[arch-general] Official repos package removal policies/best practices

[Štěpán Němec]

  Hello,

I noticed the package st has been removed from the community repo and
added to AUR.

I was wondering why, but all I could find is this commit:

https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-commits/2017-November/434780.html

I was also unable to find any information relating to the topic (cf.
mail subject) on the Arch Wiki or general web, so I'd like to ask:

1.
What is the best way to find rationale about package removal or old
package logs in general? E.g. pacolog doesn't work on st any more (I
guess the logs are removed together with the package?) and even looking
for the message linked above felt like there should be a better way.

2.
If the commit message above is the only resource to be had, is there
some kind of best practices concerning similar commit messages? I would
have appreciated at least a short rationale for the removal being
included.

3.
What was the rationale in this particular case? The st-git¹ AUR package
seems quite popular, so I was surprised to see its non-vcs version
removed from community (I would expect the opposite to happen for
popular packages).

¹ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/st-git/

  Thank you,

  Štěpán