[arch-general] extra repository is messed up and broken AGAIN

[Sebastian Lau]

The mail with subject is mine, the others were never send from me. I'm 
using thunderbird.


On 02.09.2016 12:29, Sebastian Lau wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
> again, some trusted user destroyed our extra repository again. I heard 
> rumors about who did it, but I can not verify it yet. Maybe he has 
> more than one account and he is destroying arch. At the moment I'm 
> trying to clean up my beloved collaborative Arch, but it is not 
> patchable at the moment. Why the fuck is gtk software depending on a 
> bunch of kdelibs? A log from just before:
>
> sebastian at nullptr ~ % ps gwenview
> resolving dependencies...
> looking for conflicting packages...
> warning: dependency cycle detected:
> warning: kinit will be installed before its kio dependency
>
> Package (34)           New Version  Net Change  Download Size
>
> extra/attica-qt5       5.25.0-1       0.84 MiB
> extra/baloo            5.25.0-1       1.91 MiB
> extra/convertlit       1.8-7          0.16 MiB
> extra/ebook-tools      0.2.2-3        0.07 MiB
> extra/gpgmepp          16.04.3-1      0.77 MiB
> extra/kactivities      5.25.0-1       0.46 MiB
> extra/kbookmarks       5.25.0-1       0.85 MiB
> extra/kcompletion      5.25.0-1       0.45 MiB
> extra/kcrash           5.25.0-1       0.05 MiB
> extra/kdbusaddons      5.25.0-1       0.17 MiB
> extra/kded             5.25.0-1       0.13 MiB
> extra/kdelibs4support  5.25.0-1      17.36 MiB
> extra/kemoticons       5.25.0-1       2.23 MiB
> extra/kfilemetadata    5.25.0-1       0.68 MiB
> extra/kglobalaccel     5.25.0-2       0.50 MiB       0.13 MiB
> extra/kidletime        5.25.0-1       0.12 MiB
> extra/kinit            5.25.0-1       0.49 MiB
> extra/kio              5.25.0-1      20.58 MiB
> extra/kitemmodels      5.25.0-1       0.35 MiB
> extra/kjobwidgets      5.25.0-1       0.55 MiB
> extra/kparts           5.25.0-1       0.86 MiB
> extra/kservice         5.25.0-1       1.19 MiB
> extra/ktextwidgets     5.25.0-1       1.37 MiB
> extra/kunitconversion  5.25.0-1       8.30 MiB
> extra/kwallet          5.25.0-1       2.05 MiB
> extra/kxmlgui          5.25.0-1       3.61 MiB
> extra/libkdcraw        16.04.3-1      0.12 MiB
> extra/libkipi          16.04.3-1      0.32 MiB
> extra/libraw           0.17.2-1       2.14 MiB
> extra/libzip           1.1.3-1        0.23 MiB
> extra/lmdb             0.9.18-1       0.51 MiB
> extra/solid            5.25.0-1       2.10 MiB
> extra/sonnet           5.25.0-1       2.06 MiB
> extra/gwenview         16.04.3-1      4.43 MiB
>
> Total Download Size:    0.13 MiB
> Total Installed Size:  78.03 MiB
>
> :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] ^C
> Interrupt signal received
>
>
> I wished, I had the time to clean it now with the other Trusted users, 
> but I'm no TU yet. I talked to a person who gave in, it was his plan 
> to do it like this and we had this problem before. At the moment I 
> cannot come into ts or irc, but some friends of mine will. Please find 
> this fucked up dependency circles, fix them, block him and so on. I 
> think, it could be the same person half a year before.
>
>
> Bye and good luck,
>
> nullptr_t
>