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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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[aur-general] Spam account: vedant
by Florian Bruhin 17 Sep '18

17 Sep '18

Yet another spambot: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/vedant/comments Florian -- https://www.qutebrowser.org | me(a)the-compiler.org (Mail/XMPP) GPG: 916E B0C8 FD55 A072 | https://the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc I love long mails! | https://email.is-not-s.ms/

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[aur-general] Notification upon requests
by Einhard Leichtfuß 13 Sep '18

13 Sep '18

Hi, I just noticed due to a comment on the package's web page that a package I co-maintain [0] was requested to be deleted (due to being taken into [community]). I'd have expected to get an e-mail when such a request is made, however I did not receive any such e-mail. I have also enabled notifications for that package, if that matters. So is this expected behaviour? Maybe, because I am only a co-maintainer? Einhard [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/thunderbird-enigmail/

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[aur-general] IJulia and Julia library/module packages
by Jonathon Fernyhough 02 Sep '18

02 Sep '18

Hello everyone. Julia [1], a scientific/numerical computing-focussed programming language, recently went 1.0. It primarily focuses on user-local module installation (into $HOME/.julia), similar to conda, rustup, zef, etc. This is obviously fine for individuals but not great for deployment on a larger scale. Currently, no distributions that I'm aware of (i.e. Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch) package modules for system-wide installation. I spent a few hours this afternoon putting together a package chain for IJulia [2] (which adds a Julia back-end/kernel to Jupyter). As there's no precedent or approach (I'm aware of) for system-wide Julia module installation I'm looking for some testing and feedback to ensure this approach will operate in an equivalent way to the standard Pkg.add("IJulia"). From the limited testing I've done IJulia _appears_ to work OK but I've not tried anything particularly fancy. I'm also interested in any general PKGBUILD feedback, including any depends which should be makedepends or checkdepends. If you find an easy way to tell what should be what then I'm all ears! Of particular note is the very hacky way of creating files which would otherwise be generated by Pkg.build()... there _must_ be a cleaner way of doing that. Best, Jonathon [1] https://julialang.org/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/julia-ijulia

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[aur-general] TU Application - Chih-Hsuan Yen
by Chih-Hsuan Yen 30 Aug '18

30 Aug '18

Hi all, My name is Chih-Hsuan Yen. I'm also known as yan12125. I am applying to be a Trusted User with Felix Yan's sponsorship. I'm currently a PhD student in Taiwan. My Linux journey started when I met Ubuntu in 2011. Soon after that, I jumped to Arch Linux in 2012 for its simplicity. During my spare time, I'm active in open source stuffs. You may find some interesting bits on my GitHub [1] and GitLab [2] accounts. Most of my Arch contributions can be found on AUR [3]. Besides that, I'm also an Arch Linux tester and a member of Arch Linux China community, keeping some binary packages in the unofficial repo [archlinuxcn] up-to-date [4]. If I'm accepted as a TU, I'd like to improve the ecosystem for Arch users speaking Chinese. Specifically, I'll keep an eye on Chinese IME (Input Method Engine) and font packages, including but not limited to the following ones: - libchewing - the core library for a Chinese input method "Chewing" - scim-chewing - the SCIM adaptor for the chewing input method - ttf-arphic-ukai - a popular font in Taiwan - ttf-arphic-uming - another popular font in Taiwan Both libchewing and scim-chewing are in [extra] now. As they have no other reverse dependencies in [extra], I assume it's possible to move them to [community] for further maintenance. Also, as a Python developer, I'm interesting in making Python packages in Arch Linux even better. I'd like to bring the following packages to [community]: - buildbot - the main program of a continuous integration framework [5] - buildbot-worker - running commands dispatched by the master - python-buildbot-{www,console-view,grid-view,waterfall-view,wsgi-dashboards,badges} - buildbot plugins - python-buildbot-pkg - an auxiliary package for building buildbot plugins from sources. I'll create a stable version from my buildbot-pkg-git package. - python-{aws-xray-sdk,jsondiff,klein,moto,nose-random,pathlib2,pyjade,setuptools-trial,txrequests} - direct or indirect runtime/build-time/check-time dependencies for buildbot-related packages I'd like to improve dependency handling for Python packages in Namcap as well. Furthermore, I'm interested in move some other useful packages to [community]. Here are some packages coming out of my head: - pcmanx-gtk2 - A popular BBS/Telnet client in Taiwan (29 votes on AUR) - qps - the GUI process monitor recommended by LXQt (2% on pkgstats) - cmst - a Qt frontend for connman recommended by LXQt (49 votes on AUR) I'd like to stop here. Thanks for reading such a long mail. I'm passionately looking forward an oppurtunity to extend my Arch contributions to a new scope! Regards, Chih-Hsuan Yen [1] https://github.com/yan12125 [2] https://gitlab.com/yan12125 [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=M&K=yan12125&SB=p&SO=d&PP=50&do… [4] https://github.com/archlinuxcn/repo/blob/80adbb5dbee28591f95babf4aed91b0791… [5] https://buildbot.net/

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[aur-general] Amd-ucode - manjaro tools
by fredbezies 29 Aug '18

29 Aug '18

Rajouter amd-ucode au fichier package-root pour la compilation des images ISO d'octobre 2018 -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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