Announcement for package removal from official repositories?

amish · 2018-04-10 11:20:19

[Partially Solved]

Today I noticed that package inxi was removed from official repository. (when I ran pacman -Qm)

Its now in AUR from about 20 March 2018 but I noticed it today.

I would like to know if when a package is removed from official repository, is there any kind of announcement made anywhere?

I have subscribed to these 2 mailing lists but could not locate any announcement regarding removal of inxi.

arch-announce
arch-dev-public

(or it could be that my eyes missed the announcement. apologies in that case)

Is there a way to subscribe / follow an official package like one can do for AUR package?

I know I can do:
pacman -Qm (removed packages)
pacman -Syuw (updated packages)

but I would prefer a way to get "as it happens" emails because sometimes I dont install a package on my machine but I may still want to know happenings about the package.

Last edited by amish (2018-04-10 14:26:34)

Trilby · 2018-04-10 11:24:16

arch-commits:
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/a … 71989.html

If you don't want to subscribe to everything there, you can script something like the following (use `date` to fill in the current month, and modify the zgrep regex to include packages you're interested in):

curl -s https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-commits/2018-March.txt.gz | zgrep inxi

Last edited by Trilby (2018-04-10 11:30:35)

amish · 2018-04-10 11:32:14

Great thanks for the prompt response.

But going through the list, it has almost 700 emails per month. And its not easy to know from subject what was actually done.

I would have to open each and every email of my interest.

Please let me know if there is any other alternate way to achieve what I want above.

Otherwise will create email filters for packages I would like to watch.

Thanks again.

EDIT: saw your edit after posting. thanks

Last edited by amish (2018-04-10 11:33:28)

Trilby · 2018-04-10 11:32:59

Please see my edit.

amish · 2018-04-10 11:43:43

Thanks. Noted.

Looking at:

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/... for official packages
and
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/... for AUR packages.

It seems that everything is almost same except that "Vote for this package" (indirectly Follow this package) is disabled in backend.

Is there any specific reason?

Would the feature, if enabled, will be used by way too many people that it would generate way too many emails?

Last edited by amish (2018-04-10 11:45:20)

Lone_Wolf · 2018-04-10 11:59:28

In order to get announcements about specific packages, the repo webinterface (and backend) would have to gain a "Enable notifications" feature.

The backend part is likely the hard one.

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2018-04-10 11:59:39)

amish · 2018-04-10 12:21:56

Well "Vote for this package" of AUR can be renamed to "Enable Notifications" (or "Follow package")

Function wise it would be same thing.

And as I said, web interface and backend of AUR package and repository package seem to be same. Just that "Notification / Vote" feature seems to be disabled.

You can check it under AUR webinterface - My Account - "Notify of package updates"

Lone_Wolf · 2018-04-10 12:57:54

They may look the same, but they are very different internally and maintained seperately.

Check https://git.archlinux.org/aurweb.git/ and https://git.archlinux.org/archweb.git/

amish · 2018-04-10 14:24:20

Ok thanks

Marking as partially solved. Because atleast now I have a way to find out about package commits. (modification / deletion)

EDIT: cant mark subject as [Partially Solved] due to character limit.

Last edited by amish (2018-04-10 14:28:02)

eschwartz · 2018-04-10 16:05:33

You could get notifications by looking to see which installed packages are suddenly in pacman -Qm (you could diff the difference between this before and after pacman -Syu).

In general there is https://www.archlinux.org/feeds/ but while we do *want* "newly created" and "recently removed" package feeds, we don't have them yet... feel free to help out by submitting patches to archweb for this.

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Announcement for package removal from official repositories?

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