Standardize on running autoreconf in prepare()

2025-02-26 Thread Levente Polyak
+1 from me Doing the `autoreconf -fiv` dance in basically all of my packages for quite a while. We should standardize this. Every now and then some upstreams can't be easily regenerated, but imo this is arguably an upstream bug that should be resolved. Cheers Levente

Re: Cleaning up old [community*] repos

2025-02-13 Thread Levente Polyak
On 2/7/25 4:11 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: Hey, The git/community-to-extra migration was almost two years ago. Back then, we left the [community] repository and friends ([community- staging], [community-testing]) in place (though empty) so that users would have an easier time migrating. T

Re: RFC Final Comment Period: Streamline the RFC writing process

2024-11-14 Thread Levente Polyak
On 10/2/24 6:54 PM, Robin Candau wrote: An RFC has now entered Final Comment Period. In 14 days, discussion will end and the proposal will either be accepted, rejected or withdrawn: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/43 Please visit the above link for discussion. Sum

Re: Let's drop ollama-gemma2-2b and forbid GenAI models

2024-11-13 Thread Levente Polyak
On 11/13/24 5:53 AM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: Hey all, There's been some discussion about this via chat but no action has been taken. Some time ago, ollama-gemma2-2b was uploaded to [extra] which has caused some discussion for various reasons. Thank you very much for assembling the inform

Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration

2024-09-27 Thread Levente Polyak
We are excited to announce that Arch Linux is entering into a direct collaboration with Valve. Valve is generously providing backing for two critical projects that will have a huge impact on our distribution: a build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave. By supporting work on a f

Arch Linux in April 2024

2024-09-18 Thread Levente Polyak
## Staff ### Project Leader Election Recently, we held our [Arch Linux Project Leader][0] election, and the current Project Leader, Levente "anthraxx" Polyák, was the sole nominee. As per our election rules, he has been re-elected for another term. Congratulations to Levente, and we wish him

Arch Linux in August 2024

2024-09-18 Thread Levente Polyak
## Staff We would like to welcome [Quentin Michaud][0] as part of the Arch Linux Package Maintainer team. ## RFC A previously proposed [Distribution Developer Manual RFC][1] has been accepted with the intention to document how to run the distribution while leveraging GitLab's collaboration

Arch Linux in July 2024

2024-09-18 Thread Levente Polyak
## Pacman [Pacman v7.0.0][0] has been released as a major feature version. A new `DownloadUser` configuration option allows for dropping privileges when downloading files to a temporary directory. On top of this security measure, the new Landlock sandbox also prevents writing outside the rest

Arch Linux in June 2024

2024-09-18 Thread Levente Polyak
## archinstall The [archinstall v2.8.1][0] update has been released, featuring several bug fixes and improvements to partitioning and desktop profiles, along with the introduction of experimental LVM support and the addition of Finnish translation. ## ArchWeb [ArchWeb 2024-06-12][1] has bee

Arch Linux in May 2024

2024-09-18 Thread Levente Polyak
## Staff We would like to welcome [Bert Peters][0] (bertptrs) as well as [Giovanni Harting][1] (anonfunc) as part of the Arch Linux Package Maintainer team. ## RFC An [RFC has been accepted][2] to introduce "Arch Linux Ports" as testbed for unofficial architectures until they are integrated

Arch Linux in March 2024

2024-09-18 Thread Levente Polyak
## Staff We would like to welcome [Carl Smedstad][0] as part of the Arch Linux Package Maintainer team. Furthermore, we would like to welcome svartkanin as Support Staff for the archinstall project, assisting with issue tracking and handling of merge requests. ### Project Leader Election

Arch Linux in February 2024

2024-09-18 Thread Levente Polyak
## Staff We would like to welcome Vincent Dahmen (wahrwolf) as Arch Linux Support Staff with their new role as Mirror Admin. On top we would like to welcome [andreymal and codingkoopa][0] to their new role as ArchWiki Maintainers. Additionally, we would like to congratulate Christian Heusel

Re: Arch Linux public upload server

2024-09-01 Thread Levente Polyak
Sep 1, 2024 11:49:46 Morten Linderud : > I think it's important to specify how the moderation capabilities are. Public > paste services are *bounds* to be abused and can distribute malicious files > and > illegal files. This needs to be dealt with and should probably not cause too > much friction

