MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for vdr-api [2]: This dummy package is not useful and not required. It was created to accommodate some AUR helpers that lack such a basic and necessary feature as handling the provides entries on AUR during dependency resolution. (I am using yay and paru, both handle them well.) This package was created for AUR/vdr. That package now has a versioned provides - currently this: provides = vdr-api=2.6.1 This package, vdr-api, was not kept up to date with the above, as it currently has pkgver=2.4.7 Yet, dependents requiring vdr-api=2.6.1 can be installed just fine by paru and yay, because AUR/vdr provides exactly that. No need for this (outdated) intermediary dummy package. Example dependent that I tried and which installs fine without even requiring AUR/vdr-api: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vdr-play Safe to delete, as its now incorrect version proves my point. No users have complained that they couldn't install dependents of AUR/vdr because of a version mismatch. Guess they use a proper AUR helper like paru or yay or something on par with them, and their tool of choice was able to resolve the dependency correctly without AUR/vdr-api as a dummy intermediary. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/vdr-api/