Package Todo Lists
Todo lists are used by the developers when a rebuild of a set of packages is needed. This is common when a library has a version bump, during a toolchain rebuild, or a general cleanup of packages in the repositories. The progress can be tracked here, and completed todo lists can be browsed as well.
| Name | Creation Date | Creator | Description | Package Count | Incomplete Count | Kind | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| switch to espeak-ng | 2021-09-02 | Alexander Epaneshnikov | espeak is unmaintained for a long time. espeak-ng is a new active fork. we need to switch dependent packages to espeak-ng and then remove espeak from the repository. | 6 | 5 | Task | Incomplete |
| Rebuild against new release of libmilter | 2021-08-18 | George Rawlinson | New upstream release of libmilter. Since upstream isn't interested in applying shared library patches, it's still a static library. | 5 | 5 | Task | Incomplete |
| Change dependency from python-setuptools_scm to python-setuptools-scm | 2021-08-06 | Morten Linderud | Swap python-setuptools_scm for python-setuptools-scm in the correct dependency array | 11 | 5 | Task | Incomplete |
| netcdf 4.8.0 + hdf5 1.12.1 rebuild | 2021-07-18 | Bruno Pagani | libnetcdf.so=18-64 → libnetcdf.so=19-64 hdf5 still affected by FS#60567, even if for once they managed to not break ABI in a patch level release (well after that was pointed during rc stage) Since 80% of the list is common, let’s do only one rebuild. Packages go to [staging]/[community-staging]. | 30 | 5 | Rebuild | Incomplete |
| Unreproducible ruby packages | 2021-05-27 | Jelle van der Waa | This todo list is for unreproducible ruby packages mostly due to Makefile.in or other files which should not be required for packaged ruby modules. According to our packaging guidelines the `ext` directory is not required anymore after the installation step. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ruby_Gem_package_guidelines Example of non-reproducible package https://reproducible.archlinux.org/api/v0/builds/104045/diffoscope As this is not a rebuild, packages can directly go in either [community] or [extra]. | 30 | 19 | Task | Incomplete |
| python-sqlalchemy update to 1.4 | 2021-04-25 | Jelle van der Waa | python-sqlalchemy's 1.4 release seems to have broken a lot of packages in our repository's such as mailman3, python-aws-xray-sdk, buildbot, sopel etc. For this reason python-sqlalchemy1.3 is available in [community-staging], please check if your package works with 1.4 and if not add a dependency to python-sqlalchemy1.3 and put it in [staging] or [community-staging]. Packages which do not require anything fixes, can be marked as complete | 19 | 2 | Task | Incomplete |
| Cleanup of python-setuptools dependency for console scripts | 2021-01-13 | Felix Yan | In recent versions of setuptools and Python, console-script entry points are using stdlib importlib by default, thus python-setuptools (provider of the pkg_resource module) is no longer a runtime dependency. Please check your package. If python-setuptools is only listed as dependency or optional dependency because of its console scripts (not in install_requires for other reasons, for example), please consider moving it to makedepends or removed, respectively. Packages go to stable repos directly. | 251 | 87 | Task | Incomplete |
| GTK 2 EOL | 2020-12-20 | Alexander Rødseth | GTK 2 has reached its end of life: https://blog.gtk.org/2020/12/16/gtk-4-0/ Many of the listed packages can support GTK3 or 4 just by tweaking the build configuration. Please check if it is possible to upgrade packages to GTK3 or GTK4 (which are pretty similar to each other, in terms of API), or drop the dependency on the "gtk2" package, if it's an optional dependency. Just mark packages as complete if it's not feasible to patch, drop or upgrade them. Upgraded packages can be pushed directly to extra/community. Thank you! | 195 | 121 | Task | Incomplete |
