Re: About the intentionally duplicated package wechat-beta-bwrap and wechat-universal and unmaintained orginal package wechat-uos

2024-05-01 Thread Lime In a Jacket (Aaron Liu)
No, I was the one who messed things up. I clicked on the button to reply to you outside of the list, which meant you had to create a new thread. Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ

Re: About the intentionally duplicated package wechat-beta-bwrap and wechat-universal and unmaintained orginal package wechat-uos

2024-04-29 Thread Aaron Liu
Apologies for replying incorrectly. The original thread would be at https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/T4I2ZYPOPHTIKYJTUSB7CMHSNA6BHIZ7/. -- Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ OpenPGP_0x4E85967FC7C436BE.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature.asc

Re: Aarch64 package moderation policy

2024-04-14 Thread Aaron Liu
Ahoy! Yeah, it seems I got confused over the two interfaces. Sorry about that, I'm the dense one. -- Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ OpenPGP_0x4E85967FC7C436BE.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Aarch64 package moderation policy

2024-04-14 Thread Aaron Liu
Okay, I've just realized that Arch also has RfCs. Where can I view in-draft RfCs? -- Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ OpenPGP_0x4E85967FC7C436BE.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Aarch64 package moderation policy

2024-04-14 Thread Aaron Liu
Ey, 1. Not sure what RFC0032 is. All I see is "Some Thoughts on SRI's Proposed Real Time Clock, February 1970". 2. The AUR already has filtering by architecture. It seems like AUR folk just don't want to moderate ARM packages. -- Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ OpenPGP_0x4E85967FC7C436BE.asc Description:

Re: About the intentionally duplicated package wechat-beta-bwrap and wechat-universal and unmaintained orginal package wechat-uos

2024-03-20 Thread Lime In a Jacket (Aaron Liu)
Besides what Kimiblock said, the difference between the normal package and a package with a -qt suffix is also much clearer to anyone not familiar with UOS mythos. Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ

Re: (suspension of Pellegrino Prevete) - was: removal of yuzu from the official repos

2024-03-18 Thread Lime In a Jacket (Aaron Liu)
You can check out Prevete's Twitter account. Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ > On Mar 18, 2024, at 7:01 AM, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 01:56:17 +0100 "Rein Fernhout (Levitating)" > said: > >> Hey, >> >> Can we please wrap this up? I don't care if Tallero gets permanently >> suspended or

Re: (suspension of Pellegrino Prevete) - was: removal of yuzu from the official repos

2024-03-17 Thread Aaron Liu
Ey, Something you might want to work on is differentiating between the contexts of emails and chats. I see that you have Telegram configured as your email client, so you may not realize that. Many people, including me, try to contain everything we have to say in a single message instead of

Re: About the intentionally duplicated package wechat-beta-bwrap and wechat-universal and unmaintained orginal package wechat-uos

2024-03-17 Thread Lime In a Jacket (Aaron Liu)
Ey, > On Mar 17, 2024, at 2:36 AM, 7Ji wrote: > > > Maligning other FOSS projects or distributions, or any other operating > > systems and their users is prohibited. > > The FOSS here only limits the scope before the first comma, not after. We > should show respect towards other projects,

Re: About the intentionally duplicated package wechat-beta-bwrap and wechat-universal and unmaintained orginal package wechat-uos

2024-03-16 Thread Aaron Liu
Ey, Welcome to the mailing lists! Please read and follow our [guidelines][1]. Specifically, try to use plain text emails. Also, I've noticed that your PKGBUILD includes a lot of packages included in "base" as dependencies. Please don't do that; packages installed as part of "base" are part

Re: About the intentionally duplicated package wechat-beta-bwrap and wechat-universal and unmaintained orginal package wechat-uos

2024-03-16 Thread Aaron Liu
Ey, While I agree with most of your points... Additionally, the maintainer is ... being unfriendly to both tencent and WeChat, phrasing them as "trash" in the startup script[i], ... clearly a violation to the Arch Linux Code of Conduct[l] How does being unfriendly to a proprietary

Re: Question about aur package existing in git, but not visible in aur

2024-03-16 Thread Lime In a Jacket (Aaron Liu)
Ey, If the package doesn't exist but its repository does, it means the package existed but was deleted. Anyone can now push to that repository to list the package again, but I'd advise you to search for the deletion request first. Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ

How do I get an unpopular package that's needed by an existing package to extra?

