Re: [aur-general] Should "base" packages be listed as dependencies?

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 07:17:17PM -0400, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote: > Arch Linux does not support people who don't have systemd installed > though, and regarding Baptiste's initial example of glibc, if you don't > have glibc installed then your system is so screwed up it's not even >

Re: [aur-general] Bump pkgrel just to force recompilation

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 09:41:39AM -0500, Doug Newgard wrote: > On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 10:26:09 -0400 > Eli Schwartz wrote: > > > pkgrel is supposed to monotonically increase on each rebuild of the > > package. > > Which is completely invalid in the AUR. How is the

Re: [aur-general] Removal request for romextract

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 05:20:29AM +, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > When deletion requests were sent to this mailing list, it was expected > to add the link, however, IIRC it changed 2 or more years ago. > > "[snip] requests can be created by clicking on the "Submit Request" link > under "Package

[aur-general] Removal request for romextract

I'd like to request removal for romextract. I sorta became upstream since it was easier at the time than patching and the source hadn't been touched in years, but I zapped most of my GH projects long ago so the source in the (orphaned) PKGBUILD is dead, and it's questionable whether this belonged

Re: [aur-general] When to make a separate package.

On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 11:41:29PM +, Mikael Blomstrand via aur-general wrote: > Hi! I just started playing around with making my own PKGBUILDs and just > made one for the "*remarkable*" markdown editor. The problem with > *remarkable* is that it uses webkitgtk. I was able to find a PR to the

Re: [aur-general] Perl PKGBUILD review

On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 01:47:51PM -0500, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote: > You do not need to obfuscate your email address, alternatively you > already have older versions that are quite discoverable and contain the > unobfuscated version. That being said, you used the single most common >

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] upgpkg: qutebrowser 1.3.0-1

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 02:55:33AM -0400, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote: > I'm not a big qutebrowser user, but it seems to work okay with my > testing, plus I got some random #archlinux-offtopic person to test my > package :D so I guess I'm comfortable pushing this update. Can confirm some

Re: [aur-general] Confusing situation with python-crontab vs python-crontab2

On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 03:56:46PM +0200, Karol Babioch wrote: > To make things less confusing I would strongly argue to merge these > packages (i.e. delete that latter one(s) and adopt the former one). > > Ideally tadly, the maintainer of the *-crontab2 packages should do this > for himself, but