[aur-general] Fwd: AUR Cleanup Day September 20th

Greetings, Let's bring back AUR Cleanup Day. Several people have signed a blood oath^w^w^w^wshowed an interest in participating, and as everyone knows, the AUR needs all the love we can spare. If any TUs could attend, it would be appreciated. See this[] wiki article for cleanup criteria and other

Re: [aur-general] Become TU

On October 13, 2018 9:25:31 AM EDT, Islam Bahnasy via aur-general wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA256 > > >Hello, > >I see that 'usbguard' is very useful tool and I depend on it my self so >I hope if it's merged to the community repo. >I never had a patch to any Arch project

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Konstantin Gizdov

On October 28, 2018 2:42:31 PM EDT, Baptiste Jonglez wrote: >On 28-10-18, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote: >> (endless rambling) > >Can we please stop this futile bike-shedding exercise? It does little >outside of discrediting you and the Arch community as a whole. > >I already said so in

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Konstantin Gizdov

On October 28, 2018 6:42:09 PM EDT, Santiago Torres-Arias wrote: >Hello everyone. > >I've been following this email thread quite closely and without >participating as I was hoping to keep opinions to myself --- I don't >think I have much questions other than what's already asked for >Konstantin

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Konstantin Gizdov

On October 28, 2018 6:42:09 PM EDT, Santiago Torres-Arias wrote: >Hello everyone. > >I've been following this email thread quite closely and without >participating as I was hoping to keep opinions to myself --- I don't >think I have much questions other than what's already asked for >Konstantin

[aur-general] TU Application: Daniel M. Capella

Hello, My name is Daniel M. Capella (aka polyzen), and I am applying to be a Trusted User with Ivy Foster's sponsorship. My current main interest lies in Rustlang-based blockchain/distributed app/cryptocurrency implementations; half for the tech, half so I can escape the world of indentured

Re: [aur-general] TU Application: Daniel M. Capella

Quoting Eli Schwartz via aur-general (2018-11-15 00:52:50) > On 11/14/18 11:50 PM, Daniel M. Capella via aur-general wrote: > > Quoting Levente Polyak via aur-general (2018-11-14 17:00:38) > >> - tests are awesome <3 run them whenever possible! more is better! > >>

Re: [aur-general] TU Application: Daniel M. Capella

Quoting Levente Polyak via aur-general (2018-11-15 05:19:10) > On 11/15/18 5:50 AM, Daniel M. Capella via aur-general wrote: > >> - tests are awesome <3 run them whenever possible! more is better! > >> pulling sources from github is favorable when you get free tests >

Re: [aur-general] TU Application: Daniel M. Capella

Quoting Levente Polyak via aur-general (2018-11-14 17:00:38) > Hi Daniel, > > Small summary of things I repeatedly noticed: > > - # Generated by mksrcinfo v8 Wed Nov 14 05:46:26 UTC 2018 > I would say remove this ancient package from your system > and use makepkg --printsrcinfo instead

[aur-general] Sourcing GitHub release tarballs without filename::url (was: Re: TU Application: Daniel M. Capella)

>>> - The following can be used for GitHub releases (where $url is eg. >>> ): >>> >>> - Before: >>> `source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::$url/archive/v$pkgver.tar.gz")` >>> - After: `source=("$url/archive/v$pkgver/$pkgname-v$pkgver.tar.gz")` >> >> >>

Re: [aur-general] TU Application_R: Metal A-wing (a-wing)

On January 19, 2019 1:42:38 AM EST, Chih-Hsuan Yen via aur-general wrote: > >On 2019/1/10 下午11:24, Jiachen YANG via aur-general wrote: >> Dear all TUs >> >> >> The disscussion period of 2 weeks is over! Let's start the voting >period~ >> >> https://aur.archlinux.org/tu/?id=116 >> >> >> -- >> >>

[aur-general] Purge of packages orphaned, out-of-date, and last updated before 2017

Based on the loosely defined "cleanup criteria"[], we're overdue for a little purge. The candidates can be found here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0=nd==on=l=a=250_Orphans=Orphans https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=250=nd=on=l=a=250_Orphans=Orphans Please run `aurphan -a` to see if

Re: [aur-general] General PKGBUILD and Instalation help.

