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Re: [aur-general] [PRQ#16499] Deletion Request for aur-git
by Alberto Salvia Novella 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

AUR: > Alad deleted aur-git: > > Why are you submitting this again after agreeing that a name change is > in order? That was the original package which was there before the discussion, and only one day has passed. I haven't had time that fast for thinking a new name and requesting a change, which I was planning to do this very week. I suggest that you make standard in Arch waiting a couple of days for feedback before making unilateral decisions.

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[aur-general] aur client
by Alberto Salvia Novella 30 Oct '19

30 Oct '19

Since publishing to the AUR is something that all packagers do quite frequently, I have developed a software that reduces the related operations to the bare minimum, making publishing to the AUR instant. Basically it's a SMED <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoqra9bXAAg> system. The software is called "aur <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aur-git>" itself, and you can check its manual out by in the terminal entering: curl --silent https://gitlab.com/es20490446e/aur/raw/master/assets/aur.1 > aur.1; man ./aur.1; rm aur.1 As long as constructive, suggestions are very welcome. When replying please include my email address in the recipients list. Alberto <https://es20490446e.wordpress.com>

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[aur-general] Doubt conflict array & request check PKGBUILDS
by Iyán Méndez Veiga 28 Oct '19

28 Oct '19

Hi, I recently adopted two packages from AUR: adwaita-qt and adwaita-qt4. Today @morealaz (who is maintaining adwaita-qt-git) asked me to edit some of the arrays in the PKGBUILD (please read comments in the AUR website) and after reading the wiki I did a commit with those little changes. I am not sure if they are correct and he argues that I should a conflict array. Can someone have a look at these two (three) PKGBUILDS and tell me if I should change something and why? Thanks, Iyán

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[aur-general] aurweb 4.8.0 released
by Lukas Fleischer 25 Oct '19

25 Oct '19

Dear aurweb contributors and users, This is a bit of a late announcement but we are pleased to announce that aurweb 4.8.0 has been released last week! Several bugs have been fixed, we made some significant performance improvements by caching results of expensive database queries, and a simple CAPTCHA has been added to combat the growing number of spam accounts. For a comprehensive list of changes, please consult the Git log [2]. As usual, bugs should be reported to the aurweb bug tracker [3]. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/ [2] https://projects.archlinux.org/aurweb.git/log/?id=v4.8.0 [3] https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=2

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[aur-general] Rename Request for python-spotipy, python-spotipy-git and python2-spotipy
by Mario Ortiz 23 Oct '19

23 Oct '19

First of all: this is one of my first contributions to a mailing list so if I did something incorrectly, please let me know. I sent this to aur-requests but was told to post here instead. A rename is being discussed for the spotipy package, since the original one hasn't been updated since 2017 and its maintainer is inactive. Here's the new API's GitHub issue where this is being discussed https://github.com/felix-hilden/spotipy/issues/22. The package is going to be renamed on PyPi and Read The Docs, with depreciation warnings and enough time for the current users to update it. But the old version shouldn't be removed in case someone still wants to use it. The same thing applies to the AUR packages. Currently these are python-spotipy, python-spotipy-git and python2-spotipy. The maintainers of these projects should either update it to the new API once it's ready and create the old API packages, or rename them and create a new package with the new API. And by maintainers I also mean myself. I can help by maintaining these packages if necessary. Also, please note that this new API isn't available for Python2 so python2-spotipy would only have to be renamed. I'd appreciate suggestions on this change and how it could be done. Thanks

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[aur-general] Spam account
by Rafael Fontenelle 22 Oct '19

22 Oct '19

DanielWilliams [1] seems to be a spam account, and sent one to trizen [2] comments. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/DanielWilliams [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/trizen/

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Re: [aur-general] TU removal: Ray Rashif
by Giancarlo Razzolini 21 Oct '19

21 Oct '19

Em outubro 20, 2019 14:19 Ray Rashif via aur-general escreveu: > Sorry folks, I should have probably sent in a resignation for this. I > have also made unfulfilled promises as a developer and never sent in > an inactivity declaration in the hopes of getting back to Arch/Linux > once I have a new computer. As funny as it sounds my undeclared > inactivity is as long as this current machine ~3-4 years and a > purchase has been pending since last year but keeps getting > down-prioritized due to $$ requirements elsewhere in RL. > Hi Ray, Sorry to hear that. Can you also clarify your status as a developer? It is not clear from this email what is it. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini

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[aur-general] SPAM user account
by John 21 Oct '19

21 Oct '19

Please see the latest comment in the following package which I believe to be made by a SPAM user. Any chance to delete the comment too? Thanks. https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/distccd-alarm/

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[aur-general] TU removal: Ray Rashif
by David Runge 20 Oct '19

