March 2019 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] ttf-google-webfonts{,-distilled,-git,-hg} mess
by Jason St. John 19 Jun '19

19 Jun '19

I am the current maintainer of the AUR package ttf-google-webfonts-hg[4], and I'm bothered by the mess of various packages there are for Google's Web Fonts project. It's not at all KISS in its current state. There are currently four different AUR packages[1][2][3][4] that essentially supply the same files, and all four packages conflict with each other. Around August of 2012, the package named ttf-google-webfonts[1] was orphaned, and user w0ng created a GitHub repository[5] that mirrors the Mercurial repository[6] on Google Code (why?). Then, the new maintainer changed the original ttf-google-webfonts package from a VCS-type package that simply lacked "-hg" in the name to a package that pulls tarballs from w0ng's GitHub repo[5]. As you can see in the comments for ttf-google-webfonts[1], this has caused all sorts of confusion and messages about the package being out-of-date or having invalid checksums. To get around these issues, user epinephrine created the package ttf-google-webfonts-git[3] that clones w0ng's GitHub repo[5] instead of pulling tarballs from it, which significantly reduces the maintenance required on the package. Then, user Gently created a package named ttf-google-webfonts-distilled[2] that pulls a tarball from w0ng's GitHub repo[5] and only installs a small subset of the fonts therein. Shortly after ttf-google-webfonts[1] was changed from being a Mercurial-based package and not liking the direction that the package was taking, I reuploaded the original ttf-google-webfonts package as ttf-google-webfonts-hg[4] for people that simply wanted the old package back that uses the actual Google Web Fonts repository to download the files. To clean up this mess, I propose that ttf-google-webfonts-distilled[2] and ttf-google-webfonts-git[3] be deleted outright, for what should be obvious reasons. I also propose that ttf-google-webfonts[1] be deleted because of how frequently the Web Fonts project is updated and because the project lacks version numbers. If people really feel strongly about keeping that maintenance nightmare, then let them have it, but I really don't see what advantage it provides over the original ttf-google-webfonts-hg[4] other than one less makedepends. I apologize for the huge email, but this situation really is a mess. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-webfonts/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-webfonts-distilled/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-webfonts-git/ [4] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-webfonts-hg/ [5] https://github.com/w0ng/googlefontdirectory [6] https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/ Jason

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[aur-general] Spring cleaning (moving orphaned packages from [community] to AUR)
by Alexander F Rødseth 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

Hi, I'm planning to move the following packages from [community] to AUR, because they are currently "unneeded orphans" (no current maintainer and no other package depends on them). TUs&devs, please adopt, if you are interested: addinclude - Utility to add include statements to header- and sourcefiles, for C and C++ agave - Colorscheme designer tool for GNOME arch-firefox-search - Firefox Arch search engines (AUR, Pkgs, BBS, Wiki, etc.) aspcud - Solver for package dependencies aspell-it - Italian dictionary for aspell aspell-ru - Russian dictionary for aspell auctex - An extensible package for writing and formatting TeX files in Emacs bless - High-quality, full-featured hex editor catdvi - A DVI to plain text translator cdargs - Replacement for 'cd' that includes bookmarks/browsing for faster navigation cddb-py - CDDB-Server access from Python cfv - An utility to both test and create checksum files cherrytree - Hierarchical note taking application featuring rich text and syntax highlighting corebird - Native Gtk+ Twitter client for the Linux desktop cromfs - Compressed read-only filesystem based on FUSE dangerdeep - Submarine simulator docky - Full fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker drbd-utils - Userland tools for Distributed Replicated Block Device driconf - Graphical configuration tool for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure dtach - emulates the detach feature of screen emacs-pkgbuild-mode - A major mode for creating packages with emacs emms - The Emacs Multimedia System flam3 - Tools to create/display fractal flames: algorithmically generated images and animations foxtrotgps - Lightweight and fast mapping application gdesklets - System for bringing mini programs (desklets) onto your desktop gmpc - MPD client gnome-activity-journal - Tool for easily browsing and finding files on your computer using the Zeitgeist engine gnome-schedule - Graphical interface to crontab and at for GNOME gourmet - A simple but powerful recipe-managing application grumpy - Python to Go transpiler and Python interpreter gst-validate - Debugging tool for GStreamer gtypist - universal typing tutor gweled - A puzzle game similar to Bejeweled (aka Diamond Mine) hamster-time-tracker - Time tracking application that helps you to keep track on how much time you have spent during the day on activities you choose to track hercules - Software implementation of System/370 and ESA/390 hubicfuse - A fuse filesystem to access HubiC cloud storage hyphen-pl - Polish hyphenation rules hyphen-ro - Romanian hyphenation rules icon-slicer - Utility for generating icon themes and libXcursor cursor themes kcheckers - Qt4-based checkers boardgame keepnote - GTK+ note taking application labyrinth - Lightweight mind-mapping tool with support for image import and drawing lat - LDAP administration tool mahjong - The classical game of Mah Jong (multiplayer) mate-menu - Advanced menu for MATE Panel, a fork of MintMenu medit - GTK+ text editor monica - Monitor calibration tool mu - Maildir indexer/searcher and Emacs client (mu4e) muine - A music player written in C Sharp mythes-nl - Dutch thesaurus mythes-pl - Polish thesaurus neverball - 3D game similar to Super Monkey Ball or Marble Madness openbox-themes - Various themes for the Openbox window manager. pathological - A puzzle game with the same feel as frozen bubble pidgin-sipe - Third-party Pidgin plugin for Microsoft Office 365/Lync/LCS/OCS planner - Project management application for GNOME proxytunnel - a program that connects stdin and stdout to a server somewhere on the network, through a standard HTTPS proxy python2-ipaddr - An IPv4/IPv6 manipulation library in Python python-apache-libcloud - A standard Python library that abstracts away differences among multiple cloud provider APIs qextserialport - Cross-platform serial port class libary for Qt smuxi - User-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for sophisticated users for GNOME/GTK+ (frontend) tasque - Easy quick task management app written in C Sharp thermald - The Linux Thermal Daemon program from 01.org ttf-ibm-plex - IBM Plex Mono, Sans, and Serif uncrustify - A source code beautifier vim-molokai - Port of the monokai colorscheme for TextMate vim-nerdtree - Tree explorer plugin for navigating the filesystem vmoviedb - Movie collection manager for the Gnome desktop I'll wait until at least Monday before moving anything. -- Sincerely, Alexander F. Rødseth / xyproto

