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Mr Green

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Packages moved to AUR... in this case maliit-keyboard [Solved]

A package I was using had suddenly gone into AUR. Not a big problem for me as there are alternatives or I can simply build it and move on.

I cannot check this morning as AUR is down again but I seem to remember there is no comment on the package as to the reason why it has been dropped. Have feeling it is the whole qt5-6 transition but it would be nice to make users aware.

Maintainers are very busy people but so are forum mods am sure this will save a lot of posts like this one and valuable gaming time!

Mr G

Last edited by Mr Green (2025-11-09 12:56:24)

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seth

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Re: Packages moved to AUR... in this case maliit-keyboard [Solved]

https://github.com/archlinux/aur/tree/maliit-keyboard
https://archlinux.org/news/recent-services-outages/ (how to clone from there)

Also still in https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … t-keyboard
No idea why it was dropped into the AUR but despite some minor fixes the last upstream release was in https://github.com/maliit/keyboard and since it still requires Qt5 it's probably dead?

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Mr Green

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Re: Packages moved to AUR... in this case maliit-keyboard [Solved]

https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasma-6-and- … g/17799/15

TLDR

Am guessing it is qt related....

Plsama is making leaps and it just takes time for things to catch up...

Might add a note if AUR comes back....

Thanks

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rkolbaskin

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Re: Packages moved to AUR... in this case maliit-keyboard [Solved]

Also alongside maliit disappearing plasma-keyboard is now in official repo. It looks like mostly the same thing aside from complete lack of anything resembling arrow keys.

Mr Green

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Re: Packages moved to AUR... in this case maliit-keyboard [Solved]

Beat me to it, yes it simply works out of the box.. will mark thread as solved [sorry about the noise]

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pm3840

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Re: Packages moved to AUR... in this case maliit-keyboard [Solved]

-> maliit-keyboard: local (2.3.1-4) is newer than AUR (2.3.1-3)

i got this

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Packages moved to AUR... in this case maliit-keyboard [Solved]

Then you made changes to the PKGBUILD or got it from somewhere else then the aur.
Only you know which of those is true and why you did that.

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seth

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Re: Packages moved to AUR... in this case maliit-keyboard [Solved]

pacman -Qi maliit-keyboard

(Maybe there was a build in the testing or kde-unstable repo?)

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pm3840

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Re: Packages moved to AUR... in this case maliit-keyboard [Solved]

[09:19 hp @ hp ~] pacman -Qi maliit-keyboard
Name            : maliit-keyboard
Version         : 2.3.1-4
Description     : Virtual keyboard based on Maliit framework
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : [url]https://maliit.github.io/[/url]
Licenses        : LGPL
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : maliit-framework  hunspell  presage  qt5-multimedia  qt5-quickcontrols2  qt5-feedback  qt5-graphicaleffects  qt5-wayland
Optional Deps   : anthy: japanese language support
                  libpinyin: chinese language support
                  libchewing: chinese language support
Required By     : None
Optional For    : kwin
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 102.30 MiB
Packager        : Campbell Jones <serebit@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Sun 12 Jan 2025 08:14:49 PM EST
Install Date    : Thu 20 Feb 2025 04:58:02 PM EST
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

here it is

Last edited by pm3840 (2025-11-12 14:36:19)

seth

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Re: Packages moved to AUR... in this case maliit-keyboard [Solved]

Please use [code][/code] tags, not "quote" tags. Edit your post in this regard.

Package is actually still in gitlab, see the history: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … n/PKGBUILD

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pm3840

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Re: Packages moved to AUR... in this case maliit-keyboard [Solved]

AUR(2.3.1-3) is one commit behind gitlab version(2.3.1-4).