20 Oct '19

Hi all, I would like to start the discussion period for a Trusted User removal of Ray 'schiv' Rashif on the grounds of 'Special Removal of an Inactive TU' [1]. Note, that this is separate from any motion in regards to Ray's developer status. Currently Ray is the maintainer of 60 packages in [community] and [extra], of which none are actively maintained by him (for years). Ray's last action as a community member (in archweb) has been on '2019-03-12 12:50'. The account 'schivmeister' doesn't maintain any packages in the AUR and the last login in aurweb was on '2019-03-12'. However, the last counted Trusted User vote is number 117 (current vote: 118). The voting procedure will commence after seven days of discussion period, in which Ray can state his case. Bests, David [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/trusted-user/TUbylaws.html#_special_removal_of_an… -- https://sleepmap.de

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[aur-general] TU resignation - Lukas Jirkovsky (stativ)
by Lukas Jirkovsky 14 Oct '19

14 Oct '19

Hello everyone, after much time I've finally came to admit to myself that I can no longer fulfill my duties as a trusted user the way Arch Linux deserves. While I still manage to update the packages I actively use, such as rawtherapee, I can no longer keep up with other packages and updates often come late. I've given up on other duties such as keeping AUR clean already. I'm very sorry for that, but time has come for me to pack. Arch Linux community is one of the best communities out there and it was a great pleasure to be part of the team. I still love Arch Linux very much and it's surely going to be my distro of choice for time to come. Lot of you were very helpful with keeping the more complicated packages up to date already. A stellar example is intellij-idea-community-edition, which is now thanks to Maxime built from sources. The packages left that I'm still listed as a sole maintainer doesn't get updates too often and are fairly trivial to update. Though I guess some of them can be safely dropped without anyone noticing (I'm looking at you, gimp plugin packages). So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Lukas

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[aur-general] TU application: kpcyrd
by kpcyrd 11 Oct '19

11 Oct '19

Hello, My name is kpcyrd and I'm applying to become a Trusted User with anthraxx', sangys and jelles sponsorship. I'm interested in rust, defensive programming and offensive security tooling. Open source became an essential part of my life at some point and the idea of contributing back to the community that gave me so much for free kept me going the last few years. I worked as both a software and IT security engineer in the past and I currently do a combination of both as a contractor. --- # How I started using linux - Started with linux by trying to remaster knoppix in 2010 for a while - Wiped my laptop in 2011 and installed debian with no way of return since it was my only computer at that time - First successful Arch Linux install I did was by helping a friend in 2013 - Eventually migrated to Arch Linux myself in 2015 due to anthraxx - I currently run a combination of Arch Linux, debian and openbsd at home and on servers # How I contributed to the opensource community in the past (somewhat chronological) - Too many pull requests (stopped counting a long time ago) - Assisted debian-security with some issues (redis, mongodb and xul-ext-wot) - Wrote some PKGBUILDs that got moved into community - Revived http://tests.reproducible-builds.org/archlinux/ - Packaged software for alpine, brew and openbsd - Packaged about 1/3 of the rust packages in debian - Co-authored the current reproducible builds rebuilder prototype with NYU - Recently became a debian maintainer (while running Arch Linux) # AUR packages I maintain a few packages in the AUR, the most relevant that I would like to maintain in community at some point are: - diesel_cli - cargo-tree - cargo-fuzz - cargo-crev - python-fints - python-mt-940 - python-sepaxml I'm also interested in co-maintaining reprotest and some of the packages anthraxx currently maintains for me. # Community packages I wrote or contributed to - cjdns - go-ipfs - alacritty - reprotest - sniffglue - badtouch - rshijack - sn0int # Upstream for the following packages in Arch Linux - sniffglue - badtouch - rshijack - sn0int --- Thanks for taking the time reading this, kpcyrd

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[aur-general] Package Rename Requests (2) - waterfox-git and waterfox-alpha-git
by Matt Parnell 11 Oct '19

11 Oct '19

I request that my git PKGBUILDs for Waterfox be renamed thusly to reflect the current release naming scheme that Waterfox is now using: waterfox-git -> waterfox-classic-git waterfox-alpha-git -> waterfox-current-git Thank you!

