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Spring cleanup '26
by Antonio Rojas 20 Mar '26

20 Mar '26

It's that time of the year again. Please head to https://archlinux.org/devel/reports/unneeded-orphans/ and adopt packages you want to keep in the repos. For reference, a current list of packages is attached (but this may vary as packages are adopted/disowned). If you adopt a package from the list, make sure to check its dependencies and also adopt them in case they are orphan. This is also a good time to check your out-of-date and/or unmaintained by upstream packages and disown the ones you no longer have interest in/time to maintain, so they can find a maintainer in the official repos or otherwise in AUR. Keeping packages out of date and/or with unfixed issues for months/years is not ideal and can be detrimental to the overall quality of our distro in the long run. I will start dropping packages to AUR in ~ 10 days. archlinux-themes-slim axel b43-fwcutter banner beebeep byobu caja-actions clusterssh coolreader cutefish-screenshot djview dma dnsperf erlang-docs finch focuswriter gcdmaster gephi gobby gtksourceviewmm-docs hepmc hepmc-docs horst inadyn ipv6calc josm lhapdf libbobcat libmemcached-awesome libofa libxml++2.6-docs ls++ ltrace manuskript merkaartor mono-addins nginx-mod-vts nitroshare nrpe openui5 pam-krb5 pencil2d penguin-subtitle-player photoflare php-geoip php-legacy-geoip php-legacy-memcache php-memcache php-memcached polly purple-plugin-pack python-cpplint python-olm python-oset python-sphinxcontrib-bibtex python-sphinxcontrib-spelling python-virtualenvwrapper qjournalctl qnapi quilt radcli reactphysics3d reactphysics3d-docs remind rhino-javadoc rofi-pass slim-themes splix sysdig tinyemu ukui-notification-daemon vim-seti volumeicon wakatime xbindkeys xfce4-artwork xfce4-datetime-plugin xfwm4-themes xplot

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Removal of remaining packages signed by 86CFFCA918CF3AF47147588051E8B148A9999C34
by David Runge 20 Mar '26

20 Mar '26

Hi all, a rebuild of the remaining packages signed by Evangelos Foutras has been started in January[1]. It unfortunately still has six remaining packages: - dosemu - icoutils - libcdaudio - netperf - tsocks - wipe None of the above are used by other packages (any longer) and fail to build (for various reasons) and are mostly just extremely old/unmaintained pieces of software. To not block the revocation of the certificate [2] further I suggest to remove those remaining packages from the repositories. If you intend to keep any of the above packages in the repositories, please fix and rebuild them before 2026-03-22. I will move any remaining packages to the AUR on that day. Best, David [1] https://archlinux.org/todo/rebuild-packages-signed-by-86cffca918cf3af471475… [2] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archlinux-keyring/-/issues/314

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systemd v260 pre-releases
by Christian Hesse 17 Mar '26

17 Mar '26

Hello everybody, the systemd development team has pushed the first pre-release for the upcoming v260 release. Please see the NEWS [0] for details. As announced in the PKGBUILD [1] I have prepared packages and pushed them to my personal testing repository. Have a look at this if you are brave and want to have a first look. Happy testing! [0] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v260-rc1/NEWS [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/systemd/-/blob/ma… -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Best regards my address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* Chris cc -ox -xc - && ./x */b/42*2-3)*42);}

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