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Batou

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pngquant-git is not present in AUR -- skipping

Hi all,

I performed an upgrade of many AUR packages and i noticed that pngquant has been removed. I use this program every other day (it's extremely useful for webdev when you want to reduce the number of colors in a PNG image) and now it's gone for some reason.

Can someone tell me what happened? There's no way that this package was malicious or anything...

Thanks!

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Re: pngquant-git is not present in AUR -- skipping

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

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Batou

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Registered: 2017-01-03

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Re: pngquant-git is not present in AUR -- skipping

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

Hi,
Yes, this package was there before but it was rarely updated. pngquant-git was a git version of it and you could update it immediately as the HEAD was updated. But for some reason, it disappeared from AUR. Was just wondering what happened. I guess I'll do it manually with makepkg from now on...
Thanks.

Last edited by Batou (2017-10-29 21:07:36)

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Scimmia

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Re: pngquant-git is not present in AUR -- skipping

A lot of package that were orphans with no votes have been deleted recently. Does that apply to this one?

Batou

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Re: pngquant-git is not present in AUR -- skipping

A lot of package that were orphans with no votes have been deleted recently. Does that apply to this one?

It would appear so... the page https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pngquant-git/ is still in Google Cache...

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eschwartz

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Re: pngquant-git is not present in AUR -- skipping

Well, if you are interested in it, feel free to restore the pkgbase and maintain it yourself.

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