[arch-dev-public] [Draft] - News announcement for GHC 7.8.2
Hey all, I would like feedback on this news announcement. Please bring up any issues you have with this post. Title: GHC 7.8.2 requires user intervention and brings changes. Content: The package haskell-transformers was previously a separate package but is now provided with ghc 7.8.2. Since ghc 7.8.2 does not replace haskell-transformers 0.3.0.0, the user must run the following command prior to upgrading their packages: pacman -Rcs haskell-transformers Changes that come with the release include: 1) Moving every package that is not ghc or cabal-install to [community]. This will allow better support of the core common haskell libraries since I do not actually use these packages due to cabal-install. 2) The valid paths that a user can take to install packages are the following: a) Using cabal-install to install haskell packages. This allows the user to access every haskell package in hackage. The problem is that you are now using packages that are managed outside of pacman. This is usually the best option if you are developing any haskell applications due to the new sandboxing that cabal-install 1.18 has introduced. b) Using pacman to install haskell packages. This allows the user to have access to a small subset of hackage packages which are known to work on archlinux and are usually good enough for non haskell developers. Note: These 2 paths should be considered mutually exclusive.
Re: [arch-dev-public] skype maintainer wanted
On 26.04.2014 21:19, Florian Pritz wrote: Hi, I've stopped using skype quite a while ago and I don't want to maintain it any more. If anyone wants to take over, please adopt the package in archweb in the next ~2 weeks, otherwise I'll drop it to AUR. If you take over be aware of the following open bug: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39313 Synopsis: skype sometimes doesn't work with pulse, the workaround is broken for random people and pulse upstream doesn't care. Also note you'll need permissions to submit packages to [multilib], request them on arch-multilib if necessary. I'm taking this over.
Re: [arch-dev-public] News announcement for screen-4.2.1
On Mon 28, April 07:22:33 Gaetan Bisson wrote: > Of course I much prefer the latter (package in [testing]), except it > means another break: no older screen instances will be reattachable with > screen-4.2.1. How about yet another (shorter) announcement? +1 for that -- Andrea Arch Linux Developer
[arch-dev-public] News announcement for screen-4.2.1
[2014-04-17 20:26:56 -1000] Gaetan Bisson: > Title: screen-4.2.0 cannot reattach older instances > > Users of the screen program will not be able to reattach older instances > after upgrading to version 4.2.0; this is due to upstream having made a > lot of changes to the internals, and switching from named pipes to > sockets for communication. Please ensure your current screen instances > are not anymore needed before upgrading. Grrr. That happens again with screen-4.2.1. Upstream changed the screen structure to fix the "long terminal name" issue; we used to patch for that one, but upstream's changes fix more bugs and change more things. We could: - patch everything back to how it was in arch's 4.2.0-1 - drop our patch and build screen vanilla Of course I much prefer the latter (package in [testing]), except it means another break: no older screen instances will be reattachable with screen-4.2.1. How about yet another (shorter) announcement? Title: screen-4.2.1 cannot reattach older instances either Upstream improvements in screen-4.2.1 will make users unable to reattach instances created with version 4.2.0 or older. Please upgrade to screen-4.2.1-1 only when they are unneeded. Apologies again for the inconvenience. Cheers. -- Gaetan
[arch-dev-public] Signoff report for [testing]
=== Signoff report for [testing] === https://www.archlinux.org/packages/signoffs/ There are currently: * 26 new packages in last 24 hours * 0 known bad packages * 0 packages not accepting signoffs * 6 fully signed off packages * 69 packages missing signoffs * 5 packages older than 14 days (Note: the word 'package' as used here refers to packages as grouped by pkgbase, architecture, and repository; e.g., one PKGBUILD produces one package per architecture, even if it is a split package.) == New packages in [testing] in last 24 hours (26 total) == * linux-3.14.2-1 (i686) * linux-lts-3.10.38-1 (i686) * linux-3.14.2-1 (x86_64) * linux-lts-3.10.38-1 (x86_64) * cabal-install-1.18.0.3-3 (i686) * claws-mail-3.9.3-4 (i686) * ghc-7.8.2-2 (i686) * haskell-http-4000.2.12-2 (i686) * haskell-mtl-2.1.3.1-2 (i686) * haskell-network-2.5.0.0-1 (i686) * haskell-parsec-3.1.5-2 (i686) * haskell-random-1.0.1.1-7 (i686) * haskell-text-1.1.0.1-2 (i686) * haskell-zlib-0.5.4.1-3 (i686) * libetpan-1.4.1-1 (i686) * cabal-install-1.18.0.3-3 (x86_64) * claws-mail-3.9.3-4 (x86_64) * ghc-7.8.2-2 (x86_64) * haskell-http-4000.2.12-2 (x86_64) * haskell-mtl-2.1.3.1-2 (x86_64) * haskell-network-2.5.0.0-1 (x86_64) * haskell-parsec-3.1.5-2 (x86_64) * haskell-random-1.0.1.1-7 (x86_64) * haskell-text-1.1.0.1-2 (x86_64) * haskell-zlib-0.5.4.1-3 (x86_64) * libetpan-1.4.1-1 (x86_64) == Incomplete signoffs for [core] (26 total) == * binutils-2.24-3 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * btrfs-progs-3.14.1-1 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * gawk-4.1.1-1 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * gcc-4.9.0-1 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * glibc-2.19-4 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * grub-1:2.02.beta2-3 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * libtool-2.4.2-13 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * linux-3.14.2-1 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * linux-api-headers-3.14.1-1 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * linux-lts-3.10.38-1 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * psmisc-22.21-2 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * syslinux-6.03pre11-1 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * binutils-2.24-3 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * btrfs-progs-3.14.1-1 (x86_64) 1/2 signoffs * gcc-4.9.0-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * glibc-2.19-4 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * grub-1:2.02.beta2-3 (x86_64) 1/2 signoffs * libtool-2.4.2-13 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * linux-3.14.2-1 (x86_64) 1/2 signoffs * linux-api-headers-3.14.1-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * linux-lts-3.10.38-1 (x86_64) 1/2 signoffs * lvm2-2.02.106-2 (x86_64) 1/2 signoffs * procps-ng-3.3.9-3 (x86_64) 1/2 signoffs * psmisc-22.21-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * syslinux-6.03pre11-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * util-linux-2.24.2-1 (x86_64) 1/2 signoffs == Incomplete signoffs for [extra] (43 total) == * flickrnet-3.10.0-1 (any) 0/2 signoffs * cabal-install-1.18.0.3-3 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * claws-mail-3.9.3-4 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * colord-1.2.0-1 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * colord-gtk-0.1.25-2 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * ghc-7.8.2-2 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * gnome-color-manager-3.12.1-2 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * gnome-control-center-3.12.1-2 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * gnome-settings-daemon-3.12.1-2 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * gtk3-3.12.1-2 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * haskell-http-4000.2.12-2 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * haskell-mtl-2.1.3.1-2 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * haskell-network-2.5.0.0-1 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * haskell-parsec-3.1.5-2 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * haskell-random-1.0.1.1-7 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * haskell-text-1.1.0.1-2 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * haskell-zlib-0.5.4.1-3 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * libetpan-1.4.1-1 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * liblastfm-1.0.8-1 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * libreoffice-4.2.4-0.1 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * qemu-2.0.0-2 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * refind-efi-0.7.9-1 (i686) 0/1 signoffs * cabal-install-1.18.0.3-3 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * claws-mail-3.9.3-4 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * colord-1.2.0-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * colord-gtk-0.1.25-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * ghc-7.8.2-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * gnome-color-manager-3.12.1-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * gnome-control-center-3.12.1-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * gnome-settings-daemon-3.12.1-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * gtk3-3.12.1-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * haskell-http-4000.2.12-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * haskell-mtl-2.1.3.1-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * haskell-network-2.5.0.0-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * haskell-parsec-3.1.5-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * haskell-random-1.0.1.1-7 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * haskell-text-1.1.0.1-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * haskell-zlib-0.5.4.1-3 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * libetpan-1.4.1-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * liblastfm-1.0.8-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * libreoffice-4.2.4-0.1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * qemu-2.0.0-2 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs * refind-efi-0.7.9-1 (x86_64) 0/2 signoffs == Completed signoffs (6 total) == * cronie-1.4.11-2 (i686) * lvm2-2.02.106-2 (i686) * procps-ng-3.3.9-3 (i686) * util-linux-2.24.2-1 (i686) * cronie-1.4.11-2 (x86_64) * gawk-4.1.1-1 (x86_64) == All packages in [testing] for more than 14 days (5 total) == * grub-1:2.02.beta2-3 (i