On December 25, 2018 7:37:32 AM EST, hagar wrote: >Merry Christmas all, > >I have been looking for a general PKGBUILD forum to get some help with >some build problems. There's #archlinux-aur on irc.freenode.net and an Arch forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewforum.php?id=38 >I have been

Re: [aur-general] TU Application: Daniel M. Capella

Quoting Ivy Foster via aur-general (2018-12-06 14:38:10) > Hello, everyone! > > The results are in! Congratulations, Daniel! Welcome to the team. > > Stats: > 34 Yes > 6 No > 7 Abstain > > Cheers, > Ivy ("escondida") > > P.S.: Please forgive the broken threading; I

Re: [aur-general] Purge of packages orphaned, out-of-date, and last updated before 2017

Quoting David Runge (2019-01-26 05:23:37) > On 2019-01-26 08:01:46 (+0100), Alad Wenter via aur-general wrote: > > Not too long after I became TU I deleted something of ~2000 packages, > > based on similar "criteria" and after seeing no "objections" on IRC > > after a while. After the deed was

Re: [aur-general] Is vlc-pause-click-plugin unmaintained now?

On April 6, 2019 2:26:45 AM EDT, Frederick Zhang via aur-general wrote: >Hi, > >It seems that vlc-pause-click-plugin has been unlisted from AUR for >quite a while. I just quickly went through aur-general and aur-requests >but I didn't find any info about the reason. > >May I know whether it's

Re: [aur-general] Spammers in AUR user comments

On April 5, 2019 7:54:44 AM EDT, NicoHood wrote: >Hello, >lately i have noticed an increased percentage of spam comments in the >AUR. Especially for the spotify package there were 4 accounts I had to >block within a few weeks. Have you been able to make similar >observations with your packages or

Re: [aur-general] plethora of spams

On March 20, 2019 3:49:00 AM EDT, marnout wrote: ~snip~ >P.S. >I have a lot of free time and i can participate by doing certain tasks >for the community. For instance I can clean up in aur under the >guidance >of a TU. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:AUR_Cleanup_Day Of

Re: [aur-general] AUR spam accounts

Quoting Luca Weiss via aur-general (2019-03-30 07:01:32) > Hello, > the account https://aur.archlinux.org/account/charlizekrish/ left a spam > account on one of my packages. > > After looking through the most popular packages I found a few more: > https://aur.archlinux.org/account/hendrikb >

[aur-general] Enforcing AUR package quality (was Re: Trusted user application: Drew DeVault)

On February 28, 2019 8:58:06 AM EST, Jerome Leclanche wrote: >OT: We should maybe have the AUR lint PKGBUILDs on git push (and >reject really bad ones) if we want to improve that situation. > >J. Leclanche I've been thinking enforcing the use of makechrootpkg and namcap on package submission

Re: [aur-general] Enforcing AUR package quality (was Re: Trusted user application: Drew DeVault)

On February 28, 2019 11:33:36 AM EST, "brent s." wrote: >On 2/28/19 11:22 AM, Daniel M. Capella via aur-general wrote: >> On February 28, 2019 8:58:06 AM EST, Jerome Leclanche > wrote: >> >> >> >>> OT: We should maybe have the AUR lint PKGB

Re: [aur-general] Enforcing AUR package quality (was Re: Trusted user application: Drew DeVault)

On February 28, 2019 11:34:08 AM EST, Jerome Leclanche wrote: >On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 5:22 PM Daniel M. Capella via aur-general > wrote: >> >> On February 28, 2019 8:58:06 AM EST, Jerome Leclanche > wrote: >> >> >> >> >OT: We should maybe have th

Re: [aur-general] Enforcing AUR package quality (was Re: Trusted user application: Drew DeVault)

On February 28, 2019 12:43:02 PM EST, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote: >On 2/28/19 11:22 AM, Daniel M. Capella via aur-general wrote: >> On February 28, 2019 8:58:06 AM EST, Jerome Leclanche >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> OT: We should may

