startup. Dropping to AUR would at least allow posting a comment that bumping PKGBUILD to 2.2.7 (the current development version) fixes the issue. Tested by two users. (Only additional details below) --- Error in 2.2.5-4 (current package) ------------------------------ Internal Error Version: 2.2.5 Window: [wings,wings,<0.89.0>] Reason: {error,{badkey,'WX_GL_SAMPLE_BUFFERS'}, [{erlang,map_get, ['WX_GL_SAMPLE_BUFFERS', #{wxSTC_AVS_FUNCTION => 12,wxLANGUAGE_MARATHI => 139, wxSTC_ECL_CHARACTER => 7, wxSTC_VISUALPROLOG_COMMENT_BLOCK => 4, wxSTC_SN_NUMBER => 4,wxSTC_D_OPERATOR => 13, wxFNTP_FONTDESC_AS_LABEL => 8, wxLANGUAGE_KINYARWANDA => 119, wxSTC_HEX_DATAADDRESS => undefined, wxSTC_INDIC0_MASK => 32,...}], [{error_info,#{module => erl_erts_errors}}]}, {wxe_util,get_const,1,[{file,"wxe_util.erl"},{line,65}]}, {wings_gl,attributes,0,[{file,"wings_gl.erl"},{line,58}]}, {wings_gl,window,4,[{file,"wings_gl.erl"},{line,75}]}, {wings_gl,init,1,[{file,"wings_gl.erl"},{line,48}]}, {wings,init,1,[{file,"wings.erl"},{line,71}]}, {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3, [{file,"proc_lib.erl"},{line,226}]}]} --- Error in 2.2.6 (current stable) --------------------------------- Internal Error Version: 2.2.6.1 Window: [wings,wings,<0.89.0>] Reason: {error,undef, [{wxGLCanvas,setCurrent,[{wx_ref,553,wxGLCanvas,[]}],[]}, {wings_gl,window,4,[{file,"wings_gl.erl"},{line,93}]}, {wings_gl,init,1,[{file,"wings_gl.erl"},{line,47}]}, {wings,init,1,[{file,"wings.erl"},{line,71}]}, {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3, [{file,"proc_lib.erl"},{line,226}]}]}

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Re: [aur-general] Is base an implicit dependency?
by Cedric Girard 27 Jul '21

27 Jul '21

Hi, On 2021-07-27 11:20, Marcin Wieczorek wrote: >> The most important meta package is base. It contains a minimal package >> set that defines a basic Arch Linux installation. It includes: > Without base you wouldn't be building the package on a system that can > be called Arch Linux. What's the point then? I am misusing devtools feature to build in a clean chroot, then? Or is there a bug in those tools? Regards, -- Cedric Girard

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[aur-general] Is base an implicit dependency?
by Cedric Girard 27 Jul '21

27 Jul '21

Hi, I would like to have a confirmation. I encountered a PKGBUILD on AUR that is not building correctly except when systemd is present when building. The maintainer considers the makedeps is implicit as systemd is dragged by base metapackage. However devtools only ensures base-devel is present, not base, when building in a clean chroot. And I could not find a mention in the wiki of base expected to be present when writing a PKGBUILD. Could you confirm to me what are the guidelines? Does systemd (make)dependency should be explicit or not? Regards, -- Cédric Girard

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[aur-general] archinstall script suggestion
by Jude DaShiell 22 Jul '21

22 Jul '21

In the case where /dev/sda is selected for installation and an installer chooses to format the whole disk and install a basic partition system on the disk and any other data is already on the disk archinstall errors out. In this case, wipefs -a /dev/sda run first clears the pre-existing data and partition structure and archinstall then operates correctly.

