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AUR Maintenance Saturday 13 July 12:00 UTC
by Jelle van der Waa 13 Jul '24

13 Jul '24

Hi all, We are having some performance issues with the AUR's git repository which requires some maintenance. [1] This means that the AUR will be unavailable for some time starting 12:00 UTC till it is done (hopefully 2 hours, could be more). [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/issues/599

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Unable to push to or clone from existing aur package repo
by Chris Speck 13 Jul '24

13 Jul '24

Hello, My AUR username is "cspeck-aai" and I am the maintainer of the "slack-desktop-wayland" package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/slack-desktop-wayland I have ssh set up and created and maintain this package. Today I attempted to push a change to bump the package version and found that I am unable to push: --- ✔ ~/src/slack-desktop-wayland [master ↑·1|✔] 16:22 $ git push aur(a)aur.archlinux.org: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. --- Also weirdly, I cannot clone it: --- $ git clone ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/slack-desktop-wayland.git Cloning into 'slack-desktop-wayland'... aur(a)aur.archlinux.org: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. --- I have not changed anything on my end. I double and triple checked my SSH keys. I also double checked that I'm not on any VPN or tunnel. Further, I can still use the ssh query interface, and I am still able to log in and it still shows me as the owner of this package: --- ✔ 16:23 $ ssh aur(a)aur.archlinux.org help Commands: adopt <name> Adopt a package base. disown <name> Disown a package base. flag <name> <comment> Flag a package base out-of-date. git-receive-pack Internal command used with Git. git-upload-pack Internal command used with Git. help Show this help message and exit. list-repos List all your repositories. restore <name> Restore a deleted package base. set-comaintainers <name> [...] Set package base co-maintainers. set-keywords <name> [...] Change package base keywords. unflag <name> Remove out-of-date flag from a package base. unvote <name> Remove vote from a package base. vote <name> Vote for a package base. ✔ ~/src/slack-desktop-wayland [master ↑·1|✔] 16:49 $ ssh aur(a)aur.archlinux.org list-repos slack-desktop-wayland --- I know that my ssh keys and setup are working because it used to function with the AUR and I continue to use it every hour of the day at work. Any idea what is going wrong? Can you please help me fix this? Also, I am away for a few days at the start of next week - could you please prevent any "orphaned package" requests while my access issues are fixed? Regards, Chris

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Offensive comments
by Arne Brücher 12 Jul '24

12 Jul '24

I just received dozens of offensive comments including death threats on my AUR-package standardnotes-bin. I asked for support in the Arch Linux Telegram group and the user Muflone deleted the comments and suspended the account. The account's name was fruitwater6 and was created today. I also have an email address of the account and screenshots of the comment. I would appreciate if there was the ability to report comments and block users as well as an explicit way of reporting such issues.

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Houston, we have a problem
by Mark Wagie 12 Jul '24

12 Jul '24

Multiple accounts (at least two) just spammed the same nonsensical comment multiple times--at least 40, I lost track. Please remove the comments and ban the associated accounts. Package: https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/standardnotes-bin/ Accounts: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MechEngineering2/ https://aur.archlinux.org/account/fruitwater6/ Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email.

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hostility in the comments
by james smith 10 Jul '24

10 Jul '24

A request for the pkgbuild to be updated[1] [2] quickly degenerated in insults [1]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sunshine?O=10#comment-981082 [2]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sunshine?O=10#comment-981374

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Fixing extra/python-tensorflow, which is incompatible to python-numpy 2.0
by Claudia Pellegrino 07 Jul '24