RFC Final Comment Period: Distribution Developer Manual

2024-08-09 Thread Levente Polyak
An RFC has now entered its Final Comment Period. In 14 days, discussion will end and the proposal will either be accepted, rejected or withdrawn: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/21 Please visit the above link for discussion. Summary: This RFC proposes the migration

RFC: Distribution Developer Manual

2024-02-24 Thread Levente Polyak
A new RFC (request for comment) has been opened here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/21 Please visit the above link for discussion. Summary: This RFC proposes the migration of Arch Linux's operational distro specifications from existing ArchWiki and other sources

Arch Linux in January 2024

2024-02-13 Thread Levente Polyak
## Staff We would like to welcome [Vladimir LAVALLADE (Erus Iluvatar)][0] to their new role as ArchWiki Administrator. ## Infrastructure The DevOps team has recently provisioned a new EPYC 9454P build server for Arch Linux packaging. This high-performance server is meant to streamline the p

Arch Linux in December 2023

2024-01-23 Thread Levente Polyak
## Staff We would like to welcome [Jakub Klinkovský (lahwaacz)][0] as part of the Arch Linux Package Maintainer team. ## User meetup During the [37th Chaos Communication Congress (37C3)][1], we hosted a user meetup. At this event, we presented our latest achievements and developments. Addit

Arch Linux in November 2023

2023-12-12 Thread Levente Polyak
## Arch Summit 2023 The Arch Summit took place in Hamburg, Germany, on November 4th and 5th, bringing together Arch Linux staff and invited guests. The summit provided an opportunity for the staff to connect, socialize, and delve into discussions regarding various aspects of our distro. A ra

Arch Linux in October 2023

2023-12-10 Thread Levente Polyak
## Staff We would like to welcome [Christian Heusel (gromit)][0] to the Arch Linux DevOps team, expanding his responsibilities. ## bugbuddy The initial version of [Bugbuddy][1], our GitLab bug bot, has been introduced. This tool assigns package maintainers to confirmed GitLab issues in the

Bugtracker Migration to GitLab

2023-11-09 Thread Levente Polyak
## Scope Our primary goal is to migrate bugs.archlinux.org to GitLab, focusing on packaging bugs and our internal projects. In this email, we'll outline the workflow for packaging bugs and seek your assistance in testing the migration and the bug bot in the [test migration group](https://gitl

Re: bash 5.2.x status

2023-10-29 Thread Levente Polyak
Hi all, After resolving all known issues with our tooling and other projects, we had a version in testing now for an extended period of time. After 15 additional signoffs, I've moved bash 5.2.015-5 to core. bash 5.2 has arrived, may it create only small havoc. Cheers, Levente OpenPGP_signa

Arch Linux in September 2023

2023-10-22 Thread Levente Polyak
## Staff We would like to welcome [Fabian Bornschein (fabiscafe)][0] as part of the Arch Linux Package Maintainer team. ## Bug weekend During the 1st to 3rd of September, we conducted a [bug weekend][1] with the aim of resolving old bugs and implementing proposed solutions. This effort not

Re: dbscripts leftover packages in staging and testing

2023-10-21 Thread Levente Polyak
On 9/25/23 20:18, Levente Polyak wrote: Hi all, this is mostly a notification mail about some inconsistencies with dbscripts where under specific circumstances some leftover packages remain in staging or testing. This issue seems to exist since the last major rollout in June. There seem to

Re: RFC Final Comment Period: Add -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs

2023-09-25 Thread Levente Polyak
On 9/10/23 23:10, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) wrote: An RFC has now entered its Final Comment Period. In 14 days, discussion will end and the proposal will either be accepted, rejected or withdrawn: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/23 Please visit the above link

dbscripts leftover packages in staging and testing

2023-09-25 Thread Levente Polyak
Hi all, this is mostly a notification mail about some inconsistencies with dbscripts where under specific circumstances some leftover packages remain in staging or testing. This issue seems to exist since the last major rollout in June. There seem to be at least two different bugs involved,

Arch Linux in August 2023

2023-09-10 Thread Levente Polyak
## Staff We would like to welcome Tomaz Canabrava (tcanabrava) as part of the Arch Linux Package Maintainer team. ## AURWeb In [AURWeb v6.2.7][0], we primarily focused on bug fixes while revamping Prometheus metrics. We introduced new measures like request tracking and cache-hit/miss ratios

