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jussty

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Registered: 2015-09-25

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What happened to community/pdfshuffler?

Hi,

I am using the great PDF-Shuffler for editing PDFs since many years. Originally it was only in AUR but was moved to the community repo a few years ago.
My new AUR helper now notified me that the pdfshuffler package is missing in AUR - of course. But it is also missing in community - so there is no remote package at all anymore.

It seems the Arch32 project still has it in its community repo: https://www.archlinux32.org/packages/i4 … fshuffler/ (and its actively maintained there)

Does anyone know why it was removed? I can create an AUR package again if there is a reason, but I suspect it was removed by mistake.

Cheers, jussty

WorMzy

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Re: What happened to community/pdfshuffler?

It was removed deliberately, in favour of pdfarranger: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/comm … bfabfc6241

You might want to check out the latter, it sounds like it is an active fork of the former.

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schard

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Re: What happened to community/pdfshuffler?

It was removed deliberately, in favour of pdfarranger

Interesting. I searched the arch-dev-public mailing list until December last year. It was not announced.
Furthermore shouldn't it have a "provides=pdfshuffler" if it's a fork that replaces it?

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WorMzy

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Re: What happened to community/pdfshuffler?

Perhaps, check the bug tracker for the package in question and see if there's an existing feature request for that (check closed reports too). If there isn't feel free to create a new feature request and the maintainer may consider it.

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