07 Jul '24

Dear AUR folks, Last week, the python-numpy package was upgraded to v2.0. Since then, extra/python-tensorflow [1] has been raising a runtime error: ```sh $ sudo pacman -Syu python-tensorflow […] $ pacman -Q python-tensorflow python-numpy python-tensorflow 2.16.1-9 python-numpy 2.0.0-1 $ /usr/bin/python -c 'import tensorflow' […] File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/tensorflow/python/ops/numpy_ops/np_dtypes.py", line 30, in <module> complex_ = np.complex_ ^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/numpy/__init__.py", line 397, in __getattr__ raise AttributeError( AttributeError: `np.complex_` was removed in the NumPy 2.0 release. Use `np.complex128` instead.. Did you mean: 'complex64'? ``` For the full output, see: https://0x0.st/Xa9Q.log Given that upstream is still working on NumPy 2 support [2], the error message makes sense. Users can fix this incompatibility for themselves by either a) manually downgrading `python-numpy` to v1.x from their cache; or b) installing `python-numpy1` [3] from the AUR, which I uploaded today. Judging from the progress of the upstream issue [2], NumPy v2 support in tensorflow may not be exactly around the corner. Until then, users are going to have a hard time figuring out one of these workarounds on their own. I think all packages from core and extra are supposed to Just Work. So I wonder what might be a more user-friendly way to fix `extra/python-tensorflow` for everyone? Would it make sense to move `python-numpy1` from the AUR to `extra` to allow `python-tensorflow` to depend on `python-numpy1`? [1]: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/python-tensorflow/ [2]: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/67291 [3]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-numpy1 Regards Claudia (aka Auerhuhn)

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AUR registration invalid e-mail
by Jens Hülser 26 Jun '24

26 Jun '24

Hi everyone, I am currently trying to register to the AUR website. The welcome email is already here, so I suppose I did not use the wrong address when setting up the account. Unfortunately, the password reset page gives me an 'Invalid e-mail' when I try to set my password. I use a password manager, so I there should be no typos involved. Nevertheless, I tried the manual route, entering the email adress and a very simple password (just very temporarily, of course!) very carefully one character at a time, double checking everything. I also tried using my user name, did not work either. Now that I am reasonably sure that I made at least no obvious mistakes, I am kindly asking for assistance here. The email address I used is jens.huelser(a)gmail.com. Anyone willing to help out a bloody noob? BR Jens

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1 week break bittin
by Luna Jernberg 20 Jun '24

20 Jun '24

Hey! i will be in Germany helping out at the openSUSE Conference 25th of June to 2th July and won't have time to update my AUR packages during that period, a couple of them have comaintainers however

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User jiangyc reuploads
by Fabio Loli 18 Jun '24

18 Jun '24

Hi, user jiangyc continue to re-upload 1panel-stable-bin; a duplicate of 1panel-bin 1panel-bin is orphan while their pkgbuild use curl in pkgver() and build() to get version and download, they have been informed on the first upload to not do that, I get there may be a language barrier but didn't get a reply and behaviour continued Third deletion request will come soon Please take appropriate action

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Please take actions against a problematic user
by Kimiblock Moe 17 Jun '24

17 Jun '24

Hi all, I'm Kimiblock, requesting AUR moderators to take action against packager 7Ji and 2 packages: wechat-universal-bwrap and wechat-beta-bwrap. Despite the fact that we already discussed[a][b]: wechat-universal-bwrap and wechat-beta-bwrap is now duplicated packages of the original wechat-uos-bwrap (which has been renamed to wechat-uos-qt to avoid confusion[c]), user 7Ji still filed a deletion request against wechat-uos-bwrap[d]. He filed the deletion request because "don't want unrelated comments in the history of -universal, neither its votes". Ironically, he admitted that wechat-beta-bwrap is based on wechat-uos-bwrap and another package wechat-uos-qt is based on -beta-bwrap. He then said he "would want no history from -uos-bwrap". This is a serious violation of AUR submission guidelines[e]: "*Check the AUR* if the package *already exists*. If it is currently maintained, changes can be submitted in a comment for the maintainer's attention." and this is not the end of this user's problematic behaviour. In the merge request of wechat-beta-bwrap filed by me, he said: "Additionally, as of writing, `wechat-beta-bwrap` has 21 votes, and `wechat-uos-bwrap`has 11 votes, it is not right to merge from a highly voted one a lowly voted one". This can't be right: if someone can mislead AUR users and let them vote the duplicated package, then the original package should be merged into the duplicated one? I can't understand the rationale behind this. All in all, please take actions against this user and 2 duplicated packages: wechat-universal-bwrap and wechat-beta-bwrap. -- Sincerely, Kimiblock [a]: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/t… [b]: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/m… [c]: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/m… [d]: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-requests@lists.archlinux.org/… [e]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines#Rules_of_submiss…