2024-03-12 Thread Lime In a Jacket (Aaron Liu)
Ey, A while ago I made the AUR package perl-acme-cow, which is needed for some cowfiles bundled with cowsay. Is there a process for dependencies to enter extra? I understand that it's not popular and doesn't meet the requirement, but without it, attempting to use certain bundled cowfiles

Re: Migration of p7-tools to cahute

2024-03-11 Thread Lime In a Jacket (Aaron Liu)
Ey, Does installing cahute and removing the other packages break existing files? If not, you should be able to use replaces. Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ

Re: Removal of Super Mario Bros. from AUR

2024-03-04 Thread Aaron Liu
Ey, I've let a software as any other being accessible through a package, exactly same way as a let's say, a flash version of tuxrace. Super Mario Bros. 1 and 2 (USA or otherwise) are proprietary and still under copyright. The internet archive hosts them as a library, so downloading them

Re: Upgrade failure

2024-03-04 Thread Lime In a Jacket (Aaron Liu)
These should be an option at old.reddit.com/prefs to not use new Reddit, and thus always get the old version at www. Should minimize the headaches you get with old and dusty Reddit links. Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ > On Mar 4, 2024, at 12:36 PM, Abraham S.A.H. wrote: > >  >> >> Odd, I've been accessing

Re: Moving from binary to from source, can we delete bin version

2024-02-20 Thread Aaron Liu
I think you should just disown. I don't think people should be able to decide what's best for the user by removing working packages that aren't duplicates -- Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ OpenPGP_0x4E85967FC7C436BE.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Is including GPG keys in an AUR package for verifying sources a good idea?

2024-02-11 Thread Aaron Liu
Hi there, the rest of your email got cut off. We only see "A malicious". -- Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ OpenPGP_0x4E85967FC7C436BE.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: tor-browser depublication and replacment

2024-02-10 Thread Aaron Liu
See Heusel's reply. It was not transferred; it was merged into its -bin AUR package. -- Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ OpenPGP_0x4E85967FC7C436BE.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: My account suspended (MarsSeed) without reason - which PM abused their power?

2024-01-28 Thread Aaron Liu
They've already been warned. You replied to the email that was before they were warned. After that, they've only sent one extra email. I had probably the same problem as you: for some reason Gmail thinks these messages were sent later than Antiz's warning, when they were actually sent before

Re: My account suspended (MarsSeed) without reason - which PM abused their power?

2024-01-28 Thread Lime In a Jacket (Aaron Liu)
I think you should heed Antiz’s warnings. Links in another thread, or nothing. Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ > On Jan 28, 2024, at 10:08 AM, Pellegrino Prevete > wrote: > >  >> >> In contrast to what he is stating about me, I do build and test the packages >> from AUR and give feedback and recommendations

Re: My account suspended (MarsSeed) without reason - which PM abused their power?

2024-01-28 Thread Lime In a Jacket (Aaron Liu)
I think you should heed Antiz’s warnings. Links in another thread, or nothing. Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ

Re: My account suspended (MarsSeed) without reason - which PM abused their power?

2024-01-27 Thread Aaron Liu
If you really want to start something (which I personally would advise against, MarsSeed is pretty helpful IMO), you would start a new thread here complete with receipts (a.k.a. links to the specific incidents you are complaining about.) -- Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ OpenPGP_0x4E85967FC7C436BE.asc

Re: Comment spam

2024-01-21 Thread Aaron Liu
Changing the license does indeed change the package, as it means that different license files are installed, though I'm not sure whether that warrants bumping the pkgrel, and spamming the same comment across several packages by the same maintainer is certainly disruptive. That said, I've only

Re: My account suspended (MarsSeed) without reason - which PM abused their power?

2024-01-13 Thread Lime In a Jacket (Aaron Liu)
Ah, thanks. Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ

Re: My account suspended (MarsSeed) without reason - which PM abused their power?

