[arch-dev-public] keenerd unresponsiveness

2022-05-12 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hi All, I've tried to reach out to keenerd a couple of times about dropping some packages of him such as geda-gaf (which lets us drop guile2.0, gtk2 in the future etc.). But I haven't heard back about these mails. David has also tried to contact him about his key expiring and being unable to

Re: [arch-dev-public] Disowning Atom

2022-03-30 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hey, On 21/03/2022 09:24, Jelle van der Waa wrote: Hey, On 20/03/2022 16:51, Nicola Squartini via arch-dev-public wrote: Sorry for the poorly formatted email. The packages are: apm atom electron9 I'd go for, if no one shows up after a week let's drop it in the AUR so we can have one electr

Re: [arch-dev-public] Disowning Atom

2022-03-21 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hey, On 20/03/2022 16:51, Nicola Squartini via arch-dev-public wrote: Sorry for the poorly formatted email. The packages are: apm atom electron9 I'd go for, if no one shows up after a week let's drop it in the AUR so we can have one electron less :) Greetings, Jelle OpenPGP_signature De

[arch-dev-public] sdl12-compat

2022-03-18 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hi all, SDL1 has been deprecated for a while now but we still have some games and programs which depend on it. Fedora started using SDL's compatbility library sdl12-compat which implements sdl1 using sdl2 which means you can run games under wayland, get better controller support and an actual

Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] archweb nvchecker integration

2022-02-07 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
On 06/02/2022 17:20, Frederik Schwan via arch-dev-public wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 09:25:41PM +0100, Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public wrote: We’ve wanted automatic flagging packages out of date for a while and currently every packager has to come up with it’s own solution. Let’s

Re: [arch-dev-public] Debug packages for Arch Linux

2022-02-04 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hey all, On 30/01/2022 12:08, Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public wrote: I'm very happy to announce that debug packages in Arch Linux has been deployed :) This work began after FOSDEM 2020 and was announced in November 2020. However because of time constraints it took quite a while before we m

Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] archweb nvchecker integration

2022-02-02 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
On 01/02/2022 21:54, George Rawlinson via arch-dev-public wrote: On 22-02-01 08:21, Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public wrote: These require running arbitrary scripts on archweb so they should probably remain unsupported. Is there no better options? At this stage, the following [community] pa

[arch-dev-public] [RFC] archweb nvchecker integration

2022-01-31 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
We’ve wanted automatic flagging packages out of date for a while and currently every packager has to come up with it’s own solution. Let’s solve this centralized by integrating nvchecker into archweb. nvchecker is a program which can monitor versions upstreams, github, pypi, haskell, crates.io

Re: [arch-dev-public] Debug packages for Arch Linux

2022-01-31 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
On 30/01/2022 12:59, Kristian Klausen via arch-dev-public wrote: On 30.01.2022 12.08, Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public wrote: I'm very happy to announce that debug packages in Arch Linux has been deployed :) This work began after FOSDEM 2020 and was announced in November 2020. However beca

[arch-dev-public] Packages seeking Maintainers

2022-01-21 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hello, Noticing that I don't really have time and energy to maintain a part of my packages. I think it's better to disown them and let others take care of them, the list is: chromium-bsu guetzli hey (can be dropped as it's not really maintained anymore and oha is much nicer) podofo rdesktop

Re: [arch-dev-public] Debug package support in dbscripts

2021-12-16 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hi All, On 14/12/2021 21:22, Jelle van der Waa wrote: Hi All, Foxboron has been working on support for debug packages in dbscripts the past year. The progress has been slow but we are at a stage where we want to deploy the dbscripts portion of this. That means that on Thursday 17:00 until 20

Re: [arch-dev-public] Debug package support in dbscripts

2021-12-16 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Reminder! repos.archlinux.org is unavailable in 30 minutes. On 14/12/2021 21:22, Jelle van der Waa wrote: Hi All, Foxboron has been working on support for debug packages in dbscripts the past year. The progress has been slow but we are at a stage where we want to deploy the dbscripts portion

