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

2017-12-18 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2017-12-18 10:54:37 +0100] Bartłomiej Piotrowski via arch-dev-public: > - tclap: > bisson: hugin I've just orphaned hugin too. Happy adopting! :) -- Gaetan

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

2017-12-18 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2017-12-18 22:20:02 +0100] Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public: > I’m taking it too. ;) But I can’t take tclap since it’s in extra, though > this could be easily moved to [community] since hugin is the only > package depending on it. It's just moved. Enjoy! (Note: I just did a rebuild because

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

2018-01-29 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2018-01-29 22:00:28 +0100] Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public: > They even implemented a subsystem on Windows 10 for executing natively > ELF binaries on Windows. This system is based on docker images and some > nice guys from Microsoft have asked Allan and me if Arch Linux would be >

Re: [arch-dev-public] New dbscripts maintainer (aka: Making dbscripts great again!)

2018-01-29 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2018-01-29 16:51:54 +0100] Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public: > Eli offered to take the lead on getting that done and also later > migrating us to git instead of svn. If there are no objections I'll help > where necessary and give him access to the dbscripts and devtools repos > in two weeks.

Re: [arch-dev-public] Away until Aug 17

2018-07-27 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2018-07-27 15:43:22 +0200] Antonio Rojas via arch-dev-public: > Vacation time. Will be intermittently available via email/irc but won't do > any packaging. Same here though I might sporadically get some packaging done. Will be back full time from Sept 1 on. Cheers. -- Gaetan

Re: [arch-dev-public] Dropping KDE4 libs

2018-08-24 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2018-08-24 11:51:30 +0200] Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public: > > scribus > > The develop branch (1.5.x), available as scribus-devel in the AUR (and > maintained by myself), is Qt5. It has been in development for the past 3 > years already, and still no ETA AFAIK… I’ve been using it instead of >

Re: [arch-dev-public] Dropping KDE4 libs

2018-08-24 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2018-08-24 18:45:33 +0200] Bruno Pagani: > I have a ready PKGBUILD > (https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/PKGBUILD?h=scribus-devel) > that I can push (after changing the pkgname) if scribus is moved to > [community]. And we can co-maintain it there, co-maintaining is the new > sexy. ;)

Re: [arch-dev-public] Dropping KDE4 libs

2018-09-04 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2018-09-04 14:46:15 +0200] Bruno Pagani: > Le 25/08/2018 à 01:31, Gaetan Bisson a écrit : > > [2018-08-24 18:45:33 +0200] Bruno Pagani: > >> I have a ready PKGBUILD > >> (https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/PKGBUILD?h=scribus-devel) > >> that I can push (after changing the pkgname) if

Re: [arch-dev-public] Improving the package guidelines

2018-08-29 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2018-08-29 20:20:29 +0200] Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public: > The rewrites have been up for a few months now and I intend to merge them > soon. > Feel free to still review them, either with a reply on the ML or on IRC. > Whatever > you prefer :) Sorry but I don't recall such a thing ever

Re: [arch-dev-public] New build server in the US?

2018-04-19 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2018-04-19 21:19:43 +0200] Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public: > Some feedback on how people use soyuz would probably help a lot here. > What are your build times, how quickly do you want the result, do you > need to see live output, does the latency to the machine matter > (interactive usage?),

Re: [arch-dev-public] Enforcing 2FA in GitHub organization

2018-06-29 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2018-06-29 10:09:21 +0200] Bartłomiej Piotrowski via arch-dev-public: > I want to enable mandatory two-factor authentication in our GitHub > organization. Few of you unfortunately don't use it and will be > effectively removed when I flip the switch, which I plan to do next > week, 6th July. No

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

2018-11-06 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2018-11-06 12:13:54 +0100] Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public: > Le 06/11/2018 à 11:37, Allan McRae a écrit : > > But because you asked my opinion, I think a TU council is > > a really, really, really bad idea. No need to set some TUs above > > others. > Well some already are, because they are

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-01-21 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-01-21 18:58:54 -0500] Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public: > On 1/21/19 6:53 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote: > > I agree with this package list. It's missing mkinitcpio though. > > No it is not, mkinitcpio is definitively not needed. > > It's only required in order to

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

2019-03-27 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-03-27 17:19:34 +0100] Antonio Rojas via arch-dev-public: > geeqie I've adopted that one. Cheers. -- Gaetan

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

2019-03-24 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-03-25 00:46:15 +0100] Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public: > 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. That being said, this is really > >

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

2019-03-28 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-03-27 18:08:02 +0100] Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public: > I would adopt: > ttf-baekmuk > ttf-hannom > ttf-khmer > ttf-sazanami > ttf-tibetan-machine I've just moved those to [community] for the greater good! Enjoy. -- Gaetan signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-dev-public] Follow-up on the “Proposal: minimal base system”