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[aur-general] pcb-rnd-svn first package
by pcb-rnd＠cuvoodoo.info 22 Jul '21

22 Jul '21

Hi list, I would like to have some feedback for my first PKGBUILD files for packages. the existing pcb-rnd-svn AUR package is currently broken because the project requires a need dependency: librnd3. thus I decided to create all packages needed/related by it, and fix its optional dependencies. I was able to create all packages on a fresh arch, and checked them against namcap. please let me know if the PKGBUILD are OK so I can submit them. thanks, cuvoodoo

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[aur-general] aurweb using incorrect git links
by turret 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

hey, turret here, has anyone else noticed how the aurweb link at the bottom still points to git.archlinux.org a quick search in gitlab shows that some other links in the documentation point to that old address, and i fixed (at least i hope) most of them can someone with gitlab access do a PR? .patch file https://pastebin.com/raw/taqXUZkz thanks ~turret

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[aur-general] Request to check my PKGBUILD
by 悲剧小白 13 Jul '21

13 Jul '21

I made a PKGBUILD for the "Badlion Client" software, but there will be some warnings during the build. How can I deal with this problem? If PKGBUILD has any other questions, please let me know. tips: Badlion Client is a third-party launcher for Minecraft games. To run the game, you need to have a genuine Minecraft Java Edition account.

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[aur-general] TU application - Morganamilo
by Morgan Adamiec 10 Jul '21

10 Jul '21

Hey there! I'm Morgan, Morganamilo in most places and I'd like to apply to become a Trusted User with dvzrv and kpcyrd's sponsorship. I've been an avid Arch user for the past 5 or so years. I started dipping my toes into the community with some wiki edits, bug reporting and submitted my first AUR package back in 2017. I also love FOSS as a whole, I contribute to random projects here and there, participate where I can and just love the community aspect. These days my main involvement with arch is pacman and the AUR. I started contributing to pacman 3 years ago. Adding stricter pkgbuild linting and fixing a bug here or there. Fast forward to now and I'm one of the maintainers of pacman as well as maintaining the rust bindings for libalpm. On the AUR side I co developed yay, developed paru and also have contributions in pretty much every current AUR helper. So I pretty know the AUR/pacman/makepkg inside out. Some other things I do in and around Arch are: * I maintain a handful of AUR packages * I'm a moderator for the r/archlinux subreddit * I'm a (bit inactive) Bug wrangler * I also maintain a handful of pacman/AUR oriented rust/go libraries * I also go and bug AUR maintainers about broken pkgbuilds I'm a big fan of rust, so a lot of the packages I wish to maintain are rust related. A lot of it is there in the repos already So I'd be looking to co maintain: * rust-analyzer * rust-bindgen * rustup * cargo-audit * cargo-bloat * cargo-edit * bat * ripgrep * discord (I maintained the AUR package before it was in community) * dolphin * packagekit (Mostly just to help with patching it for new alpm compat) And the packages I would like to add to community are: * git-delta * cargo-asm * vim-rust (aur: vim-rust-git. has no releases, will ask upstream) * magic-wormhole * vim-coc * discord-canary (technically beta software but is official and intended for public use) Github: https://github.com/Morganamilo AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Morganamilo Forums: https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=113213 Bugs: https://bugs.archlinux.org/user/26268 irc: Morganamilo I'm looking forward to sinking my teeth into Arch even more. It's a great community and I've thoroughly enjoyed my time so far. Morgan

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[aur-general] SSH Key Denied Problem
by Matt Spaulding 09 Jul '21

09 Jul '21

Hello, I assume this is the right mailing list for this kind of thing. I have an account with the AUR and a couple of packages. I'm attempting to update one of those packages and I am getting a permission denied error when trying to clone the git repository. Now, my SSH key has changed and I went ahead and updated my SSH public key in the account settings. But for some reason I still get a permission denied error. I am wondering if I am doing something wrong here, or if there is something an administrator needs to fix, or something else altogether. Here's a link to the account in question. https://aur.archlinux.org/account/mattops -- Best Regards, Matt

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[aur-general] TU application for Caleb, aka alerque
by Caleb Maclennan 05 Jul '21