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About the intentionally duplicated package wechat-beta-bwrap and wechat-universal and unmaintained orginal package wechat-uos
by Kimiblock Moe 14 Jun '24

14 Jun '24

Hello people, I'm Kimiblock, the maintainer of wechat-uos-bwrap, writing to request Package Maintainer's action to solve the intentionally duplicated package on AUR. WeChat is a closed-source software developed by Tencent which is used by almost all people in China. In March 5, people in #archlinux-cn discovered that there is a testing version available and shortly after, it became a installable package for China's UOS. I've packaged wechat-uos-bwrap in 2024-03-05 23:37 (CST). 2 days after in 2024-03-07 09:18 (CST), AUR account leaeasy submitted wechat-beta-bwrap. If you look at the initial commit <https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=wechat-beta-bwrap&id=76c45…> of wechat-beta-bwrap, it was almost completely copied from wechat-uos-bwrap (other than a different way to extract the .deb), even the .desktop file. The only major thing they changed is wechat.sh, which sanbox function is removed. But wechat-uos-bwrap can read a environment variable "trashAppUnsafe=1" and disable its sandbox function. So I filed a merge request (#PRQ57379) to merge wechat-beta-bwrap <https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wechat-beta-bwrap/> into wechat-uos-bwrap <https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wechat-uos-bwrap/>. After that, one of the wechat-beta-bwrap <https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wechat-beta-bwrap/> maintainer 7Ji <https://aur.archlinux.org/account/7Ji> submitted a new package called wechat-universal-bwrap <https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wechat-universal-bwrap>, which is also a duplicate package of wechat-uos-bwrap. So, I'm thinking to merge all that duplicate packages and my wechat-uos-bwrap <https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wechat-uos-bwrap/> into wechat-uos. Sadly, the original Maintainer DuckSoft disappeared (the last message he sent in #archlinux-cn is over 3 years ago). Therefore, I'm requesting Package Maintainers to merge wechat-beta-bwrap <https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wechat-beta-bwrap/> and wechat-universal-bwrap <https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wechat-universal-bwrap> and give Maintainer role to previous wechat-uos maintainer, sukanka <https://aur.archlinux.org/account/sukanka> so that this package can be updated. I'll merge wechat-uos-bwrap <https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wechat-uos-bwrap/> into wechat-uos once sukanka finish updating this package and add the sandbox function. I've contacted sukanka via Matrix and he/she is willing to maintain this package. -- Sincerely, Kimiblock

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Package Maintainer application - Giovanni Harting
by Giovanni Harting 12 Jun '24

12 Jun '24

Hey everyone. I'm hereby applying as a package maintainer, which is kindly sponsored by David (dvzrv) and Jelle (jelly) and formally by Levente (anthraxx), for whom Jelle has taken over the sponsorship. ## Who I'm Giovanni, also known as anonfunc or idlegandalf. I've been using Arch Linux as my day-to-day driver since 2013 and Linux in general since probably 2008 (mostly server-side until 2011-12, last Windows I actually used was 7). As for notable contributions, you might have heard of ALHP, which I started in 2020. ALHP developed from the idea of utilising modern CPU extensions all the way back in Q4 2019 (after I had a quick Gentoo detour on one of my laptops). At the time, no x86_64 levels were defined, so the first rough outlines still considered building for specific gcc CPU-baselines, like Haswell for example (which seems crazy in hindsight). When the x86_64 levels were announced in 2020, I started developing a buildbot capable of doing the heavy lifting, at the time in Python. After ditching Python in 2021 (after I got annoyed of multi-process) and rewriting the buildbot in Go, the project launched in July 2021. At the time, ALHP only provided x86_64-v3, shortly after launch x86_64-v2 followed. In December 2023 the x86_64-v4 repo launched, after I got my hands on a machine capable of building v4. Not sure how many users it actually has, since I do not do any tracking, but as far as requests on the tier 0 mirror go (ALHP has 7 mirrors in total, one operated by myself), it seems to see some usage. The buildbot is completely FOSS, you can have a look down in the links section. Outside of my Arch Linux involvement I work as a DevOps engineer. I can also support Arch Linux there if needed. ## Goals & Packages I want to help with package maintenance and advance infrastructure topics with the overall goal of bringing x86_64-v3 and build automation to life, as well as helping with potential problems that may come with v3, since ALHP had plenty of those already. As for packages, I have a few that I think would benefit the general Arch Linux audience by being promoted to official packages, mostly QoL stuff: - batsignal - wljoywake - jellyfin-mpv-shim (+ deps) - prismlauncher - victoriametrics - asus-numpad - mmdbinspect I'm also open to co-maintainer roles if there are any packages in need. Candidates could include DevOps related packages like Grafana or packages from the Go ecosystem in general, since I use that language extensively. Besides the mentioned categories, I'm also interested to co-maintain: - home-assistant - jellyfin ## Links AUR packages: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?SeB=m&K=anonfunc AUR source repo: https://somegit.dev/anonfunc/aur-packages ALHP: https://somegit.dev/ALHP/ALHP.GO ALHP Status: https://status.alhp.dev/ Feel free to criticise PKGBUILDs to your heart's content :) Improvement is a continuous thing, so keep them coming. Giovanni

