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[aur-general] Ask for review for PKGBUILD
by Dunzhi Zhou 20 Jun '22

20 Jun '22

Dear, I am new to this mail list, hence please let me know anything if I didn't do properly. There is a GitHub repository (https://github.com/fancompute/ceviche) I want to pack it up as a python library for ez maintenance if there is any future update from the original authors. Last, I attach my PKGBUILD file here. Please let me know if I should paste the script in the mail instead. Thanks

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[aur-general] Subdirectories: is my workaround acceptable?
by Claudia Pellegrino 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

Hi fellow AUR maintainers, Over time, I have refined my editor settings in Visual Studio Code to make working with PKGBUILDs more enjoyable. For example, I have added settings which, on a PKGBUILD-by-PKGBUILD basis, enforce a consistent style throughout the whole PKGBUILD. I also have settings to auto-enable shellcheck for linting. For several PKGBUILDs that I maintain, I’d like to share those settings with fellow contributors so whenever they open the directory that contains my PKGBUILD as a workspace in VS Code, it picks up those settings and applies them automatically so those contributors can enjoy zero-configuration linting and consistent styling. Now my issue here is: VS Code’s workspace-level settings live in a .vscode subdirectory so a team of contributors can share those settings via Git along with the project files. But I’ve noticed that aurweb appears to enforce some kind of no-subdirectories rule [1]. I started working around that limitation by including a tarball [2] with my PKGBUILDs instead of a .vscode directory. While aurweb would have rejected that directory, it does accept the tarball. - Do you find my workaround acceptable? Or would that go against the spirit of aurweb’s no-subdirectories rule? - What is the rationale behind the no-subdirectories rule, anyway? Thanks for your thoughts in advance. Regards, Claudia (aka Auerhuhn) --- [1]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/blob/4ddd1dec9c1d19481593f4… [2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/?h=batch-rename

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[aur-general] Real name leaked to AUR
by StarQuake 14 Jun '22

14 Jun '22

Hello, I just accidentally made a commit with my real name. And I am not allowed to fix it with a force push. Could someone fix this please? I would want it to be starquake. https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/log/?h=pacman-backup-hook Hope you can help me. Kind regards, StarQuake -- StarQuake w : http://starquake.nl e : starquake(a)linuxeverywhere.org

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[aur-general] Undeletion requests and TU role
by Pellegrino Prevete 12 Jun '22

12 Jun '22

After an AUR package gets deleted by error, where is it possible for an user to request undeletion? Can a Trusted User directly restore deleted packages? If yes, I think it could be appropriate for me to request that role because I don't want to bother people eventually every few days. Would someone here be available for sponsorship? I've been an user for more than 10 years and I maintain around 130 packages on AUR, a dozen of which should definitely go to community; I also regularly write on the wiki and contribute to arch projects (those on gitlab) and have contributions on GNOME projects. P

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[aur-general] User MarsSeed spamming perl-* packages requesting maintainers not to do pkgrel bumps
by Xiretza 01 Jun '22

01 Jun '22

Hi, the user MarsSeed[0] is spamming AUR packages which perform a pkgrel bump for perl version updates with a prewritten comment asking package maintainers not to do that, examples: [1][2][3]. While their reasoning is questionable, I think the AUR/TUs do not have an official stance on this, and I don't intend to debate it here - I just think this user shouldn't be spamming a bunch of packages with the same comment over and over. Regards, xiretza [0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-authen-pam#comment-867588 [2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-class-errorhandler#comment-867605 [3]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-json-rpc#comment-867591

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[aur-general] keenerd unresponsiveness
by Jelle van der Waa 12 May '22

12 May '22

Hi All, I've tried to reach out to keenerd a couple of times about dropping some packages of him such as geda-gaf (which lets us drop guile2.0, gtk2 in the future etc.). But I haven't heard back about these mails. David has also tried to contact him about his key expiring and being unable to package after allan's master key will be revoked. Keenerd did vote in recent TU proposals and still committed in May. [1] [2] So with this email I hope keenerd responds to the keyring issue and responds to the inquiries about his old packages. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/tu/137 [2] https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/commit/dd3ec59e66ede524c5bf… Greetings, Jelle van der Waa

