MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for python-pytest-astropy-meta [2]: Unneeded blank metapackage; AUR has a maintained, officially released metapackage for same purpose: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-pytest-astropy Though PyPI/pytest-astropy defines itself as a metapackage [a], nevertheless its content is not nil, because it has dependency metadata definitions. [a]: https://pypi.org/project/pytest-astropy [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-pytest-astropy-meta/