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User tallero comments
by james smith 02 Jun '24

02 Jun '24

A request for the pkgbuild to be updated[1] [2] quickly degenerated in insults [1]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/duckstation#comment-960352 [2]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/duckstation#comment-960355 Please take appropriate action

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Package Maintainer application - Bert Peters
by Bert Peters 27 May '24

27 May '24

Hi all, My name is Bert Peters, or bertptrs on IRC and various other places, and I'm applying to become a package maintainer for Arch Linux. My application is sponsored by Christian Heusel (gromit) and Jakub Klinkovský (lahwaacz). I started using Linux in 2011 as I started my degree in Computer Science with OpenSuse as that happened to be installed on the computers in the lab, but soon moved to Ubuntu and, after a few false starts in 2014, moved to Arch at the tail end of 2015 by spending most of 33C3 getting things to work just the way I like it and never looked at anything else. Ever since, I've been using it as my daily driver, though I'm also using other distros professionally, currently mainly Ubuntu. Professionally I work as a DevOps engineer, mostly writing yaml, bash, and Python, occasionally wrangling Nix and Ubuntu, and doing packaging for the latter two. I've also previously done RPM packaging for CentOS when I managed my university's data science lab servers. Privately I'm a big fan of Rust, which I moderate the unofficial channels (##rust, ##rust-offtopic) for on Libera, and I dabble in Ruby because once upon a time I made the decision to write my website in Jekyll. On that website, I try to write the kind tech blog articles that I like to read, explaining a varying collection of things I happened to find interesting at the time. As for existing Arch involvement, I have long been maintaining packages in the AUR, and have been a tester for the last few years. All AUR packages I currently maintain (and that have needed an upgrade somewhere in the last three years) I keep in a Git repository [1] which I manage with aurpublish. I very recently discovered pkgctl how useful pkctl can be, so I started implementing nvchecker recently to automate the maintenance further. My github profile is also a decent record I have of OSS work I did. In the time I spend away from keyboard, I do bouldering a lot and I have been teaching windsurfing for the past 15 years. If I were to be voted in as a Package Maintainer, I'd like to move the following packages to \[extra\]: - cargo-cache - jekyll (and deps) - python-plotly In addition, I looked over what current orphans I have installed and I feel confident I know enough about the following to adopt them, though I'm open to more suggestions. - java-commons-lang - libvdpau - lsb-release I'd also like to help out as a co-maintainer on packages I previously maintained in the AUR that have since been adopted into [extra]: - cargo-geiger - cargo-license - nix - nlohmann-json - spotifyd - rust (previously maintained rust-src which was merged into it) - various ruby packages and while I'm at it, I'd like to help out with the Ruby packaging in general, to bring it up to date with Ruby 3.2 and figure out a consistent way to handle Ruby's propensity for very tight version bounds. With that, I hope to have given you a good introduction of myself and my work, where I intend to start packaging, and that there's a good starting point for discussion. Thanks for reading! Bert. P.s. To get ahead of one question, no, the ptrs in my nickname are unrelated to pointers; I got this nickname before I knew what those were. It's just my name with vowels removed. [1]: https://github.com/bertptrs/aur

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My pkgbuilds
by matt quintanilla 26 May '24