05 Jul '21

Hello all! My name is Caleb Maclennan (AUR moniker “caleb”, most other places “alerque”). I’m a long time Arch Linux user and AUR contributor looking to get more involved, and specifically to join the TU group so that I can help out with packages in [community]. I’m particularly interested in the Lua ecosystem (which thanks largely to @Daurnimator is much less of a mess than it was a year ago when I first started looking into becoming a TU, but could still use a helping hand) as well as anything related to font development or typesetting. As you’ll see I have some experience in FOSS, software packaging, and Linux in general, but maybe the most important thing is I can still learn and I’m open to learning and adapting so that my contributions are in cooperation with the rest of the community, not in conflict with it. Two existing TUs, Daurnimator and Archange, have agreed to sponsor my application: * https://archlinux.org/people/trusted-users/#daurnimator * https://archlinux.org/people/trusted-users/#Archange For full disclosure I did put out feelers about a year ago looking for sponsors and didn’t get any takers at the time. Nobody outright refused but several emails went unanswered and TUs in IRC commented on various things but nobody “bit”. As for the minimum basic requirements: * I definitely know my way around shell scripts (I prefer ZSH, but have a good grasp of Bash and POSIX usage too) and also most VCS systems. * I’ve been maintaining hundreds of AUR packages for some years, some of them cleaner than others. I would expect anything destined for [community] to be held to a high standard of cleanliness and testing and won’t be offended if some hacks I’ve let slide in the AUR aren’t appropriate for other repos. * The weak point in my application may be my low bbs/mailing list involvement, but you can check my Stack Exchange profile or other places to see that I’m not clueless. I’ll be willing to keep in touch with other TUs (and the bug tracker, which I feel like is sometimes neglected for community packages). * Yes I can Google words. * Below I’ll outline some packages and my various interests in them. * I have some past involvement reporting in the Flyspray and GitLab trackers for Arch packages and projects. * I don’t recall sending patches for any Arch projects yet, only patches for packaging. * I have lots of other FOSS involvement, everything from well known projects like Harfbuzz or Pandoc to esoteric VIM plugins. I have upstream contributions to dozens of projects in [community] already and a large chunk of the things I current package on the AUR. Packages I have previously maintained in the AUR which have already been adopted into [community]; where extra hands are welcome I could still help with these: * age * birdfont * gentium-plus-font * git-annex * git-crypt * gitlab * gitlab-workhorse * grunt-cli * lua-filesystem * lua51-penlight * mattermost * otf-libertinus * pqiv * python-hsluv * python-pytoml * shutter (later demoted back to AUR for good reason) * ttf-hack * xkcdpass * yq Other packages already in [community] which interest me and I would potentially be interested in co-maintaining, help keeping up to date, fixing packaging bugs, etc: * hledger: upstream contributor \ Flyspray packaging reports have taken months and some years * lilypond * lua-penlight: upstream contributor \ has often been months OOD even when patches in Flyspray * pandoc: upstream contributor \ is less ofter a problem recently but historically was often OOD in \ community, I know the Haskell deps are deep dark depths, but having \ it OOD has been a constant pain point for me * sword * tridactyl: upstream contributor * vim-nerdcommentor: upstream maintainer * vim-nerdtree: upstream contributor Current (semi) orphans in [community] I might pick up: * python-fonttools \ (current maintainer Andrzej recently said they need help) * python-unicodedata2 (same) Things I currently maintain in the AUR that I would like to see eventually migrated to [community], of course dependent on all the packaging details and usage stats being copastetic: * asterisk * csvkit * epubcheck * font-manager * gitlab-pages * lua-busted * lua-posix * marktext * myrepos * praat * programmers-dvorak * sile: upstream maintainer (+12 lua-* deps) * ttfautohint * vcsh * xiphos * zerobane-studio * zettlr Things I don’t maintain in the AUR but would like to see moved someday (off the top of my head, I’m sure there are more): * bottom * duf * git-delta * gitahead * gitlab-glab * wp-cli AUR packages: * Maintainer (553): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=caleb&SeB=m * Co-maintainer (90): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=caleb&SeB=c Even with hundreds of AUR packages I only get a trickle of OOD flags because I follow most of the projects I package upstream. At the very least I subscribe to release notices, but often I’m more involved and use the packages myself, so am motivated to keep them up to date. I have just a wee bit of *nix experience over the past 27 years, for example you can have a look around my Stack Exchange profile for the Unix & Linux site: https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/1925/caleb?tab=topactivity Over the years I’ve been involved in quite a few FOSS projects: * Github profile: https://github.com/alerque * Gitlab profile: https://gitlab.com/alerque * OpenHub profile: https://www.openhub.net/accounts/alerque This won’t even be my first Linux distro rodeo. After cutting my teeth on early RedHat (when it came on 4 floppies!) I eventually became heavily involved in PLD Linux development from 1998 to 2012 (when I started switching to Arch Linux). I was a member of the CDG (Core Developers Group) and contributed thousands of packaging updates. I was always in good standing with the other team members. My current Arch usage includes use or admin responsibilities OS on 9 desktops, 4 laptops, 13 assorted devices (RPis, print and NAS servers), 6 permanent cloud servers, 3 bare metal servers, and any number of containers (ephemeral cloud server instances, local and remote Docker/lxc services, VirtualBox, etc.). It has been my daily driver for desktop and server use for 9 years now. Thank you for your consideration, and I look forward to hopefully many more years of being part of a great distro! Caleb P.S. Obligatory flame war fodder: (Neo)vim forever, always use Oxford commas, spaces not tabs, döner and tacos.