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[aur-general] AUR spam accounts
by Luca Weiss 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

Hello, the account https://aur.archlinux.org/account/charlizekrish/ left a spam account on one of my packages. After looking through the most popular packages I found a few more: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/hendrikb https://aur.archlinux.org/account/AngelaKinsey52 https://aur.archlinux.org/account/arianapham https://aur.archlinux.org/account/johnkeo Thanks, Luca

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[aur-general] magic-wormhole-git help with missing dependancy
by Storm Dragon 30 Mar '19

30 Mar '19

Howdy, I maintain the magic-wormhole and the magic-wormhole-git packages. In magic-wormhole-git, I am now getting this error when I try to run wormhole:: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/wormhole", line 11, in <module> load_entry_point('magic-wormhole==0.11.2+82.g995d3f5', 'console_scripts', 'wormhole')() File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 489, in load_entry_point return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2793, in load_entry_point return ep.load() File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2411, in load return self.resolve() File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2417, in resolve module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wormhole/__init__.py", line 2, in <module> from .wormhole import create, __version__ File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wormhole/wormhole.py", line 11, in <module> from ._boss import Boss File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wormhole/_boss.py", line 15, in <module> from ._dilation.manager import Dilator ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'wormhole._dilation' I have gone searching for python-dialation and haven't found anything. Does anyone know what package it needs? Thanks for the 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 Need a safe and easy way to backup and share files? Try Dropbox: http://db.tt/jeY50HR "Pray nightfall release me, then I could wander to deep sleep." Paradise Lost - Pray Nightfall

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[aur-general] Delete Git tree for new package with broken state
by lambdadroid 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

Hi, I've been trying to upload packages from archlinux-me176c [1] to the AUR. My scripts create a subtree split of one package, then do quite a bit of other magic and upload it to the AUR. I've been having a few problems with "linux-me176c" because I used to have large patch files in the repository (> 250 KiB). So I modified the scripts to cut off the history after I switched to fetching from a Git repository instead. This works fine, but while testing I seem to have uploaded a broken subtree or some temporary commit, so the new generated subtrees no longer match what is uploaded on the AUR - making it impossible for me to update the package (without force-push). Deleting the package on the AUR was accepted automatically because of: Deletion of a fresh package requested by its current maintainer. but I should have read on the wiki first that this does not delete the Git tree. :) Is there any chance to remove the Git repository of this new package, or should I somehow try to recover that broken state? Thanks, lambdadroid [1]: https://github.com/me176c-dev/archlinux-me176c

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[aur-general] feedback for new package
by Martin Wilson 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

I've put together a package for upload to the AUR, but since it's my first, I would like to know if there are any problems with it: https://github.com/martin3141/tarquin_arch cheers, Martin

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[aur-general] Spam account
by Florian Dejonckheere 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

Hi The account anke99 [1] is leaving some spam comments on various packages [2]. Kind regards Florian [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/anke99 [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/anke99/comments -- *Florian Dejonckheere* Full-stack Software Developer at Open Webslides <https://openwebslides.github.io/> Email: florian(a)dejonckhee.re Web: https://florian.dejonckhee.re Dev: https://www.github.com/floriandejonckheere <https://www.github.com/floriandejonckheere>

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[aur-general] Is a deleted aur comment retrievable ?
by Lone_Wolf 20 Mar '19

20 Mar '19

Hi, I just made a mistake and deleted the pinned comment for my mesa-git package, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mesa-git . I don't have it stored elsewhere, is it possible to restore that comment ? Lone_Wolf

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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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