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What is the business behind many sandboxing package being deleted?
by concierge9156 23 Sep '25

23 Sep '25

Hi community, I’m an ordinary user who relies on the sandboxing packages from the AUR. To my surprise, a large number of these packages have been removed and the maintainer now points us to a separate PKGBUILD repository. According to the AUR submission guidelines , the AUR (and official repos) are meant for “packages which install general software and software‑related content, including … configuration file(s).” Sandbox packages are precisely configuration files that provide unique, valuable features for many users. When I asked the maintainer on Matrix for an explanation, she replied simply: “Are you having the false sensation of AUR being free? I had that mistake before.” The wholesale deletion of these packages undermines the sandboxing community’s efforts and leaves countless users without essential tools. I request a clear, reasoned justification for this action and a reconsideration of the policy’s application to sandbox packages. Thank you. concierge9156

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Help with Creating an AUR Account
by Muneo 17 Sep '25

17 Sep '25

Hello, I encountered an issue while creating an AUR account. Where should I direct my inquiry in such cases?

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Erroneous Merge Request
by HurricanePootis 17 Sep '25

17 Sep '25

Hello, I am the maintainer for citron and citron-git. Someone erroneously made a merge request—to merge citron into citron git—because they don't understand how tag sources work and it caused confusion (and they didn't even comment for clarification). It is incredibly stressful situation, knowing that I could potentially have my work be messed with. Is there anything I can do to dispute requests? Or, I wished AUR maintainers could reply to request. It seems like there is no centralized place to discuss specific requests, leaving details to be lost in comments, etc. From, HurricanePootis

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Re: Erroneous Merge Request
by shresth paul 16 Sep '25

16 Sep '25

++ AUR List for visibility. On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 4:39 AM shresth paul <shresthpaul133(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello HurricanePootis, > > I think if you click on the option of View Changes, it should give you the > name of the person who made last changes to the PKG File. > > Thanks > Shresth Paul > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 3:55 AM HurricanePootis < > hurricanepootis(a)protonmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am the maintainer for citron and citron-git. Someone erroneously made a >> merge request—to merge citron into citron git—because they don't understand >> how tag sources work and it caused confusion (and they didn't even comment >> for clarification). >> >> It is incredibly stressful situation, knowing that I could potentially >> have my work be messed with. Is there anything I can do to dispute >> requests? Or, I wished AUR maintainers could reply to request. It seems >> like there is no centralized place to discuss specific requests, leaving >> details to be lost in comments, etc. >> >> From, >> HurricanePootis >> >> >>

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Non English package details
by Ramadan Ali 10 Sep '25

10 Sep '25

Hi, Is there any rules/policy about packages with non English details in AUR? Recently I came across many packages that have non English descriptions and I can't understand what the packages does or provide, and I got curious about the policy regarding this issue. Cheers, Ramadan Ali (alicavus)

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I committed using the incorrect git user. Who can help me fix this?
by rewind-jot-rush＠duck.com 29 Aug '25

29 Aug '25

Hi list, I'm so sorry, but I did exactly what the big red box on https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines#Publishing_new_p… says not to do: I committed using the incorrect git user. Who can help me fix this? Thanks, demir

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Re: Package Maintainer application
by Giancarlo Razzolini 28 Aug '25

28 Aug '25

Excerpts from Martin Rys's message of julho 24, 2025 12:26 pm: > Hi, > > my name's Martin, you can more often find me under "C0rn3j". > Professionally, I work as a DevOps, and in my free time I do things I've > most recently stumbled upon, which usually has to do with FOSS. > > I've been using Arch for about a decade, I mostly hang out in the > unofficial Telegram group*, which I help moderate. > > I sometimes contribute to the Wiki, send patches over GitLab when > relevant, or otherwise participate in discussions if I happen to see > anything I can add my two cents to. > > I've been maintaining a random assortment of things in the AUR, a lot of > the times simply because I was using a package that the previous > maintainer disowned, and I figured I might pick up the torch. > > Which brings me to why I want to become a PM - I would like to see some > of the things I currently maintain in the official repositories, such as > sc-controller** or Tauon**, and to help out with the maintenance in general. > > I use ALARM on some of my devices too, so I'd possibly like to help out > with the porting efforts to Arch in the future, when that becomes relevant. > > I've attached links to my accounts and also my personal site below. > > My sponsors are Gian (grazzolini) and Tomaz Canabrava. > Special thanks goes out to Muflone for additional packaging feedback. > > I think that covers everything necessary, have a good day and I hope > you'll consider my application! > > * https://t.me/archlinuxgroup > ** https://github.com/Taiko2k/Tauon > ** https://github.com/C0rn3j/sc-controller > > https://aur.archlinux.org/account/c0rn3j > https://gitlab.archlinux.org/c0rn3j > https://github.com/C0rn3j > https://gitlab.com/C0rn3j > https://rys.rs/ - GPG key used for signing is also present here > > Hi All, I was away from my GPG key during the weeked, so I couldn't send the signed email before. I have been bugging Martin to join the staff as a package maintainer for years now. Not only he has been super helpful to a lot of Arch users, but he opens a ton of issues and contribute to a lot of projects. One being pipewire, for example. I confirm my sponsorship. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini

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AUR is inaccessible from Turkey—a misconfiguration?
by Ahmet 26 Aug '25

26 Aug '25

For the last few hours, many users from Turkey—including myself—have reported issues in accessing to the AUR. After realizing that it had been accessible with a VPN, we have checked out local government blocklists (<https://www.usom.gov.tr/adres> and <https://internet.btk.gov.tr/sitesorgu/>) where the aur.archlinux.org subdomain is not listed. And, a government block in Turkey would not return ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED either, it would be a landing page. I am suspecting a misconfiguration on server-side. Can anyone check it? Best regards,

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Re: I committed using the incorrect git user. Who can help me fix this?
by rewind-jot-rush＠duck.com 26 Aug '25

26 Aug '25

Never mind, someone on the IRC channel already helped me. Thanks, demir On Monday, August 25th, 2025 at 18:05, demir wrote: > > > Hi list, > > I'm so sorry, but I did exactly what the big red box on https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines#Publishing_new_p… says not to do: I committed using the incorrect git user. Who can help me fix this? > > Thanks, > > demir

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Spammers, regarding deletion requests for 'max' pkgbuild
by Fabio Loli 21 Aug '25

21 Aug '25

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