Arch Linux in July 2023

2023-08-09 Thread Levente Polyak
## Staff We would like to welcome Mario Oenning (moson) as new Arch Linux Support Staff Member. ## devtools arch-nspawn is now utilizing a distinct scope name instead of the previous `--keep-unit` approach. This allows for the creation of a dedicated scope, placing the container within a sl

Arch Linux in June 2023

2023-07-15 Thread Levente Polyak
## packaging We have now enabled all packagers to have default access to the multilib and unstable desktop (GNOME/KDE) repositories. This decision removes artificial gates and simplifies the process for packagers to contribute to different aspects of the distro's packaging. By granting wider a

Re: RFC Final Comment Period: Use of SPDX license identifiers in PKGBUILDs

2023-07-15 Thread Levente Polyak
On 6/25/23 19:33, Morten Linderud wrote: An RFC has now entered Final Comment Period. In 14 days, discussion will end and the proposal will either be accepted, rejected or withdrawn: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/16 Please visit the above link for discussion. Sum

Arch Linux in May 2023

2023-06-12 Thread Levente Polyak
## Staff We would like to welcome Anton Hvornum (torxed) and Christian Heusel (gromit) among the Arch Linux Package Maintainers. On top we would like to welcome Leonidas Spyropoulos (artafinde) to their new additional duties as Arch Linux Developer ## Git packaging We are thrilled to annou

Re: Flyspray migration plan

2023-06-02 Thread Levente Polyak
Jun 2, 2023 21:21:18 Antonio Rojas : >> The bot will also set an “unconfirmed” label to new issues so bug >> wranglers and packagers alike can see and filter whether a bug has >> already been reproduced. > > Does this mean bugs are no longer going to be triaged by a human bug > > wrangler befor

[multilib] access

2023-05-28 Thread Levente Polyak
Sounds good, +1 from me. We used to have this to restrict and "gatekeep" what people add to multilib as we don't want random lib32 libraries as leaf packages just for the sake of having the lib32 libraries. But I think that doesn't really need a special privilege group. Let's simplify this 👍

Git migration completed

2023-05-21 Thread Levente Polyak
We are proud to announce that the migration to Git packaging succeeded! 🥳 Thanks to everyone who has helped during the migration! Package sources are now available on GitLab[0]. Note that the bugtracker is still flyspray[1] and that merge requests are not accepted as of now. We intend to open th

Re: Git migration started

2023-05-20 Thread Levente Polyak
Hi all, We just wanted to post a small status update: Everything is going as planned so far. The most thrilling bits have been finished successfully and we are ahead of schedule. So far only tiny things popped up that we need to take care of 🥳 The Git packaging ecosystem including updated devt

Re: Git migration started

2023-05-19 Thread Levente Polyak
On 5/19/23 11:36, Jelle van der Waa wrote: Hi all, I got my morning coffee ready and will now start disabling ssh/svn access and stop our rsync endpoint. For more details of the migration please read the announcement email. [1] [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-annou...@lis

Re: Git packaging rollout 🚀

2023-05-17 Thread Levente Polyak
On 5/12/23 16:59, Morten Linderud wrote: To make this easy for us doing the migration please ensure that [testing] and [staging] are empty or cleared before next friday. Friendly reminder: please check your released packages and clear up testing/staging repos if possible. Cheers, Levente

Arch Linux in April 2023

2023-05-07 Thread Levente Polyak
## project management We've create a GitLab Board [0] to track all tasks related to project management and project leadership. This Board allows us to visualize the exact state of tasks using different lanes and labels, making it easier to keep track of ongoing progress. Additionally, tasks wi

Git packaging rollout 🚀

2023-05-03 Thread Levente Polyak
Hi everyone! We're excited to announce that the rollout for our Git packaging implementation is scheduled for Friday, May 19th. Please note that packaging and mirror sync will not be possible during the rollout as we'll need to shut down the services. We expect the services to be available an

Re: Away for several weeks

2023-04-24 Thread Levente Polyak
On 4/24/23 08:26, Laurent Carlier wrote: Last week I fell from my bike and was diagnosed with a broken pelvis/ankle. So for weeks I must stay on a bed for some weeks - and away from my main computer. I was not able to build amdvlk with last releases, so if some can fix it, it'll be awesome. I

Re: Call for participation: Git packaging POC 🚀🎉

2023-04-12 Thread Levente Polyak
We're excited to share that we're almost there with our Git packaging implementation, and we need your help to push us over the finish line. We're asking *every* package maintainer to test our proof of concept [0] at least once. Your feedback is crucial to ensure that our system works well bef

