Re: [aur-general] TU Application - blakkheim

2022-08-17 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2022-08-16 08:30, T.J. Townsend via aur-general wrote: I started using Arch around 2009 when we still had the curses installer, rc.conf, hal... the good old days. That was all awful and I much prefer the way things are now. :) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [aur-general] Incorrect email at account registration

2022-06-27 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2022-06-27 11:40, JafsZero via aur-general wrote: Hello, Recently I created my account for the AUR but when adding my email I wrote incorrectly the domain as .xom instead of .com and I can't get the verification link to continue with the account registration process. The username is

Re: [aur-general] Possible spam account

2022-05-08 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2022-05-07 15:06, Michael Kogan via aur-general wrote: Hi guys, The user InstallerLegacy [1] just adopted gnome-vfs [2], added himself, including a contact address, to the PKGBUILD head without any further changes, then orphaned the package again two minutes thereafter. Since the account has

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of vi-vim-symlink and neovim-symlinks

2022-04-22 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2022-04-22 09:58, Doug Newgard via aur-general wrote: Recently vi-vim-symlink and neovim-symlinks were deleted from the AUR. These are used by a lot of people to set up their systems, and a lot of people want to know why [1]. They do not violate any AUR rules and have been available in the

Re: [aur-general] Can I adopt ICEWM ?

2022-03-31 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2022-03-31 10:06, Ben Denhartog via aur-general wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2022, at 00:06, RobinCandau via aur-general wrote: Can I adopt it or do you guys think that I should leave that to someone else ? There is absolutely no reason you would be unable to adopt it. Go wild. Yeah, man, you

Re: [aur-general] Rewriting astronciaiptv log needed

2022-02-18 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2022-02-19 01:20, kestraly via aur-general wrote: Hi. I accidentally used my real name in astronciaiptv AUR commits ( https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/log/?h=astronciaiptv ), is it possible to change it to Astroncia? Thanks. Hi, This is done. signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [aur-general] TU application for sudoforge

2022-02-17 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2022-02-07 16:07, Brett Cornwall via aur-general wrote: On 2022-02-07 13:33, Ben Denhartog via aur-general wrote: - buildozer This seems to not use the AUR bazelisk package for building, but a release from github? Why doesn't it use the AUR package? I like to keep things simple for users

Re: [aur-general] Clarification for Deletion request #30701

2022-01-01 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-12-17 01:05, silentnoodle via aur-general wrote: hey all, Today a package i co maintain (telegram-desktop-bin) was deleted because "Package exists in official community repo", but since we used prebuilt binary as source I did not think that would have applied. So guess I'd just like

Re: [aur-general] Clarification for Deletion request #30701

2021-12-31 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2022-01-01 05:33, Xyne via aur-general wrote: On 2021-12-28 19:52 -0800 Brett Cornwall via aur-general wrote: On 2021-12-29 03:27, eNV25 via aur-general wrote: So in this case the package would be fine if it had a different name, with a suffix like -upstream-bin, -official-bin or -static

Re: [aur-general] Clarification for Deletion request #30701

2021-12-28 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-12-29 03:27, eNV25 via aur-general wrote: So in this case the package would be fine if it had a different name, with a suffix like -upstream-bin, -official-bin or -static-bin? I am working with the others to see what we want to establish going forward. Thanks for the patience.

Re: [aur-general] Clarification for Deletion request #30701

2021-12-28 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-12-28 13:17, Doug Newgard via aur-general wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 10:34:58 -0800 Brett Cornwall via aur-general wrote: On 2021-12-28 12:08, Doug Newgard via aur-general wrote: >On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:21:01 -0800 >Brett Cornwall via aur-general wrote: > >> Feel free

Re: [aur-general] Clarification for Deletion request #30701

2021-12-28 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-12-28 19:07, Aleksandar Trifunovic via aur-general wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 6:21 PM Brett Cornwall via aur-general wrote: On 2021-12-28 15:35, alad wrote: >> And how am I supposed to have known that? >> >By looking at how the packages differ before simply accept

