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@Rhinoceros I personally have not seen alternatives to this software. Maybe you know? The point here is not that the developer is not showing any activity, but to repair this software. On GitHub, one user forked it, but why did I get an error during the build. Which will work with the new pacman. Repair and all for 3-5 years is enough until again some critical innovations are introduced.

@naruto522ru We could submit an orphan request in theory I guess, but there's no real point. If jjacky is unavailable, then upstream won't be providing updates any more, and this package is useless anyway; there's no much point maintaining it. I just checked upstream's GitHub and jjacky hasn't made a commit in 24 months, and replied 20 months ago, so I suppose it's probably time to consider alternatives.

@Rhinoceros Can you handle the maintenance of this package? Since nothing has been heard from the author and maintainer of the program for a long time.

I'm not sure if the maintainer/upstream jjacky is still around. Hopefully everything is okay! In any case, there is a patch proposed in the issue that works. Alternatively there is kalu-kde that already incorporates this patch. (kalu-kde is otherwise identical to this, but incorporates statusnotifier so that, if requested, the tray icon can auto-hide in KDE, and probably other DEs too).

@akovia Yeah, the same thing with me. We have to wait until they fix it.

@tpreissler

Build fails for me :/

collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [Makefile:834: kalu] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/nuc/Downloads/kalu/src/kalu'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1474: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/nuc/Downloads/kalu/src/kalu'
make: *** [Makefile:657: all] Error 2

==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().

Aborting...

I managed to compile a fork supporting latest pacman. Here is the PKGBUILD:

pkgname=kalu
pkgver=4.3.0.r9.ga46975c
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Upgrade notifier w/ AUR support, watched (AUR) packages, news [GIT]"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="https://jjacky.com/$_pkgname"
license=('GPL3+')
depends=('dbus' 'polkit' 'gtk3' 'pacman>=5.2' 'curl' 'libnotify'
         'notification-daemon')
makedepends=('perl' 'groff' 'git' 'autoconf')
source=("git://github.com/deraffe/kalu.git#branch=pacman-5.2-next")
md5sums=('SKIP')
provides=($_pkgname)
conflicts=($_pkgname)

pkgver() {
  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname"
  git describe --long --tags | sed 's/\([^-]*-g\)/r\1/;s/-/./g'
}

build() {
  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname"
  ./autogen.sh
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-git-version
  make
}

package() {
  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname"
  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir/" install
  chmod 750 "$pkgdir"/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d
  chown 0:102 "$pkgdir"/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d
}

# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:

Hope this gets updated for the latest pacman version. I made this bash script in the meantime if anyone cares (requires pacman-contrib, can't check AUR, change inside if statement if you don't use libnotify and replace username and maybe ID if it isn't 1000, I am releasing it as CC0 i.e public domain):

https://paste.dimdev.org/ukuvivoguz.bash

Kalu is broken with pacman 5.2.0: https://github.com/jjk-jacky/kalu/issues/73