Arch Linux in March 2023

2023-04-11 Thread Levente Polyak
## Git packaging sources We have improved a lot of pieces in `pkgctl` according to the feedback from the sandbox environment. Most notably it is possible to provide GitLab tokens via the `DEVTOOLS_GITLAB_TOKEN` environment variable, pass nocheck to the build command for bootstrap builds, handl

Arch Linux in February 2023

2023-03-18 Thread Levente Polyak
## Git packaging sources All major workflow and usability requirements for the `pkgctl` tooling have been finished and a experimental `devtools-git-poc` package has been put into the repositories. Furthermore the proof of concept sandbox environment has been set up and rolled out to anyone int

RFC Final Comment Period: Increase _FORTIFY_SOURCE level to 3

2023-02-27 Thread Levente Polyak
An RFC has now entered Final Comment Period. In 14 days, discussion will end and the proposal will either be accepted, rejected or withdrawn: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/17 Please visit the above link for discussion. Summary: Adjust packaging CFLAGS from -D_FO

Arch Linux in January 2023

2023-02-27 Thread Levente Polyak
## Git packaging sources We have announced the state of the art of the Git packaging migration to `arch-dev-public` [0] including a first item on our distro roadmap to track the remaining effort [1]. We have prepared most of the necessary settings, configurations and the corresponding machin

Re: Call for participation: Git packaging POC 🚀🎉

2023-02-21 Thread Levente Polyak
On 2/18/23 15:36, Jelle van der Waa wrote: On 02/02/2023 01:45, Morten Linderud wrote: Hi everyone! Levente and I have been busy preparing a test environment for the new git package workflow, which is going to replace the svn repository. To test the new git package setup install `devtools-git-

Arch Linux in December 2022

2023-02-08 Thread Levente Polyak
## The wiki went dark 🌗 Thanks to the effort of Blake Wilson in completing the process [0][1] previously attempted [2] by killertofus to add Extension:DarkMode [3], it's lights out for ArchWiki! All you creatures of the dark can now click on "Dark mode" in the user menu to experience the soo

Re: Call for participation: Git packaging POC 🚀🎉

2023-02-01 Thread Levente Polyak
Quick addendum as it may not have been clear enough: while only interacting with `pkgctl` and nothing else, you will operate against an isolated sandbox environment. Go nuts, here be dragons! On 2/2/23 01:45, Morten Linderud wrote: To test the new git package setup install `devtools-git-poc`

RFC: Increase _FORTIFY_SOURCE level to 3

2023-01-18 Thread Levente Polyak
A new RFC (request for comment) has been opened here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/17 Please visit the above link for discussion. Summary: Adjust packaging CFLAGS from -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 to -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 for better fortification coverage OpenPGP_signat

base-devel and multilib-devel meta-package

2023-01-16 Thread Levente Polyak
Hi all, I'd like to inform upfront that now would finally be a good time to implement the `base-devel` meta-package orthogonal to our already existing `base` meta-package. We haven't really pushed it for quite some time as nothing in `base-devel` changed in the past. Now the situation looks

Git packaging sources: state of the art

2023-01-05 Thread Levente Polyak
# Introduction Behold, ~~winter~~ Git is coming. We've been working on and off to get Git packaging sources ready for a while now. Today I'd like to outline the final proposal regarding the action plan, workflow, tooling and also the reason for a couple of decisions. Consider this as a late xm

Arch Linux in November 2022

2022-12-11 Thread Levente Polyak
## Git packaging sources We made huge progress towards finally being able to migrate from SVN to Git for package sources. The core projects responsible for our package build, workflow and release, namely dbscripts and devtools reached production grade adjustments to achieve the transition [0][1].