Re: [aur-general] Clarification for Deletion request #30701

2021-12-28 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-12-28 12:08, Doug Newgard via aur-general wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:21:01 -0800 Brett Cornwall via aur-general wrote: Feel free to post an RFC. In the meantime, I'll continue to follow the rules that have been established. Established where? Upstream builds as -bin packages were

Re: [aur-general] Clarification for Deletion request #30701

2021-12-28 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-12-28 15:35, alad wrote: And how am I supposed to have known that? By looking at how the packages differ before simply accepting the request? I'm not going to compare binaries for each -bin request in the hopes that there's some difference that makes it worthwhile to keep. It's the

Re: [aur-general] Clarification for Deletion request #30701

2021-12-27 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-12-27 23:26, alad via aur-general wrote: On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 07:01:08 -0800 Brett Cornwall via aur-general wrote: On 2021-12-17 09:54, Filipe Laíns via aur-general wrote: >On Fri, 2021-12-17 at 00:17 +0100, Justin Kromlinger via aur-general wrote: >> On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 01:05

Re: [aur-general] Please disregard my deletion request for linux-slim

2021-12-19 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-12-20 02:26, kiasoc5--- via aur-general wrote: Please ignore my deletion request for linux-slim [1]. I thought the package would be too niche but there are some users of it per the package comments. Perhaps now is a good time to clarify what the wiki means by an "extremely

Re: [aur-general] Clarification for Deletion request #30701

2021-12-17 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-12-17 09:54, Filipe Laíns via aur-general wrote: On Fri, 2021-12-17 at 00:17 +0100, Justin Kromlinger via aur-general wrote: On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 01:05:19 +0200 silentnoodle via aur-general wrote: > hey all, > > Today a package i co maintain (telegram-desktop-bin) was deleted because >

Re: [aur-general] Why were my 'makedeb-beta' and 'makedeb-alpha' packages deleted?

2021-12-16 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-12-16 16:58, Hunter Wittenborn via aur-general wrote: I just received some emails about an hour ago that my 'makedeb-beta' and 'makedeb-alpha' packages were deleted off of the AUR because they were duplicates of 'makedeb' [1] [2]. I'm a bit confused on how exactly they're "duplicates" of

Re: [aur-general] Customize testing in PKGBUILD

2021-12-14 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-12-14 06:45, George Rawlinson via aur-general wrote: On 21-12-14 00:07, Jan Kohnert via aur-general wrote: Hi, I'm maintaining the eccodes aur package and would like to enable some extra tests in PKGBUILD. This can be done by downloading extra testdata and put that into the main build

Re: [aur-general] some questions mainly about deletion...

2021-11-30 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-11-30 15:55, zoorat via aur-general wrote: Hi everyone, I have been hunting for broken packages and filing deletion requests against them for a while now... Thanks for all of your help on that! 1. to TU's, how do you guys are checking if a package should be deleted or not ?? I want

[aur-general] Handling own requests (Was: [PRQ#29045] Deletion Request for hugo-bin)

2021-11-07 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-11-07 18:26, George Rawlinson via aur-general wrote: What is the issue with handling one's own requests, specifcally? I guess I don't see anything on the Wiki. I was under the impression that we didn't service our own requests so that there were sanity checks to keep us all in check.

Re: [aur-general] [PRQ#29045] Deletion Request for hugo-bin

2021-11-06 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-11-06 18:47, B via aur-general wrote: Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I did not realize that it was an issue to have a duplicate package in the AUR, and clearly see now that I should not. I guess the action of deleting the package makes more sense so I apologize for any

Re: [aur-general] [PRQ#29045] Deletion Request for hugo-bin

2021-11-06 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-11-06 16:05, B via aur-general wrote: grawlinson made a deletion request on this package after I updated it to v0.89.1, and they immediately approved their own request. The community package is flagged out-of-date and is at v0.88.1. First, this violates the AUR community guidelines that

