On 2/7/25 4:11 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
Hey,
The git/community-to-extra migration was almost two years ago. Back
then, we left the [community] repository and friends ([community-
staging], [community-testing]) in place (though empty) so that users
would have an easier time migrating.
They've sat there unused for a long time now and I think users have had
enough time to migrate. I would like to suggest removing the empty
[community] repos from repos.archlinux.org.
This could break update workflows for users who haven't updated their /
etc/pacman.conf in a long time but apart from that I don't expect any
drawbacks.
Opinions?
Sven
+1 for removing them, it's been a while.
But after checking our previous announcements, I believe we should do a
news announcement as this may lead to soft breakage. During our previous
git migration announcements, we explained that the configs need to be
merged and [community] is going away. But we also were quite soft in the
wording and explained we keep compatibility to ease users. [0][1]
Hence, I believe a small news post is justified and won't hurt.
Cheers,
Levente
[0]: https://archlinux.org/news/git-migration-announcement/
[1]: https://archlinux.org/news/git-migration-completed/
