Re: [aur-general] Deletion of discord-updater{,-canary}?

On 05/10/2018 05:23 AM, Morgan Adamiec via aur-general wrote: > On 10 May 2018 at 01:50, Eli Schwartz via aur-general > wrote: >> On 05/09/2018 08:29 PM, Morgan Adamiec via aur-general wrote: >>> discord-updater is quite a confusing package to me. I'm not sure is I >>>

Re: [aur-general] Packaging all CRAN packages for R

On 05/26/2018 06:04 PM, Alex Branham via aur-general wrote: > Is this something people would like to have in the AUR? I figured I > should ask before adding ~12.5k packages. I'd recommend doing it like anatolik with his 'quarry' project (ruby), he's got the scripts on github[0], and hosts the

Re: [aur-general] pkgrel - Is it correct that some "fixes" aren't "fixes"?

On 06/22/2018 07:33 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 19:20:24 +0200, Robin Broda via aur-general wrote: >> If the built package does not change, pkgrel does not need to be >> incremented. > > Moving a package from AUR to Community or vice versa also doesn't &g

Re: [aur-general] pkgrel - Is it correct that some "fixes" aren't "fixes"?

On 06/22/2018 07:18 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dh-make/ for "The fix of the > source url was neither a fix...". Changing the source url to a different url of the same source will not influence the built package > Is it correct that some "fixes" aren't

Re: [aur-general] PKGBUILD depends() question

Try to figure out what upstream lists as dependencies, & check against namcap[1] [1] - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Namcap#Dependencies - Rob On 02/19/2018 05:08 AM, Future Trailer via aur-general wrote: When creating PKGBUILD how can I find the dependency of a package to fill the

Re: [aur-general] Spam account Hard_Work23

On 07/18/2018 11:46 PM, Lucas Salies Brum wrote: > SPAM here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/medleytext/ Removed, thanks for the report -- Rob (coderobe) O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

Re: [aur-general] [PRQ#11055] Deletion Request for dnscrypt-proxy-go | [PRQ#11056] Deletion Request for dnscrypt-proxy-go-git

On 04/04/2018 02:41 PM, Jordan Glover via aur-general wrote: > Can we get more explanation for this? This isn't a version bump. This project > was rewritten from scratch, the old sources are gone. The PKGBUILD was written > from scratch, packagement solutions were upstreamed[1]. Upstream points >

Re: [aur-general] [PRQ#11055] Deletion Request for dnscrypt-proxy-go | [PRQ#11056] Deletion Request for dnscrypt-proxy-go-git

On 04/04/2018 04:37 PM, Jordan Glover wrote: > On April 4, 2018 3:44 PM, Robin Broda via aur-general > <aur-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > >> On 04/04/2018 02:41 PM, Jordan Glover via aur-general wrote: >> >>> Can we get more explanation for this? This isn

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Robin Broda

On 03/04/2018 03:02 PM, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote: > On 03/03/2018 05:50 PM, Nico via aur-general wrote: >>> After becoming a TU, I'd like to look into promoting a couple of >>> packages from the AUR over time, including but not limited to >>> `rutorrent`, `psensor`, `glava` (currently

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Robin Broda

On 03/05/2018 05:11 PM, Levente Polyak via aur-general wrote: > On 03/02/2018 08:09 PM, Robin Broda via aur-general wrote: >> On 03/02/2018 06:17 PM, Levente Polyak via aur-general wrote: >>> find some notes related to your packages: >>> >>> [...] >>&

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Robin Broda

On 03/05/2018 05:27 PM, Levente Polyak via aur-general wrote: > On 03/05/2018 05:20 PM, Robin Broda via aur-general wrote: >> On 03/05/2018 05:11 PM, Levente Polyak via aur-general wrote: >> >>> On 03/02/2018 08:09 PM, Robin Broda via aur-general wrote: >&g

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Robin Broda

Interestingly enough, the signature went bad after transit. This message should verify fine. Regards, Rob On 03/02/2018 05:16 PM, Robin Broda via aur-general wrote: > Hello, > > I'm Robin 'coderobe' Broda, born in '99, and I'm writing to become a > Trusted User. > I've been an

