On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 12:48:24PM +0000, Germano Corrêa via arch-general wrote: > Hello! > > I don't know if I'm in the right mailing list, so sorry if I'm in the wrong > place... > > I need to install the package Dasher, and I realized it's not anymore in > the official repositories (it was in extra and it was removed this year). I > don't know if I didn't searched right, because I found nothing about this > removal. Does anyone knows why? > > Of course I can download the source code and build it by myself, and that's > what I'm doing. But I just wanted to know why they removed. > > Thanks, and sorry for anything... Typically, packages in the official repos are maintained by devs / TUs that use the packages. Sometimes a dev stops using a package, so they drop maintenance of it. If no other dev wants to take it, it usually will get dropped to the AUR. I guess that didn't happen here. Taking a peek into the SVN repos: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/log/?qt=grep&q=dasher It looks like the last update to this package was 2014-07-01. Its listed maintainer is Damir Perisa, who according to this page: https://www.archlinux.org/people/developer-fellows/#damir Is no longer an active Arch developer. The package got removed recently, most likely because it no longer worked as-is and no one stepped up to fix it. What I would suggest is to take the old version of the package: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/dasher/trunk?id=c819de8f05adba7ea89453c50c88c1127e5ea28a patch it up and upload it to the AUR. --Sean
