On 2022-07-25 20:09, Jonathon Fernyhough via aur-general wrote: > While EndeavourOS is one of the closest derivatives I'm aware of, they still > have their own repo with some tooling and hooks which might (maybe) affect > things once installed (package building can/should be done in a clean Arch > chroot so that's never an issue). Therefore, running some instance of Arch > proper (even if it's in a VM) is likely to be important, as you say, for > testing and validation.
I would indeed expect all building and smoketesting of packages to be carried out on a vanilla Arch system. Doing the building on a derivative distribution, however small its modifications might be, might introduce subtle reproducibility bugs that I would like to avoid at all costs. I also expect all packagers to do basic testing of their packages on a standard system to catch obvious packaging mistakes. > Having said all of this, I'd also wait to hear from any devs/TUs who want to > weigh in on this; they might consider that an Arch TU not running Arch might > be a bit weird. xD On the other hand, I have absolutely no issue with packagers also running or contributing to derivative distributions: it feels to me like there are not many connections between upstream Arch and its ports/derivatives, which is a pity. I think there is a lot of collaboration potential not only w.r.t. packaging, but also regarding usage and improvement of distribution-specific tooling (e.g. dbscripts/repod, keyringctl, ...). Having an active EndeavourOS contributor feels like a great way to bridge this perceived gap a bit. To reiterate, I expect any member of the Arch staff to take an active role in the Arch community. Using Arch only as a "service platform" to get packages into derivative distributions wouldn't work well, but that is absolutely not the impression I get from this TU application. On the other hand, there is no rule forbidding staff members to use other distributions as well, and I see no reason why derivatives of Arch should be special in that regard. Best, Jonas
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