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dosmanak

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Registered: 2024-05-10

Posts: 1

package disapeared or removed from extra repository

Hello there.
I had installed package aws-cli-v2 on Thu 11 Apr 2024 08:50:03 AM CEST.
After latest upgrade, the package somehow disappeared.
It is still in duckduckgo search cache but https://security.archlinux.org/package/aws-cli-v2 returns 404 and https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/aws-cli-v2/ says it has been removed.

I see it is still available in AUR.

Is there any information available about package removal? I am not that advanced with Archlinux so I am not sure how exactly packages gets into extras repository, if there is some repository which lists them or so...

$ pacman -Qi aws-cli-v2
Name            : aws-cli-v2
Version         : 2.15.19-1
Description     : Unified command line interface for Amazon Web Services (version 2)
Architecture    : any
URL             : https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/tree/v2
Licenses        : Apache
Groups          : None
Provides        : aws-cli
Depends On      : python  python-awscrt  python-certifi  python-colorama  python-cryptography  python-dateutil  python-distro  python-docutils  python-jmespath  python-prompt_toolkit  python-ruamel-yaml  python-urllib3
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : aws-cli
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 109.35 MiB
Packager        : Chih-Hsuan Yen <yan12125@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Sat 10 Feb 2024 10:14:31 AM CET
Install Date    : Thu 11 Apr 2024 08:50:03 AM CEST
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : Yes
Validated By    : Signature

$ pacman -D -k aws-cli-v2
No database errors have been found!

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,960

Re: package disapeared or removed from extra repository

Packages are dropped to the AUR when a maintainer doesn't want to/can't maintain it anymore or they've been orphaned for a while. Every year there's a "spring cleanup" in which packages without a maintainer or relevant adopter from the pool of maintainers doesn't want to adopt them. The Spring cleanup was rather late this year, chances it got shafted there. 

There's an RSS feed for when removals happen, you might want to subscribe to that: https://archlinux.org/feeds/

Last edited by V1del (2024-05-10 10:23:14)