[arch-dev-public] News draft: Undone replacement of pipewire-media-session with wireplumber

2022-05-12 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) via arch-dev-public
Hi all, I would like to post the following post-mortem to inform our users about the recent mishap with wireplumber. ``` Two days ago the `wireplumber` package was made to replace `pipewire-media-session` as the latter session manager for PipeWire is considered dead upstream and will see no more

Re: [arch-dev-public] News draft: QEMU >= 7.0.0 may need manual intervention

2022-04-22 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) via arch-dev-public
On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 10:38 AM David Runge via arch-dev-public < arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > The `qemu` package now only carries a few common files and tracks all of > its leaf packages as optional dependencies. > I'm still unhappy with `pacman -S qemu` not doing anything usef

Re: [arch-dev-public] Fun with LTO and stripping

2021-12-25 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) via arch-dev-public
On Sat, Dec 25, 2021, 22:01 Christian Hesse via arch-dev-public < arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > Allan McRae via arch-dev-public on > Fri, > 2021/12/24 18:01: > > This fix for the strip issue is for people to add CFLAGS+=" > > -ffat-lto-objects" to their PKGBUILDs if they use LTO a

[arch-dev-public] News draft: libxml2>=2.9.12-6 update may require manual intervention

2021-12-21 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) via arch-dev-public
The libxml2 package prior to version 2.9.12-6 was missing the compiled python modules. This has been fixed in 2.9.12-6, so the upgrade may need to overwrite any untracked pyc files created. If you get errors like these libxml2: usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/__pycache__/drv_libxml2.cpython-3

Re: [arch-dev-public] linux-firmware package, some thoughts

2021-09-27 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) via arch-dev-public
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 8:30 PM Tobias Powalowski via arch-dev-public < arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > Hi guys, > lately did a lot of archboot hacking and stumbled over our firmware > package. > It needs installed 750 MB, download size is 130 MB. > I tried to get it smaller and uplo