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?i... On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Sean Greenslade <sean@seangreenslade.com> 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
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 12:48:24PM +0000, Germano Corrêa via arch-general wrote: 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=c819de8...
patch it up and upload it to the AUR.
--Sean