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[aur-general] aur-out-of-date: determine out-of-date AUR packages w.r.t. upstream
by Simon Legner 04 Feb '18

04 Feb '18

Hi aur-general, as a maintainer of fifty-something AUR packages I found it difficult to keep track of new upstream versions. I would subscribe to various RSS feeds to keep track of some. Recently, I sat down and wrote a tool "aur-out-of-date" which, given a username or a list of packages, checks upstream for newer versions. It does so by inspecting the upstream URL and/or source URL, and calling a suitable API (github.com, registry.npmjs.org, pypi.python.org, cpan.org for now) to determine the latest released version. Out-of-date packages are output in red color on the command line. Give it a try: https://github.com/simon04/aur-out-of-date https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aur-out-of-date/ I'm happy to hear you feedback :) Simon

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[aur-general] Moving xss-lock to community
by Pierre Neidhardt 03 Feb '18

03 Feb '18

Seems fairly popular, plus it's useful to lock the screen on sleep without systemd. -- Pierre Neidhardt

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[aur-general] [tu-bylaws] [PATCH] Clarify the process for Special Removal of an inactive TU
by Eli Schwartz 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

Not everything that is available only to an aurweb account of the Trusted User type, qualifies as a TU "privilege" Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz(a)archlinux.org> --- Handy link to context and surrounding discussion: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2018-January/033789.html The current wording of the bylaws indicates that there are two ways for a TU to qualify for special removal due to inactivity: 1) Do not participate in voting, thereby potentially blockading a quorum. 2) Do not participate in general TU'ish activities like maintaining [community], administrating the AUR and the packagers and users therein, being representative of TUs in general on this mailing list by being awesome and stuff, i.e. posting (hopefully useful information that helps AUR users), and... um... voting? Point #2 calls out "performed any action that required TU privileges on the AUR", but does the tu voting interface on aurweb count as that or not? Moreover, do we *want* it to count? It seems to be somewhat defeating the purpose of the process, i.e. as long as a TU doesn't actually block quorum during a vote, they can remain while not actually performing any of the inherent functions of a TU. Now, I would argue that under a common sense interpretation the original intent of the bylaws was almost certainly that voting does not count as a "TU privilege", since a TU is someone who has the "privilege" to administrate AUR packages and users in order to keep good order, and select good packages to upload to [community]. But bylaws exist in order to prevent people from having different interpretations of common sense. So this should be clarified no matter what. tu-bylaws.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tu-bylaws.txt b/tu-bylaws.txt index c7a376e..27e4804 100644 --- a/tu-bylaws.txt +++ b/tu-bylaws.txt @@ -142,7 +142,9 @@ A TU who has not done ANY of the following for a period of at least 2 months: 1. added, removed or updated a package in +[community]+ or the AUR -2. performed any action that required TU privileges on the AUR +2. performed any action that required TU privileges on the AUR, for example +resolving package requests, modifying user accounts, or force pushing to a +package base, but NOT including participation in a voting period 3. posted a message to https://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aur-general[aur-general] -- 2.16.0

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Re: [aur-general] Protokoll Treffen FSFE Community Bonn vom 2018-01-08
by Bjoern Bidar/Thaodan 29 Jan '18

29 Jan '18

> Wer möchte zuerst etwas vorbereiten für nächstes Mal? Hallo, ich war letztes mal das erste mal dabei und habe etwas über mich erzählt. Ich hatte in meinem vorherigen Arbeitsplatz Linux in der Firma verwendet bzw eingeführt. Ich würde gerne vortragen wie ich dies getan habe bzw weiter geplant habe. Ich würde eine kleine Presentation bzw. Erklärung mit den Programmen und Code die ich noch dazu habe. Die Presentation werde ich mit Org-Mode machen und dies kann ich bei bedarf dann auch vorstellen. Grüße Björn

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[aur-general] TU resignation
by Bartłomiej Piotrowski 26 Jan '18

26 Jan '18

Hi everyone, for a long time I've been both a developer and TU. As a trusted user I wasn't really involved with anything beyond looking for people that could be a good fit to Arch. With recent additions to the team, I'm sure you can keep the ball rolling on your own. Therefore I'm resigning from my TU position and remain "just" a grumpy developer. Bartłomiej

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[aur-general] amiwm PKGBUILD file
by Panayotis Katsaloulis 24 Jan '18

24 Jan '18

Hello all This is my first attempt to create a valid PKGBUILD file for Arch Linux. It is about the missing amiwm window manager. Please tell me what you think # Maintainer: Panayotis Katsaloulis <panayotis(a)panayotis.com> pkgname=amiwm pkgver=0.21pl2 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="An X window manager that tries to make your display look and feel like an Amiga® Workbench® screen" arch=('x86_64' 'i686') url="https://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html" license=('FREEWARE') source=('ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/X11/wm/amiwm/amiwm0.21pl2.tar.gz') md5sums=('3a47e887777e2be2978363220cf815ef') build() { cd "$pkgname$pkgver" ./configure --prefix=/usr make } package() { cd "$pkgname$pkgver" make prefix="$pkgdir/usr" install rm $pkgdir/usr/bin/requestchoice install -Dm644 LICENSE "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE }

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[aur-general] Special Removal of an Inactive TU: speps
by Balló György 21 Jan '18

21 Jan '18

According to the Trusted User Bylaws[1], we have to vote about the removal of an inactive TU, speps. So I'm starting a discussion period of 3 days. 1. His last commit in the [community] repository: 2017-01-03 2. He doesn't maintain any packages in AUR. 3. His last message to aur-general mailing list: 2014-03-02 4. Most of his packages were adopted by dvzrv. speps, thank you for your work on making Arch Linux better. I hope that once we'll see you again! [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/trusted-user/TUbylaws.html#_special_remov al_of_an_inactive_tu -- György Balló Trusted User

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[aur-general] rewrite git history
by Sandor Nagy 20 Jan '18

20 Jan '18

Hi, I did git commit and git push into AUR from a PC at my workplace using company email address accidentally, but it is a policy at our company, that email address must not to be public. Can I clean that anyway? I have set my public email address and tried git commit --amend --reset-author using the right email but hook declined. If a TU can rewrite the git history, please write me a private email message.

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[aur-general] Wrong AUR Build file
by Panayotis Katsaloulis 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

Hello people Newbie here in Arch Linux. I have a question, which I didn't find in the documentation. What is the proposed way to inform about an AUR build file containing errors? Especially if I e-mailed the maintainer with no response? Thank you!

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[aur-general] Special Removal of an Inactive TU: faidoc
by Balló György 17 Jan '18

17 Jan '18

According to the Trusted User Bylaws[1], we have to vote about the removal of an inactive TU, Alexandre Filgueira (faidoc). So I'm starting a discussion period of 3 days. 1. His last commit in the [community] repository: 2017-01-08 2. He doesn't maintain any packages in AUR. 3. His last message to aur-general mailing list: 2016-03-05 4. Most of his packages were adopted by eschwartz. Alexandre, thank you for your work on making Arch Linux better. I hope that once we'll see you again! [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/trusted-user/TUbylaws.html#_special_remov al_of_an_inactive_tu -- György Balló Trusted User

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