How do I find out why a package was removed/archived from the repos?

thinkpadder1 · 2018-02-18 02:24:22

Was trying to install a graphical links, but you need to compile with directfb. Found an AUR package links-g-directfb. It has a dependency directfb which no longer exists. Found it in the archive and manually installed it and then everything worked just fine.

So, my question is... How do I find out why a package was removed/archived?

P.S. Added my workaround as a comment: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/links-g-directfb/

eschwartz · 2018-02-18 03:18:13

It was removed as part of https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/a … 29081.html but never dropped to the AUR, I guess because brtln did not consider it worth preserving.

thinkpadder1 · 2018-02-18 03:22:12

Eschwartz wrote:

It was removed as part of https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/a … 29081.html but never dropped to the AUR, I guess because brtln did not consider it worth preserving.

Thank you. Well, at least it's in the archive

eschwartz · 2018-02-18 03:29:28

Well, it is also in the svn history, and the svntogit repository as well if you know how to look: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/comm … 2be3709fdf

So feel free to add the package yourself using that PKGBUILD.

Last edited by eschwartz (2018-02-18 03:30:32)

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#1 2018-02-18 02:24:22

How do I find out why a package was removed/archived from the repos?

#2 2018-02-18 03:18:13

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