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[aur-general] TU resignation
by Pierre Neidhardt 31 May '18

31 May '18

I've stopped using Arch ever since I've switched to GuixSD[1] (a functional-oriented distribution focusing on reproducible builds and completely custimizable in Guile Scheme) and it's now quite clear that there will be no coming back. My involvement in this new project and in others (Emacs, Next Browser[2]) takes a lot more time than what I can afford into maintaining my Arch packages. I have a bunch of out-of-date packages in [community]: - emms - qutebrowser - udiskie - uncrustify Other [community] packages: - catdvi - ccrypt - dtach - fzf - gtypist - mu (A user requested that we built msg2pdf as part of the package) - pdfjs (optional for qutebrowser) - pstotext - python-keyutils (required by udiskie) - python-pypeg2 (require by qutebrowser) - tcc - trash-cli - xcape - xss-lock And on the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=Ambrevar&SeB=m I hope the Arch community keeps up with the good work! Cheers! [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ [2] http://next-browser.com/ -- Pierre Neidhardt

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[aur-general] Basilisk pkgbuild is facing a trademark violation?
by Fabio Loli 22 May '18

22 May '18

Mattatobin, of which you can read here https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86 Have made this (edited) comment in the AUR webpage asking for removal https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/basilisk You do realize this package is completely insane. I want you to remove any remaining Basilisk branding and use of the name including in the desktop file and this very package from AUR that you are obviously squatting on.

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[aur-general] [PATCH] upgpkg: qutebrowser 1.3.0-1
by Jay Kamat 22 May '18

22 May '18

Hi, The qutebrowser package in community has been behind for quite a while, and unfortunately it fails to start on qt 5.11, so it would be nice to have it bumped before that happens. I noticed that the install fails when bumping the version, due to adding a PREFIX variable instead of hardcoding /usr: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/pull/3844 Per the packaging standards here, this should be /usr/ instead of /usr/local, so I changed it back, and it seems to work properly again: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_packaging_standards Here is the finished patch. Let me know if anyone sees any issues, this is my first time working with arch packaging. -Jay I sent this email to the list before subscribing, please don't approve that one, as I resent it here.

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[aur-general] Rustup in [community] is making rust-nightly-bin, cargo-nightly-bin and rust-always-nightly obsolete?
by Fabio Loli 19 May '18

19 May '18

Rustup download the latest nightly releases without effort, so these AUR package are just duplicates and should be removed?

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[aur-general] spammer account in aur
by LoneVVolf 17 May '18

17 May '18

Check https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/indicator-bulletin-git/?comments=all It does look to me like that tyson24 account belongs to a spambot OR the email addy has been infected by spambots. Can a TU look into this ? LW

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[aur-general] Advice needed on bundling a specific Python library
by Simon Perry 15 May '18

15 May '18

Hi all, I'm the maintainer of pyfa [1][2], a tool for EVE Online players. I was wondering if I could get some advice on how to include an arbitrary version of a Python library into the package? The problem is that the current version of python-wxpython in community has a bug that causes the latest version of pyfa to crash, and the pyfa developers have set a hard requirement of wxPython == 4.0.0b2 [3] (the issue will apparently by fixed in 4.0.2). What's the best or most elegant way to handle this? The only thing I can think of is using pip to install this version into my $pkgdir and setting PYTHONPATH in the startup shell script to force pyfa to use the bundled version. However, I'm not sure of this and would like any pointers or better a better way to handle it. Cheers. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pyfa/ [2] https://github.com/pyfa-org/Pyfa [3] https://github.com/pyfa-org/Pyfa/blob/master/requirements.txt -- Simon Perry (aka Pezz)

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[aur-general] Deletion of discord-updater{,-canary}?
by Morgan Adamiec 10 May '18

10 May '18

discord-updater is quite a confusing package to me. I'm not sure is I should file a deletion request for it. When discord needs an update it will refuse to start until it is updated. This package appears to be designed to download the latest discord .tar.gz and extract it to ~/.local. By passing the need to wait for updates on the main discord AUR package. My question here is does this count as a duplicate to discord? And even if it does not should this really be in the AUR in the first place? It is just a simple script really. For future reference I would appreciate if anyone can tell me the correct place to send this sort of thing. Here, to aur-requests or type it into the request box on the AUR page. Also on a similar topic, the package discord-always-canary was removed from the AUR by Eschwartz. This package is essentially discord-canary with a pkgver() function. Meanwhile firefox-always-nightly is still on the AUR and is essentially the same idea. Is there a reason the discord-always-canary can not exist, similar to pkg and pkg-git? I get they comparison is not exactly the same because both discord packages source stable versions. Instead would it be a good idea to add a pkgver() function to the main discord packages? As mentioned discord will refuse to start when out of date, so most users are stuck waiting for the maintainer to update it.

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[aur-general] Taking over Discord-PTB
by Morgan Adamiec 01 May '18

01 May '18

Hi, a week ago i submitted an orphan request for Discord-PTB https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/discord-ptb/. It finally got accepted but the co-maintainer 'discordapp' got set as the maintainer so I can not adopt this package. As far as I know 'discordapp' is an account owned by one of the Discord devs, I believe it's just there in case they need it, the account does not seem to actively do anything nor reply to comments. I would hate to wait another week for an orphan request to go through, is there a way this could be bypassed as I did just wait a week?

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[aur-general] Renaming xiccd to colord-xiccd
by Alberto Salvia Novella 25 Apr '18

25 Apr '18

I want to propose this <https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1781774>. Alberto <https://es20490446e.wordpress.com>

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[aur-general] git package policy
by Ralf Mardorf 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

Hi, I wonder if I'm too picky. Each time a new git commit is available, the pkgver of https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk-theme-macos-sierra-archers-git/ gets increased, while nothing else changes. IMO it should stay untouched unless the dependencies, URL, sources, etc. change and perhaps if it's required to build against an updated lib, too. Regards, Ralf -- pacman -Q linux{,-rt{-pussytoes,-securityink,-cornflower,}}|cut -d\ -f2 4.16.2-2 4.14.34_rt27-1 4.14.29_rt25-1 4.14.28_rt23-1 4.14.24_rt19-1

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