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  1. Today I realized, that the history of the #fakeroot project has recently been... well... completely rewritten, all tags have been deleted and recreated (this apparently happened multiple times in the past already and upstream is not reacting to mails).

    I guess you can imagine how much "fun" that is for downstreams that try to rely on this software in their critical infrastructure (building packages), while regressions happen in addition...

    #ArchLinux #PackagerLife

  2. Today I realized, that the history of the #fakeroot project has recently been... well... completely rewritten, all tags have been deleted and recreated (this apparently happened multiple times in the past already and upstream is not reacting to mails).

    I guess you can imagine how much "fun" that is for downstreams that try to rely on this software in their critical infrastructure (building packages), while regressions happen in addition...

    #ArchLinux #PackagerLife

  3. Today I realized, that the history of the #fakeroot project has recently been... well... completely rewritten, all tags have been deleted and recreated (this apparently happened multiple times in the past already and upstream is not reacting to mails).

    I guess you can imagine how much "fun" that is for downstreams that try to rely on this software in their critical infrastructure (building packages), while regressions happen in addition...

    #ArchLinux #PackagerLife

  4. Today I realized, that the history of the #fakeroot project has recently been... well... completely rewritten, all tags have been deleted and recreated (this apparently happened multiple times in the past already and upstream is not reacting to mails).

    I guess you can imagine how much "fun" that is for downstreams that try to rely on this software in their critical infrastructure (building packages), while regressions happen in addition...

    #ArchLinux #PackagerLife

  5. Today I realized, that the history of the #fakeroot project has recently been... well... completely rewritten, all tags have been deleted and recreated (this apparently happened multiple times in the past already and upstream is not reacting to mails).

    I guess you can imagine how much "fun" that is for downstreams that try to rely on this software in their critical infrastructure (building packages), while regressions happen in addition...

    #ArchLinux #PackagerLife

  6. Upstream has a flaky test written in #Perl. You open a ticket about it and skip the test.

    Two years later, upstream has rewritten the test in #Python. But it's still flaky. 🥲

    #ArchLinux #PackagerLife

  7. Upstream has a flaky test written in #Perl. You open a ticket about it and skip the test.

    Two years later, upstream has rewritten the test in #Python. But it's still flaky. 🥲

    #ArchLinux #PackagerLife

  8. Upstream has a flaky test written in #Perl. You open a ticket about it and skip the test.

    Two years later, upstream has rewritten the test in #Python. But it's still flaky. 🥲

    #ArchLinux #PackagerLife

  9. Upstream has a flaky test written in #Perl. You open a ticket about it and skip the test.

    Two years later, upstream has rewritten the test in #Python. But it's still flaky. 🥲

    #ArchLinux #PackagerLife

  10. Upstream has a flaky test written in #Perl. You open a ticket about it and skip the test.

    Two years later, upstream has rewritten the test in #Python. But it's still flaky. 🥲

    #ArchLinux #PackagerLife

  11. Interesting read on the perceived immutability of #git tags and the issues that come with it:

    arxiv.org/pdf/2606.31354

    There now is a paper about what I witness every now and again: Upstreams retagging their releases and causing a mess.

    #PackageManager #Distribution
    #PackagerLife #ArchLinux

  12. Interesting read on the perceived immutability of #git tags and the issues that come with it:

    arxiv.org/pdf/2606.31354

    There now is a paper about what I witness every now and again: Upstreams retagging their releases and causing a mess.

    #PackageManager #Distribution
    #PackagerLife #ArchLinux

  13. Interesting read on the perceived immutability of #git tags and the issues that come with it:

    arxiv.org/pdf/2606.31354

    There now is a paper about what I witness every now and again: Upstreams retagging their releases and causing a mess.

    #PackageManager #Distribution
    #PackagerLife #ArchLinux

  14. Interesting read on the perceived immutability of #git tags and the issues that come with it:

    arxiv.org/pdf/2606.31354

    There now is a paper about what I witness every now and again: Upstreams retagging their releases and causing a mess.

    #PackageManager #Distribution
    #PackagerLife #ArchLinux

  15. Interesting read on the perceived immutability of #git tags and the issues that come with it:

    arxiv.org/pdf/2606.31354

    There now is a paper about what I witness every now and again: Upstreams retagging their releases and causing a mess.

    #PackageManager #Distribution
    #PackagerLife #ArchLinux

  16. Corporate upstream retags their project release and breaks reproducibility for all of their downstreams.

    You write a detailed ticket, outlining what the problem is and why it is a security concern.
    You also mention that their behavior burns downstream volunteer time.

    You get ignored. End of story 👏

    #PackagerLife #ArchLinux

  17. Corporate upstream retags their project release and breaks reproducibility for all of their downstreams.

    You write a detailed ticket, outlining what the problem is and why it is a security concern.
    You also mention that their behavior burns downstream volunteer time.

    You get ignored. End of story 👏

    #PackagerLife #ArchLinux

  18. Corporate upstream retags their project release and breaks reproducibility for all of their downstreams.

    You write a detailed ticket, outlining what the problem is and why it is a security concern.
    You also mention that their behavior burns downstream volunteer time.

    You get ignored. End of story 👏

    #PackagerLife #ArchLinux

  19. Corporate upstream retags their project release and breaks reproducibility for all of their downstreams.

    You write a detailed ticket, outlining what the problem is and why it is a security concern.
    You also mention that their behavior burns downstream volunteer time.

