I can also add that: * Few packages has the combination of not building + upstream being dead + having security vulnerabilities + little usage by other packages (only two official packages had arj listed as an optional dependency). * While the package statistics shows a relatively high installation rate, these statistics are old. I don't think packaging arj archives is as relevant today as for a couple of years ago. * unarj 2.63a-4 is in [community], so the capability of extracting arj archives is still offered by an official package. * It's only moved to AUR, not removed forever. Users can still install arj, and the possibility of it being moved back to [community] one day is still present. When that's said, I believe Levente Polyak will be an excellent package maintainer for the arj package, wether it remains in AUR or is moved back to [community]. It's an open call. -- Best regards, Alexander F Rødseth / xyproto