[aur-general] TU Application - Robin Broda

Hello, I'm Robin 'coderobe' Broda, born in '99, and I'm writing to become a Trusted User. I've been an Arch user since ~2014, using it on several devices including most of my servers. I'm more or less active on IRC, very interested in open-source development[0], federated networks, & reproducible

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Robin Broda

On 03/02/2018 06:17 PM, Levente Polyak via aur-general wrote: > On 03/02/2018 05:16 PM, Robin Broda via aur-general wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm Robin 'coderobe' Broda, born in '99, and I'm writing to become a >> Trusted User. > Hi Robin, > > good luck. Tha

Re: [aur-general] Renaming xiccd to colord-xiccd

On 04/25/2018 11:53 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella via aur-general wrote: > I want to propose this > . > > > Alberto I think ooo has already sufficiently explained where the package name comes from on the bbs

Re: [aur-general] Become TU

On 10/13/18 3:25 PM, Islam Bahnasy via aur-general wrote: > > 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 suggest just creating your own package repository. -- Rob (coderobe) O< ascii ribbon campaign -

Re: [aur-general] PKGBUILD for an .AppImage

On 10/13/18 2:06 PM, Tom Hale wrote: > The advantages I see of packaging an AppImage are: > > * Automatic updates Automatic in what sense > * GUI integration (eg appname.desktop file and icon) > * Easy access to man pages, help docs and changelog > * Easy access to files (eg skeleton config

Re: [aur-general] PKGBUILD for an .AppImage

On 10/13/18 4:36 PM, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > I believe Tom is pointing to the advantages of deploying an AppImage via > a PKGBUILD, rather than of the AppImage format itself. Essentially, > using an AppImage as a package `source` like an RPM/deb or other > non-native packaging archive. Then

Re: [aur-general] flood of package adoption emails

On 10/26/18 10:36 AM, Johannes Wienke wrote: > Dear all, > > yesterday I received about 10 email notifications that my package > pass-git-helper-git was adopted by some random user, differing in each > email. Yet, the web interface shows myself as the maintainer and I never > opened the package

Re: [aur-general] Found a spam account; please delete crystal01

On 10/31/18 2:58 PM, Andy Kluger via aur-general wrote: > https://aur.archlinux.org/account/crystal01/comments > > Please delete this user, it's obviously a spam account. > Yup, done - thanks for the report. -- Rob (coderobe) O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

Re: [aur-general] Account Suspended, No Reason Given

On 11/4/18 2:00 AM, shoober420 via aur-general wrote: > I recently tried to be the maintainer for an package that hasn't been > updated in quite some time. I've been using my own PKGBUILD for the > particular package with great success, and currently am maintaining > the "lib32-sdl2-hg" 32 bit

Re: [aur-general] Account Suspended, No Reason Given

On 11/4/18 3:09 AM, shoober420 via aur-general wrote: > This still doesn't cover up the fact you gave NO WARNING before the > suspension. Consider me closing all your other open requests as the warning, and you opening a new request with an even worse comment as you - deliberately or not -

Re: [aur-general] Account Suspended, No Reason Given

On 11/4/18 12:32 PM, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > On 11/04/18 at 01:37am, shoober420 via aur-general wrote: >> Not only was no reason given to denying my request to maintain sdl2-hg, you >> gave no reason for suspending my account. FYI, "sdl2-hg" and >> "lib32-sdl2-hg" were both maintained by the

Re: [aur-general] TU application: Maxim Baz

On 10/29/18 1:16 PM, Maxim Baz via aur-general wrote: > Hello everyone, > > My name is Maxim Baz, and with Morten Linderud (Foxboron) as my sponsor > (who I was referred to by Alad Wenter) I'm applying to become a Trusted User. > Great that you're applying! > ... > Also, as a TU I want to

Re: [aur-general] Package requests

On 11/10/18 5:29 PM, Storm Dragon via aur-general wrote: > It's been a week or so Orphan requests have a 14-day grace period to give the maintainer time to respond. -- Rob (coderobe) O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

Re: [aur-general] Spam account: philipjoy6

On 11/16/18 11:26 AM, Tinu Weber wrote: > Hello > > Would somebody please take a look at this one? Thank you! > https://aur.archlinux.org/account/philipjoy6 > > Best, > Tinu > Comments removed & user suspended. Thanks for reporting. -- Rob (coderobe) O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html

