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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: 2026-11-05.

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
dms-shell Renamed extra/dux-shell explicitly replaces/conflicts with dms-shell (and dms-shell-hyprland/-niri/dux-shell-bin), providing it as an alias. 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
chatblade Already on AUR Package exists on AUR (chatblade, 0.7.0-3) but is orphaned (no maintainer). Checker just confirms it left extra for AUR as intended. N/A – already there; orphan adoption is a manual call, not automated ([[project_orphaned_category]])
python-pew Genuinely dropped Superseded by pipenv/stdlib venv.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mutter46 Genuinely dropped Stale version-pinned shim, superseded by current mutter.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
tea Genuinely dropped, adoption attempted and abandoned CLI tool for Gitea servers; dropped from extra very recently (2026-11-04). Both candidate AUR names (tea, gitea-tea) are real, already-occupied packages – see detail below. No – deliberately not adopted, see memory/tea.md
python-nose Already on AUR Package exists on AUR (python-nose, 1.3.7-19) but orphaned (no maintainer), itself only recently (re)submitted there. N/A – already there; orphan adoption is a manual call, not automated ([[project_orphaned_category]])

Action taken

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):

dms-shell

extra/dux-shell’s package page states it directly: “replaces several previous versions: dms-shell, dms-shell-hyprland, dms-shell-niri, and dux-shell-bin. It also provides dms-shell=2.0.0 as an alias and conflicts with dms-shell.” Same d* -> dux-* rename pattern already seen with dgop -> dux-gop. Nothing to transfer.

chatblade

Not actually dropped from Arch’s perspective the checker cares about – it’s a Python CLI tool (A CLI Swiss Army Knife for ChatGPT) that was never in extra as far as this check goes, and the AUR RPC confirms it already exists there (chatblade 0.7.0-3), just with Maintainer: null. Per [[project_orphaned_category]], orphan adoption is a manual staging decision – not acted on here.

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.

tea (not adopted)

Arch’s own packaging history shows the project (“A command line tool to interact with Gitea servers”) was last touched 2026-11-04 – a very recent drop, caught by this cycle’s scan essentially right after it happened. pacman -Si tea confirms it’s gone from extra.

AUR RPC claimed both tea and gitea-tea were free (resultcount: 0 for each), but both turned out wrong – confirmed via git ls-remote/git fetch against the real AUR SSH host:

Decision: don’t adopt under either name. See memory/tea.md for the full investigation and cleanup.

python-nose

pacman -Si python-nose confirms it’s gone from extra, but AUR RPC shows it already exists there (python-nose 1.3.7-19, Maintainer: null, submitted very recently per FirstSubmitted) – someone else already did the AUR-side work, it’s just sitting unmaintained. Per [[project_orphaned_category]], orphan adoption is a manual staging decision, not acted on here.

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.