Re: [aur-general] Trusted user application: Drew DeVault

On February 27, 2019 10:47:59 PM EST, Drew DeVault via aur-general wrote: >On 2019-02-27 10:42 PM, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote: >> I guess the difference between PyPI and Github sources could be >> clarified, but really I'd much rather upstreams would get in the >habit >> of using a

Re: [aur-general] Account Status

On February 12, 2019 5:47:00 PM EST, "Gonçalo Pereira via aur-general" wrote: >Hello, > >My account was suspended a few months ago. I would like to continue >helping to fix packages even though I haven't been decent in previous >incidents. > >Can I get my account unsuspended? > >Hope you can

Re: [aur-general] Spammers in AUR user comments

On April 5, 2019 7:54:44 AM EDT, NicoHood wrote: >Should and how can we better protect ourselves from spam comments? Perhaps we should add CAPTCHA for account registrations. On April 10, 2019 7:35:14 AM EDT, Oscar via aur-general wrote: >I'm also receiving comments from lots of different spam

Re: [aur-general] spam messages, cndrvcups-lb

On April 19, 2019 8:31:00 AM EDT, Georg Pfahler wrote: > and another one: > > https://aur.archlinux.org/account/alvinrr/ Account suspended. Will delete comments later as I'm on my phone and there is no batch deletion yet. It made 15 comments last night within 40 minutes. -- Best, Daniel

Re: [aur-general] Are AUR VCS packages that depend on AUR VCS packages from other projects a good idea and who should decide on that ?

Quoting Lone_Wolf (2019-05-04 18:24:28) > I have decided how to proceed with mesa trunk / llvm trunk building. > > There are now 6 lone_wolf-* packages in AUR that show how I want to do > things. > > > Although Scimmia intensely disliked it, I have implemented the > environment variable idea

Re: [aur-general] Question about creating AUR package

On July 13, 2019 11:56:29 AM EDT, "joão marcos pereira bezerra via aur-general" wrote: > Hello, i'm new to this mailing list, here because i want to submit a > AUR Package > > It's called "corrupter-bin", an alternative to "corrupter-git" that > avoids installing Go-Lang package (400MB) > >

Re: [aur-general] spam account: harveyjones

On April 22, 2019 7:43:46 PM EDT, Rafael Fontenelle wrote: > Offending account: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/harveyjones > > This account was created today (Apr 22, 2019) and maintain no package > and the only comment was a spam in skyperforlinux-stable-bin: > >

Re: [aur-general] Spam users: garrlee and harrywepich9

On September 4, 2019 6:04:29 PM EDT, Mark Weiman wrote: > My turn! > > I've got a couple of spam comments on [1] from the latest two > comments. > > Mark Weiman > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-latex/ Deleted, thank you. -- Best, Daniel

[aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day September 20th 2019

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

Re: [aur-general] spam comments

On September 7, 2019 9:52:15 AM EDT, Lone_Wolf wrote: > Hi, > > please remove some spam comments from cndrvcups-lb package . > > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/#comment-704963 > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/#comment-704962 > > > user account is

Re: [aur-general] Naming issue of mysql-shell and (possibly) request for adoption

Quoting Frederick Zhang via aur-general (2019-09-10 02:31:15) > 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 I suggest you file

Re: [aur-general] TU application: kpcyrd

Quoting kpcyrd (2019-09-20 16:09:31) > Hello, > > My name is kpcyrd and I'm applying to become a Trusted User with anthraxx', > sangys and jelles sponsorship. Glad to see you're finally applying. Package review: narnia, tr1pd{,-git}: Could use `--locked`? python-fints: Missing `--skip-build`

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day September 20th 2019

_Today_ is our bi-yearly AUR Cleanup Day. It seems a few of us got a head start -- much appreciated. > 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]

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day September 20th 2019

On September 20, 2019 12:20:31 PM EDT, Michael Straube via aur-general wrote: > > > Am 20.09.19 um 18:06 schrieb Michael Straube via aur-general: > > Am 20.09.19 um 06:41 schrieb Daniel M. Capella via aur-general: > >> _Today_ is our bi-yearly AUR Cleanup Day.