26 May '24

before sending my packages(2 is the git version)[1][2] to the aur is there anything wrong/needs to be fixed? [1]https://mystb.in/022f92bd534784600a [2]https://mystb.in/5f8321d4575ef003fd My working hours may not be your working hours. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside of your normal work schedule Matt Quintanilla he/him https://www.mattquintanilla.xyz/

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User TalionRanger comments
by Fabio Loli 25 May '24

25 May '24

A request for help quickly degenerated in several insults https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/octopi#comment-974574 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/octopi#comment-974594 Please take appropriate action

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Lost my AUR password and e-mail
by LDA 18 May '24

18 May '24

Hi, I used to have an AUR account(lda), whose password was stored on a single laptop, which broke. This wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for the fact that the primary e-mail I used at the time(freetards.xyz) now no longer works(due to a lack of rDNS). I still however own the domain attached to it, and as such, *can* prove I own said account. So I want to ask if I could recover my password that way(since the reset page pointed there.) Thanks, LDA idiot

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Kernel / utils-linux update breaks nvidia 390.xx driver dkms build - Any ideas what changed?
by David C. Rankin 09 May '24

09 May '24

AUR folks, This is a general question that may catch others off guard. Having patch for the 6.8 changes when the kernel was release and having no issues through 6.8.9-Arch1, I was very surprised to see build failures in the nvidia-utils 390.xx package after the today's update. For both Linux and Linux-LTS: ( 8/13) Install DKMS modules ==> dkms install --no-depmod nvidia/390.157 -k 6.6.30-2-lts Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.6.30-2-lts (x86_64) Consult /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.157/build/make.log for more information. ==> WARNING: `dkms install --no-depmod nvidia/390.157 -k 6.6.30-2-lts' exited 10 ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.50_non_OSE -k 6.6.30-2-lts ==> dkms install --no-depmod nvidia/390.157 -k 6.8.9-arch1-2 Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.8.9-arch1-2 (x86_64) Consult /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.157/build/make.log for more information. ==> WARNING: `dkms install --no-depmod nvidia/390.157 -k 6.8.9-arch1-2' exited 10 ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.50_non_OSE -k 6.8.9-arch1-2 ==> depmod 6.6.30-2-lts ==> depmod 6.8.9-arch1-2 The actual errors seem like regressions somewhere as similar bugs were fixed in the past 3-4 years for both Nvidia and Vbox. The errors are: In file included from /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.157/build/common/inc/conftest.h:5, from /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.157/build/common/inc/nv_stdarg.h:29, from /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.157/build/common/inc/os-interface.h:27, from /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.157/build/nvidia/nv-frontend.c:12: /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.157/build/conftest/functions.h:76:2: error: #error wait_on_bit_lock() conftest failed! 76 | #error wait_on_bit_lock() conftest failed! ... /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.157/build/common/inc/nv-linux.h: In function ‘nv_ioremap_nocache’: /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.157/build/common/inc/nv-linux.h:568:17: error: implicit declaration of function ‘ioremap_nocache’; did you mean ‘ioremap_cache’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] 568 | void *ptr = ioremap_nocache(phys, size); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.157/build/common/inc/nv-linux.h:568:17: error: initialization of ‘void *’ from ‘int’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.157/build/common/inc/nv-linux.h: In function ‘nv_ioremap_nocache’: /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.157/build/common/inc/nv-linux.h:568:17: error: implicit declaration of function ‘ioremap_nocache’; did you mean ‘ioremap_cache’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] 568 | void *ptr = ioremap_nocache(phys, size); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ioremap_cache /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.157/build/common/inc/nv-linux.h: In function ‘nv_is_dma_direct’: /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.157/build/common/inc/nv-linux.h:1297:9: error: implicit declaration of function ‘dma_is_direct’; did you mean ‘d_is_dir’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] 1297 | if (dma_is_direct(get_dma_ops(dev))) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ | d_is_dir All of these seem similar to earlier errors from the Linux 5.6 days. Anybody have a guess in what changed in either the new gcc or new util-linux or others that has cause all this fun? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Removal of NicoHood as Package Maintainer due to inactivity
by gromit 05 May '24

