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[aur-general] TU resignation - Lukas Jirkovsky (stativ)
by Lukas Jirkovsky 14 Oct '19

14 Oct '19

Hello everyone, after much time I've finally came to admit to myself that I can no longer fulfill my duties as a trusted user the way Arch Linux deserves. While I still manage to update the packages I actively use, such as rawtherapee, I can no longer keep up with other packages and updates often come late. I've given up on other duties such as keeping AUR clean already. I'm very sorry for that, but time has come for me to pack. Arch Linux community is one of the best communities out there and it was a great pleasure to be part of the team. I still love Arch Linux very much and it's surely going to be my distro of choice for time to come. Lot of you were very helpful with keeping the more complicated packages up to date already. A stellar example is intellij-idea-community-edition, which is now thanks to Maxime built from sources. The packages left that I'm still listed as a sole maintainer doesn't get updates too often and are fairly trivial to update. Though I guess some of them can be safely dropped without anyone noticing (I'm looking at you, gimp plugin packages). So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Lukas

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[aur-general] TU application: kpcyrd
by kpcyrd 11 Oct '19

11 Oct '19

Hello, My name is kpcyrd and I'm applying to become a Trusted User with anthraxx', sangys and jelles sponsorship. I'm interested in rust, defensive programming and offensive security tooling. Open source became an essential part of my life at some point and the idea of contributing back to the community that gave me so much for free kept me going the last few years. I worked as both a software and IT security engineer in the past and I currently do a combination of both as a contractor. --- # How I started using linux - Started with linux by trying to remaster knoppix in 2010 for a while - Wiped my laptop in 2011 and installed debian with no way of return since it was my only computer at that time - First successful Arch Linux install I did was by helping a friend in 2013 - Eventually migrated to Arch Linux myself in 2015 due to anthraxx - I currently run a combination of Arch Linux, debian and openbsd at home and on servers # How I contributed to the opensource community in the past (somewhat chronological) - Too many pull requests (stopped counting a long time ago) - Assisted debian-security with some issues (redis, mongodb and xul-ext-wot) - Wrote some PKGBUILDs that got moved into community - Revived http://tests.reproducible-builds.org/archlinux/ - Packaged software for alpine, brew and openbsd - Packaged about 1/3 of the rust packages in debian - Co-authored the current reproducible builds rebuilder prototype with NYU - Recently became a debian maintainer (while running Arch Linux) # AUR packages I maintain a few packages in the AUR, the most relevant that I would like to maintain in community at some point are: - diesel_cli - cargo-tree - cargo-fuzz - cargo-crev - python-fints - python-mt-940 - python-sepaxml I'm also interested in co-maintaining reprotest and some of the packages anthraxx currently maintains for me. # Community packages I wrote or contributed to - cjdns - go-ipfs - alacritty - reprotest - sniffglue - badtouch - rshijack - sn0int # Upstream for the following packages in Arch Linux - sniffglue - badtouch - rshijack - sn0int --- Thanks for taking the time reading this, kpcyrd

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[aur-general] Package Rename Requests (2) - waterfox-git and waterfox-alpha-git
by Matt Parnell 11 Oct '19

11 Oct '19

I request that my git PKGBUILDs for Waterfox be renamed thusly to reflect the current release naming scheme that Waterfox is now using: waterfox-git -> waterfox-classic-git waterfox-alpha-git -> waterfox-current-git Thank you!

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[aur-general] Why was nerd-fonts-roboto-mono deleted?
by Alexander Fasching 08 Oct '19

08 Oct '19

Hi, jleclanche deleted the nerd-fonts-roboto-mono package in the AUR after uploading ttf-roboto-mono to the community repository. What was the reason? The two packages provide different fonts. Regards, Alexander

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[aur-general] Spam comments
by fg-devel+archmail＠mailbox.org 08 Oct '19

08 Oct '19

Hi, there are some spam messages in the comments section of AUR package akira-git: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/akira-git#comment-704048 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/akira-git#comment-703169 Greetings, Felix

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[aur-general] package-base PKGBUILD with different architecture list for packages inside
by Attila Greguss 06 Oct '19