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[aur-general] Why was nerd-fonts-roboto-mono deleted?
by Alexander Fasching 08 Oct '19

08 Oct '19

Hi, jleclanche deleted the nerd-fonts-roboto-mono package in the AUR after uploading ttf-roboto-mono to the community repository. What was the reason? The two packages provide different fonts. Regards, Alexander

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[aur-general] Spam comments
by fg-devel+archmail＠mailbox.org 08 Oct '19

08 Oct '19

Hi, there are some spam messages in the comments section of AUR package akira-git: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/akira-git#comment-704048 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/akira-git#comment-703169 Greetings, Felix

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[aur-general] package-base PKGBUILD with different architecture list for packages inside
by Attila Greguss 06 Oct '19

06 Oct '19

Hello, I have a PKGBUILD Here <https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=dotnet-core-2.1> Is there a way to enable the commented out package in the PKGBUILD without said package blocking the installation of the other packages on the architecture it does not support? I'm OK with splitting it out, but I thought I ask first if because I don't know the capabilities of PKGBUILD/makepkg. Some (not necessary) context: Package is for dotnet, and the source archive includes dotnet-host, dotnet-runtime, aspnet-runtime, dotnet-sdk for x86_64 and armv7h. For aarch64 it does NOT contain aspnet-runtime files, but all the rest. I tried to specify the architecture list for aspnet-runtime in the PKGBUILD, but if someone tries to install any of the other packages on aarch64 it will fail. (see commented out part in file) Thanks, Attila

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[aur-general] Retiring as a Trusted User
by Florian Pritz 02 Oct '19

02 Oct '19

Hi, I no longer have the time necessary to properly handle actual TU duties so I am retiring my TU hat. I will still continue maintaining some packages I have in [community] via my developer hat. That said, I'd like to orphan some of them too. If anyone is interested in taking over one of these packages (and its dependencies), please feel free to adopt it and tell me so that I can orphan it. asciidoc filezilla libfilezilla gcolor2 gmrun obconf openbox openshot libopenshot libopenshot-audio pydf slock tipp10 vimpager xplc zim Florian

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[aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day September 20th 2019
by Daniel M. Capella 28 Sep '19

28 Sep '19

Do you like popping other people's pimples? Gross, me neither. Anyways, next Friday is our bi-yearly AUR Cleanup Day -- join #archlinux-aur and BYOB. The wiki article[1] has instructions for how to proceed and space to compile our list of candidates. Here's[2] an example from a previous rendition of Purge Day. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:AUR_Cleanup_Day [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=AUR_Cleanup_Day/2010&oldid=353326 -- Good hunting, Daniel <https://danielcapella.com>

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[aur-general] TU application: Jonas Witschel (diabonas)
by Jonas Witschel 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

Hi all, my name is Jonas Witschel (online nick "diabonas" on the AUR/GitHub/GitLab/...) and I am applying as an Arch Linux Trusted User under the sponsorship of Bruno Pagani and Alad Wenter. A few words about myself: I am a math PhD student and long-time Linux user. I switched to Arch Linux around 2016 because I like the idea of a rolling release distribution that stays close to upstream, which is especially beneficial when doing software development. I got more actively involved in contributing to Arch when the previous AUR maintainer of the tpm2-software stack (tpm2-tss, tpm2-abrmd and tpm2-tools) orphaned these packages, so I took over maintenance until they were adopted to [community]. I am interested in many security-related thing such as Secure Boot, Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs), disk encryption, PGP, ... As such, I am a member of the tpm2-software organisation and a maintainer of tpm2-totp [1]. Recently I have been working on getting Web Key Directory support into pacman for fetching PGP keys independently of the key server network [2,3]. A repository of all my AUR packages can be found on Gitlab [4]. If I were accepted as a trusted user, I would take over maintenance of the tpm2-software stack from my sponsor Bruno Pagani. This makes sense since I am an upstream member of tpm2-software anyway and had been maintaining these packages until they were adopted to [community]. Another long-time goal as a trusted user would be getting out of the box Secure Boot support for the Arch Linux installation images [5,6]. Packages I would like to adopt from the AUR to [community] for starters are: - The rest of the tpm2-software stack: tpm2-tss-engine and tpm2-totp (when they have reached the 1% usage from pkgstats/10 votes on the AUR threshold), tpm2-pkcs11-git (as soon as it gets a release). - clevis and tang (and their dependencies jose, luksmeta) - sbupdate-git (I need to speak to upstream about making a release first) - paperkey - cryptomator - deheader - texworks - pdftk-java (an exact Java reimplementation of the very popular pdftk/pdftk-bin, which is hard to package since it relies on an outdated version of GCC) I am looking forward to working with you and welcome any questions and comments! Cheers, Jonas [1] https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-totp [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63171 [3] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2019-July/023493.html [4] https://gitlab.com/diabonas/aur-packages [5] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53864 [6] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2019-January/003891.html

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[aur-general] spam messages
by Lone_Wolf 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

Hi, cndrvcups-lb gained a new spam message, and I also listed older ones. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/#comment-709467 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/#comment-702798 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/?O=10&PP=10#comment-701682 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/?O=10&PP=10#comment-701681 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/?O=10&PP=10#comment-695882 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/?O=10&PP=10#comment-695880 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/?O=10&PP=10#comment-695879 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/?O=10&PP=10#comment-695877 Lone

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Re: [aur-general] TU application: kpcyrd
by Giancarlo Razzolini 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

