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jebez

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Differences between maintainer & packager?

E.g. https://archlinux.org/packages/core/any/mkinitcpio/ , not the same people.

I only found about maintainer https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Package_Maintainers https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_t … maintainer .

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system72

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Re: Differences between maintainer & packager?

"last packager" just means the last person to touch the pkgrel or package version i guess

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#pkgrel

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gromit

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Re: Differences between maintainer & packager?

The Maintainer is the person feeling responsible for updating the package and acting on bugreports and any details regarding the package.
The last packager is the one to build & upload the package within the repositories, which can be another packager either when the assigned maintainer is not properly taking care of a package or as part of a bigger change such as a rebuild (see for example the ongoing python 3.14 rebuild).

loqs

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Re: Differences between maintainer & packager?

@gromit with respect to the python 3.14 build would a merge request for tensorflow changing it to clang20 as clang21 is not supported and adding requirements_lock_3_14.txt and wiring that into the workspace be helpful?

Also if you have time to help with a kernel bisection please see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 8#p2278188.

Svenstaro

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Re: Differences between maintainer & packager?

@loqs can you open an issue on the tensorflow package? Then we can discuss there. But generally, if it makes it work, I'll merge it.

loqs

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Re: Differences between maintainer & packager?

@Svenstaro https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … /issues/28.