06 Oct '19

Hello, I have a PKGBUILD Here <https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=dotnet-core-2.1> Is there a way to enable the commented out package in the PKGBUILD without said package blocking the installation of the other packages on the architecture it does not support? I'm OK with splitting it out, but I thought I ask first if because I don't know the capabilities of PKGBUILD/makepkg. Some (not necessary) context: Package is for dotnet, and the source archive includes dotnet-host, dotnet-runtime, aspnet-runtime, dotnet-sdk for x86_64 and armv7h. For aarch64 it does NOT contain aspnet-runtime files, but all the rest. I tried to specify the architecture list for aspnet-runtime in the PKGBUILD, but if someone tries to install any of the other packages on aarch64 it will fail. (see commented out part in file) Thanks, Attila

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[aur-general] Retiring as a Trusted User
by Florian Pritz 02 Oct '19

02 Oct '19

Hi, I no longer have the time necessary to properly handle actual TU duties so I am retiring my TU hat. I will still continue maintaining some packages I have in [community] via my developer hat. That said, I'd like to orphan some of them too. If anyone is interested in taking over one of these packages (and its dependencies), please feel free to adopt it and tell me so that I can orphan it. asciidoc filezilla libfilezilla gcolor2 gmrun obconf openbox openshot libopenshot libopenshot-audio pydf slock tipp10 vimpager xplc zim Florian

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[aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day September 20th 2019
by Daniel M. Capella 28 Sep '19

28 Sep '19

Do you like popping other people's pimples? Gross, me neither. Anyways, next Friday is our bi-yearly AUR Cleanup Day -- join #archlinux-aur and BYOB. The wiki article[1] has instructions for how to proceed and space to compile our list of candidates. Here's[2] an example from a previous rendition of Purge Day. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:AUR_Cleanup_Day [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=AUR_Cleanup_Day/2010&oldid=353326 -- Good hunting, Daniel <https://danielcapella.com>

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[aur-general] TU application: Jonas Witschel (diabonas)
by Jonas Witschel 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

Hi all, my name is Jonas Witschel (online nick "diabonas" on the AUR/GitHub/GitLab/...) and I am applying as an Arch Linux Trusted User under the sponsorship of Bruno Pagani and Alad Wenter. A few words about myself: I am a math PhD student and long-time Linux user. I switched to Arch Linux around 2016 because I like the idea of a rolling release distribution that stays close to upstream, which is especially beneficial when doing software development. I got more actively involved in contributing to Arch when the previous AUR maintainer of the tpm2-software stack (tpm2-tss, tpm2-abrmd and tpm2-tools) orphaned these packages, so I took over maintenance until they were adopted to [community]. I am interested in many security-related thing such as Secure Boot, Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs), disk encryption, PGP, ... As such, I am a member of the tpm2-software organisation and a maintainer of tpm2-totp [1]. Recently I have been working on getting Web Key Directory support into pacman for fetching PGP keys independently of the key server network [2,3]. A repository of all my AUR packages can be found on Gitlab [4]. If I were accepted as a trusted user, I would take over maintenance of the tpm2-software stack from my sponsor Bruno Pagani. This makes sense since I am an upstream member of tpm2-software anyway and had been maintaining these packages until they were adopted to [community]. Another long-time goal as a trusted user would be getting out of the box Secure Boot support for the Arch Linux installation images [5,6]. Packages I would like to adopt from the AUR to [community] for starters are: - The rest of the tpm2-software stack: tpm2-tss-engine and tpm2-totp (when they have reached the 1% usage from pkgstats/10 votes on the AUR threshold), tpm2-pkcs11-git (as soon as it gets a release). - clevis and tang (and their dependencies jose, luksmeta) - sbupdate-git (I need to speak to upstream about making a release first) - paperkey - cryptomator - deheader - texworks - pdftk-java (an exact Java reimplementation of the very popular pdftk/pdftk-bin, which is hard to package since it relies on an outdated version of GCC) I am looking forward to working with you and welcome any questions and comments! Cheers, Jonas [1] https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-totp [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63171 [3] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2019-July/023493.html [4] https://gitlab.com/diabonas/aur-packages [5] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53864 [6] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2019-January/003891.html

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[aur-general] spam messages
by Lone_Wolf 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

Hi, cndrvcups-lb gained a new spam message, and I also listed older ones. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/#comment-709467 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/#comment-702798 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/?O=10&PP=10#comment-701682 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/?O=10&PP=10#comment-701681 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/?O=10&PP=10#comment-695882 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/?O=10&PP=10#comment-695880 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/?O=10&PP=10#comment-695879 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/?O=10&PP=10#comment-695877 Lone

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