Hi Jörg,
Thanks a lot for updating Arch Linux packaging of Kwant! Are you planning to maintain them for some time in future?
Your scripts look fine to me. I just noticed that we were still using *.sig for the signatures of the tinyarray tarballs. I now renamed those to *.asc (which seems to be more standard, e.g. it’s what PyPI requires). Can you take this change into account?
Otherwise, you can verify that during the build Cython does not get run. It shouldn’t as the cythonized files are shipped in the tarball. If, however, during the Arch build process the files are copied and loose their proper timestamps it could happen that Cython will get run. In that case, there’s an option to setup.py to inhibit cython: --no-cython
On debian / ubuntu we also build the documentation. Not sure whether it’s common to do this for Arch packages as well. The documentation is available online anyway.
Also, could you please have a look at http://kwant-project.org/install#arch-linux and let me know if something could be improved there?
Thanks Christoph