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[aur-general] Spam comments on makemkv
by Cedric Girard 20 Mar '19

20 Mar '19

Hi, The user Frittata [1] is spamming the makemkv page [2] with advertising for another software. Could someone delete this user and comments? [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Frittata/comments [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/makemkv/ Regards, -- Cedric Girard

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[aur-general] New build server for TUs and devs
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 20 Mar '19

20 Mar '19

Hi all, Thanks to Hetzner sponsoring our new server [0] we now have a new box with 48 threads, 128 GiB RAM, and 2 NVMes in RAID0 with a total of 1.75 TiB of storage. Should be plenty fast for the time being. The new server is now available at dragon.archlinux.org for all of your package building pleasures. All TUs and devs have had all of their keys added. pkgbuild.com will soon be pointed to this new server so keep that in mind in case your SSH tells you the hostname changed. IMPORTANT: No data has been migrated from soyuz. It is your responsibility to transfer any data you might want on dragon. soyuz will stay available for at least a month from now (probably more, don't worry, there will be another mail for its termination), so you have plenty of time to migrate any data. dragon will not host public_html in your home dirs. That will move somewhere else. dragon is very strictly a build box and no other services should run on there. soyuz hasn't been changed in any way and if you really want to keep using that, you can do so until it gets terminated. [0] https://twitter.com/svenstaro/status/1107938411254431744

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[aur-general] rfc: pkgbuild for prospect releng-tool
by James Knight 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

Hello -- new user to AUR and hoping if anyone is willing to review a PKGBUILD [1] definition for me. I have been reading PKGBUILD [2] and "AUR - Submitting packages" [3] documents, which the latter document suggests to "... submit the PKGBUILD to the AUR mailing list ... for public review before adding it to the AUR". The following is my prospect PKGBUILD definition if anyone has time to make comments/suggestions: --- # Maintainer: James Knight <james.d.knight(a)live.com> pkgname=releng-tool pkgver=0.1 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc='tool to assist in the release engineering of a project' url='https://releng.io/' arch=('any') license=('BSD') makedepends=( 'python' ) source=("$pkgname-$pkgver::git+https://github.com/releng-tool/releng-tool.git#tag=v$pkgver") sha512sums=('SKIP') build() { cd "$pkgname-$pkgver" python setup.py build } check() { cd "$pkgname-$pkgver" python setup.py test } package() { depends=('python') cd "$pkgname-$pkgver" python setup.py install --root="$pkgdir" --optimize=1 install -Dm644 LICENSE "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE" install -dm 755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/bash-completion/completions" install -m644 scripts/releng-tool-completion "$pkgdir/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/releng-tool" } --- Please be merciless. [1]: https://github.com/releng-tool/releng-tool-pkgbuild/blob/master/PKGBUILD [2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD [3]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Submitting_packag…

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[aur-general] Trusted user application: Drew DeVault
by Drew DeVault 06 Mar '19

06 Mar '19

Hiya! Jerome convinced me to finally apply for TU, and Sven-Hendrik agreed to co-sponsor my application (both Cc'd). I'm a generalist that works on free software full time. I maintain the following AUR packages: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=sircmpwn I also maintain a third-party Arch repo and oversee some automation for helping to build and publish new packages: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-pkgbuilds I'm also the upstream maintainer for several packages in community, including wlroots, sway, and scdoc; and I maintain numerous packages for Alpine Linux as well. I maintain many other free software projects, most notably sourcehut, and I also contribute to many projects maintained by others as well. I think Jerome has been hoping for some relief from the packages I maintain the upstream for, so I may start by relieving that burden. I'd also like to move the samuari package into community, and likely some of the Python packages from my third-party repository as well. Outside of packaging, I have also been doing some exploratory work that I hope will lead to finally moving Arch Linux from SVN to git. As a long time fan and user of Arch Linux, I'm looking forward to the chance to give back to the community. If anyone has any questions, please let me know. -- Drew DeVault

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[aur-general] Withdrawn: Trusted user application: Drew DeVault
by Drew DeVault 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

A week of discussion and time to reflect later, and I'd like to withdraw my application for trusted user. I had hesitated to apply to become a TU for some time due to various personal concerns, some of which were reaffirmed during the ensuing discussion, and those which weren't directly reaffirmed continued to grow in my heart anyway. This should not reflect poorly on my sponsors - I did not share all of my concerns with them before applying. Thanks for your time and consideration. -- Drew DeVault

