Arch monthly November

New TU Andrew Crerar

Andrew Crerar applied to become a Trusted User and was accepted! Congratulations! His intentions is to move firefox-develop from the AUR to [community]

77% Reproducible packages

Currently 77% of the packages are reproducible, note that we do not vary everything yet in the two builds. For example filesystem, build patch and other options can be varied.

Pro-audio mailing list

For audio enthusiasts there is a new mailing list to discuss audio packaging, development and usage etc..

GCC and GCC-multilib merged

Now that 32 bit support is dropped, the normal GCC package has gained support to build multilib packages, simplifying packaging.

Mime-types replaced with mailcap

Mime-types is now replaced by mailcap in this change.

Arch Linux at 34C3

A few Arch Linux Developers and Trusted users will be at 34C3 in Leipzig, if you are there, meet us there! A certain Arch user was recruited after talks at congress!

Analysis of AUR and Official Arch Repository data

Brian Caffey has made some a analysis of the AUR and the Arch repositories.