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

2019-02-28 Thread alad via aur-general
Am 28.02.2019 um 04:25 schrieb Drew DeVault via aur-general: On 2019-02-28 2:22 AM, Levente Polyak via aur-general wrote: For the AUR I don't keep up with upstream releases, I just wait for someone to mark the package as outdated. For Alpine Linux I use a combination of subscribing to the

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

2019-02-28 Thread alad via aur-general
Am 28.02.2019 um 17:34 schrieb Jerome Leclanche: 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 the AUR lint PKGBUILDs on git push (and reject really bad ones) if we want to

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

2019-02-26 Thread alad via aur-general
Am 27.02.2019 um 02:30 schrieb Drew DeVault: > On 2019-02-27 2:09 AM, alad via aur-general wrote: >> [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18156980 > I said my piece in the thread and I encourage anyone concerned to read > through the comments here. For what it's worth, the co

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

2019-02-27 Thread alad via aur-general
Am 27.02.2019 um 07:56 schrieb Eli Schwartz via aur-general: On 2/27/19 1:37 AM, Brett Cornwall via aur-general wrote: On 2019-02-27 02:09, alad via aur-general wrote: Considering some recent issues regarding team behavior [1] in Arch, I'm going to have to ask on some of your previous

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

2019-03-01 Thread alad via aur-general
Am 28.02.2019 um 22:40 schrieb Daniel M. Capella via aur-general: > 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: >>> I've been thinking enforcing the use of makechrootpkg and namcap on >>> package

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

2019-02-26 Thread alad via aur-general
Am 25.02.2019 um 00:24 schrieb Drew DeVault via aur-general: > Hiya! Jerome convinced me to finally apply for TU, and Sven-Hendrik > agreed to co-sponsor my application (both Cc'd). > > I'm a generalist that works on free software full time. I maintain the > following AUR packages: > >

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

2019-02-26 Thread alad via aur-general
Am 27.02.2019 um 02:17 schrieb Jerome Leclanche: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 2:10 AM alad via aur-general > wrote: >> I haven't read all the documentation for this project, but noticed some >> oddities. Your build service appears to build AUR packages in full >> au

Re: [aur-general] PKGBUILD review request

2019-02-07 Thread alad via aur-general
Am 07.02.2019 um 23:13 schrieb Josef Miegl: > I've been trying to improve my AUR packages for the last few days. I'm > still a beginner in package maintaining so I would like to have some > feedback on some of my PKGBUILDs. I would love to hear everything that > is wrong about them. Thanks! You

Re: [aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions

2019-02-09 Thread alad via aur-general
Am 09.02.2019 um 14:49 schrieb Xyne: > On 2019-02-09 14:36 +0100 > alad via aur-general wrote: > >> The "original" lsf looks like a joke/troll package to me, rather than >> "trivial". I'd have deleted it even without community duplicate. >>

Re: [aur-general] SPAM delivered from Thanos1234 account in AUR

2019-02-09 Thread alad via aur-general
Am 09.02.2019 um 14:26 schrieb Daniel Mirkin via aur-general: > To Trust Users: > > Today I've received SPAM, delivered from Thanos1234 account, in the > comments area of my USBPICPROG package in AUR. > > I saw that SPAM comments was delivered to at least three other AUR pages > from the same

Re: [aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions

2019-02-09 Thread alad via aur-general
Am 09.02.2019 um 14:34 schrieb Xyne: > Hi everyone, > > This is in regard to this thread on the forum: > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=244051 > > The packaged contained this project: > https://github.com/Aniket-Pradhan/lsd > > To summarize the thread, an AUR package that had existed

Re: [aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions

2019-02-10 Thread alad via aur-general
Am 09.02.2019 um 20:35 schrieb Xyne: > alad via aur-general wrote: > >> When I look at the removed package however, I see a bash script which >> takes up all available resources to display an animation which may >> induce severe health issues to some users, i.e. induc

Re: [aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions.

2019-02-10 Thread alad via aur-general
Am 10.02.2019 um 11:24 schrieb Aniket Pradhan: > Hello Everyone! > > I am Aniket Pradhan, username: major, who wrote "lsd" and initiated the > discussion. > > I would like to thank everyone for their input on this matter. > > I agree with the others, that this IS a silly little script. I wrote it

Re: [aur-general] Proposal: Mark packages that require significant computational power to build

2020-04-28 Thread alad via aur-general
On 05/04/2020 23:13, Paul Hentschel wrote: > On 4/3/20 6:55 PM, Loui Chang wrote: >> Neat idea but too arbitrary unless you can figure out a way to quantify or >> measure an 'intensity score' in a scientific manner. >> > Linux From Scratch uses a Standard Build Unit (SBU) to quantify build >

Re: [aur-general] Package needed: xcalib

2020-04-28 Thread alad via aur-general
On 15/04/2020 00:23, Kristian N. via aur-general wrote: > Hello. I'm going to be a new Arch user soon and there is an important package > I need called xcalib. I need it to adjust my screen due to some vision > problems. It is currently in the AUR: > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xcalib/

Re: [aur-general] SGE

2020-10-14 Thread alad via aur-general
On 14/10/2020 17:16, Manhong Dai via aur-general wrote: Hi Bruno, Top-posting, do you know what it means? Do not do this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting But do this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style or

Re: [aur-general] SGE

2020-10-14 Thread alad via aur-general
On 14/10/2020 21:09, t...@tswartz.net wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 09:03:26PM +0200, alad via aur-general wrote: On 14/10/2020 17:16, Manhong Dai via aur-general wrote: Hi Bruno, Top-posting, do you know what it means? Do not do this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting

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

2020-08-09 Thread alad via aur-general
Am 8/08/2020 um 14:07 schrieb Christian Rebischke via aur-general: On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 01:55:38AM -0500, Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR) wrote: Just to add, could one become a TU in a pseudo-anonymous way? As in, just be known in nickname only. Or does one have to give

Re: [aur-general] know what dependencies in PKGBUILD

2020-07-23 Thread alad via aur-general
Am 23/07/2020 um 15:10 schrieb Budi via aur-general: h\How to know what dependencies only need to put (surely not all) I proceed as follows: 1. ignore anything in base-devel 2. include libraries listed in ldd, if the package includes a compiled executable 3. include external commands if

Re: [aur-general] know what dependencies in PKGBUILD

2020-07-23 Thread alad via aur-general
On 23/07/2020 15:45, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote: On 7/23/20 9:17 AM, alad via aur-general wrote: Am 23/07/2020 um 15:10 schrieb Budi via aur-general: h\How to know what dependencies only need to putĀ  (surely not all) I proceed as follows: 1. ignore anything in base-devel base

Re: [aur-general] Transition users from package x to package y (package x deprecated)

2020-12-26 Thread alad via aur-general
On 27/12/2020 02:30, alad via aur-general wrote: On 26/12/2020 15:39, Michael Kogan via aur-general wrote: Done, thanks! Eventually I did all of the above (a "replaces" field in the new package which seems to have no impact though, an echo output with the deprecation message, a d

Re: [aur-general] Transition users from package x to package y (package x deprecated)

2020-12-26 Thread alad via aur-general
On 26/12/2020 15:39, Michael Kogan via aur-general wrote: Done, thanks! Eventually I did all of the above (a "replaces" field in the new package which seems to have no impact though, an echo output with the deprecation message, a deprecation message in the package description, a comment on the