Dropped-from-Arch candidates

Tracks findings from https://buildmaster.archlinux32.org/checker/summary.html's consistency checker, which periodically flags packages with a “missing state file” – its heuristic for “this package left official Arch’s extra/ repo and might be worth picking up as an AUR package instead, to keep 32-bit builds of it alive.” The checker’s heuristic is noisy (see below), so every entry here has been verified against the live Arch package database before being categorized – don’t trust the checker’s flag alone.

Last checked: 2026-10-22.

Summary

Package	Status	Why	Worth maintaining for 32-bit?
libclc	False positive	Still in extra (23.1.3-4); checker caught an LLVM-toolchain staging sync mid-flight.	N/A – nothing to do
polly	False positive	Same LLVM sync blip as libclc, still in extra.	N/A – nothing to do
openmp	False positive	Same LLVM sync blip, still in extra.	N/A – nothing to do
dgop	Renamed	Redirects to dux-gop, still in extra under the new name.	N/A – just a rename
gedit-plugins	Merged	Redirects to gedit – plugins folded into the main package.	N/A – nothing to do
intellij-idea-community-edition	Renamed	Redirects to intellij-idea-oss, still in extra.	N/A – just a rename
python-pew	Genuinely dropped	Superseded by pipenv/stdlib venv.	No
kgamma	Genuinely dropped	Plasma5-era KDE display-gamma applet, dropped with Plasma5.	Marginal
wacomtablet	Genuinely dropped	Plasma5-era KDE Wacom config GUI, same Plasma5 wave.	No
colord-kde	Genuinely dropped	Plasma5-era KDE color-management integration, same wave.	No
kwin-x11	Genuinely dropped	Arch dropped KWin’s X11 backend as Plasma defaults to Wayland-only.	Maybe – only if X11-on-old-hardware is in scope
mutter46	Genuinely dropped	Stale version-pinned shim, superseded by current mutter.	No
qt5-feedback	Genuinely dropped	Qt5 haptic-feedback module, same Qt5/Plasma5 EOL wave.	Yes – adopted, see below

Action taken

• qt5-feedback: adopted as maintained/qt5-feedback, full git history preserved from Arch’s own packaging git (never existed on AUR before). See memory/qt5-feedback.md for the setup detail and adapted/README/maintained/ category reasoning. Pending: the user pushing the first commit to ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/qt5-feedback.git (repo doesn’t exist until that happens).
• Everything else: no action – either a false positive, a plain rename with nothing to transfer, or judged not worth the maintenance burden for a 32-bit build target. Revisit kwin-x11 if X11-on-old-hardware desktop use becomes an actual requirement for this project.

Per-package detail

Sourced findings for the 7 genuine drops – the specific commit/news post/ removal event behind each, not just an inference from the HTTP 410.

kwin-x11, kgamma, wacomtablet, colord-kde – shared cause: Plasma’s X11 drop

All four were X11-session-dependent KDE components, and all four stop at the same point in Arch’s packaging history, right before Plasma 6.8 (shipped 2026-10-14):

• Arch news, Plasma 6.4 will need manual intervention if you are on X11 – kwin-x11 was first split out from the main kwin package here, making the X11 session opt-in rather than default.
• Writeup on the Plasma 6.8 X11 removal and a CachyOS forum thread confirming it – Plasma 6.8 dropped the X11 session entirely; kwin-x11 was never rebuilt past 6.7.5-3.
• kgamma and wacomtablet are both X11-only KDE System Settings modules (display gamma, Wacom tablet config) that became functionally dead once there was no X11 session left to configure – Arch’s packaging history for both just stops at 6.7.5-1, consistent with the same wave, no separate announcement found.
• colord-kde (KDE’s colord color-management integration) is X11-session- dependent the same way – packaging history stops at 26.08.2-1.

mutter46

wingpanel’s current PKGBUILD now depends on mutter49. mutter46 existed only as a version-pinned compat shim to satisfy Pantheon desktop’s wingpanel/ lightdm-pantheon-greeter, which needed an older Mutter ABI; once wingpanel itself moved to mutter49, the pin became dead weight and was removed.

python-pew

No active maintainer (listed “Orphan” before removal), and its functionality is fully covered by pipenv or the stdlib venv module – pruned as unmaintained dead weight, not a technical failure.

qt5-feedback

No dedicated announcement found – the only record is Arch’s own packaging git history (8 commits, 2015-2025, still reachable even though gone from the live extra/ tree). A Qt5 Tactile Feedback module, dormant since a single 2015 upstream commit it was pinned to, swept up in the general Qt5/Plasma5-era cleanup. Now adopted – see “Action taken” above.