    You get ignored. End of story 👏

    #PackagerLife #ArchLinux

  20. Corporate upstream retags their project release and breaks reproducibility for all of their downstreams.

    You write a detailed ticket, outlining what the problem is and why it is a security concern.
    You also mention that their behavior burns downstream volunteer time.

    You get ignored. End of story 👏

    #PackagerLife #ArchLinux

  21. When you manage to do two kernel builds while the test suite of a certain other project is still running (most likely to fail again under bizarre circumstances in a while).

    #PackagerLife

  22. When you manage to do two kernel builds while the test suite of a certain other project is still running (most likely to fail again under bizarre circumstances in a while).

    #PackagerLife

  23. When you manage to do two kernel builds while the test suite of a certain other project is still running (most likely to fail again under bizarre circumstances in a while).

    #PackagerLife

  24. When you manage to do two kernel builds while the test suite of a certain other project is still running (most likely to fail again under bizarre circumstances in a while).

    #PackagerLife

  25. When you manage to do two kernel builds while the test suite of a certain other project is still running (most likely to fail again under bizarre circumstances in a while).

    #PackagerLife

  26. That feeling when you have 96 cores and a couple of them are not pulling their weight. Who even gives cores permission to slack off 1%? As for 2% slack off, get with the program! Don't they understand people are waiting for their fresh Electron releases?

    #archlinux #packagerlife #packaging

  27. That feeling when you have 96 cores and a couple of them are not pulling their weight. Who even gives cores permission to slack off 1%? As for 2% slack off, get with the program! Don't they understand people are waiting for their fresh Electron releases?

    #archlinux #packagerlife #packaging

  28. That feeling when you have 96 cores and a couple of them are not pulling their weight. Who even gives cores permission to slack off 1%? As for 2% slack off, get with the program! Don't they understand people are waiting for their fresh Electron releases?

    #archlinux #packagerlife #packaging

  29. It's Sunday, I'm again looking into an update to the #edk2 package and have to deal with its terrible "build system"... questioning life choices....

    #ArchLinux #PackagerLife

  30. It's Sunday, I'm again looking into an update to the #edk2 package and have to deal with its terrible "build system"... questioning life choices....

    #ArchLinux #PackagerLife

  31. It's Sunday, I'm again looking into an update to the #edk2 package and have to deal with its terrible "build system"... questioning life choices....

    #ArchLinux #PackagerLife

  32. It's Sunday, I'm again looking into an update to the #edk2 package and have to deal with its terrible "build system"... questioning life choices....

    #ArchLinux #PackagerLife

  33. It's Sunday, I'm again looking into an update to the #edk2 package and have to deal with its terrible "build system"... questioning life choices....

    #ArchLinux #PackagerLife

  34. If you ever thought Linux packaging sounded fun I'm here to save you;

    I'm sitting here with a compiler that does not produce any current, nor previous, version of the same compiler that doesn't choke on an AMD specific test case.

    Currently reconsidering my hobbies.

    #PackagerLife

  35. If you ever thought Linux packaging sounded fun I'm here to save you;

    I'm sitting here with a compiler that does not produce any current, nor previous, version of the same compiler that doesn't choke on an AMD specific test case.

    Currently reconsidering my hobbies.

    #PackagerLife

  36. If you ever thought Linux packaging sounded fun I'm here to save you;

    I'm sitting here with a compiler that does not produce any current, nor previous, version of the same compiler that doesn't choke on an AMD specific test case.

    Currently reconsidering my hobbies.

    #PackagerLife

  37. If you ever thought Linux packaging sounded fun I'm here to save you;

    I'm sitting here with a compiler that does not produce any current, nor previous, version of the same compiler that doesn't choke on an AMD specific test case.

    Currently reconsidering my hobbies.

    #PackagerLife

  38. If you ever thought Linux packaging sounded fun I'm here to save you;

    I'm sitting here with a compiler that does not produce any current, nor previous, version of the same compiler that doesn't choke on an AMD specific test case.

    Currently reconsidering my hobbies.

    #PackagerLife

  39. #autotools is when you can't even figure out how to make the thing install libraries to the correct location... even after patching all sorts of files that probably maybe have something to do with the installation target of those files... and eventually just move files manually...

    It's really incredible how much of a time sink upstreams with this terrible build system are...

    #ArchLinux #PackagerLife

  40. #autotools is when you can't even figure out how to make the thing install libraries to the correct location... even after patching all sorts of files that probably maybe have something to do with the installation target of those files... and eventually just move files manually...

    It's really incredible how much of a time sink upstreams with this terrible build system are...

    #ArchLinux #PackagerLife

  41. #autotools is when you can't even figure out how to make the thing install libraries to the correct location... even after patching all sorts of files that probably maybe have something to do with the installation target of those files... and eventually just move files manually...

    It's really incredible how much of a time sink upstreams with this terrible build system are...

    #ArchLinux #PackagerLife

  42. #autotools is when you can't even figure out how to make the thing install libraries to the correct location... even after patching all sorts of files that probably maybe have something to do with the installation target of those files... and eventually just move files manually...

    It's really incredible how much of a time sink upstreams with this terrible build system are...

    #ArchLinux #PackagerLife

  43. #autotools is when you can't even figure out how to make the thing install libraries to the correct location... even after patching all sorts of files that probably maybe have something to do with the installation target of those files... and eventually just move files manually...

    It's really incredible how much of a time sink upstreams with this terrible build system are...

    #ArchLinux #PackagerLife

  44. A failing test suite for the Go compiler was really not on my "lets have a relaxing Sunday working through my backlog"-list.

    Plz, I just want to disable dwarf5 generation.

    #PackagerLife