AUR package asks my Github username and password during building

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#1

Hello, when i “pamac build librevault” it asks my Github username and password:

Username for ‘https://github.com’:
…

i was worried and cancelled it, should this be reported, where?
Or it is near zero risky to enter my credentials?

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/librevault/

same happen for librevault-git

#2

These AUR packages haven’t been updated since 2016.
You should not enter any credentials to install an AUR package.

This is probably broken because it is not maintained since 2016.

//EDIT: yes these AUR packages are dead, there are reference to source repos that do not exist anymore.

#3

Well, I could view the source repo from librevault. Maybe it’s just hidden for people not logged into github?

#4 
source=(
	'librevault::git+https://github.com/Librevault/librevault.git'
	'common::git+https://github.com/Librevault/librevault-common.git'
	'dir_monitor::git+https://github.com/Librevault/dir_monitor.git'
	'spdlog::git+https://github.com/Librevault/spdlog.git'
	'docopt::git+https://github.com/Librevault/docopt.cpp.git'
	'rabin::git+https://github.com/Librevault/rabin.git'
	'libnatpmp::git+https://github.com/Librevault/libnatpmp.git'
	'websocketpp::git+https://github.com/Librevault/websocketpp'
	'dht::git+https://github.com/Librevault/dht.git'
	'miniupnp::git+https://github.com/Librevault/miniupnp.git'
)

You can access all these?

#5

I didn’t check the submodules.

This one I can’t see, but the others I can.

Found this issue about it:

#6

I guess this could be reported in the comments but I don’t know how one could modify the PKGBUILD to use these other branches.

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#7

See VCS package guidelines - ArchWiki

source=('git+https://github.com/librevault/librevault.git#branch=develop'
        'git+https://github.com/librevault/dht.git'
        'git+https://github.com/librevault/libnatpmp.git'
        'git+https://github.com/librevault/rabin.git')

prepare() {
	cd "$srcdir/${pkgname%-git}"
	git submodule init
	git config submodule contrib/dht.url "$srcdir/dht"
	git config submodule.contrib/libnatpmp.url "$srcdir/libnatpmp"
	git config submodule.contrib/rabin.url "$srcdir/rabin"
	git submodule update
}
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