Levente Polyak via aur-general <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> writes: > > > > I'm hereby confirming my sponsorship. kpcyrd is a friend of mine in > both, cyber- and meatspace. He is a very kind person and I like his way > of thinking. His technical skills would be a great benefit for the TU > community. > Even though I'm not one of kpcyrd sponsors, I can vouch for him as well. Given that I've worked with him in the past. He's a very nice person to work with and quite technically skilled. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini

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[aur-general] Why keeping OpenRC related packages on AUR?
by fredbezies 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

Hello. Note: posting in the right mailing list now. Oops! I hope it is the right place to discuss about this issue. I noticed there is a lot of OpenRC related packages on AUR. I don't want to start a flamewar, I just want to know what is going on with these PKGBUILDs. A quick search gave me 42 answers - some not related to this init system - 95% of them last updated between 2015 and 2018. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=openrc Is there any interest of keeping these PKGBUILDs? There is an official Archlinux + OpenRC init system called Artix, providing a migration guide from Arch or Manjaro. It is also listed in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch-based_distributions#Active "Artix Linux *2016, previously Arch-OpenRC" https://artixlinux.org/ https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Migration By the way, it is written in the wiki that : "Warning: Arch Linux only has official support for systemd. When using OpenRC, please mention so in support requests." Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenRC Is there any explanations for keeping them? Thanks for your answers. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[aur-general] Naming issue of mysql-shell and (possibly) request for adoption
by Frederick Zhang 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

Hi all, I am writing about the naming issue that I noticed about the AUR package mysql-shell, i.e. I reckon it's better to rename it to mysql-shell-bin since MySQL Shell is an open-source project and the package actually downloads the prebuilt Ubuntu package. I tried reaching out to Raphaël, who is the current maintainer, via the website comments and flagged it out-of-date on 05 Aug but so far I've got no response. The maintainer's account seems to still be active (package openrefine, which is also owned by the maintainer, was updated on 01 Aug) but I'm not sure whether this particular package is still maintained. If not, I'm willing to adopt the package but instead of renaming it, I would actually like to maintain one that's built from source. However since it needs to be linked against V8 v6.7 (I've submitted an AUR pacakge [1] for this), it'll take a while to build and it could be an unexpected change for users I guess, so I wonder whether it's possible to: 1. rename mysql-shell to mysql-shell-bin 2. allow current mysql-shell users to upgrade to mysql-shell-bin by default like how 'replaces' works 3. ...and I can submit a new mysql-shell package Please shed some light on me. Thanks. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/v8-6.7-static/ -- Best Regards, Frederick Zhang Email: frederick888(a)tsundere.moe

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[aur-general] TU membership application
by Jean Lucas 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Hi all, My name is Jean Lucas, and I'm sending this email to submit my candidacy for Trusted User member. As per the latest TU bylaws, I'm being sponsored by both Alexander Rødseth and Sergej Pupykin. I've been an Arch Linux user since around a little before I registered my AUR account (January 2015, username "flacks" [1]), and I've recently had a few of my packages adopted into [community], namely "cage", "coturn", and "swaybg". I'm currently a computer science student with a particular interest in software engineering ranging from low-level (with a few contributions to projects like coreboot and postmarketOS) all the way up to web development (my current focus), and as such, would love to help maintain Arch's [community] repo in an official capacity to be part of the team that gives Arch users a robust, high-quality Linux software experience; as well as to help maintain, manage, and watch over the operation of the AUR and it's vast sea of software packaging recipes. If I were accepted to become a TU, I'd like to adopt and move the following packages (all having over 10 votes in the AUR) from the AUR into [community]: anydesk, downgrade, exercism, flutter, godot, itch, mattermost-desktop, nvm, reaper, spotify, teamviewer, thermald, unity-editor, and unityhub, for starters! Additionally, I would express my willingness to help co-maintain "firejail" (already in [community]), as its a project I have a higher interest in and contribute to occasionally; as well as to help get "ghidra" in good enough shape to propose moving it into [community], since I've had lots of fun building it [2], its a phenomenal piece of open-source software, and it'd be nice to have it officially supported by the Arch community (it also has a nice number of votes in the AUR)! Thank you for your time, and thank you to all who help make Arch a great OS! Best regards, Jean Lucas [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/flacks [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/log/?h=ghidra-git

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[aur-general] Spam from user stupidblogger
by Michael Duell 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

User: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/stupidblogger spamming here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/android-studio/#comment-707098

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[aur-general] Rescinding my TU application
by Jean Lucas 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

Hello all, I am sending this notice to formally announce the rescinding of my TU application sent on August 16th. I'd like to thank everyone for their feedback, as well as apologize for not taking the time to better prepare and iron out all the details with my sponsors. Cordially, Jean Lucas

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