Re: [aur-general] Do not remove filezilla-bin

2021-11-02 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-11-03 10:38, 山田ハヤオ wrote: If the difference isn't important, what's important? This can lead to the removal of all *-bin packages. I have a screenshot that proves a clear difference, but it probably has no effect. Please review the submission guidelines:

Re: [aur-general] Do not remove filezilla-bin

2021-11-02 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-11-03 10:04, 山田ハヤオ via aur-general wrote: Grawlinson, You should look at this mailing list. The filezilla-bin package is completely different from the community one. And that's easy to see by looking at the PKGBUILD source code. The differences are not substantial, and this package

Re: [aur-general] Spam account

2021-10-30 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-10-30 18:49, Kr1ss via aur-general wrote: Hi TUs, could somebody pls take care of this new spam account and their comment(s): https://aur.archlinux.org/account/EngineeringQ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/freetube-bin/#comment-833607 Thanks, cheers ! Kriss Done. Thanks for

Re: [aur-general] Why were my packages gtkwrite, gtkwrite-git, and gtkate deleted from AUR?

2021-09-12 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-09-12 20:54, David C. Rankin via aur-general wrote: All, Who authorized the removal of my packages gtkwrite, gtwrite-git and gtkate from AUR? I check my dashboard regularly and there was nothing flagged and there was no notice that the packages were going to be removed. Why were they

Re: [aur-general] New maintainer

2021-09-10 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-09-10 20:37, Jason Kercher via aur-general wrote: Thank you Jonathan. I see a lot of the orphans are for arm64, but I don't own an arm board. I assume makepkg can be configured for cross-compiling... Is it okay to maintain packages that way? You can safely ignore those. There are many,

Re: [aur-general] TU application - Morganamilo

2021-07-02 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-06-18 14:35, Morgan Adamiec via aur-general wrote: Hey there! I'm Morgan, Morganamilo in most places and I'd like to apply to become a Trusted User with dvzrv and kpcyrd's sponsorship. Hello, Morgan! Nice to meet you. :) I've been an avid Arch user for the past 5 or so years. I

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-05-21 11:54, Manhong Dai via aur-general wrote: I know I will be the minority in this list. However, this statement doesn't sound right to me if the patch file is applied to the original source code. Unlike the file PKGBUILD, a patch file constitutes a modified source code because it

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-18 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-05-17 21:16, Carsten Haitzler via aur-general wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2021 13:32:26 + lawl via aur-general said: Hello I'm the developer of NoiseTorch (https://github.com/lawl/NoiseTorch/). I faithfully believe that the package "noisetorch" in the ArchLinux User Repository ("AUR")

Re: [aur-general] TU application: grawlinson

2021-04-19 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-04-11 03:21, George Rawlinson via aur-general wrote: Hello everyone! My name is George Rawlinson (grawlinson), and I am applying to be a Trusted User. My sponsors are Morten Linderud (Foxboron) and Sven-Hendrik Haase (svenstaro). They have evaluated my PKGBUILDs and quickly come to the

Re: [aur-general] Request to remove last commit

2021-03-30 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-03-30 17:00, Fabius via aur-general wrote: I'd like to ask, if possible, to delete the last commit (only last one) from the following two packages, which i maintain: 1) ruby-pg-query (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-pg-query/) 2) ruby-sqlint

Re: [aur-general] How to change wrong author email address?

2021-02-18 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-02-18 07:12, Brett Cornwall wrote: On 2021-02-18 09:53, Uwe Koloska via aur-general wrote: Am 18.02.21 um 06:12 schrieb Jeff Hubbard via aur-general: You make the correction and bump pkgrel, then push the changes. You can bump pkgrel whenever you make changes to PKGBUILD, but there

Re: [aur-general] How to change wrong author email address?

2021-02-18 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-02-18 09:53, Uwe Koloska via aur-general wrote: Am 18.02.21 um 06:12 schrieb Jeff Hubbard via aur-general: You make the correction and bump pkgrel, then push the changes. You can bump pkgrel whenever you make changes to PKGBUILD, but there aren't changes to the software. But this