Re: [aur-general] PKGBUILD git remote branch issue

On 11/7/18 3:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2018-11-07 at 08:40 -0600, Doug Newgard via aur-general wrote: >> On Wed, 07 Nov 2018 15:16:22 +0100 >> Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >>> "Configure finished, type 'make' to build. >>> /usr/src/claws-mail-gtk3-git/PKGBUILD: line 85: --enable-ldap:

Re: [aur-general] PKGBUILD for an .AppImage

On 10/11/18 8:12 AM, Tom Hale wrote: > I searched through the forums and can't find anything on packaging an > AppImage. > > The only app referenced (upwork-appimage) is no longer available. > > The particular AppImage in question is: > https://github.com/robert7/nixnote2/releases > > How do I

Re: [aur-general] Batch-Orphan announcement (337 packages) (was: Account suspension)

On 1/18/19 1:16 PM, Anton T Johansson wrote: > > I could do a PKGBUILD sourcing the AppImage if there's interest. > Please never do this. It'll only lead to your package getting removed. AppImage is its own packaging format, repackaging it for the AUR when there are alternatives (there are) is

Re: [aur-general] Batch-Orphan announcement (337 packages) (was: Account suspension)

On 1/14/19 1:00 AM, Robin Broda via aur-general wrote: > I am going to orphan all 337 packages maintained by GPereira in a couple of > hours; > Those are going to inevitably rot during the rather long-term account > suspension anyways. > > The packages are: > > arcu

Re: [aur-general] What happened to wine-gaming-nine?

On 1/23/19 12:37 AM, Alex Smith via aur-general wrote: > I am curious as to what happened to the AUR package named "wine-gaming- > nine". Did the account behind it get banned? Or was it simply deleted > because it was out of date. > multilib/wine-staging-nine happened -- Rob (coderobe) O<

Re: [aur-general] How to pkg-config (Was: TU application: Daurnimator)

On 12/18/18 3:28 AM, Daurnimator wrote: > --libs-only-other seems to be missing from > https://linux.die.net/man/1/pkg-config linux.die.net has been extremely out of date for ages, fwiw -- Rob (coderobe) O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org signature.asc

Re: [aur-general] TU application: Daurnimator

On 12/11/18 8:45 PM, Alad Wenter via aur-general wrote: > On 12/11/18 8:30 PM, Alad Wenter wrote: > >> Since the discussion period is about to end without much discussion... >> >> Right now the rate of new applications is very high - about 2 new >> applications per month. That makes a thorough

Re: [aur-general] TU application: Daurnimator

On 12/11/18 9:00 PM, Daurnimator wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 11:45, Alad Wenter via aur-general > wrote: >> 2. You have some AUR packages for LUA modules of your own making, yet >> they hardcode gcc lines instead of using a Makefile. [1] (At least they >> respect $CFLAGS and $LDFLAGS, I

Re: [aur-general] On TU application, TU participation and community/ package quality

On 11/18/18 3:52 AM, Xyne wrote: > On 2018-11-12 12:22 +0100 > Levente Polyak via aur-general wrote: > >> Sure, if we can call out sponsors for lack of proper guidance and >> commitment. Sometimes I have the feeling some sponsors don't do anything >> besides putting their name into an

Re: [aur-general] Orphan request: concourse-fly-bin

On 11/25/18 7:43 PM, Julien Nicoulaud via aur-general wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to orphan the concourse-fly-bin package ( > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/concourse-fly-bin), or at least add me > as co- maintainer (https://aur.archlinux.org/account/nicoulaj) ? > > The maintainer did

Re: [aur-general] Batch-Orphan announcement (337 packages) (was: Account suspension)

I am going to orphan all 337 packages maintained by GPereira in a couple of hours; Those are going to inevitably rot during the rather long-term account suspension anyways. The packages are: arcus-beta can-utils can-utils-git cura-beta curaengine-beta esp-idf fcl gazebo ideamaker libdart