| Remove usage of makepkg subroutines from PKGBUILDs | 2020-01-17 | David Runge | The use of makepkg subroutines has been discussed in an old ticket [1]. In 2017 a warning about this was added to namcap and recently the wiki has been been updated to reflect this [2]. A list of packages (with false positives) can be found here [3]. Time for a cleanup! As a sidenote: If you find, that you are shadowing a test run in check() (e.g. `test || warning "Test is broken"`) please consider *why* you are doing this and whether only a subset of the tests can be run instead (e.g. because parts of the tests are integration tests anyways, that can not be run in makechrootpkg). [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/43502 [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_package_guidelines#Package_etiquette [3] https://pkgbuild.vdwaa.nl/?q=(msg%20%7Cmsg2%20%7Cwarning%20%7Cerror%20%7Cplain%20)&i=nope&files=.*%2Ftrunk%2FPKGBUILD&repos= | 244 | 30 | Task | Incomplete |
| Conversion of programs that use Python 2 to Python 3 | 2019-12-23 | Chih-Hsuan Yen | Python 2.7 branch is going to be EOL'ed on 2020-01-01 [1]. A previous Todo [2] suggests to remove unused Python 2 libraries. In this Todo, I suggest to investigate programs that still use Python 2, either as runtime dependency or build/check dependencies, and see if it's possible to use Python 3 instead. Notes for some packages are available at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Yan12125/python3-conversion. Whenever you have changed a package to use Python 3, feel free to either move the corresponding row to the Done section or simply remove the row. Also, feel free to update notes if there are something new (e.g., a new Python 3-compatible version released, patches merged, new patches proposed, ...). Package can go directly into the repo; [staging] is not necessary. [1] https://devguide.python.org/ [2] https://www.archlinux.org/todo/die-python2-die/ | 203 | 21 | Task | Incomplete |
| libgit 1.2.0 | 2021-09-10 | David Runge | The upgrade to libgit 1.2.0 introduces a soname change: libgit2.so=1.1-64 -> libgit2.so=1.2-64 Rebuilds go to [staging]/[community-staging] | 17 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| Electron 14 | 2021-09-02 | Nicola Squartini | Switch incompatible packages to depend on electron13. | 6 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| msgpack-c no longer ships C++, only C interface | 2021-09-01 | Konstantin Gizdov | msgpack-c v4+ now ships separate C-only libraries. The new C-only lib is in [community-testing] msgpack-c 4.0.0-1. The C++ library is available in [community] msgpack-cxx v4.0.2-1. It is a header-only C++17 compatible library. Please have a look at the changes and decide if a rebuild and change of depends is necessary. | 6 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| msgpack-c has split msgpack-cxx in a separate header-only lib | 2021-08-30 | Konstantin Gizdov | msgpack-c v4+ will ship separate C and C++ libraries. The C++ library is already available in [community] msgpack-cxx v4.0.1-1. It is a header-only C++17 compatible library. Please have a look if any of your packages are affected by this change. | 6 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| libnsl 2.0.0 | 2021-08-19 | David Runge | libnsl 2.0.0 introduces a soname bump and removes NIS+ support (if there is any issues due to the latter, please reach out on IRC). libnsl.so=2-64 -> libnsl.so=3-64 Rebuilds go to [staging]/[community-staging]. | 23 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| capnproto 0.9.0 | 2021-08-19 | David Runge | capnproto 0.9.0 introduces soname bumps for all of its provided shared objects. Rebuilds go to [community-staging]. | 4 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| libiio 0.23 | 2021-08-09 | David Runge | As the past times we had troubles with dependants upon minor version upgrades of libiio we're playing it safe this time and rebuild them all. After some removed and retagged 0.22 release, now 0.23 is out. Rebuilds go to [community-staging]. | 4 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| fluidsynth 2.2.0 rebuild | 2021-07-23 | David Runge | fluidsynth 2.2.0 introduces a .so bump: /usr/lib/libfluidsynth.so.2 -> /usr/lib/libfluidsynth.so.3 Rebuilds go to [staging]/[community-staging]. NOTE: Ensure that csound is moved last with the correct rebuild, as it is currently also in the hdf5 rebuild: https://archlinux.org/todo/netcdf-480-hdf5-1121-rebuild/ | 21 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| CUDA testing stack | 2021-07-20 | Konstantin Gizdov | Rebuild the relevant packages