There also seems to be a (possibly newer?) PKGBUILD for 5.0 alpha 22 from just before it was removed: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/dasher/trunk/PKGBUILD?id=fdf7b7ada66f8b579a82ebc1c467d1aa2e5779fa On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Sean Greenslade <sean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 >
