On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Gaetan Bisson <bisson@archlinux.org> wrote:
[2013-03-09 13:27:42 +1100] Gaetan Bisson:
- We ditch dnsutils and bind out of our repos, unless somebody finds them fun and wants to maintain them in [extra] or [community].
I would like to post the following announcement. Comments are welcome.
Deprecation of bind and dnsutils
The direction BIND has taken with its recent BIND10 release [makes it impossible](https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-March/024588.ht...) for us to keep relying on it. Consequently, official packages using [dnsutils](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/dnsutils/) were migrated to [ldns](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/ldns/), a much nicer library which provides a `drill` command that replaces `dig`, `nslookup`, and `host`.
We strongly suggest you migrate your own software to [ldns](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/ldns/) too, and replace [bind](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/bind/); with ldns-based alternatives:
- the [unbound](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/unbound/) resolving server (see [wiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unbound)); - the [nsd](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/nsd/) authoritative server (see [wiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nsd)).
The deprecated packages [dnsutils](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/dnsutils/) and [bind](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/bind/) will soon be dropped to the AUR.
This will have add 4 soon-to-be-dead links to packages in a news item, which doesn't seem like a great idea. It also links exclusively to one architecture. I would not include a single link to anything under /packages/, whether these are new or old- you never know what the landscape will look like in 6 months. Instead, just use the standard `pkgname` or whatever syntax and people will be smart enough to search for it. Outside of that, the rest of the text looks good to me. -Dan