Arch Linux software projects: Request for participation

2022-10-16 Thread David Runge
Hi all, we have recently cleaned up parts of the developer wiki a bit and moved the list of internal projects to a more prominent location: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Getting_involved#Software_projects As you can see, we have quite a few projects and some of them would be happy about more

Public release: updlockfiles 0.1.0

2022-10-16 Thread kpcyrd
ohai! I released a new tool called updlockfiles that attempts to help manage dependency lockfiles like Cargo.lock, composer.lock, go.mod and friends. Hopefully this helps with reproducible builds in Arch Linux, but also if you want to manage your own downstream lockfile to override vulnerable

git 2.38.0: Change in `git archive` output

2022-10-16 Thread kpcyrd
hello, multiple people in Arch Linux noticed the output of our `git archive` command doesn't match the tarball served by github anymore. First I suspected an update in our gzip package until I found this line in the git 2.38.0 release notes: > * Teach "git archive" to (optionally and then b