Re: Archiving all package sources

2022-11-13 Thread Levente Polyak
On 11/13/22 19:37, David Runge wrote: On 2022-11-13 17:42:27 (+0100), Jelle van der Waa wrote: For packaging we now rely on external parties to keep the source code hosted which can be a problem and some packagers want to search through all our packages code. [1] Currently we already archive so

Re: New community wide idea pool

2022-11-11 Thread Levente Polyak
On 11/10/22 20:05, Andreas 'Segaja' Schleifer wrote: On 11/9/22 01:13, Levente Polyak wrote > I have a few questions about the setup: 1. Who can create issues? Anyone or only people registered to the gitlab or only staff? Everyone, explicitly inviting the community as well. I

Re: Dropping qtwebkit

2022-11-09 Thread Levente Polyak
On 11/9/22 17:34, Antonio Rojas wrote: Hi, Qtwebkit has been unmaintained for a long time (last release from annulen's fork was almost 3 years ago) and is plagued with security issues by now. Most consumers are either dead upstream, of they use it to provide optional functionality that can b

New community wide idea pool

2022-11-08 Thread Levente Polyak
Hello everyone, Several times in the past I was thinking about a better and more central way to keep track of ideas and suggestions. We've encountered multiple times that good ideas got lost because we never properly kept track of them and only recognized after coming up with the very same idea m

Re: Updating ruby package guideline to only build gems and extensions once

2022-11-08 Thread Levente Polyak
On 11/6/22 13:53, Andreas 'Segaja' Schleifer wrote: To reflect these changes I would propose that we update our ruby package guidelines with the new way that Felix found. I took the liberty of updating them on my personal space [2]. If there is no objection, then I would like to push the chang

Arch Linux in October 2022

2022-11-02 Thread Levente Polyak
## mkinitcpio mkinitcpio v32 has been released [0] which adds support for zst compressed firmware for future kernel versions as well as various fixes and adjustments. ## pacman pacman 6.0.2 has been released [1] which fixes multiple issues with debug packages. On top pacman-key has been adjust

Re: [arch-dev-public] openssl 3.0

2022-10-25 Thread Levente Polyak
On 10/25/22 17:49, Evangelos Foutras wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 at 12:15, Evangelos Foutras wrote: If the above approach seems good, please commit the updated PKGBUILD to svn. We'll then start the rebuilds on [1] and see how they go. Slight change of plans, Jan is going to push GNOME 43 first

Re: Need help testing pacman 6.0.2 debug packages

2022-10-12 Thread Levente Polyak
On 10/7/22 13:35, Jelle van der Waa wrote: ... This all needs some further debugging :) Thanks a lot for the detailed info. I've done additional rounds of testing using the latest pacman patches [0]: There are rumors that the pacman patch "strip: fix unique source paths" may have side-effect

Re: [core] cleanup

2022-10-11 Thread Levente Polyak
On 10/11/22 12:05, David Runge wrote: - preserve base-devel as a group there I'm actually currently working on moving it to a meta-package as well. We didn't do it when introducing `base` as we never really changed it. Now we did with debugedit and face small inconveniences and we are better of

Arch Linux in September 2022

2022-10-03 Thread Levente Polyak
## RFC We entered the final discussion period for the RFC [0] to merge the pacman repository `[community]` into `[extra]` as well as the packaging VCS location `community` into `packages`. The `[core]` repository remains limited to Developers. One the RFC is accepted, we will implement the propos

RFC Final Comment Period: Merge package repositories

2022-09-26 Thread Levente Polyak
An RFC has now entered Final Comment Period. In 14 days, discussion will end and the proposal will either be accepted, rejected or withdrawn: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/14 Please visit the above link for discussion. Summary: Merge the pacman repository `[comm

Arch Linux in August 2022

2022-09-07 Thread Levente Polyak
## devtools The code and repository has been restructured [0] as it got out of hand over time. Now it follows a clear distinction and structure with improvements in the build system. The incubating tool `diffpkg` received a lot of new features [1] that will be released shortly. The new tool help

New main key holder (replace Giancarlo)

2022-09-06 Thread Levente Polyak
Hi all, I've had some chats with Giancarlo and he is currently unexpectedly very busy and stuffed with a lot of work. Thew new MK did not proceed currently to fill in the missing slot. Together we concluded that it would be the best to adapt to the current situation, revoke the newly created key

RFC: Merge package repositories

2022-09-01 Thread Levente Polyak
A new RFC (request for comment) has been opened here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/14 Please visit the above link for discussion. Summary: Merge the pacman repository [community] into [extra] as well as the packaging VCS location `community` into `packages`. Th

Arch Linux in July 2022

2022-08-09 Thread Levente Polyak
## archlinux-keyring The archlinux-keyring package gained a systemd service and timer unit which updates existing PGP keys used by pacman on user systems by default on a weekly basis from Arch Linux's web key directory (WKD)[0]. This service is meant to remove the necessity for most cases of "f