atop the NVIDIA testing drivers which support CUDA 11.4 in order to test and weed out issues until the official release of the stable NVIDIA are available. | 11 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| fmt 8.0.1 rebuild | 2021-07-17 | David Runge | The fmt upstream forgot to increase the version number for their inline namespace in version 8.0.0, which has been fixed in 8.0.1: https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/releases/tag/8.0.1 This requires a rebuild of all packages depending on libfmt.so to not run into undefined symbol errors. Rebuilds go to [staging]/[community-staging]. | 15 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| libuhd, libvolk, gnuradio rebuild | 2021-07-17 | Kyle Keen | Sonames have been bumped. If your package only depends on scripts, instead of linking, then just mark as complete. Otherwise, [community-staging]. | 15 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| imath 3.1 | 2021-07-14 | Antonio Rojas | Packages go to [staging] | 19 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| mbedtls 2.27 | 2021-07-09 | Antonio Rojas | libmbedcrypto.so.6 → 7 | 13 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| glslang 11.5 rebuild | 2021-07-04 | Sven-Hendrik Haase | Whoosh into staging! | 8 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| openexr 3.0.5 rebuild | 2021-07-02 | Antonio Rojas | Packages go to [staging] | 21 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| git.archlinux.org deprecation | 2021-06-27 | Kristian Klausen | git.archlinux.org will be deprecated (soon)[1] and the following packages need to be updated to use their new upstream. [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2021-June/030466.html | 10 | 0 | Task | Complete |
| fmt 8.0.0 rebuild | 2021-06-25 | Maxime Gauduin | New fmt comes with a soname bump. Packages go to staging as usual. | 15 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| wlroots 0.14.0 | 2021-06-24 | Maxim Baz | New wlroots release is in community-staging Please check your packages and push a rebuild or a new version when available. Thanks :) | 4 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| yara 4.1.1 | 2021-06-07 | Levente Polyak | yara soname bump, packages go to [staging] | 2 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| gdal 3.3.0 rebuild | 2021-06-05 | Jaroslav Lichtblau | libgdal.so.28 -> libgdal.so.29 Packages to [staging] | 14 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| imagemagick 7.0.11.14 rebuild | 2021-05-31 | Antonio Rojas | Packages go to [staging] | 16 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| LLVM 12 | 2021-05-27 | Evangelos Foutras | libLLVM-11.so -> libLLVM-12.so libclang.so.11.1 -> libclang.so.12 libclang-cpp.so.11.1 -> libclang-cpp.so.12 I added llvm11 for bootstrapping the rust/ldc rebuilds, by rebuilding them in staging to use llvm11{,-libs} and then reverting back to regular llvm. llvm11 can also be used for packages not ported to LLVM 12, as long as they don't also use other LLVM components like clang. | 56 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| Electron 13 | 2021-05-27 | Nicola Squartini | Switch incompatible packages to depend on electron12. | 6 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| pacman-6.0 | 2021-05-20 | Allan McRae | Rebuilds! | 14 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| libslirp rebuild | 2021-05-19 | Morten Linderud | libslirp has a so-name bump. Please rebuild packages and move them to staging. Note: Probably invalid rebuild :) | 3 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| bullet 3.17 rebuild | 2021-05-11 | Sven-Hendrik Haase | Rebuilds go to [staging]. | 4 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| cudnn 8.2 rebuild | 2021-04-29 | Sven-Hendrik Haase | Stuff goes to staging. | 5 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| libplacebo 3.120.2 | 2021-04-26 | Levente Polyak | libplacebo 3.120.2 rebuild handled by myself, this is just a transparency and tracking todo | 3 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| openexr 3.0 rebuild | 2021-04-23 | Antonio Rojas | This comes with major build system changes. The libHalf and libImath libraries have been merged and are split to a new imath package (which openexr depends on). If