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[aur-general] Possible spam account
by Michael Kogan 08 May '22

08 May '22

Hi guys, The user InstallerLegacy [1] just adopted gnome-vfs [2], added himself, including a contact address, to the PKGBUILD head without any further changes, then orphaned the package again two minutes thereafter. Since the account has been created just today, maintains no packages and lists further contact information like a website URL and contact address, I suspect it to be a spam account. Best, Michael [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/InstallerLegacy [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/gnome-vfs/

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[aur-general] Removal of Andrzej Giniewicz as Trusted User due to prolonged inactivity
by David Runge 05 May '22

05 May '22

Hi all, this is a motion for "Special Removal of an Inactive TU" [1] for Andrzej Giniewicz (giniu) based on prolonged inactivity. After the removal of Andrzej's packager key due to Bartłomiej Piotrowski's main key removal [2] it has been the consensus for him to create a new packager key. However, this never happened and meanwhile Andrzej's last TU vote is 131 (we're at 136) and he has last logged in to the AUR on 2022-02-14. In January I reached out publicly [3] to ask for progress on the matter, but got no reply. Privately I have again attempted to reach out on 2022-04-08, stating that after two weeks of no reply this here process would be started. This time has now passed. The discussion period will last for three days, after that I will open the vote, which will last for five days. Best, David [1] https://tu-bylaws.aur.archlinux.org/#_special_removal_of_an_inactive_tu [2] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2021-May/030445.html [3] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2022-January/030643.h… -- https://sleepmap.de

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[aur-general] Renaming AUR Repository
by Tuhana GAYRETLİ 03 May '22

03 May '22

Hi. I have an AUR repo named `ttf-jura`[1], which is a font package. After I read AUR Font Publishing wiki, I noticed I need to split TTF, OTF and variable variations, so I split `ttf-jura` as `ttf-jura`, `otf-jura` and `ttf-jura-variable` and changed pkgbase as `jura-font`. But since `ttf-jura` repo's pkgbase is `ttf-jura`, I cant push to repo with new pkgbase. Is it possible rename `ttf-jura` as `jura-font`[2], so I can push new, split version of it? Thanks. I'm not pushing to jura-font directly because it maybe conflict with ttf-jura, because it already exists. [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-jur <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-jura>a [2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jura-font

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[aur-general] Deletion of vi-vim-symlink and neovim-symlinks
by Doug Newgard 22 Apr '22

22 Apr '22

Recently vi-vim-symlink and neovim-symlinks were deleted from the AUR. These are used by a lot of people to set up their systems, and a lot of people want to know why [1]. They do not violate any AUR rules and have been available in the AUR for a very long time, well over 6 years for neovim-symlinks (about the time neovim became a thing) and over a decade for vi-vim-symlink, but I can't date that one as it predates the current AUR system by a long ways. The reason given for this was: > This is more appropriately managed via the user shell's > PATH/configuration. This is completely bogus. First off, PATH has nothing to do with anything here. Second, the shell's configuration doesn't work. Making aliases doesn't work when other programs call vi or vim. It doesn't even work for something like `sudo vim`. This is not a substitute in any way. Just because one TU doesn't find it personally useful or doesn't understand why someone would use a package doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. This is a similar situation to the -bin package issue, except there's not even a rule to misinterpret on this one. If you don't want to use a package, don't, but please don't force your views on everyone. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/u8o31u/why_was_vivimsymlink_fro…

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[aur-general] ssh access on port 443
by eNV25 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

Hi My firewall is restrictive and won't allow outgoing traffic on tcp/22. github.com and gitlab.com both provide alternative addresses that use tcp/443. Is there something like this for AUR? I know I can just use a general proxy, but I don't have access to another network or computer to host my own, and all public VPNs and proxies that work in this network are slow. Thanks eNV25

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[aur-general] Fwd: [PRQ#33929] Deletion Request for vdr-api
by Manuel Reimer 10 Apr '22

