Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Removing maintainer/contributor lines from PKGBUILDs

2020-08-25 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 04:46:36PM -0400, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 15:58:40, Evangelos Foutras via arch-dev-public wrote: > > I am not sure these serve any purpose. The maintainer line duplicates > > information available from the archweb or

Re: [arch-dev-public] RFC: go-pie removal in favour of GOFLAGS

2020-05-15 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:16:38PM +0200, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > Yo! > > After another few lazy weeks I have finished up the new Go packaging > guidelines. > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Foxboron/Go_packaging_guidelines#Flags_and_build_options >

Re: [arch-dev-public] RFC: go-pie removal in favour of GOFLAGS

2020-04-25 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 12:32:18AM +0200, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > I have also removed `-mod=vendor` from the default listing in `prepare()` as > Anatol wasn't fond of the idea. I'm still unsure if we really want this as we > would be willynilly downloading sources

Re: [arch-dev-public] Founding an Arch-releng team

2020-03-28 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 02:11:02PM +0100, David Runge wrote: > On 2019-11-11 09:40:14 (-0300), Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote: > > But, we still don't have anyone wanting to become the actual > > maintainer of archiso to help implement these changes. > > I'd be up for it. I have

Re: [arch-dev-public] RFC: go-pie removal in favour of GOFLAGS

2020-03-15 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 12:09:07PM -0700, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > Hello Morten > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 5:38 AM Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public > wrote: > > > > > > # Introduction > > > > To enable PIE compilation, we have relied on a patched version of

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

2020-03-03 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:11:24AM +0100, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > PS. If unmaintained orphans in [core] could be moved to [extra], and > unmaintained orphans in [extra] could be moved to [community], that could > be a nice "trickle down" effect and would be an

Re: [arch-dev-public] Todos for language specific rebuilds

2020-01-13 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 09:57:42AM -0500, Dave Reisner wrote: >On Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 16:43 Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public ><[1]arch-dev-public@archlinux.org> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > I would like to propose that we create todos for rebuil

[arch-dev-public] Todos for language specific rebuilds

2020-01-10 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
Hi everybody, I would like to propose that we create todos for rebuilds of language specific packages. We had two major rebuilds in the last months: python3.8 and ruby2.7. Can we agree that we create a todo before such rebuilds? The advantages outweigh the disadvantages. We would gain: * More

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: Build a ruleset for new packages and package quality

2019-12-12 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 01:40:19PM +0100, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > On 12/12/19 1:21 PM, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public wrote: > > 8.2 I can't find any list about punishments for violations of these > > rules. > > > > Best rega

[arch-dev-public] Proposal: Build a ruleset for new packages and package quality

2019-12-12 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
Hello everybody, Due to a longer discussion around alpha and beta packages in our repositories in IRC yesterday, I would like to start a hopefully more constructive discussion around this topic on the ML. Short summary for everybody what happened: I wanted to get caddy2.0.0-beta into

[arch-dev-public] Dropping OpenVAS/GVM

2019-11-28 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
Hi, I plan to drop the vulnerability management tool "openvas" (Greenbone Vulnerability Manager). I stopped using the software and it gets more and more tedious (due to breaking changes and bad testing at upstream). Moreover I really think that there are better solutions right now (for example

Re: [arch-dev-public] Looking for an Arch ISO maintainer

2019-11-09 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 10:22:44AM +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > Hi all, > > Gerardo has stepped down as Arch ISO maintainer, which makes archiso > unmaintained. I've asked Pierres if he was interested in maintaining > the project and he is willing to do bug fixes when required but no major >

Re: [arch-dev-public] New ideas for notifying users about (minor) changes

2019-07-29 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 10:16:17AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 30/7/19 8:47 am, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > I got assigned to this issue here: > > > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62823 > > > > The users

Re: [arch-dev-public] New ideas for notifying users about (minor) changes

2019-07-29 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
> We already have this feature. > > Add the following to the PKGBUILD, and rebuild it: > > changelog=NEWS > > Now, the user may at any time run the following command for an installed > package: > > $ pacman -Qc pkgname > Changelog for pkgname: > [contents of NEWS file] > > Changelogs are

Re: [arch-dev-public] New ideas for notifying users about (minor) changes

2019-07-29 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 07:36:31PM -0400, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 at 18:47:44, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public > wrote: > > So what can we do here? I am a big fan of Gentoos Newsletter feature[1]. > > It would be s

[arch-dev-public] New ideas for notifying users about (minor) changes

2019-07-29 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
Hello everybody, I got assigned to this issue here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62823 The users would like to have a notice in pre/post install/upgrade notifications via pacman .install files. I am not a fan of spamming such news via pacman and I think the installation/upgrade process

Re: [arch-dev-public] Dropping dingo from [community]

2019-06-27 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 03:43:37PM +0800, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > Hi All, > > I have removed dingo the Google DNS-over-HTTPS client from [community]. > The upstream is inactive for years and supports Google only. > > I would recommend dns-over-https [1] instead

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal for a new organisation structure

2019-06-02 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Sun, Jun 02, 2019 at 12:38:24AM -0400, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > Dear Christian, > > Thank you for your email. > > I do not share your point of view that the organization is chaotic. You > successfully explained the three roles and each of its duties within two

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal for a new organisation structure

2019-06-01 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 04:10:45PM -1000, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > Hi Christian, > > [2019-06-02 01:08:30 +0200] Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public: > > inspired by the last thread about moving proprietary software to > > community

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal for a new organisation structure

2019-06-01 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Sun, Jun 02, 2019 at 01:07:12PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 2/6/19 9:08 am, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public wrote: > > 1. Simplified repositories > > > > Currently we have [core], [extra] and [community]. These three > > repositories are the

[arch-dev-public] Proposal for a new organisation structure

2019-06-01 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
Hello everybody, DISCLAIMER: Sorry for the huge mail, I didn't thought it would get so long. If you feel attacked/angry or whatever about it, take a deep breath before you answer. I hope for a constructive discussion without personal attacks.

