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[aur-general] Spam Account
by Morgan Adamiec 23 Nov '18

23 Nov '18

Another spam account: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/markwilliamson/

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[aur-general] TU application: Maxim Baz
by Maxim Baz 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '18

Hello everyone, My name is Maxim Baz, and with Morten Linderud (Foxboron) as my sponsor (who I was referred to by Alad Wenter) I'm applying to become a Trusted User. According to the git history of my dotfiles, I've been using Linux for around 3 years and Arch Linux for around 2 years. I'm quite active open-source contributor, especially on Github as you can see on my profile page [1]. Some of my currently favorite projects where I both contribute code and participate in discussions are: browserpass, wire-desktop, kitty, kakoune, spaceship-prompt, and undoubtedly aurutils. I also once submitted a small patch [2] to pacman-contrib that got merged. During the day I work at Microsoft, where I am also using Arch Linux and building software that runs on Linux in production. In my mind, packaging is one of the best ways to do good for Arch Linux community. Luckily there are tools that make this easy: I use Alad's aurutils and always build in chroot, fixing broken PKGBUILDs on the fly and sharing my fixes with package maintainers on AUR; to manage my own AUR packages [3] (except for the very few) I now use aurpublish tool by Eli Schwartz. Maintaining 'chromium-vaapi' in particular showed me how important it is to keep a valid up-to-date PKGBUILD for a tool that many people rely on every day, as well as how useful it is to provide precompiled binaries for apps that require lots of time and/or resources to compile — this is how my package 'chromium-vaapi-bin' was born. One aspect of packaging that always interested me is security and trust. Firstly, I have recently stumbled upon the idea of "reproducible builds" and I love it, Eli Schwartz and Morten Linderud briefly introduced me to the current efforts and I'm planning to get more involved in this area. In particular, I'm interested in the user-facing side of things, figuring out how to integrate this with pacman and how to let regular users benefit from reproducible builds the most. Also, as a TU I want to help finishing TODO "BUILDINFO rebuild" [4] if it's not completed earlier. Secondly, to maintain people's trust in Trusted Users we should never use http to fetch sources unless a verification method (such as a gpg signature) is also available, that's why I also want to help burning down a corresponding TODO "Use gpg signatures and https sources" [5]. Another thing I would do as TU is I would like to maintain and co-maintain packages for some Language Servers (if the current maintainers don't object). Language Server Protocol is a very cool concept (designed by Microsoft :P), it defines a protocol used between programming languages and editors to add features like autocomplete, go to definitions, code formatting and much more. Language servers themselves are being developed by community and are already supported by many editors like vim, neovim and kakoune. I am planning to start with the following packages: - bash-language-server: already in [community], I'd like to co-maintain it - python-language-server and python-jsonrpc-server: already in [community], I'd like to co-maintain them - go-langserver: the most feature-rich language server at the moment, to bring it to [community] I started the discussion with the upstream maintainers about tagging releases - kak-lsp: de-facto official plugin that adds LSP support for kakoune editor. I would also like to move some AUR packages to [community], in particular these ones have good amount of votes and in my mind deserve to be promoted to [community]: - wire-desktop (76): End-to-end encrypted messaging app that works on Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone. It is free, open-source and available on Github. Although I'm co-maintaining this package on AUR, I was mostly focused on contributing to the project itself: I added proper emoji support (following the latest Unicode standard), emoji autocomplete and improved native notifications on Linux (show user pictures, set urgency hint). - browserpass (31): Browser extension for pass (unix password manager), works in Chromium and Firefox. I became the primary project maintainer about a year ago, and together with another maintainer recently started rewriting it to make the architecture accommodate users' needs. I'm planning to bring this to [community] after the new version is ready (we are aiming to release in December). Also, someone in comments on AUR gave me a cool idea to use split-packages for Chromium and Firefox browsers, I'm going to do this as well (current PKGBUILD installs browserpass for both browsers, even if these browsers are not installed). - ttf-emojione (33): Colorful emoji font from EmojiOne. I created a Docker image that is able to compile the font out of image assets, and configured a Travis job for EmojiOne team so that the font is automatically being compiled on every commit and attached to every Github release. - grub-btrfs (15): Detects and includes btrfs snapshots in GRUB menu, allowing to easily boot in any existing snapshot. I personally use grub-btrfs in combination with snap-pac and snap-pac-grub for seamless integration with snapper and pacman. - python-black (10): Python code formatter that quickly gains popularity, I see it being adopted more and more in the community of Python developers, so I want it to be available in [community] repo. - gocryptfs (18): Encrypted overlay filesystem, an alternative for encfs. For all of the above, I'm being active on their Github pages and monitoring new releases using urlwatch. Finally I would like to co-maintain some of the packages that are already in [community] if the current maintainers don't object, I use them myself and participate in their development: - kakoune - kitty - prettier - py3status - urlwatch Sometimes I flag these packages as outdated, but I could just as well bump the versions myself. The above is the bare minimum, I reserve the right to discover more cool projects to maintain and co-maintain :P Cheers, Maxim Baz 1: https://github.com/maximbaz 2: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-contrib/2018-February/000079.h… 3: https://github.com/maximbaz/pkgbuilds 4: https://www.archlinux.org/todo/buildinfo-rebuild/ 5: https://www.archlinux.org/todo/use-gpg-signatures-and-https-sources/