10 Apr '22

Forwarding as I think my reply to "aur-requests" will not be actually delivered: Actually I leave this to the "Arch staff" to decide. Yes, you are right that this was created to "work around" issues in some AUR helpers and I did not know that this issue no longer exists. And as updating this dummy package is a separate step that was never automated I tend to forget to push version numbers there. So I would also prefer to have this package gone. Maybe the "decision makers" know better about the current situation about AUR helpers. I, myself, don't use any AUR helpers at all. If it is no longer needed, then please delete "vdr-api" and tell me so I can delete on the vdr4arch GitHub project, too. Manuel On 10.04.22 02:07, notify(a)aur.archlinux.org wrote: > MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for vdr-api [2]: > > This dummy package is not useful and not required. > > It was created to accommodate some AUR helpers > that lack such a basic and necessary feature as > handling the provides entries on AUR during > dependency resolution. > > (I am using yay and paru, both handle them well.) > > This package was created for AUR/vdr. > That package now has a versioned provides - currently this: > provides = vdr-api=2.6.1 > > This package, vdr-api, was not kept up to date with the above, > as it currently has pkgver=2.4.7 > > Yet, dependents requiring vdr-api=2.6.1 can be installed > just fine by paru and yay, because AUR/vdr provides exactly > that. No need for this (outdated) intermediary dummy package. > > Example dependent that I tried and which installs fine > without even requiring AUR/vdr-api: > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vdr-play > > Safe to delete, as its now incorrect version proves my point. > No users have complained that they couldn't install > dependents of AUR/vdr because of a version mismatch. > Guess they use a proper AUR helper like paru or yay or > something on par with them, and their tool of choice > was able to resolve the dependency correctly without > AUR/vdr-api as a dummy intermediary. > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/vdr-api/

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[aur-general] Trying to find out why bubbros is archived from aur
by Glen Ogilvie 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

Hi, I've been searching the mailing list archives, but can't find any message about why bubbros has moved from AUR to the archive. https://github.com/aur-archive/bubbros I've got this installed and running on arch, but would like to have it available for others to easily install. I'm pretty comfortable with packaging, etc and moved from building Mageia RPMs across to Arch for quite a number of my systems. If it just needs someone to own it.. I'd be happy to do so, although the game itself is finished (ie, no new versions needed for the last 7 years). Regards Glen Ogilvie New Zealand.

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[aur-general] Request review PKGBUILDs
by Iyán Méndez Veiga 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

Hi, I would appreciate if anyone can review these two PKGBUILDs. I'm completely new to the new PEP 517-518 approach, so any feedback will be welcome. Also, I'm not able to run the tests in the check function. So any hints/tips are also appreciated. It's like python inside check() is not able to import the _accelerate.cpython-310-x86_64-linux-gnu.so library for some reason. But manually, I can do python -c 'import _accelerate'. Thanks, Iyán -- Iyán Méndez Veiga GPG: 0x422E3694311E5AC1

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[aur-general] AUR ssh:// click-to-copy URLs don't work
by Mikhail f. Shiryaev 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

Hello dear AUR developers. The mentioned links are broken in my FF. It opens a pop-up with a 'Choose Application' message. Best regards, Mikhail f. Shiryaev

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[aur-general] Can I adopt ICEWM ?
by RobinCandau 31 Mar '22

31 Mar '22

Hi everyone, I use ICEWM daily and I love it. Unfortunately, it is now orphaned [1] and will probably fallback to the AUR pretty soon due to the upcoming spring cleanup [2]. In that sense, I planned to adopt it on the AUR when it will land here. The thing is, I currently package and maintain only one package on the AUR at the moment (but I plan to create/maintain/co-maintain other packages in a near future). I still don't have a lot of experience with maintaining package on the AUR, I guess (at least, compared to people maintaining 100+ packages, even tho I'm working on it !). That being said, maintaining icewm looks fairly easy to me... Correct me if I'm wrong but, it is mostly about updating the "pkgver" variable and the "sha256sums" variable accordingly in the PKGBUILD [3] each time there's a new icewm release right ? [4] So what should I do ? Can I adopt it or do you guys think that I should leave that to someone else ? Maybe anyone already planned to adopt it (such as "bidulock" that already maintain the git version [5]) ? I would be glad to adopt it tho :) [1] https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/icewm/ [2] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2022-March/030763.html [3] https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/blob/packages/icewm/trunk/P… [4] https://github.com/ice-wm/icewm/releases/ [5] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/icewm-git Sincerely, Robin Candau

