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[aur-general] Become TU
by Islam Bahnasy 13 Oct '18

13 Oct '18

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[aur-general] Greetings and Documentation Proposals
by Brett Cornwall 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

Hello, fellow Archers. My name is Brett and I've been making PKGBUILDs for the AUR for some time under the moniker 'Ainola'. A number of these packages have been kindly pulled into [community] by David Runge. I've since had a desire to get some of my other packages into [community], so I'm interested in working towards getting TU status. I'm also involved in the LibreOffice community (I just got back from the conference in Albania). David has been kind enough to give suggestions to my current packages; I'd love to nab some other packages throughout the AUR, improve them, and get them included in the repositories for mass consumption. I would also like to improve the documentation for the devtools: There are no manpages, /usr/share/docs/ items, or wiki articles. Unless I'm mistaken it appears that the only documentation that currently exists is just invoking the program with -h. I'd like to fix that. :)

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[aur-general] Spam account in AUR
by Rafael Fontenelle 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

User brownwilliams [1] seems to be spamming in the AUR, as can be seem in the comments of skypeforlinux-stable-bin [2]. Can this be taken care of? [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/brownwilliams/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/skypeforlinux-stable-bin/ Best regards, Rafael Fontenelle

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[aur-general] Fwd: FS#60333: namcap exits 0 when errors found (Task closed)
by Tom Hale 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

I noticed that even when namcap prints out errors, it still exits 0. I raised this at: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/60333 It was closed: Reason for closing: Not a bug Additional comments about closing: namcap runs fine, so exiting with an error makes no sense To me the "reason for closing" is like saying that diff should exit 0 when two files are different because diff ran fine. If namcap is to be used in any automated packaging tools (or even my dodgy script), then it makes sense to have meaningful exit codes. And possibly an option to also have warnings also exit non-0 for the persnickety amongst us. I note that the python source returns 0 and 2, but never 1. I'm a newbie here, but I believe my argument has merit, so I raise it here for possible discussion. -- Tom Hale

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[aur-general] RFC: PKGBUILD for nixnote2-git
by Tom Hale 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

I took over the disowned package nixnote2-git. Attached is my first attempt at a PKGBUILD. I would appreciate constructive feedback. Thanks in advance, -- Tom Hale

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[aur-general] keep debugging symbols in AUR package
by Friedrich Strohmaier 06 Oct '18

06 Oct '18

Hi all, I use to install AUR package fotoxx. I get some zappcrash message when closing the application an would like to help the author finding the bug. The author sent adapted source packages to get more debugging information. I tried change the PKGBUILD's "pkgrel"- variable to generate several packages containing debugging symbols, but at the end of the build this message looks suspicous: .. -> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries... .. What makes packages keep debugging symbols? Tips? Keywords for wiki search? Any hints welcome :o)) -- Friedrich

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[aur-general] Questions about some of my packages being adopted in [community]
by Konstantin Gizdov 30 Sep '18

30 Sep '18

Hi all, I'm writing to hopefully get some clarity on some packages that I maintained in AUR (python-awkward-array, unuran), but have been overtaken now in [community]. Also one other package that I have not maintained 'libafterimage', but dear to me. Firstly, thanks to Felix Yan for picking them up and sorry if the following questions have been asked before and obvious to everyone. This is what I know: 1. Nothing in the core repos depends on them and they are libraries. I've not seen requests to add them before. 2. 'libafterimage' includes a bug that has been reported to AUR, but has not been fixed. I've had to include a patch in my local chain. 3. The packages do not provide the same functionality as before, but conflict with the AUR ones. 4. I wasn't told anything - my AUR package was deleted with a 'thanks for maintaining it' message. 5. I've reported a few bugs FS#6024{6,7,8}, but have been denied resolution. The reason I'm asking is because over the years I've added and been maintaining some professional software and these packages are part of that chain. Colleagues in the field have become accustomed to me for packaging with care and updating with new features. But now, obviously that is changing and people are going to flock if something doesn't work as expected. So this is sort of me getting ahead of the wind and basically asking the question: - Why? - How many & which will be put into [community]? - How can I effectively communicate the nuts & bolts to the new maintenaners so to say, to make sure users still get what's expected? - Is there anything I can do if new packages do not meet what the original intention was - apart from making a conflicting AUR package? Thanks in advance. -- Regards, Konstantin

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[aur-general] [News] DigitalOcean "supporting" Arch Linux
by Eduardo Machado 26 Sep '18

26 Sep '18

Hi folks, Firstly, i am not a digitalocean affiliated, but i use their services. A long time ago, Arch Linux was one the supported OSes, latter they dropped this support. Now, although it is not officially supported again they just launched the ability to upload Custom Images into DigitalOcean. You can now import the OS of your choice directly into DigitalOcean and start a Droplet. [1] [1] https://blog.digitalocean.com/custom-images/ --- Eduardo M. Machado

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[aur-general] Spam account: jennyhannb
by WorMzy Tykashi 26 Sep '18

26 Sep '18

Hi TUs, there's another spam account making the rounds: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/jennyhannb/ Cheers, WorMzy

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[aur-general] nextcloud-client: suggestion of moving to [community]
by Damian Nowak 21 Sep '18

21 Sep '18

Hello! Back in 2014, I sent the same request for owncloud-client. This time, I'd like to suggest nextcloud-client [1] as a potential candidate for [community]. It has 240 votes, nextcloud (the webapp) is already in [community], while owncloud (webapp) was moved to AUR a long time ago. Please note Nextcloud client is fully compatible with Owncloud server, and vice versa. I still use Owncloud server from AUR on my server, while using Nextcloud client across all my devices (Arch Linux, OSX and Android). Thank you for you consideration. CC Antonio, a TU maintainer of owncloud-client [2] [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nextcloud-client/ [2]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/owncloud-client/ -Nowaker

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