Re: [aur-general] Account suspension

On 1/14/19 12:16 AM, Gonçalo Pereira wrote: > Hope you can take me back in the AUR community. > Again, I am sorry and will take AUR more seriously and calm. > Declined, at least for now. You've been given more than one chance in the past for exactly the same behavior. -- Rob (coderobe) O<

Re: [aur-general] Account suspension

On 1/13/19 9:22 PM, Gonçalo Pereira wrote: > Hey, > > Can I get my account unblocked? I am sorry. I would like to answer to > comments on one of the packages I mantain. > > Hope I am contacting the right channel. > > Best Regards, > > Gonçalo Pereira > No. Feel free to read the ML thread(s)

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

On 1/27/19 1:20 PM, Christian Rebischke via aur-general wrote: > I don't understand why we should delete orphaned packages in the AUR at > all. They are not harmful (like blowing up our repository like it would > do in community) nor are they unused only because they are orphaned. > > I prefer

Re: [aur-general] I want to update gtkhtml4 in AUR

On 1/28/19 2:04 AM, hagar wrote: > I am concerned that the experienced users of tgis list dont seem to want to > help "newbies" > > Any time they feel a question is in the realm of "Common Sense" they seem to > make "Assumptions" > > then the user is summarily "told off". > If i may,

Re: [aur-general] Delete Git tree for new package with broken state

On 3/27/19 1:43 PM, lambdadroid via aur-general wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to upload packages from archlinux-me176c [1] to the > AUR. My scripts create a subtree split of one package, then do quite > a bit of other magic and upload it to the AUR. > > I've been having a few problems with

Re: [aur-general] The Impossible, or: Static analysis of PKGBUILDS (was Re: Enforcing AUR package quality)

On 2/28/19 5:41 PM, alad via aur-general wrote: > That's the issue though, how do you do static analysis of a PKGBUILD - a > random bash script which should include certain named functions and variables > - without executing it? For example, mksrcinfo simply sources the PKGBUILD, > i.e.

Re: [aur-general] The Impossible, or: Static analysis of PKGBUILDS (was Re: Enforcing AUR package quality)

TL;DR: I think this is a people-problem that cannot be solved like this. alad pointed out on IRC that: > the bug reports pre-srcinfo which tried to parse bash and terribly failed > people actually hacked around their PKGBUILDs so the right information would > show on aurweb This is going to

Re: [aur-general] Account Status

On 2/12/19 11:47 PM, Gonçalo Pereira via aur-general wrote: > Hello, > > My account was suspended a few months ago It's been almost exactly one month, not "a few". > I would like to continue helping to fix packages > even though I haven't been decent in previous incidents. Attempting to take

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

On 4/16/19 2:46 PM, Lone_Wolf wrote: > Hi, > > > While it's been quiet for sometime > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/ has 2 advertising spam > messages in the last 5 days. > > The accounts used don't maintain any packages and have made no other comments. > > Please remove

Re: [aur-general] Account

Hi - On 6/13/19 8:57 PM, Gonçalo Pereira wrote: > I get it that you're pissed off with me and I agreed with the reason that got > me suspended and giving an overview of the requests I've made I can see how > unproductive it was that kind of "contributions". > At the moment it's just sad that I

Re: [aur-general] Account

On 6/13/19 8:32 PM, Aniket Pradhan wrote: > Hello Radislav and everyone! > > I am not sure I get a vote, but Aye! (Sorry, but had to use this quote :P) > >> We are all sometimes doing strange things > I agree with this. I suspect Goncalo was/is being naive here. He > probably had no idea that

Re: [aur-general] New to makepkg, can someone have a look at my scripts?

On 5/13/19 1:20 PM, Roberto Rossini wrote: > Can someone please check if they are ok and maybe give me some feedback on > things that I can improve? > >- Canu - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/canu/ - please don't end $pkgdesc with punctuation - 'canu' shouldn't be in provides=(), as a

Re: [aur-general] SPAM in AUR comment

On 5/21/19 9:46 AM, rho eat via aur-general wrote: > Hello, > > I have been receiving spam comment in my aur package > few month now, > which is increasing, and now "Submiting Request" for Deletion, I came here > reading post

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 ?