2019-03-17 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-03-17 19:07:23 +0100] Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public: > This is a follow-up on the last month discussion about a “minimal base > system”. Creating a new thread removed from the discussion we had a month ago just makes it so much harder for all of us to remember what everyone's arguments

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-03-17 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-03-18 00:25:09 +0100] Alad Wenter via arch-dev-public: > Assuming we implement this group or meta-package as something of policy, i.e. > every repository package is assumed to depend on it. This would then make > base similar to base-devel, except for depends() instead of makedepends(). >

Re: [arch-dev-public] Follow-up on the “Proposal: minimal base system”

2019-03-17 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-03-17 23:29:12 +0100] Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public: > I was satisfied with the consensus we reached, but when I asked on IRC > how I should revive the thread so that we move on with that proposal to > an actual implementation, I faced concerns about this proposal from > several persons.

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-03-17 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-03-17 13:35:55 -1000] Gaetan Bisson: > Only 156 packages have glibc in their depends array. My bad. It's 624 packages for a total of 10.000. Cheers. -- Gaetan signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-dev-public] Follow-up on the “Proposal: minimal base system”

2019-03-18 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-03-18 08:39:45 +0100] Bartłomiej Piotrowski via arch-dev-public: > I asked Bruno to start another round as previous thread is way too long > for people who missed the party to catch up. So some of us have taken the time to discuss this issue just a month ago but because it's too much to

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-02-12 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-02-12 16:40:08 +0100] Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public: > Just in case it wasn’t clear, my answer would have been mostly the same > as Eli’s. > > So, Gaetan, Allan and Bartłomiej (or anyone else for that matter), do > you have further comments/questions regarding this, does the existence >

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-02-12 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-02-13 08:55:27 +1000] Allan McRae via arch-dev-public: > On 13/2/19 8:17 am, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public wrote: > > On 2/12/19 7:16 PM, Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public wrote: > >> [2019-02-12 16:40:08 +0100] Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public: > >>> Ju

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-02-05 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
Bruno, We all seem to agree that [base] plays no satisfactory role in its current state, so I think Allan definitely has a point: let us first turn [base] into something useful, and only then wonder if we need something more. [2019-02-05 14:38:26 +0100] Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public: > Le

Re: [arch-dev-public] A contrib repository

2019-03-13 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-03-13 23:46:10 +0100] Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public: > There is a *lot* of small tools people have written over the years that > resides > in bin/ directories which could be useful for more people. We also have > several > such tools on soyuz, where sogrep was added to devtools this

Re: [arch-dev-public] Away until June 17

2019-06-07 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-06-07 09:54:25 +0200] Laurent Carlier via arch-dev-public: > For holidays Me too! I'll be travelling for business and pleasure from today until July 24. Though I should remain reachable by email, my response latency will probably increase and might reach 48h or so. So feel free to do

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

2019-06-01 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
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, our general problem of getting more people involved in Arch > Linux and the (for me) chaotic organisation structure and hierarchy I >

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

2019-06-02 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-06-02 06:06:35 +0200] Christian Rebischke: > On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 04:10:45PM -1000, Public mailing list for Arch Linux > development wrote: > Thanks for your mail. I remember now that you have told me this some > months ago. This leads to a question: Why are these types of dicussions >

Re: [arch-dev-public] [arch-dev] State of OCaml-Update (stuck by deprecation of camlp4)

2019-08-06 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-08-06 19:21:11 +0200] Jürgen Hötzel: > Unfortunately it is not possible to compile camlp4 with OCaml >= 4.08. > > But some well known packages depend on this preprocessor. E.g. :Haxe, > lablgtk2 (therefore also: Unison and Coq). > > I don't see that these projects will be migrated to

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

2019-12-12 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-12-12 13:21:42 +0100] Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public: > 1. find a consensus on rules which packages we allow in our repositories > and which don't. There's no need for hard rules except "don't put stuff in the repos that will cause legal problems". We certainly strive to ship

Re: [arch-dev-public] Urgent news item: sshd needs restarting after upgrading to openssh-8.2p1

2020-02-16 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2020-02-16 20:03:16 -0500] Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public: > It's pretty plausible that this commit is simply incompatible with the > previous version of sshd, therefore it could not reexec: > https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/c2bd7f74b0e0f3a3ee9d19ac549e6ba89013abaf > > So

Re: [arch-dev-public] Urgent news item: sshd needs restarting after upgrading to openssh-8.2p1

2020-02-16 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2020-02-16 19:51:19 -0500] Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public: > On 2/16/20 7:47 PM, Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I'd like to post the following news item within the hour. > > > > > > > > Title: sshd need

Re: [arch-dev-public] Urgent news item: sshd needs restarting after upgrading to openssh-8.2p1

2020-02-16 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2020-02-16 19:53:53 -0500] Santiago Torres-Arias via arch-dev-public: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 07:51:19PM -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public > wrote: > > On 2/16/20 7:47 PM, Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > > > I