2024-01-13 Thread Lime In a Jacket (Aaron Liu)
I am quite confused here, nobody seems to have sent 3 emails. Which person would you be talking about? Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ

What to do with oh-my-zsh-git, a package people might not know how to start using

2024-01-12 Thread Aaron Liu
Greetings AUR users, (hmm I sound like an alien) This package on the AUR called oh-my-zsh-git has been occasionally flagged by people who do not understand that you have to add a line to zshrc to start using it. I suggested a clearer and less suspicious postinstall message, which the

Re: wiringX-git PKGBUILD Review Request

2024-01-06 Thread Aaron Liu
Hi, According to manual.wiringx.org , wiringX is only a library and nothing else. I don't think the splitting into two packages part applies here, as there is nothing to install other than the library. -- Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ OpenPGP_0x4E85967FC7C436BE.asc Description: OpenPGP public key

Re: wiringX-git PKGBUILD Review Request

2024-01-05 Thread Aaron Liu
Hmm, I know nothing on the library side of things, but as Arch conventions dictate: 1. All package titles should be lowercase, so wiringx-git, perhaps?. 2. You should probably do a provides=(libwiringx.so wiringx) so the soname is searchable and conflicts are better detected 3. According to

Re: Removal of linux-bin AUR package (suspended account)

2023-12-20 Thread Aaron Liu
Ah, that makes a lot more sense, thanks. Perhaps your email to that TU was blocked by a spam filter? You may want to contact the Arch forums with your summary. Looking at the archived PKGBUILD, yes, that (using curl to fetch fields) is low quality. The checksum field is supposed to be

Re: Removal of linux-bin AUR package (suspended account)

2023-12-20 Thread Aaron Liu
You do not simply "address" a deletion by reuploading the package without any changes. You should've consulted someone like you recently did here. The first communication from you that I know was what you sent here to this mailing list. Also, welcome to the mailing list! Please have a look at

Re: Removal of linux-bin AUR package (suspended account)

2023-12-19 Thread Lime In a Jacket (Aaron Liu)
> On Dec 19, 2023, at 7:35 AM, myself...@tutanota.de wrote: > >  > @Marcell Meszaros: The package is about solving freedom related issues, so I > don't see a point in your comment. Mars’s point was that that kernel targets Debian distributions and don’t have the patches wanted for Arch use.

Re: Removal of linux-bin AUR package (suspended account)

2023-12-18 Thread Aaron Liu
There are already such packages such as linux-libre that actually target arch. -- Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ OpenPGP_0x4E85967FC7C436BE.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Requests and the etiquette involved

2023-11-22 Thread Lime In a Jacket (Aaron Liu)
I, for one, have never heard of using “w” as “without”. W much, much commonly means “with”. > On Nov 22, 2023, at 9:31 AM, Björn Bidar wrote: > >  > Hey, > > I fully agree with that statement. The automated checks can only go so > far. > Of course there are cases where the package has been

Re: Requests and the etiquette involved

2023-11-20 Thread Aaron Liu
Looking at https://web.archive.org/web/20231017082509/https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/papermerge, it appears this has been marked out of date since 2021-04-19. TrialnError was accepted as maintainer on the condition that they could get v2 working, which they only did by starting work on the

Re: Dealing with unclear upstream licensing and legality

2023-09-26 Thread Aaron Liu
How do "home backups" fall under fair-use? How can you maintain plausible deniability when there's an entire AUR request IRC discussion and mailing list chain about it? On 2023/9/26 20:32, David C. Rankin wrote: On 9/26/23 13:11, netsysf...@das-labor.org wrote: There are two reasons for the

Re: Need advice on how to address possible conflict with former (no longer existing) AUR package

2023-09-12 Thread Aaron Liu
The problem is not that there's an alternative version, it's that there's a totally different package with the same provides On 2023/9/12 6:57, Polarian wrote: Hello, In order to deal with conflicts you should add the following fields to your PKGBUILD: provides=('polyglot')

Re: Problems with AUR packager Xiota and motivewave

2023-09-04 Thread Aaron Liu
According to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#conflicts These packages are in conflict. They have the exact same source. On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 3:29 PM Aaron Liu wrote: I don't see why you're that infuriated. xiota is indeed a bit combative with language but save for removing `conflicts` their

Re: Problems with AUR packager Xiota and motivewave

2023-09-04 Thread Aaron Liu
I don't see why you're that infuriated. xiota is indeed a bit combative with language but save for removing `conflicts` their suggestions all look good.  Simply adding the "no same owner" removes the need for all that find chmod and chown stuff and just put the conflicting packing name under

Re: Waterfox G

2023-09-01 Thread Aaron Liu
Oops, I've sent this to the arch-general mailing list instead! I meant to send this to aur-general, sorry. I guess forwarding it should be fine. On 9/1/23 15:15, Aaron Liu wrote: Currently, there are 2 packages for the latest Waterfox "current": waterfox-g-bin and waterfox-current-