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[aur-general] TU Membership Application
by Brett Cornwall 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

I am being sponsored by dvzrv. I've been working in the AUR since 2014 as 'Ainola'. I've had a few of my packages adopted into [community], such as gnome-mpv, csound, and qutecsound (the latter two being adopted by dvzrv). I am also an active contributor to the LibreOffice infrastructure team. I would like to get valuable tools promoted into [community], such as residualvm or the 'pass' plasmoid (after prodding upstream to have a formal release). Other packages that I do not maintain in the AUR would be ripe for picking as well, such as sc-controller or ttf-lato. I would also work with dvzrv on maintaining pro-audio packages, many of which were abandoned when SpepS left.

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[aur-general] AUR package metadata dump
by Dmitry Marakasov 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

Hi! I'm maintainer of Repology.org, a service which monitors, aggregates and compares package vesion accross 200+ package repositories with a purpose of simplifying package maintainers work by discovering new versions faster, improving collaboration between maintainers and giving software authhors a complete overview of how well their projects are packaged. Repology does obviously support AUR, however there were some problems with retrieving information on AUR packages and I think this could be improved. The way Repology currently fetches AUR package data is as follows: - fetch https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.gz - split packages into 100 item packs - fetch JSON data for packages in each pack from https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=info&arg[]=<packages> While fetching data from API, Repology does a 1 second pause between requests to not create excess load on the server, but there are still frequent 429 errors. I've tried 2 second delays, but the 429s are still there, and fetch time increases dramatically as we have to do more than 500 requests. Probably API is loaded by other clients as well. I suggest to implement a regularly updated JSON dump of information on all packages and make it available for the site, like packages.gz is. The content should be similar to what https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=info would return for all packages at once. This will eliminate the need to access the API and generate load on it, simplify and speed up fetching dramatically for both Repology and possible other clients. Additionally, I'd like to suggest to add information on distfiles to the dump (and probably an API as well for consistency). For instance, Repology checks availability for all (homepage and download) links it retreives from package repositories and reports broken ones so the packages could be fixed. -- Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D amdmi3(a)amdmi3.ru ..: https://github.com/AMDmi3

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[aur-general] Spam account: philipjoy6
by Tinu Weber 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

Hello Would somebody please take a look at this one? Thank you! https://aur.archlinux.org/account/philipjoy6 Best, Tinu

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[aur-general] chroot clean building and "http 429"
by hagar 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

G'Day all, I have been rebuilding all my packages properly in a clean chroot. I wwas writing a smaill script to put all the packages in order and I accidentaly got "http 429". Any Idea how long that lasts? - I figured out what caused it and fixed it. ( damned thing wasnt querying the PKGBUILDS but going online ). But my main question is how do you get around a circular dependancy. eg. mingw-w64-harfbuzz depends on - mingw-w64-freetype2 mingw-w64-freetype2 depends on -mingw-w64-harfbuzz You cant build one unless the other is already built. Is this allowed ? Thanks Macca

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[aur-general] Package present in aur-git, but not in the aur
by pianoslum 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

Hi@all, I searched whether elster (a program for German tax declaration) was present in the aur (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=elster) and found out it wasn't. When I finished my own PCKBUILD and tried to upload it, I noticed that there already was a git repo with that name (ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/elster.git). How can that be? While the original script is a meta package only, mine will download and install the latest version of the package via wine. Should I ask for deletion or what could I do? Original package maintainer is in CC. Cheers!

