The fork takes its own name everywhere a user can see it: binaries
(voculinux, voculinux-gui), desktop entry, autostart, tray, D-Bus
namespace (com.voculinux.Voculinux, no alias for the old name),
config/data/cache dirs, single-instance lock, IBus engine identity,
tray icons, resource prefixes, VOCULINUX_* environment names, and the
update-checker user agent. The internal Python module stays vocalinux
and the distribution metadata keeps the upstream URLs as provenance.
On first run a previous Vocalinux install's config.json, custom
dictionary, and portal restore token are copied once into the new
locations (new config always wins, no merge, no write-back); models
re-resolve through the pinned-checksum download path. An offline
naming-sweep test proves no old-name strings remain on user-visible
surfaces outside the allowlist.
Refs #18
* fix(aur): gate source publication on attested sdists
Prepare and verify the canonical release source, build the exact PKGBUILD on Arch, and publish the gated artifact without further rewrites. Part of #701.
* fix(aur): isolate local gate and binary publication
Keep local gate distributions and diagnostics in a private workspace, preserving other build outputs and failed diagnostics. Publish vocalinux-bin after its own AppImage inputs without depending on the source gate or unrelated release jobs. Add regression coverage for both review findings.
* feat(aur): add vocalinux-bin PKGBUILD shipping the AppImage
Closes#817
* fix(aur): hard-dep injection tools, pin real digests, gate the -bin package
* fix(aur): pin both-arch -bin digests and build the binpkg as builder
updpkgsums in the publish action only regenerates the x86_64 sum array, leaving aarch64 stale after every tag; release.yml now pins both AppImage digests itself and publishes with updpkgsums off. The AUR gate also created $WORKDIR/binpkg as root after handing WORKDIR to builder, so makepkg could not write there. AUR.md now matches the published -bin package.
* fix(ci): wait for aarch64 AppImage before publishing vocalinux-bin
publish-aur only needed build-and-release, so on a tag the digest-pinning
step could curl the aarch64 AppImage before build-appimage-arm64 attached
it — a 404 that failed the job between the source and -bin publishes.
Split the -bin bump/pin/publish steps into publish-aur-bin, which needs
[publish-aur, build-appimage-arm64]: the source package still ships as
early as before while the binary package only runs once both AppImages
exist on the release.
* fix(ci): ship -bin local sources and wait for the aarch64 asset on AUR publish
Split the -bin bump/pin/publish into publish-aur-bin needing
[publish-aur, build-appimage-arm64] so the digest-pinning step can no
longer curl a 404 for the not-yet-attached aarch64 AppImage mid-release,
and publish with asset_dir so the PKGBUILD's local sources
(vocalinux.desktop, vocalinux.svg, LICENSE) reach the AUR repo instead
of a lone PKGBUILD users cannot build.
* style(tests): apply black formatting to aur packaging test
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Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@gmail.com>
* docs: polish project documentation for a clearer public surface
Rewrite the README and supporting docs for a more professional first
impression: less emoji and badge noise, install-first structure, and a
real documentation index. Add a Contributor Covenant, tighten SECURITY
and GitHub templates, and make distro/update guides read as product docs
instead of internal status notes.
* docs: split install guide and add changelog plus support pages
Break INSTALL.md into a short primary guide, manual/PyPI package lists,
and troubleshooting. Add root CHANGELOG.md and SUPPORT.md, wire them
into the docs index and README, and drop the outdated screenshot lag note
now that v0.15 assets are on main.
* docs: humanize PR copy and remove em dashes
Strip em/en dashes from the documentation rewritten in this PR, fix
mid-sentence colon fallout from that pass, and smooth a few stiff
phrases so the public docs read more natural.
* docs: list Faster Whisper after rebase onto main
Installer and CLI already accept faster_whisper. Document it next to
the other engines, drop the outdated screenshot lag note, and keep the
on-device wording honest for local vs remote.
* feat(ci): gate AUR PKGBUILD builds on every PR
Nothing ever ran makepkg on the PKGBUILD before a tag pushed it to AUR
users, and the channel broke twice that way (#736, #757) — a PKGBUILD
change did not even start a CI job, because no paths filter matched
packaging/aur/**.
The gate (packaging/aur/build-test.sh, run in archlinux:latest — the
AUR is a rolling channel, so the image stays deliberately unpinned):
- swaps the tag-archive source= for a git archive of the checkout under
the same filename and prefix, so build()/package() run unchanged and
the gate answers "does this commit build on Arch"
- installs depends/makedepends from the repos; python-pywhispercpp
(virtual, provided by the AUR backends, #579) and python-pynput (AUR)
are satisfied by a stub so makepkg still verifies the full depends
set, and pip-installed from the hash-pinned requirements/runtime.txt
for the import smoke
- runs namcap on the PKGBUILD and the built package, failing on errors
only (its warnings are noise around lazy imports and virtual depends)
- installs the package and imports the whole UI/recognition stack, plus
the vocalinux --version entry point
Part of #701 (phase 6).
* fix(ci): stop partial-upgrading in the AUR gate and correct the #736 attribution
AUR --no-isolation uses extra python-setuptools 84, so the <82 cap blocked the 0.16.0 rebuild. AUR pywhispercpp backends are still 1.4 and crash if we pass context_params; skip that argument below 1.5.
* feat(packaging): add AUR release package and CI publish
Ship packaging/aur/vocalinux for yay installs of tagged releases, wire
AUR publish into the release workflow (skipped until secrets are set),
and document one-time maintainer setup.
Fixes#116
* refactor(packaging): slim AUR PR to PKGBUILD + CI
Drop systemd unit, install script, website edits, and long docs.
Keep release PKGBUILD, minimal publish job, and short AUR setup notes.
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