05 May '24

Hi all, I'd like to start a "Special Removal of an Inactive Package Maintainer"[0] for NicoHood based on prolonged inactivity. NicoHood has not executed any packaging or AUR maintenance duties since 6 Months now, but the mentioned activity is IMO rather an outlier. When I contacted all people who were inactive in votings for a longer period of time[1] (August '23) we heard back[2] from Nico stating that he would still like to help out with Arch but does not have time/capacity due to personal circumstance right now. Since back then then not much seems to have changed: - His last voting[3] was vote nr. 140 (ended 2022-09-11), since then 11 other votings were done. - His packaging activity was limited to 3 days in the last year[4] - He did not do any AUR Moderation for that timeframe (to my knowledge) Therefore I'm requesting him to be removed as a Package Maintainer. This is not done because I want to cause any harm but rather since I think it reflects the status quo. If at some later point he has the time / resources to help out again I'm very much in favour of welcoming him back. The discussion period will last for three days, after which there will be a voting period of five days. Cheers, chris [0]: https://package-maintainer-bylaws.aur.archlinux.org/#_special_removal_of_an… [1]: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-tu@lists.archlinux.org/threa… [2]: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-tu@lists.archlinux.org/messa… [3]: https://aur.archlinux.org/package-maintainer [4]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/nicohood

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Re: About the intentionally duplicated package wechat-beta-bwrap and wechat-universal and unmaintained orginal package wechat-uos
by Kimiblock Moe 01 May '24

01 May '24

Hi Aᴀʀᴏɴ, The duplicated package has 55 votes, while the original version wechat-uos-qt has 19. I’m not losing patience though, just a little curious about why this thread appeared inactive. I guess PMs have been flooded with requests recently… -- Sincerely, Kimiblock

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About user Manjusaka
by Fabio Loli 27 Apr '24

27 Apr '24

Hi, Manjusaka continue to re-upload his personal pkgbuild which have been deleted 3 times already, they have been informed to not do this yes persist https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/linux-xanmod-manjusaka https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/search?count=25&mlist=aur-requests%40l…

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Aarch64 package moderation policy
by Sam Day 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

Hello! I recently learned that the AUR seems to have an actively enforced moderation policy preventing packages that either only work on aarch64, or are otherwise heavily focused/only useful on that platform. RFC0032 hasn't finalized yet, and of course it could still end up being rejected or otherwise put on indefinite hiatus... My outsider perspective is that it likely will happen though, so I'm working under that assumption. In this case, it's only a matter of time before non-x86 communities are accumulating around Arch upstream proper. RFC0032 already notes that: - Ideally, the AUR web interface / API is extended to allow filtering packages by architecture. I have a concrete proposal here. Let's say I (or someone else) were to contribute the necessary changes to aurweb, such that it exposed architecture info in the RPC (archlinux/aurweb#485), as well as adding support for filtering by architecture when searching. If this happened, and the search box on the AUR homepage defaulted to x86, would it be possible to relax the current moderation policy that restricts aarch64-only packages from living in the AUR? -Sam

