September 2023 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

Waterfox G
by Aaron Liu 02 Sep '23

02 Sep '23

Currently, there are 2 packages for the latest Waterfox "current": waterfox-g-bin and waterfox-current-bin . My guess is as follows: This arose from Waterfox changing their versions from "current" to "G", short for "generation". hawkeye116477, the maintainer for the former package and former maintainer for the latter package, decided to create a new package, waterfox-g-bin, for later releases and keep waterfox-current-bin frozen at the last release with "current". However, MarsSeed orphaned waterfox-current-bin through [PRQ#42365] in June and Leo Izen claimed it and updated it to the latest Waterfox G. The current situation is that Waterfox refers to "Waterfox G" as simply "Waterfox" and both bin packages have the wrong name. What should be done? Also, is it necessary to have both gtk3 and gtk2 as dependencies? Looking at the PKGBUILDs the only difference between the packages is waterfox-g-bin disables automatic updates + update notifications and has the extra profile manager desktop action while waterfox-current-bin has none of these and has the extra dependency "nss" (is this necessary?) P.S.: I've Bcc'd everybody I've named in this email. I'm new to the AUR, so tell me if that's not the right thing to do.

3 4

Re: the archlinux torrent
by Ralf Mardorf 02 Sep '23

02 Sep '23

Hi, first off all, please reply to the mailing-list only, don't reply to me, too. I'm subscribed to the list and receiving two mails, one with mailing-list headers and another without the headers, is asking for trouble. FWIW I'm not an experienced sq user, I'm used to gpg. In the first place I seemingly replied to your request accidentally not to the list, since you usually sent to the list and to me and I probably clicked the email without the mailing list headers. On Sat, 2023-09-02 at 07:52 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > On Sat, 2 Sep 2023, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> sq wkd get pierre(a)archlinux.org -<file>.gpg >> >> Did you run >> >> sq wkd get pierre(a)archlinux.org -release-key.pgp >> >> instead of >> >> sq wkd get pierre(a)archlinux.org -o release-key.pgp >> >> ? > Yes and that's what got sq not liking wkd much was happening yesterday and > at the time I wrote that message I substituted a variable for the > release-key. Ok, you likely wanted to say "no", IOW you run sq wkd get pierre(a)archlinux.org -o $KEY since "yes" would mean you run sq wkd get pierre(a)archlinux.org -$KEY what happened when you run sq wkd get pierre(a)archlinux.org -o $KEY ? Did stdout or stderr return "error: sq doesn't like wkd" ? It does work on my machine • rocketmouse@archlinux /tmp $ KEY=release-key.pgp • rocketmouse@archlinux /tmp $ sq wkd get pierre(a)archlinux.org -o $KEY • rocketmouse@archlinux /tmp $ echo $? 0 • rocketmouse@archlinux /tmp $ /bin/ls -l $KEY -rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 18971 Sep 2 14:03 release-key.pgp Without the error message we (or at least I) cannot help. Regards, Ralf

1 0

Re: Waterfox G
by Aaron Liu 01 Sep '23

01 Sep '23

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Waterfox G Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2023 15:18:07 -0400 From: Aaron Liu <aaronliu0130(a)gmail.com> To: arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org, aur-general(a)lists.archlinux.org Oops, I've sent this to the arch-general mailing list instead! I meant to send this to aur-general, sorry. I guess forwarding it should be fine. On 9/1/23 15:15, Aaron Liu wrote: > Currently, there are 2 packages for the latest Waterfox "current": > waterfox-g-bin and waterfox-current-bin . > > My guess is as follows: This arose from Waterfox changing their > versions from "current" to "G", short for "generation". hawkeye116477, > the maintainer for the former package and former maintainer for the > latter package, decided to create a new package, waterfox-g-bin, for > later releases and keep waterfox-current-bin frozen at the last > release with "current". However, MarsSeed orphaned > waterfox-current-bin through [PRQ#42365] in June and Leo Izen claimed > it and updated it to the latest Waterfox G. > > The current situation is that Waterfox refers to "Waterfox G" as > simply "Waterfox" and both bin packages have the wrong name. What > should be done? > > Also, is it necessary to have both gtk3 and gtk2 as > dependencies? Looking at the PKGBUILDs the only difference between the > packages is waterfox-g-bin disables automatic updates + update > notifications and has the extra profile manager desktop action while > waterfox-current-bin has none of these and has the extra dependency > "nss" (is this necessary?) > > P.S.: I've Bcc'd everybody I've named in this email. I'm new to the > AUR, so tell me if that's not the right thing to do. >

1 0