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[aur-general] TU application for sudoforge
by Ben Denhartog 23 Mar '22

23 Mar '22

Hello good people and fellow miscreants, My name is Benjamin Denhartog, better known as sudoforge [0], and I'd like to formally submit an application to become a TU. I've maintained a few AUR packages for a while now [1], and you've probably seen me around and about in IRC (_mostly_ `#archlinux-offtopic` these days). Both Felix Yan (felixonmars) and Morten Linderud (Foxboron) have agreed to sponsor my application. I've been in, on, and around computers for my entire life (thanks fam), and have been involved in the open source community from the moment I started learning to program in the early 2000s. I currently work in the "DevOps" space, focusing on developer tooling, workflow automation, and all of the ancillary things that come with that, like infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability and remediation. I enjoy mentoring less experienced engineers (and people brand new to technology alike), having been a part of mentorship and educational programs both at work and in the public (via Meetup). Outside of things related to computers, I enjoy snowboarding, cooking, and trying to take halfway-decent pictures. I currently live in the Rocky Mountains, somewhere around 3050m (9150ft) elevation, where the oxygen is a bit thinner, just like the crowds (except for the tourist-heavy days). Below are some of the things I pledge to do as a TU. # AUR packages that I'll move to community - bazelisk - buildozer - copybara (`copybara-git`) - firebase-tools - google-appengine-go - google-cloud-sdk - google-cloud-sdk-app-datastore-emulator - google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-java - google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-python - google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-python-extras - kind (`kind-bin`) - ledger-live - ledger-udev - lf Additionally, I'll be packaging the rest of the `google-cloud-sdk` plugins which are not yet packaged, and I'd love to help co-maintain or adopt Rust or Golang packages, and anything else that strikes my fancy along the way. # A non-exhaustive list of packages I use and would love to co-maintain - alacritty - bat - bazel - bottom - buildah - container-diff - crictl - critest - go - gopass - kubectl - kubectx - ledger - neomutt - packer - podman - restic - ripgrep - rtorrent - rust - rust-analyzer - rustup - signal-desktop - unbound - vault - zsa-wally-cli # Miscellaneous things I want to do - Take a look at the TU and maintainer workflows, and automate what can be automated (e.g. onboarding), with the goal of simplifying management of the Arch Linux ecosystem - Help out with infrastructure maintenance and other operational tasks - Make a billion dollars and never have to work again, so I can spend my time traveling and working on open source projects Thanks for taking the time to read this (or at least, quickly scan over the above wall of text). Take a break and get a coffee/tea/beer -- have a good weekend. [0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/sudoforge [1]: https://github.com/sudoforge/pkgbuilds All the best, sudoforge

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[aur-general] PKGBUILD review: gcc10
by Jonathon Fernyhough 28 Feb '22

28 Feb '22

I've pushed GCC 10 to the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gcc10 It's based on the older GCC 9 PKGBUILD [1] with some elements from the GCC 11 PKGBUILD [2]. It builds, installs, and seemingly runs OK, but it's something with potential for hidden gotchas so if someone could cast their eyes over it I'd appreciate it. :) (e.g., should it include any of the other backends like Ada?) J [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gcc9 [2] https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/tree/packages/gcc/repos/core…

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[aur-general] 💬
by An Average Dude 27 Feb '22

27 Feb '22

I need some help with my registration to the AUR. I just tried signing up and while I was told that an email for a password reset would be given, no email has reached me at all. I've vhecked also the spam folders, there's simply nothing about those mentioned emails. The email used for my resgistration in the AUR is this same one, and the username is AverageDood. Could it please be checked? Thanks