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Package Maintainer Application - Carl Smedstad
by Carl Smedstad 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Hi everyone, My name is Carl, or carsme on AUR/IRC, and this is my application to become a Package Maintainer. I started my Linux journey in 2016, while studying engineering mathematics at Chalmers University here in Gothenburg, Sweden. At the time, I was struggling with motivation and direction in my studies, but things took a positive turn when my friend group introduced me to Linux. I started out on Ubuntu but quickly transitioned to Arch Linux as there was a strong "btw, I use arch" atmosphere in our group :) With this new discovery, technology suddenly started making sense and became understandable. I had tinkered with computers since I was a child, but this was the first time I felt that anything was doable, given some time and dedication. As such, tinkering with my system became my new favorite pastime. Shortly after this formative moment, I got a part-time job as a developer, which eventually became full-time and made me drop out of university. This put me on a path which I'm very happy to be on, and which led me to today, where I'm leading a team developing route optimization solutions for commercial aviation. I still tinker a lot, but now with a broader scope that includes the processes, technologies and tools me and my team use in our daily work. Arch Linux has been my daily driver for around eight years now, and I have since 2021 tried to get more involved in the project, mainly by maintaining packages in the AUR. This has been a learning experience and I've tried to continuously improve my process and my packages. Examples include: fixing namcap warnings, migrating to standards based Python packaging (PEP 517), migrating to SPDX license identifiers, and most recently, using nvchecker to check for new versions. Outside of tech, I really enjoy traveling and try to do so as often as possible. Specifically, hiking through new landscapes and sampling local cuisine. Most recent trips were to the Bavarian Alps and to Sardinia in Italy, both of which were fantastic experiences (with great food!). For reference, PKGBUILDs for all packages I maintain in the AUR are available here: https://github.com/carlsmedstad/aurpkgs I've also published some helper scripts I use: https://github.com/carlsmedstad/aurutils-extra For my other OSS-contributions, primarily bug reports and minor patches, my GitHub profile is most likely the best place to get an overview. As package maintainer, I intend to initially bring the following packages (+deps) into [extra], provided no one has any objections: * espanso * opentofu * powershell * protonmail-bridge * rdiff-backup * watchman Regarding (co-)maintenance of what's already in [extra], I'd like to adopt some of the currently orphaned Python and Ruby packages, for example: * python-joblib * python-oscrypto * ruby-treetop Additionally, I did a quick search for packages with only one maintainer among those I regularly use, and ended up with the following candidates for potential co-maintainership: * aerc * handlr * istio * python-black * sqlfluff Hopefully that gives a good picture of who I am and where I'd like to start my journey as a package maintainer, if accepted. My sponsors are Levente Polyak (anthraxx) and Christian Heusel (gromit) and I'm very thankful for their feedback and encouragement so far. Thank you for taking the time to read this, cheers! -- Sincerely, Carl Smedstad PGP: 888285CF6ED6758F

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Re: Spring cleanup '24
by gromit 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

On 24/03/11 09:09PM, gromit wrote: > On 24/03/02 12:48PM, gromit wrote: > > I will start dropping packages on 2024-03-17, so please try to have a > > look at the lists in the next few days. > > Reminder: There is one week left until unneeded orphan packages will be > dropped to the AUR. Please have a look at the list again to see if other > people orphaned stuff that may be intersting for you. Hello everyone, I have dropped the unneded orphans as announced earlier. For any interested package maintainers on the AUR (hence the cc to the aur-general list): The packages are now available in the AUR and ready to be adopted, some already have found maintainers :) See the full list below. Cheers, gromit -- ams-lv2 archey3 autocutsel beatslash-lv2 blockdiag cadence deheader deteriorate-lv2 dmg2img eid-mw entityx faudio fluid foxdot fst gambit-c ganv gdlmm gnome-icon-theme-extras gnome-shell-extension-gtile gnubg gnucobol gnupg-pkcs11-scd gob2 gpa gqrx gv hashdeep helm-synth howl htmlhint ibus-m17n ibus-pinyin icecast ir.lv2 junit-system-rules latex2rtf libident liri-calculator liri-cmake-shared liri-files liri-terminal liri-text livewallpaper lockdev lvtk marsyas mdns-scan meterbridge midimsg-lv2 neovim-lsp_signature neovim-nvim-treesitter ninjas2 non-daw non-sequencer notify-sharp-3 osmid pan patchage pc-ble-driver perl-date-simple polyclipping python-apptools python-autodocsumm python-behave python-cx-freeze python-etesync python-git-url-parse python-ipy python-jinja-time python-kaptan python-langdetect python-matrix-nio python-nrfutil python-pc-ble-driver-py python-pdm-pep517 python-piccata python-poyo python-publicsuffix python-pyspinel python-pythonfinder python-schedutils python-tree-format python-webtest-aiohttp python-whichcraft python-yapsy qt5-gsettings razercfg ruby-treetop seqdiag slimit solfege sonic-pi sparkleshare tap-plugins tpacpi-bat ttf-proggy-clean vim-align vim-coverage-highlight vim-editorconfig vim-pastie vocal wake webkit2-sharp weechat-matrix zsh-theme-powerlevel10k

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attack on octopi and derived chain
by Mat Moul 19 Mar '24

19 Mar '24

Hi, It seem I am attacked by xiota on my AUR octopi packages. We had an exchange for over 3 hours before it ended abruptly. I think I am within my rights and ask you to look at the situation. Comment on https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/octopi This xiota attacks all my octopi packages. What can I do ? Greetings MatMoul

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