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[aur-general] Package requests
by Storm Dragon 10 Nov '18

10 Nov '18

Hi, I had made requests to orphan orca-git and speech-dispatcher-git because the maintainer has done nothing with them in quite a long time. I have had no luck contacting him either. It's been a week or so I think since I di the requests, and I was just wondering if maybe they slipped through the cracks. I know how busy this time of the year is. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/orca-git/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/speech-dispatcher-git/ Thanks for any help :) Storm -- Powered by Arch Linux! I am registered Linux user number 508465: https://linuxcounter.net/user/508465.html My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.tk/ get my public PGP key: gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 43DDC193 Follow me on GNU Social: https://social.stormdragon.tk/storm "Mighty Elric, Mightier Sword. Sorcerer and Swordsman, slayer of kin, Lord of a dying race. King of ruin, dragon master, Champion of Doom." Domine - Chronicles of the Black Sword

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[aur-general] PKGBUILD git remote branch issue
by Ralf Mardorf 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Hi, building the Claws GTK3 port works, if I build from the branch like this: [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ git clone git://git.claws-mail.org/claws.git [snip] [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ cd claws [rocketmouse@archlinux claws]$ git fetch origin [rocketmouse@archlinux claws]$ git branch --track gtk3 origin/gtk3 Branch 'gtk3' set up to track remote branch 'gtk3' from 'origin'. [rocketmouse@archlinux claws]$ ./autogen.sh [snip] [rocketmouse@archlinux claws]$ ./configure --build=$HOSTTYPE-arch-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --disable-static --enable-enchant --enable-gnutls --enable-ldap --enable-crash-dialog --enable-pgpmime-plugin --enable-spamassassin-plugin --enable-bogofilter-plugin [rocketmouse@archlinux claws]$ sh version 3.17.0-153-gf4607b [rocketmouse@archlinux claws]$ make [snip] Done. [snip] If I try to build from the master with "--enable-gtk3" it fails, see: https://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2018-November/023174.html A developer mentions that I should build from the gtk3 branch: https://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2018-November/023176.html I commented out "#--enable-gtk3"... [rocketmouse@archlinux claws]$ grep HOST /usr/src/claws-mail-gtk3-git/PKGBUILD -B1 -A14 ./configure \ --build=$HOSTTYPE-arch-linux-gnu \ --prefix=/usr \ --disable-jpilot \ --disable-maintainer-mode \ --disable-manual \ --disable-static \ --enable-bogofilter-plugin \ --enable-crash-dialog \ --enable-enchant \ --enable-gnutls \ #--enable-gtk3 \ --enable-ldap \ --enable-pgpmime-plugin \ --enable-silent-rules \ --enable-spamassassin-plugin ...but don't know what "foo bar" to add to the source or how else to handle this by a PKGBUILD: [rocketmouse@archlinux claws]$ grep source /usr/src/claws-mail-gtk3-git/PKGBUILD source=('claws-mail::git://git.claws-mail.org/#FOO=BAR') Is there an easy way to do it? Regards, Ralf

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[aur-general] mate-common-dev missing Source File
by Dan Sommers 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Greetings, I tried to install mate-common-dev¹ this morning, but it fails to download its source file²: -> Downloading mate-common-1.21.0.tar.xz... [... curl progress meter skipped ...] curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found ==> ERROR: Failure while downloading http://pub.mate-desktop.or/releases/1.21/mate-common-1.21.0.tar.xz Aborting... I checked the source directory,³ and sure enough, there is no mate-common tarball there. A lot of other mate-*-dev packages depend on mate-common-dev; what's the easiest path forward to a mate-desktop-dev installation? Thanks, Dan ¹ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mate-desktop-dev/ ² http://pub.mate-desktop.org/releases/1.21/mate-desktop-1.21.3.tar.xz ³ http://pub.mate-desktop.org/releases/1.21/

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