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[aur-general] Package `pijul` in both AUR and Community-Testing
by Markus Arians 02 Jul '21

02 Jul '21

Hi everyone, today I noticed I was unable to push to the AUR repository for the pijul package with the server hook error message "remote: error: package already provided by [community-testing]: pijul". Sure enough, the package exists in the Community-Testing repository (see https://archlinux.org/packages/community-testing/x86_64/pijul/) Now, as far as I understand, packages can be "promoted" to the community / community-testing repository, however, in this case it seems like a new package with the same name has been created. Is this the usual procedure? What will my responsibilities as packager of the AUR pijul package be? What happens to the AUR package? Should I just leave it as it is? Submit a delete request? Thanks for your help! Markus

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[aur-general] Mailing List Address Update
by Kevin Morris 26 Jun '21

26 Jun '21

Hi aur-general, The mailing list has undergone a specific modification in which <list>@archlinux.org no longer deals with or redirects to <list>@lists.archlinux.org. At this point, the newly required address for the aur-general mailing list is: aur-general(a)lists.archlinux.org Thank you all for the hard work you do and contributing to AUR for the benefit of the community! Regards, Kevin Morris kevr @ Libera -- Kevin Morris Software Developer Identities: - kevr @ Libera

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[aur-general] Issue a warning while (re)packaging a binary package?
by Jan Kohnert 18 Jun '21

18 Jun '21

Hi, a new version of a (binary) package I'm maintaining (clockify-desktop) requires an executable /tmp directory to run. So I'd thought about adding a warning to the PKGBUILD if /tmp is mounted noexec (as on all of my maschines). Unfortunately I could not find a hint in the documentation if 1. this idea is considered "good behaviour" 2. where exactly to put the warning. My first attempt whould be something like adding a pre/post install check, if the directory is executable and print a message in case it is not. Any thoughts on this one? Thanks and best regards -- MfG Jan

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[aur-general] Renaming packages - scaleft client and server tools
by Tony G. 13 Jun '21

13 Jun '21

Hello! I maintain a few packages and was pointed out by a user that the naming should be different (due to being a prebuilt deliverable). I found in the forums a similar case[0] and the suggestion was to send an email to this DL. I've already created a new repository with the new names, but I'd like to merge the old packages into the new ones. In the thread I read that it is possible to preserve comments and votes, if that's possible that would be great. In any case any pointer to what's the best approach is appreciated. | Old package | New package | | -------------------- | ------------------------ | | scaleft-client-tools | scaleft-client-tools-bin | | scaleft-server-tools | scaleft-server-tools-bin | Thanks!! [0] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=175628 -- Tony G.

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[aur-general] NVHPC packages changes the default compiler for the System
by Jayesh Badwaik 10 Jun '21

10 Jun '21

Dear All, I hope this is the correct place to post the message. The `nvhpc` package adds a files `/etc/profile.d/nvhpc.sh` to the system. This file sets the environment variables: export CC=$nvcompdir/bin/nvc export CXX=$nvcompdir/bin/nvc++ export FC=$nvcompdir/bin/nvfortran export F90=$nvcompdir/bin/nvfortran export F77=$nvcompdir/bin/nvfortran export CPP=cpp This changes the default compiler of the system and thereby causing all utilities which honor the environment variable to fail. I wish that the `nvhpc.sh` should not be installed in `/etc/profile.d` and instead should be in a location which is not read by default. That way, the user who wants to opt into it can opt in. I know AUR is maintained by volunteers, but I'm hoping to reach the maintainer of the `nvhpc` packages through this mail. Thank you. -- Best Jayesh Badwaik Juelich Supercomputing Center Forschungzentrum Juelich

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