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Re: [aur-general] Trusted user application: Drew DeVault
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

On 25/02/2019 00.23, Drew DeVault wrote: > Hiya! Jerome convinced me to finally apply for TU, and Sven-Hendrik > agreed to co-sponsor my application (both Cc'd). > > I'm a generalist that works on free software full time. I maintain the > following AUR packages: > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=sircmpwn > > I also maintain a third-party Arch repo and oversee some automation for > helping to build and publish new packages: > > https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-pkgbuilds > > I'm also the upstream maintainer for several packages in community, > including wlroots, sway, and scdoc; and I maintain numerous packages for > Alpine Linux as well. I maintain many other free software projects, > most notably sourcehut, and I also contribute to many projects > maintained by others as well. > > I think Jerome has been hoping for some relief from the packages I > maintain the upstream for, so I may start by relieving that burden. I'd > also like to move the samuari package into community, and likely some > of the Python packages from my third-party repository as well. > > Outside of packaging, I have also been doing some exploratory work that > I hope will lead to finally moving Arch Linux from SVN to git. > > As a long time fan and user of Arch Linux, I'm looking forward to the > chance to give back to the community. If anyone has any questions, > please let me know. > > -- > Drew DeVault I confirm my co-sponsorship. Let the discussion period begin!

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Re: [aur-general] Trusted user application: Drew DeVault
by Jerome Leclanche 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 12:23 AM Drew DeVault <sir(a)cmpwn.com> wrote: > > Hiya! Jerome convinced me to finally apply for TU, and Sven-Hendrik > agreed to co-sponsor my application (both Cc'd). > > I'm a generalist that works on free software full time. I maintain the > following AUR packages: > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=sircmpwn > > I also maintain a third-party Arch repo and oversee some automation for > helping to build and publish new packages: > > https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-pkgbuilds > > I'm also the upstream maintainer for several packages in community, > including wlroots, sway, and scdoc; and I maintain numerous packages for > Alpine Linux as well. I maintain many other free software projects, > most notably sourcehut, and I also contribute to many projects > maintained by others as well. > > I think Jerome has been hoping for some relief from the packages I > maintain the upstream for, so I may start by relieving that burden. I'd > also like to move the samuari package into community, and likely some > of the Python packages from my third-party repository as well. > > Outside of packaging, I have also been doing some exploratory work that > I hope will lead to finally moving Arch Linux from SVN to git. > > As a long time fan and user of Arch Linux, I'm looking forward to the > chance to give back to the community. If anyone has any questions, > please let me know. > > -- > Drew DeVault I confirm my sponsorship for this application. o/ I indeed currently maintain sway and one of its dependencies, would be handing that off to Drew as he's better suited to package it. J. Leclanche

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[aur-general] Spam-account
by Georg 18 Feb '19

18 Feb '19

Hi, the account socola88 is spamming around the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/socola88 Georg

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[aur-general] Account Status
by Gonçalo Pereira 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

Hello, My account was suspended a few months ago. I would like to continue helping to fix packages even though I haven't been decent in previous incidents. Can I get my account unsuspended? Hope you can understand, Regards, Gonçalo Pereira

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[aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions
by Xyne 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

Hi everyone, This is in regard to this thread on the forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=244051 The packaged contained this project: https://github.com/Aniket-Pradhan/lsd To summarize the thread, an AUR package that had existed for a while was deleted when an unrelated package of the same name was moved to [community]. The reason given was that the AUR package was "not useful enough", either because it only had 2 votes or because the acting TU saw no personal use for it. For trivial packages, it would be good to at least clarify the reason for deletion in a little more detail. There are plenty of AUR packages that persist for years with 0 votes so a maintainer with 2 votes may be understandably confused by the terse statement "not useful enough". A little clarification can easily disperse that confusion and better guide the user through future contributions. However, "trivial" here usually means that someone uploaded a bash script to do something like open arandr and click on it with xdotool to save half a second, or baked some convoluted ls-cat-cat-grep-cat-sed-cat pipe into a 3-line script. The project involved here is not in the same category. It may not be practically "useful" for many users, but it does do something that is not trivial to replicated in a few lines of shell code. It's "usefulness" is subjective. In this case, the TU should have proposed renaming the package, given the maintainer some time to pick a new name and re-upload the package, and then merged the old one. Even a single vote from another user can be encouraging so the merge is worthwhile unless the maintainer states otherwise. Regards, Xyne

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