MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for python-pyfits [2]: Deprecated in 2017 with the description: "Please use astropy.io.fits instead" [a] I suggest deletion; its only optional consumer is a -git package and that also does not need it anymore (notified the maintainer about this). [a] https://pypi.org/project/pyfits/ [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-pyfits/