Re: [aur-general] [PRQ#16805] Deletion Request for the-darkmod-tweaked

On November 26, 2019 9:46:41 AM EST, "Iyán Méndez Veiga" wrote: > De verdad... pásame tu cuenta, que te hago una transferencia para > pagarte el > psicólogo... > > En serio que te creo que en tu cabeza todos vayan en contra de ti, el > mundo > esté alineado perfectamente en tu contra, y la

Re: [aur-general] Package Rename Requests (2) - waterfox-git and waterfox-alpha-git

Quoting Matt Parnell via aur-general (2019-10-07 01:16:31) > 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 > >

Re: [aur-general] Spam comments

On October 8, 2019 4:53:43 PM EDT, fg-devel+archmail--- via aur-general wrote: > Hi, > > there are some spam messages in the comments section of AUR package > akira-git: > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/akira-git#comment-704048 > >

Re: [aur-general] Question about AUR submission guidelines rule #1

On February 27, 2020 11:19:20 AM EST, Chris Billington via aur-general wrote: > Apologies, Lone_Wolf already mentioned the case of older versions of > packages. > > I suppose my only additions then are that "modified build process" > should > be allowed, and that maybe the criterion for older

Re: [aur-general] chirp-daily

On January 31, 2020 5:14:58 PM EST, Zion Zero wrote: > Greetings > > I'd like to contribute to the Arch community by updating the > chirp-daily > AUR pkgbuild. I've updated the pkgbuild, added my ssh key to my AUR > account > and tested this on my local system with success. After reviewing the >

Re: [aur-general] chirp-daily

On February 2, 2020 9:02:48 PM EST, Zion Zero wrote: > Unfortunately the current maintainer (gearshift > <https://aur.archlinux.org/account/gearshift>) cannot be contacted via > the > AUR page as his email is hidden. > > On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 2:31 PM Daniel M. Capella

Re: [aur-general] Review of clickhouse-static PKGBUILD

On February 10, 2020 5:02:08 AM EST, Felixoid via aur-general wrote: > Hello, dear TUs and Arch developers. > > I'd like to ask relative the package clickhouse-static[1]. The > officially supported way to build ClickHouse binaries is static > linking[2]. And my question: is it possible that the

Re: [aur-general] Change package name?

On Tue Jan 7, 2020 at 10:56 PM, brent s. wrote: > It's a pretty simple process, just not really documented anywhere to my > knowledge. It's documented here, but certainly could be expanded upon: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_submission_guidelines#Requests -- Best, Daniel

Re: [aur-general] AUR requests not handled anymore?

On May 6, 2020 1:55:55 AM EDT, Christoph Gysin via aur-general wrote: > I have made two deletion requests on my packages 2 weeks ago, that > were > never handled: > > https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2020-April/039815.html >

Re: [aur-general] PKGBUILD submission: osrs-launcher

On Sat May 2, 2020 at 2:21 PM EDT, Nick Shvelidze wrote: > On Sat, May 2, 2020, 17:43 Rafael Fontenelle wrote: > > > Hi Nick, > > > > Em sáb., 2 de mai. de 2020 às 07:41, Nick Shvelidze > > escreveu: > > > > > > Hi, I couldn't find the official Old School RuneScape launcher in the > > > AUR, so

Re: [aur-general] Commercial spam

On July 29, 2020 2:44:29 PM EDT, stefan-husm...@t-online.de wrote: > > Hello TUs, > > there is a unrelated comment for [1] which offers a service for lazy > students. > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ucdavisthesis/ > > Thanks for regarding. > > Stefan Husmann Justin (hashworks)

Re: [aur-general] Requirements to apply for TU?

On Fri Aug 7, 2020 at 12:05 AM EDT, Ram Kumar via aur-general wrote: > yeah, me too curious about this topic.. by the way, what does Trusted > User > mean? and some details like purpose of one, responsibilities, facilities > etc.. > > On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 07:39, Angel Pérez wrote: > > > Wich

Re: [aur-general] account creation confimation email missing

On December 28, 2020 6:43:51 PM EST, "Ryan S. Elliott via aur-general" wrote: > Hello, > > I created an account a few hours ago and have not received a > confirmation > email to reset my password. Using the > https://aur.archlinux.org/passreset/ > page also does not seem to work. > > Can