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[aur-general] AUR v6.0.8 Status Update
by Kevin Morris 19 Feb '22

19 Feb '22

Hi AURers, I've got a bit of a status update for all of you users regarding the state of the newly released >= v6.0.0 aurweb. It took a matter of days to get several quirks worked out, which were a result of a few reasons: - AUR historical database state not seen on local systems which the port was developed on - Unhandled cases - Problematic code We're now at v6.0.8, which contains fixes to all but one issue that we've come across. The issue will be described below. Remaining issue (RPC): In very rare occurrencies, a Redis transaction regarding the the current request count used to determine a user's ratelimiting incorrectly returns nothing, leading to an internal server error. While I believe this is quite a serious issue and am working to resolve it, this has been seen one time so far and every person and project I've communicated with and assessed has not run into the problem. It has not been a simple reproduction thus far, and so there is no solution just yet. Other than the issue listed above, there is one "issue" that is out of our control. When users search /packages with illegal characters (from uvicorn's standpoint), uvicorn returns a 502 and dumps a traceback regarding the issue. There is an issue up in their repository about it. Standard users should not see this. I will be keeping this thread up to date regarding the RPC ratelimit issue we've observed. If you've got bugs to file, go ahead and file a Bug issue at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/issues/new?issuable_templat… Thanks to everybody who's helped filling out bug reports, triaging and updating tasks on bugs.archlinux.org, or communicating issues to me directly. This has massively assisted this initial hurdle, and I owe you all one. Best, Kevin -- Kevin Morris Software & Linux Enthusiast

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[aur-general] AUR Account was Suspended
by hr567＠hr567.me 18 Feb '22

18 Feb '22

I was trying to submit a package (apifox) to AUR some time ago when I found that my AUR account was suspended. I haven't logged into my AUR account for a long time, and I don't know why my account was suspended. I have been using Archlinux for many years and have never sent any harassing comments. I hope my account will be resumed or tell me the reason why the account was suspended. If I have acted inappropriately in the past that led to my account being suspended, I will take care of my behavior in the future. Thank you very much. I also found it difficult to find information about account suspensions on the web. It takes many keyword searches to find very little relevant content in the forums. It might be possible to add a description of account suspension to the AUR Wiki.

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[aur-general] Rewriting astronciaiptv log needed
by kestraly 18 Feb '22

18 Feb '22

Hi. I accidentally used my real name in astronciaiptv AUR commits ( https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/log/?h=astronciaiptv ), is it possible to change it to Astroncia? Thanks.

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[aur-general] RPC POST & Archive Checksums
by Kevin Morris 10 Feb '22

10 Feb '22

Hi AURers, The v6.0.9 tag has brought in some new features regarding the AUR and archive checksums: - archive checksums are now available to be used to verify integrity at https://aur.archlinux.org/<archive>.gz.sha256 - RPC now supports POST requests Archive checksum verification: $ curl -sO https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.gz $ curl -sO https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.gz.sha256 $ cksum --check packages.gz.sha256 packages.gz: OK RPC POST (experimental): $ curl -s -d 'v=5' -d 'type=info' -d 'arg[]=my-special-package' \ https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc Thanks to those who requested these features: - zoorat (archive checksums) - alad (RPC POST) Best, Kevin -- Kevin Morris Software & Linux Enthusiast

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[aur-general] yaourt - Was: aurweb v6.0.0 Release
by Ralf Mardorf 10 Feb '22

10 Feb '22

Today we take farewell of yaourt. Some of us remained steadfastly at yaourt's side, while it became old. It was a good friend. Until yesterday some of us used the manual build process, but in addition we checked the aur for updates and searched for software using yaourt and quite often we even used it to build packages. The brave yaourt existed for around 4 or 5 years without being maintained, but it still worked quite well. Today yaourt passed away. May yaourt rest in peace. ;)

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[aur-general] Review for sshs
by Nathanael Demacon 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

Hi, I created a package that I’ll maintain and I’m wondering if you could review it to be pushed to the community repository. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sshs Thanks,

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