Maintainer here.

Package is not broken. If by "broken" you mean deletion of python2-apsw dependency I'll restore it.

If you worry about using it in the wild it could be bundled in this package.

Package is not defunct. Actually it's the only stable release provided by upstream https://docs.acestream.net/products/#linux

Python3 versions are still RCs.

Regards,

Arkadiy Illarionov

On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 1:07 PM <notify@aur.archlinux.org> wrote:

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for acestream-engine [2]:

Broken, defunct Python2 package.

Users can install upstream's Python3.8 based bundle as an alternative.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/acestream-engine/