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Using an AUR helper such as yay to build packages including backintime is HIGHLY discouraged. The recommended build method is to use a clean chroot. See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_clean_chroot

I wrote a script that automates much of that called clean-chroot-manager offered here in the AUR.

Please stop posting build failures because you insist on building with yay or other AUR helpers.

@graysky First of all thanks for maintaining the package.

This package leaves residue when uninstalled: at /usr/share/backintime/

@spsf64

Does your link show? Yes, AUR helper is not supported by Arch Linux officially. But it does not mean "Using an AUR helper such as yay to build packages including backintime is HIGHLY discouraged"

Sorry, The Graysky comment is a totally fault message

1. for many years, I haven't seen any good & updated AUR package that can not be built by Yay or a similar helper

Can you show me otherwise?

@leonardof I have built successfully the latest version on two VMs (one console-only and one with Plasma/Wayland) so I need more info (stacktrace, relevant log output, any special configuration...) to diagnose this

Please do not flag this out-of-date unless upstream has a new release. You're free to stop using this PKGBUILD and rewrite it yourself if feel it is of poor quality.

Best advice is to build as described in the pinned post which you feel is unacceptable.

@Maziar, your lack of politeness is unacceptable too... Check the warning here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_helpers

But, there is an easy solution for you:

1- download snapshot and extract to some dir, 2- cd into extracted dir and "makepkg -rs", 3- pacman -U package-name.pkg.tar.zst. Better than complaining about aurhelpers.

BTW, I just rebuilt this package and it works perfectly...

@graysky "Using an AUR helper such as yay to build packages including backintime is HIGHLY discouraged"

This isn't an acceptable comment. And the first time Hear for over 80,000 aur package!

Yes! This package needs to be rewritten from the start!

@dev_aryoda
sure, this is as the commented problem is between the test & pkgbuid

Installation still fails for me, during test/test_backtintime.py, more especifically TestBackInTime.test_local_snapshot_is_successful.

@leonardof Could you please provide the stacktrace here? I will try to reproduce and debug it in a VM with Arch.

Installation still fails for me, during test/test_backtintime.py, more especifically TestBackInTime.test_local_snapshot_is_successful.

Running the test in https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/backintime#comment-937138 does show the Qt5 about dialog

Using an AUR helper such as yay to build packages including backintime is HIGHLY discouraged. The recommended build method is to use a clean chroot. See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_clean_chroot

I wrote a script that automates much of that called clean-chroot-manager offered here in the AUR.

Please stop posting build failures because you insist on building with yay or other AUR helpers.

@Maziar Is this failure reproducible (with the same stacktrace) or sporadic?

It looks like PyQt5 cannot instantiate a QApplication and then even crashes with a core dump...

Does this console cmd work (should show the Qt5 about dialog)?

python3 -c "import PyQt5.QtWidgets; qapp = PyQt5.QtWidgets.QApplication([]); print(qapp.aboutQt())"