[arch-dev-public] Debug package support in dbscripts

2021-12-14 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hi All, Foxboron has been working on support for debug packages in dbscripts the past year. The progress has been slow but we are at a stage where we want to deploy the dbscripts portion of this. That means that on Thursday 17:00 until 20:00 UTC+1 we will close down repos.archlinux.org for an

Re: [arch-dev-public] Upcoming PHP 8.1 update

2021-12-06 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hi, On 06/12/2021 16:11, Pierre Schmitz via arch-dev-public wrote: I'll also evaluate if we could drop the php7 packages at the same time Just checked, mediawiki does not officially support PHP 8 yet and our bugtracker is still PHP 7. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248925 Greetin

Re: [arch-dev-public] Python 3.10 rebuilds

2021-12-03 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hi All, On 03/12/2021 12:33, Evangelos Foutras via arch-dev-public wrote: I created a todo for the remaining ~150 packages. Just to emphasize that if a package appears as incomplete on the todo but exists in staging, that's most likely the first package built with --nocheck in order to satisfy o

Re: [arch-dev-public] Dropping python2 as a development environment

2021-11-29 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hi, On 14/11/2021 19:40, Jelle van der Waa wrote: Hi All, I would like to propose that we start deprecating python2 and only allowing to exists for: * Make dependencies where required (js68, grafana-zabbix, etc.) * Runtime dependencies such as (john, displayical, etc.) This would basically

Re: [arch-dev-public] Arch Monthly Report - November

2021-11-17 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hi, On 17/11/2021 13:27, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote: On 17/11/21 22:03, Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public wrote: ## Devtools * pacman's makepkg.conf is synced with new hardening CFLAGS such as `-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-clash-protection

[arch-dev-public] Arch Monthly Report - November

2021-11-17 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hi All, This is the first of hopefully a monthly mail on the first day of the month on the progress of important parts of our distribution. If have something which should be included, please pm / mail me. Or add it to the pad. https://md.archlinux.org/ejoz5fgLTzaSxlBBZcgphA Now for the news

[arch-dev-public] Dropping python2 as a development environment

2021-11-14 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hi All, I would like to propose that we start deprecating python2 and only allowing to exists for: * Make dependencies where required (js68, grafana-zabbix, etc.) * Runtime dependencies such as (john, displayical, etc.) This would basically imply that we drop python2-pip and python2-virtuale

[arch-dev-public] New archweb release

2021-09-29 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hi all, Today archlinux.org was updated to the latest version with some notable changes: * Port more jQuery code to vanilla JavaScript, saves a wopping 30 kB of network data for the package detail view. * Fixed a bug in the importing of rebuilderd data with packages which contain an epoch.

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

2021-09-27 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
On 27/09/2021 21:13, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) via arch-dev-public wrote: 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 inst

Re: [arch-dev-public] Go 1.17 released - to rebuild or not to rebuild

2021-08-22 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
On 17/08/2021 20:36, Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public wrote: Yo, I packaged up the new Go release yesterday and moved it over to stable earlier today. Usually new Go minor releases frequently include new compiler improvements and some assorted runtime changes. Previous releases I have done c

[arch-dev-public] namcap maintainership

2021-08-21 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hi All, I find a bit unfortunate to write this email, but I've emailed keenerd one month ago about git.archlinux.org being deprecated and namcap which he maintains being moved to Gitlab. So far I have not received a reply from keenerd. It also seems that namcap has not seen commits in a year

[arch-dev-public] Away for a week

2021-07-24 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hi All, I'll be away for a week without access to my packaging key, feel free to update any packages of mine which are out of date. Greetings, Jelle van der Waa OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[arch-dev-public] deprecating git.archlinux.org

2021-06-23 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hi All, Today mailman was moved to a dedicated vps, making git.archlinux.org the last service to run on luna which we intend to retire as it's an old expensive box and GitLab is our replacement for Git hosting. If your project has not been migrated to Gitlab yet please contact devops for hel

Re: [arch-dev-public] Transitioning out my master key

2021-06-06 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
On 01/06/2021 16:24, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote: Em junho 1, 2021 10:54 Allan McRae via arch-dev-public escreveu: It is time for my master key to be retired.  That can not happen any time soon, as revoking my key means ~25% of packagers will not be able to validly sign package

