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Was randomly on the main page and noticed protontricks is in extra-testing and was a bit confused at first because I remember it being on the AUR and removing it because of that at some point, but it made me think it may be useful to have a place where these types of promotions are announced? Maybe do this on a monthly basis or something like that?
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Perhaps no such announcement has been made because there are RSS feeds that show updates to the repositories and other feeds that show new packages added to the repositories:
https://archlinux.org/feeds/
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I looked through those but they don't seem to represent what I am suggesting here. Another example, for today I noticed gpu-screen-recorder appearing for the very first time in the official repos, it already being available from the AUR. What I am suggesting here is a feed, a mailing list, whatever where there is a notification either when a package that is already on the AUR gets added to the official repos, or when any totally new package is added to the official repos, but again only for the first time, or both.
What I see in the "Recently added packages" at the moment of writing this message for example, at the top is ly, which 100% was not just added for the first time into the arch official repos. Maybe I am misunderstanding what the Recently Added feed is for?
EDIT: a friend told me I can just use gitlab for this https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … eated_desc, but this doesn't seem to remain like this in an RSS reader unfortunately.
Last edited by andrei1015 (2026-02-05 21:21:39)
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What I see in the "Recently added packages" at the moment of writing this message for example, at the top is ly, which 100% was not just added for the first time into the arch official repos. Maybe I am misunderstanding what the Recently Added feed is for?
This happens when you use the feed from ALL repositories, since a package that ALREADY exists can be added to a testing repository. This is recorded in the feed because it was not previously in that testing repository. Subsequently, if it passes the tests, it will be removed from that location to update the package in the stable repositories.
What I think you need is the feed where you only see packages added to the stable repositories, not the testing ones: https://archlinux.org/feeds/packages/ad … ble-repos/
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