Arch Linux in June 2022

2022-07-08 Thread Levente Polyak
## devtools The new devtools release brings in several new additions. First and foremost the `export-pkgbuild-keys` script in combination with `commitpkg` ensures we export all validpgpkeys into the source tree. The local keys cache will allow us to operate without remote PGP keyservers for the m

Arch Linux in May 2022

2022-06-14 Thread Levente Polyak
## Staff We would like to welcome Slithery [0] among our Forum Admins. Furthermore fukawi2 has stepping down [1] as Forum Admin. We would like to express appreciation for all the work through the years. Last but not least we held our first Mediator election where Andrea Denisse Gómez-Martínez (

Arch Linux in April 2022

2022-05-24 Thread Levente Polyak
## Keyring We have started phasing out sha1 keyring signatures and replace some existing keys with more modern variants. Furthermore we have started to enforce @archlinux.org UIDs so we can control the retrieval via wkd in a single place and also allow externals to just trust one official wkd

[arch-dev-public] Arch Linux in March 2022

2022-04-05 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
## Staff We would like to welcome sudoforge among the Trusted Users [0]. ## RFC We have ratified a RFC to store upstream signing keys alongside the packaging sources [1]. This will allow easier successive builds without the need to continuously rely on remote keyservers to retrieve the upst

[arch-dev-public] Arch Linux in February 2022

2022-03-08 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
## Staff sudoforge has applied [0] to become a Trusted User and the vote is currently in progress. On top we would like to welcome freswa and Foxboron to their new additional duties as Arch Linux Developers. Furthermore we have onboarded the project maintainers Torxed (archinstall) and kevr (au

[arch-dev-public] Arch Linux in January 2022

2022-02-06 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
## Staff We have on-boarded wiki maintainers as part of our official staff [0] and wish a warm welcoming. We would also like to welcome BrainDamage among the Arch IRC op team. ## Debug packages The required devtools release is live, which handles debug packages and makes sure to release the

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

2022-02-06 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
On 2/6/22 14:25, David Runge via arch-dev-public wrote: On 2022-01-31 21:25:41 (+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 solve this centralized b

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

2022-02-02 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
On 2/2/22 18:32, Evangelos Foutras via arch-dev-public wrote: On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 at 22:27, Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public wrote: The question is if anyone object to checking these small .NVCHECKER files into our svn repository. If there are no real objections, I'll start implementing t

[arch-dev-public] Arch Linux in December 2021

2022-01-09 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
## Staff We are happy to welcome Segaja among the Trusted Users [0]. ## Monthly Report We have switched the format of the monthly report to specifically report the progress of the whole previous month. ## Debug packages The dbscripts repository handling for debug packages has successfully

[arch-dev-public] RFC Final Comment Period: add an official mediation program to our organization

2021-12-27 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
An RFC has now entered Final Comment Period. In 14 days, discussion will end and the proposal will either be accepted, rejected or withdrawn: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/9 Please visit the above link for discussion. Summary: Add an official mediation program to

[arch-dev-public] RFC: add an official mediation program to our organization

2021-12-08 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
A new RFC (request for comment) has been opened here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/9 Please visit the above link for discussion. Summary: Add an official mediation program to our organization consisting of elected mediators to help settle disputes and provide a

[arch-dev-public] Arch monthly report December 2021

2021-12-06 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
## Report The pad for the next January 2022 report is available at [0]. ## Staff We are happy to welcome artafinde [1] among the Trusted Users. Additionally Segaja has applied [2] to become a Trusted User and the vote is currently in progress. ## mkinitcpio A new mkinitcpio version v31 has

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

2021-12-06 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
On 12/6/21 17:48, David Runge via arch-dev-public wrote: On 2021-12-06 16:11:45 (+0100), Pierre Schmitz via arch-dev-public wrote: Hi all, a little heads up as it takes longer than expected. I'll start the PHP 8.1 update and the required rebuilds soon. I noticed some unexpected incompatibilitie

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

2021-11-30 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
On 11/18/21 03:19, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote: On 18/11/21 00:08, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public wrote: The idea so far was to release LTO in a second iteration as some concerns were raised to do both set of changes at the very same time. My concerns about this are rather

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

2021-11-29 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
On 11/29/21 14:30, Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public wrote: 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 depe

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

2021-11-17 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
On 11/17/21 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 -fcf-protect