On 5/6/19 12:28 PM, Lone_Wolf wrote: > Quoting myself : > > On 05-05-2019 00:24, Lone_Wolf wrote: >> Whether those PKGBUILDs will be used in future aur mesa-git , exclusively in >> aur lone_wolf-* packages or not present in AUR at all is a decision TUs must >> take. >> > > If no decision has

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 ?

On 5/5/19 12:24 AM, Lone_Wolf wrote: > 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 in

Re: [aur-general] Spammy post on cntlm's AUR page

On 5/2/19 10:11 PM, Oon-Ee Ng via aur-general wrote: > Latest post, the only one by this account - > https://aur.archlinux.org/account/RonaldSteele - post unrelated to other > comments on cntlm and links to dodgy blog. > > Account just registered today. Surprised there's only one post so far. >

Re: [aur-general] [AUR] etcher package co-maintainer

On 4/23/19 6:42 PM, Robin Broda via aur-general wrote: > For the record, user gin078 - who the original mail was supposedly from - has > since adopted etcher, as it was an orphan anyways. > You weren't even the *previous* maintainer of the package, as haavard had > been

Re: [aur-general] [AUR] etcher package co-maintainer

On 4/23/19 2:57 PM, Gonçalo Pereira via aur-general wrote: > Good afternoon, I would be happy to add you. Even if you were unsuspended, you wouldn't be the person handing out (co)maintainer status as you do not - and have not - owned any packages. > However my account is currently suspended.

Re: [aur-general] TU membership application

On 8/16/19 9:19 PM, Jean Lucas via aur-general wrote: > Hi all, > > My name is Jean Lucas, and I'm sending this email to submit my candidacy > for Trusted User member. As per the latest TU bylaws, I'm being > sponsored by both Alexander Rødseth and Sergej Pupykin. How many TUs did you ask for

Re: [aur-general] TU membership application

On 8/17/19 8:49 PM, Jean Lucas wrote: > Hi Robin, > > On Sat, 2019-08-17 at 10:13 +0200, Robin Broda via aur-general wrote: >> On 8/16/19 9:19 PM, Jean Lucas via aur-general wrote: >>> My name is Jean Lucas, and I'm sending this email to submit my >>> candidacy &g

Re: [aur-general] TU application: Jonas Witschel (diabonas)

On 9/5/19 5:23 PM, Jonas Witschel wrote: > Hi all, > > my name is Jonas Witschel (online nick "diabonas" on the > AUR/GitHub/GitLab/...) and I am applying as an Arch Linux Trusted User > under the sponsorship of Bruno Pagani and Alad Wenter. > Hi! Promising application - I spent a few minutes

Re: [aur-general] PKGBUILD rfc

On 8/5/19 9:51 AM, Vladimir Bauer via aur-general wrote: > Hi! > > I have a PKGBUILD I would like to submit: > https://github.com/vbauerster/getparty-PKGBUILD > > What is further steps? > pacman, sudo, and git are not dependencies of your package. They should not be in depends=() The PKGBUILD

Re: [aur-general] Fwd: [AUR] esp-idf

On 6/30/19 6:35 PM, Gonçalo Pereira via aur-general wrote: > Hello, > This package is outdated for a month and the maintainer grabbed the package > in > the beggining of this year and never touched it. > I tried contacting him and nothing. Maybe I can maintain this package? (I was > the last

Re: [aur-general] Spam comment

On 3/6/20 11:41 AM, Fabius via aur-general wrote: > User: liteblueson > Spam comment posted on: > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-distutils-extra/#comment-732381 > Killed it, thanks for reporting -- Rob (coderobe) O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

Re: [aur-general] TU application; freswa

On 5/17/20 5:06 AM, Frederik Schwan via aur-general wrote: > Changes can be found here: > https://github.com/freswa/aur/commit/c3778f6bda345f0165289f3a57d36047e6ba5934 > > Thank you for doing the review :) Time for the next round: Package: datagrip datagrip-jre 'commercial' on line 9 is not a

Re: [aur-general] TU application; freswa

On 5/6/20 11:19 PM, Frederik Schwan via aur-general wrote: > Hi everyone, > my name is Frederik aka freswa and I'm applying to become a Trusted User with > svenstaro's and grazzolini's sponsorship. > > I started using Linux around 2004 with some live images of Ubuntu. In 2010, > Debian became