[arch-general] Removal of the Dasher package

[Ido Rosen]

There also seems to be a (possibly newer?) PKGBUILD for 5.0 alpha 22 from
just before it was removed:

https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/dasher/trunk/PKGBUILD?id=fdf7b7ada66f8b579a82ebc1c467d1aa2e5779fa


On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Sean Greenslade <sean at seangreenslade.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 12:48:24PM +0000, Germano Corrêa via arch-general
> wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I don't know if I'm in the right mailing list, so sorry if I'm in the
> wrong
> > place...
> >
> > I need to install the package Dasher, and I realized it's not anymore in
> > the official repositories (it was in extra and it was removed this
> year). I
> > don't know if I didn't searched right, because I found nothing about this
> > removal. Does anyone knows why?
> >
> > Of course I can download the source code and build it by myself, and
> that's
> > what I'm doing. But I just wanted to know why they removed.
> >
> > Thanks, and sorry for anything...
>
> Typically, packages in the official repos are maintained by devs / TUs
> that use the packages. Sometimes a dev stops using a package, so they
> drop maintenance of it. If no other dev wants to take it, it usually
> will get dropped to the AUR. I guess that didn't happen here.
>
> Taking a peek into the SVN repos:
>
> https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/log/?qt=grep&q=dasher
>
> It looks like the last update to this package was 2014-07-01. Its listed
> maintainer is Damir Perisa, who according to this page:
>
> https://www.archlinux.org/people/developer-fellows/#damir
>
> Is no longer an active Arch developer. The package got removed recently,
> most likely because it no longer worked as-is and no one stepped up to
> fix it.
>
> What I would suggest is to take the old version of the package:
>
>
> https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/dasher/trunk?id=c819de8f05adba7ea89453c50c88c1127e5ea28a
>
> patch it up and upload it to the AUR.
>
> --Sean
>