Re: [arch-dev-public] Spring cleaning (take 2)

2019-03-27 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 05:19:34PM +0100, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > Following up on xyproto's [community] cleanup, here is a list of unrequired > orphans in [extra] which could be removed (minus the aspell/hunspell dicts). > Please adopt them if you want to keep them

Re: [arch-dev-public] RFC: (devtools) Changing default compression method to zstd

2019-03-24 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 12:46:15AM +0100, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 04:39:54PM -0700, Andrew Gregory via arch-dev-public > wrote: > > I don't consider hoping that libarchive doesn't need a rebuild in the > > near future a great strategy.

Re: [arch-dev-public] Co-maintainers and less time for packaging

2019-03-20 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 02:02:08PM +0100, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > Yo! > > As some might be aware, I'm finishing up a master thesis that is due 1st of > June. Because of this my time is going to be limited closer to the delivery > date. To try relieve some stress

Re: [arch-dev-public] TU application process

2018-11-06 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 08:37:42PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 6/11/18 8:15 pm, Bruno Pagani wrote: > > Le 06/11/2018 à 11:12, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public a écrit : > >> On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 08:09:03PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > >>> On 6/11/18 7:

Re: [arch-dev-public] TU application process

2018-11-06 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 08:09:03PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 6/11/18 7:54 pm, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > First of all, the following mail has nothing to do with the last two TU > > applications, it's a gen

[arch-dev-public] TU application process

2018-11-06 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
Hello everybody, First of all, the following mail has nothing to do with the last two TU applications, it's a general view on the current TU application process. I would like to propose a new process for TU applications due to several reasons: 1. I have the feeling that most sponsors are not

Re: [arch-dev-public] /r/linux AMA

2018-08-10 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 06:41:43PM +0200, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > * Reddit username. > * What you do. > * What Monday fits for you? Reddit username: sh1bumi What you do: Trusted User, Automated Vagrant image builds, Security Team work [sadly pretty inactive the

[arch-dev-public] Arch Linux Cloud Images (virtualbox and Qemu)

2018-05-13 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
Hello everybody, Some months ago Bartlomiej had the awesome idea to generate qemu and virtualbox images as well. Afterwards we had a small discussion about this topic in #archlinux-projects. I would like to refresh this discussion and move it to this mail thread. So, our vagrant boxes are

Re: [arch-dev-public] Windows Subsystem Linux - Arch Linux as official container?

2018-03-07 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:00:28PM +0100, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > So deadline is 2018-02-7 > > > -- Chris Hello everybody, sorry for the delay. I thought about this a little bit longer and I came to the conclusion that this project will not work without the full

Re: [arch-dev-public] Windows Subsystem Linux - Arch Linux as official container?

2018-01-29 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 03:09:16PM -0600, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 22:00:28 +0100 > Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public@archlinux.org> wrote: > > > Hello everybody, > > I would like to start

[arch-dev-public] Windows Subsystem Linux - Arch Linux as official container?

2018-01-29 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
Hello everybody, I would like to start a discussion about Windows Subsystem Linux and Arch linux. You all might know that Microsoft has increased their participation in open source software a lot since Satya Nadella is CEO of Microsoft. They even implemented a subsystem on Windows 10 for

Re: [arch-dev-public] PSA: third-party gems have been split from 'ruby' package

2018-01-29 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 04:36:32PM -0800, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > Hello folks > > There been a packaging issue with 'ruby' package that annoyed me for a > while. The problem comes from the fact that ruby-lang.org source > tarballs contain ruby sources itself *and*

Re: [arch-dev-public] Arch Linux Docker / Vagrant: Current situation

2018-01-24 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:58:48AM +0100, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > On 21.01.2018 20:50, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public wrote: > > I would definitly > > prefer to have the vagrant boxes around the same date as we release our > > ISO i

Re: [arch-dev-public] Arch Linux Docker / Vagrant: Current situation

2018-01-21 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 07:41:53PM +0100, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > It would be probably seen as more "official" if it was mentioned on our > website. Absolutly! I will see what I can do to bring that on our website. > > My first goal has been to add some

Re: [arch-dev-public] Arch Linux Docker / Vagrant: Current situation

2018-01-21 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 03:23:44PM +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > I'm all for automatic builds, and the improvement where multiple people > know how the ISO's are build & released. How would we however sign these > builds? And is the bootstrap image also generated in the same manner? Well, we

[arch-dev-public] Arch Linux Docker / Vagrant: Current situation

2018-01-20 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
Hello Everybody, It's now over a half year ago that I've started working together with sangy and pierre on our vagrant and docker images. I would like to give you a short update on this topic. The Arch Linux Vagrant images are currently be build for libvirt and virtualbox. We have over 3800