MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for bear2-git [2]: Unneeded old version 2 of bear; not a VCS package (executes git checkout {releasetag}). The only consumer of 'bear' on AUR was 'edi', which is long broken, and upstream discontinued stable releases since 2020. I've submitted a merge request from 'edi' to 'edi-git' (PRQ#51663); the latter does not need bear at all. Still, extra repo carries bear v3, and there is a proper AUR/bear-git package as well. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/bear2-git/