[arch-dev-public] Urgent news item: sshd needs restarting after upgrading to openssh-8.2p1

2020-02-16 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
Dear all, I'd like to post the following news item within the hour. Title: sshd needs restarting after upgrading to openssh-8.2p1 Conent: After upgrading to openssh-8.2p1, the existing SSH daemon will be unable to accept new connections. When upgrading remote hosts,

Re: [arch-dev-public] Restricting ability to post news items

2020-01-06 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2020-01-05 21:27:19 -0300] Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public: > Em janeiro 5, 2020 21:04 Allan McRae via arch-dev-public escreveu: > > > > Do we really need to write down everything? Have we reached a point in > > the distro where common sense has stopped? Why would an announcement > >

Re: [arch-dev-public] Guidelines for news posting

2020-01-06 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2020-01-06 23:11:57 +0100] Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev-public: > Every news post needs to have a corresponding draft submitted to > arch-dev-public and wait for feedback for at least 24 hours unless: > 1. it is urgent (and would be too late after 24 hours) > 2. it is a simple

Re: [arch-dev-public] Restricting ability to post news items

2020-01-06 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2020-01-06 16:48:48 -0300] Giancarlo Razzolini: > I'm moving this to staff@, please stop replying on a-d-p. Doing dirty laundry > in public is not necessary. And I'm moving this back to arch-dev-public because most staff aren't concerned with posting news items. Besides, there's nothing secret

Re: [arch-dev-public] Discussion - Increasing our CPU requirements

2020-03-29 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2020-03-29 16:25:48 +0100] Filipe Laíns via arch-dev-public: > What I would for us to do is to create a x86-64-axv2, etc. that would > complement x86-64. We would not add it as a target for all packages, > just for the ones that make sense. > > For this pacman would have to support architecture

[arch-dev-public] Ciao

2020-08-19 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
Dear all, I've joined the Arch team in 2010 and spent a decade as a developer; it's been a great privilege to be a part of such an awesome community and also a lot of fun. However I felt the ten-year mark was a good opportunity for me to move on since I recognize the majority's views on the

Re: [arch-dev-public] Ciao

2020-08-19 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[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 developer; > > it's been a great privilege to be a par

Re: [arch-dev-public] repos.archlinux.org has been migrated to a new server

2020-06-25 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
Hi Jelle, [2020-06-25 23:36:15 +0200] Jelle van der Waa: > repos.archlinux.org, svn.archlinux.org and rsync.archlinux.org are now > on a new server which has plenty of diskspace for us to continue > packaging for a while (16T free). On the old host I had a systemd user service to populate this:

Re: [arch-dev-public] repos.archlinux.org has been migrated to a new server

2020-06-26 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2020-06-26 10:37:44 +0200] Jelle van der Waa: > On 26/06/2020 02:50, Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public wrote: > > Hi Jelle, > > > > [2020-06-25 23:36:15 +0200] Jelle van der Waa: > >> repos.archlinux.org, svn.archlinux.org and rsync.archlinux.org are now > &g

Re: [arch-dev-public] SDR package naming

2020-06-05 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2020-06-05 15:30:54 +0100] Filipe Laíns via arch-dev-public: > No consensus came from my attempt at > contacting him. And there was no discussion, it was one sided, so I > feel like this issue is not resolved. There are still relevant points > that I want to see addressed. It looks to me like

Re: [arch-dev-public] SDR package naming

2020-06-05 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2020-06-04 23:03:23 +0100] Filipe Laíns via arch-dev-public: > 1) Rename libuhd to uhd > 2) Use the gr- prefix instead of gnuradio- for GNURadio[2] blocks Your proposed changes indeed seem the correct thing to do, but Kyle appears to have done a good job maintaining those packages over the

Re: [arch-dev-public] [aur-general] AUR migration

2020-07-28 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2020-07-28 13:46:23 +0100] Filipe Laíns: > If one machine gets compromised the keys are also compromised. I never suggested to use the same keys for multiple servers. Only that if luna's main purpose is to provide a service and this service is moved to a different host, it makes sense to move

Re: [arch-dev-public] [aur-general] AUR migration

2020-07-27 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2020-07-27 21:10:23 -0300] Giancarlo Razzolini: > Em julho 27, 2020 21:03 Gaetan Bisson escreveu: > > > > It's quite unsettling that we seem to be rushing to write a news post > > while this very reasonable suggestion remains completely ignored. > > > > It wasn't ignored. They keys were

Re: [arch-dev-public] [aur-general] AUR migration

2020-07-27 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2020-07-25 00:18:55 +0200] Baptiste Jonglez: > On 24-07-20, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote: > > The migration is almost done. Since we are moving to a new machine, it will > > have new host keys. They are: > > > >Ed25519: SHA256:RFzBCUItH9LZS0cKB5UE6ceAYhBD5C8GeOBip8Z11+4 > >