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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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