2020-07-08

07:45 AM Servers Housekeeping #2831 (fixed): Some packages stopped receiving updates for x86_64

One example: [1]
I noticed this after finding that xorg-font-utils package is now listed as foreign in my system (... grizzlyuser

2020-06-07

07:35 AM Packages Bug #2793 (fixed): [core] repo is out of sync with upstream

https://www.parabola.nu/packages/?repo=Core&sort=-last_update&arch=x86_64
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?repo=C... grizzlyuser

2020-05-06

05:46 PM Packages Bug #2767: [iceweasel] Jitsi Meet doesn't work in 1:75.0-1.parabola3

It seems like Arch Linux has rolled out a fix for that: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?... grizzlyuser

2020-04-23

08:14 AM Packages Freedom issue #2708 (confirmed): [kdeplasma-addons] controversial qt5-webengine in makedepends and optdepends

Package version: extra/kdeplasma-addons 5.18.4.1-1
Commit that introduced it: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/p... grizzlyuser

2020-04-20

07:36 AM Packages Freedom issue #2707 (unconfirmed): [intel-mkl] has nonfree Intel Simplified Software License

Package: community/intel-mkl 2020.1.217-1
According to [1], Intel® Math Kernel Library is under ISSL [2], that sta... grizzlyuser

2020-04-19

09:00 AM Parabola Community Forum General Discussion: RE: Libre video chat applications

It should be kept in mind that only 1:1 calls are end-to-end encrypted in Jitsi Meet, and conferences are not [1]. Bu... grizzlyuser

08:45 AM Parabola Community Forum General Discussion: RE: Best Parabola package for testing GPU?

I don't know of the best one (especially for ARM), but xonotic has a built-in benchmark. It can be found from the mai... grizzlyuser

2020-04-14

04:21 PM Packages Freedom issue #2661: [foldingathome]: non-free license

IMHO it doesn't matter how well respected the software is when it's nonfree. Many of the packages Parabola blacklists... grizzlyuser

03:44 PM Packages Bug #2696: Enable media.peerconnection.enabled

oaken-source -
AFAIK this preference is enabled by default, so it'd be better to just remove it from vendor.js if "t... grizzlyuser

2020-04-13

05:09 PM Packages Freedom issue #2670: [osinfo-db] Contains metadata for nonfree OSs, including download URLs

As I understand, all the metadata about nonfree software is better to be removed, not just URLs.
I guess the subje... grizzlyuser