your package only depends on these libraries, you should change the openexr dependency to imath. Packages that ship a custom FindOpenEXR.cmake will stop building, since all libraries are renamed. Instead of fixing all the downstream FindOpenEXR.cmake, try to port it to use the native OpenEXRConfig cmake targets (see patch in kimageformats). Packages go to [staging] | 27 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| libmypaint 1.6.1 rebuild | 2021-04-20 | Levente Polyak | libmypaint 1.6.1 changed the library name to a generic non version constrained. This may potentially create linking issues that need tiny adjustment. old: libmypaint-1.5.so=1-64 new: libmypaint.so=0-64 packages go to staging | 4 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| gdal 3.2.2 and proj 8.0.0 rebuild | 2021-04-18 | Balló György | libgdal.so.26 -> libgdal.so.28 libproj.so.15 -> libproj.so.22 Packages to [staging] | 21 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| cuda 11.3 rebuild | 2021-04-16 | Sven-Hendrik Haase | cuda 11.3 was pushed to [community]. Rebuilds should go there directly as well. | 8 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| libwebsockets 4.2.0 | 2021-04-16 | David Runge | The upgrade to libwebsockets 4.2.0 introduces a soname change (17->18). All dependants need to be rebuilt and be moved to their respective staging repository. | 5 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| Unreproducible python bytecode | 2021-04-08 | Eli Schwartz | The following packages cannot be reproducibly rebuilt due to non-deterministic changes in the packaged .pyc bytecode. Invoking 'export PYTHONHASHSEED=0' before the bytecode compiling will solve this issue and results in a reproducible package. For more details see: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/70340 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Python_package_guidelines#Reproducible_bytecode https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:ReproducibleBuilds | 54 | 0 | Task | Complete |
| wlroots 0.13.0 | 2021-04-07 | Maxim Baz | New wlroots release is in community-staging Please check your packages and push a rebuild or a new version when available. Thanks :) | 4 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| libaom 3.0.0 | 2021-04-06 | Jan Alexander Steffens | libaom 3.0.0 introduces a soname change. Packages go to staging. | 8 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| GNOME 40 Rebuild | 2021-04-01 | Jan Alexander Steffens | Changes: libedataserver-1.2.so.25 -> libedataserver-1.2.so.26 libedataserverui-1.2.so.3 -> libedataserverui-1.2.so.3 libgweather-3.so.16: Change in API contracts (ownership of return values) without soname change. (!) libmutter-7.so -> libmutter-8.so Packages go to staging. | 34 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| granite 6.0.0 rebuild | 2021-03-24 | Maxime Gauduin | granite was just updated to 6.0.0, packages go to staging libgranite.so.5 -> libgranite.so.6 | 54 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |
| fontconfig config handling changes | 2021-03-23 | Jan Alexander Steffens | fontconfig in [testing] contains some changes to config handling: "/etc/fonts/conf.avail/" was moved to "/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/". The symlinks in "/etc/fonts/conf.d/" are now handled by a hook which looks for changes in "/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.default/". This should prevent conf.d from getting reset on every upgrade, while still allowing packages to add or remove default config files. If your package contains config that should be enabled by default, put the config file into "$pkgdir/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/" and symlink it from "$pkgdir/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.default/". Packages go to [testing] / [community-testing]. | 36 | 0 | Task | Complete |
| Ruby 3.0 rebuild | 2021-03-19 | Anatol Pomozov | Ruby 3.0 has been released last December https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2020/12/25/ruby-3-0-0-released/ It is time to bring it to Arch Linux. This TODO is mostly for the rebuild machine https://rebuilds.foutrelis.com/ The packages are going to be rebuilt automatically and pushed to staging repo. | 191 | 0 | Rebuild | Complete |