Re: [arch-dev-public] 2017 repository cleanup

On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 10:54:37 +0100 Bartłomiej Piotrowski via arch-dev-public wrote: > Hi team, > > Recently I've spent a bit of time on the train so I spent that on > writing a script (of questionable quality) for generating packages > cleanup list. The main

[arch-dev-public] FFmpeg: drop deprecated libavresample

Hi guys, libavresample was initially merged into ffmpeg to be a drop-in replacement for libav, but was never maintained by ffmpeg itself in favor of their own libswresample. According to upstream, libswresample can do everything libavresample can do and more [1], plus libavresample has been

Re: [arch-dev-public] Mkinitcpio replacement with Dracut

On Mon, 2019-05-20 at 23:41 -0300, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev- public wrote: > Hi All, > > Recently, Dave announced his intention to step down as mkinitcpio > maintainer. I have been > handling a few things on it, made some small changes to our > mkinitcpio-busybox [0], closed a few old >

Re: [arch-dev-public] Dropping Qt4

On Sun, 2019-04-28 at 12:44 +0200, Antonio Rojas via arch-dev-public wrote: > Hi all, > > Now that mumble has been ported to Qt5, I think it's time to finally > drop > Qt4, which has been EOL for 4 years. Most stuff that still depends on > it > has been dead upstream for many years. Here is a

Re: [arch-dev-public] Orphaning crypto++

On Thu, 2019-12-05 at 23:53 +0100, Baptiste Jonglez wrote: > Hi, > > I plan to orphan crypto++ [1] soon: I don't maintain any package that > depends on it anymore, and it's becoming annoying to maintain. > > For instance, there was a significant security issue on July 2019 > [2], and > 5 months

Re: [arch-dev-public] News draft: firewalld>=0.8.1-2 update requires manual intervention

On Sat, 2020-02-29 at 01:18 +0100, Jan Alexander Steffens via arch-dev- public wrote: > The firewalld package prior to version 0.8.1-2 was missing the > compiled > python modules. This has been fixed in 0.8.1-2, so the upgrade will > need to > overwrite the untracked pyc files created. If you get

Re: [arch-dev-public] Spring cleaning (moving orphaned packages from [community] to AUR)

On Mon, 2020-03-02 at 20:59 -0300, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev- public wrote: > Em fevereiro 27, 2020 6:11 Alexander F Rødseth via arch-dev-public > escreveu: > > It's time for the semi-yearly package cleanup of [community] > > packages, as > > is tradition. > > > > I have gathered a list of

[arch-dev-public] Replacing bzr with breezy

Hi folks, As you may know bzr is python2 only, and most distros [0] [1] are switching over to a drop-in replacement fork named breezy [2]. The latest version just added python 3.8 support, so I pushed a package to [extra] [3]. I propose we add a symlink from bzr to brz in the breezy package,

Re: [arch-dev-public] Replacing bzr with breezy

Package with a symlink and conflicts/replaces is now in [testing], will move to extra and move the deprecated packages to AUR over the weekend if everything goes well. Cheers, -- Maxime On Mon, 2020-02-03 at 21:01 +0100, Christian Hesse wrote: > Maxime Gauduin via arch-dev-public on &g

Re: [arch-dev-public] Ciao

On Wed, 2020-08-19 at 15:52 -1000, Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public wrote: > [2020-08-19 20:59:13 -0400] Daniel M. Capella: > > On August 19, 2020 6:43:14 PM EDT, Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev- > > public wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > > > I've joined the Arch team in 2010 and spent a decade as a

Re: [arch-dev-public] Orphaning packages/ request for co-maintainership

On Mon, 2020-09-14 at 01:17 +, David Runge wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm orphaning the following packages as I don't use them and/or took > them over from someone who is now not a team member anymore: > > > # [extra] > ddrescue > easytag (can be moved to [community]) > > # [community] >