[arch-dev-public] Call for review: keyringctl as tooling for a curated keyring

2021-10-25 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
Hi all, to mitigate different issues with the current status of PGP keyservers and to simplify the management of our keyring we worked towards exploring a new way to handle our keyring: The idea is to have a curated keyring whose source of truth is the repository itself without relying on ex

Re: [arch-dev-public] RFC Final Comment Period: Adoption of a distribution-wide Code of Conduct

2021-10-11 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
On 10/10/21 16:47, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote: - Overall, I think the current CoC is below the standard that has been historically set for official contributions to Arch Linux and would be a poor reflection on the distribution if officially adopted. - The RFC should not be adopted

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

2021-09-15 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
On 8/22/21 12:03, Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public wrote: 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

Re: [arch-dev-public] Formal Objection to Adopting the Code of Conduct

2021-09-15 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
On 9/5/21 04:38, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote: Either the CoC was already a formal document and changes were made by a small number of staff with limited oversight from the governing body - in this case we need to revert to the last formal version and all changes need formally agreed on.

[arch-dev-public] New Arch Linux Developer: Jonas Witschel (diabonas)

2021-05-15 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
I would like to welcome Jonas Witschel (diabonas) among the Arch Linux Developers. Jonas has been a Trusted User since 2019 and lately joined the Arch Linux Security Team. We wish you good luck and joy with your new responsibilities within Arch Linux! cheers, Levente OpenPGP_signature D

[arch-dev-public] Arch Linux partners with Nitrokey to equip its staff with USB keys

2021-03-16 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
We are happy to announce that Arch Linux has partnered with Nitrokey [0] to equip its staff with free Nitrokey devices. We will use the Nitrokey devices to store cryptographic keys for signing of git commits, emails and software packages, GnuPG keys, and SSH accounts. Thanks to the Nitrokey’s disc

Re: [arch-dev-public] Tracking different CPU architectures with pkgstats

2021-03-16 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
On 3/16/21 6:00 PM, Pierre Schmitz via arch-dev-public wrote: > Hi, I saw your post; I just did not want to go off-topic right away. > :-) At least as long as I am the only contributor I hesitate to give > up on how the infrastructure is set up. It seems to be much more > complex to do this on "off

Re: [arch-dev-public] Tracking different CPU architectures with pkgstats

2021-03-14 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
On 3/14/21 3:07 PM, Pierre Schmitz via arch-dev-public wrote: > I just updated the server to also accept x86_64 feature levels, ARM > and even i686. There is a new version of pkgstats (>= 3.1.0; currently > in [testing]) which is able to detect feature levels. ARM support is > pretty early, but x86

Re: [arch-dev-public] Tracking different CPU architectures with pkgstats

2021-03-09 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
Hi Pierre, I think at this point we should actually convert the "pet project" into an real official service hosted under the archlinux.org hood :) cheers, Levente OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-dev-public] RFC: Using RFCs

2021-03-02 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
On 3/2/21 2:37 AM, Sébastien Luttringer via arch-dev-public wrote: > On Tue, 2021-03-02 at 00:19 +0100, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public wrote: >> I think this is a great step for our distro to get a nicely pre shaped >> proposals before hitting the final review and presentatio

Re: [arch-dev-public] RFC: Using RFCs

2021-03-01 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
Thank you all for the RFC idea, healthy discussion around it and the first RFC about having and RFC :) I think this is a great step for our distro to get a nicely pre shaped proposals before hitting the final review and presentation phase as well as a central point for storing those. I think its p

[arch-dev-public] strip command of binutils 2.36 changes ownership in fakeroot 1.25.3

2021-02-10 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
Hi all, We were recently made aware by a bug report [1] that when the strip executable from binutils 2.36-3 in [core] is run within a fakeroot, it does not keep the correct file ownership during stripping, but indiscriminately assigns ownership to root:root instead. This causes issues with executa

[arch-dev-public] Celebrating the 1000th Arch Linux Security Advisory

2021-02-07 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
help by our long-time developer Allan McRae [3], which -- as a joint effort of Remi Gacogne (rgacogne) and Levente Polyak (anthraxx) [4] -- lead to the founding of the structured effort known today as the Arch Linux Security Team. Without doubt the work and analysis is challenging and the overall

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

2021-01-26 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
On 1/26/21 9:53 PM, Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public wrote: > > It's dissapointing frankly. > Disappointing doesn't really catch it tho. If it would be just about the sync functionality: so be it. But crippling the API usage on a level that rips out especially things like the safe browsing fu