[arch-dev-public] TIER 0 Mirror Access for All

2021-06-03 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hi All, For everyone with the correct role (Developers, Trusted Users or Support Staff) the tier 0 mirror is available for usage to get the absolute latest packages. The authentication is done with a basic auth which pacman supports and a token has to be generated in archweb to be able to use

[arch-dev-public] Barthalion's orphan packages

2021-05-08 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hi, I've removed Barthalion as maintainer from the last packages in archweb, these packages are now orphan and would like a new maintainer. If any of the packages need to be moved to the [community] please ask :) * libnss_nis * rpcsvc-proto * dejagnu * xdg-dbus-proxy * flatpak * flatpak-build

[arch-dev-public] Call for organisers for an online conference

2021-05-03 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hi All, Last year we had an amazing event organised by Foxboron, dvzrv and many other volunteers. For this year Foxboron and dvzrv have decided to not organise an event and rather focus on planning an in-person event for 2022. For an online event to happen in 2021, a new team has to be formed

Re: [arch-dev-public] Spring cleanup '21

2021-05-03 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
On 03/05/2021 21:18, Jelle van der Waa wrote: On 02/05/2021 23:51, alad via arch-dev-public wrote: On 28/04/2021 18:16, Antonio Rojas via arch-dev-public wrote: It's been over a year since our last package cleanup and orphans keep piling up. Please head to https://archlinux.org/devel/reports

Re: [arch-dev-public] Spring cleanup '21

2021-05-03 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
On 02/05/2021 23:51, alad via arch-dev-public wrote: On 28/04/2021 18:16, Antonio Rojas via arch-dev-public wrote: It's been over a year since our last package cleanup and orphans keep piling up. Please head to https://archlinux.org/devel/reports/unneeded-orphans/ and adopt packages you'd like

[arch-dev-public] archlinux.org update

2021-04-28 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hi All, Today I've updated archlinux.org with some interesting changes for packagers. Two new reports have been added: * A new report which includes all required orphan packages in our repositories. [1] * A new report which which includes all orphan non reproducible packages [2] The non rep

Re: [arch-dev-public] archlinux-tools group

2021-04-25 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
On 24/04/2021 22:55, Santiago Torres-Arias wrote: On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 10:43:38PM +0200, Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public wrote: Hi All, I've introduced a new group "archlinux-tools" for arch-rebuild-order and orhun will add it to arch-repro-status. I'm planning

[arch-dev-public] archlinux-tools group

2021-04-24 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hi All, I've introduced a new group "archlinux-tools" for arch-rebuild-order and orhun will add it to arch-repro-status. I'm planning to add arch-signoff, and ask Fox to add archlinux-contrib as well. The idea is that Arch Linux related tools which benefit packaging get added to the archlinu

Re: [arch-dev-public] Killing python2 v3...v4...v5

2021-03-15 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
On 15/03/2021 19:10, Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public wrote: Yo! As people know python2 has been unsupported for a year and we current have ~170 python2 packages in our repositories. Currently the removal has been fairly slow and done a bit ad-hoc. There has been a todo list but the follow up

[arch-dev-public] New archweb release

2021-02-13 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
Hi All, A new archweb release has been deployed on archlinux.org which features a new user facing change in the todolist functionality. When creating a todolist it's now possible to specify the "kind" of todolist either a "rebuild" or "task". A "rebuild" should be used for rebuilds as usual,

Re: [arch-dev-public] Goodbye

2021-01-23 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
On 21/01/2021 14:08, Bartłomiej Piotrowski via arch-dev-public wrote: Hi everyone, I'm stepping down as a developer. It's been mostly fantastic ride for the last 10 years but it's clear to me now that for better or worse it's far from the project I initially joined. Thank you for all your cont

Re: [arch-dev-public] Chromium losing Sync support on March 15

2021-01-20 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
On 20/01/2021 18:28, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote: Em janeiro 20, 2021 13:38 Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public escreveu: I'm fine with this approach, and I hope it works for a long time. After reading this thread [0], I think that, if we keep using their keys, or even