On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Gaetan Bisson <[email protected]> wrote: > [2013-03-09 13:27:42 +1100] Gaetan Bisson: >> - We ditch dnsutils and bind out of our repos, unless somebody finds >> them fun and wants to maintain them in [extra] or [community]. > > I would like to post the following announcement. Comments are welcome. > > > Deprecation of bind and dnsutils > > The direction BIND has taken with its recent BIND10 release > [makes it > impossible](https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-March/024588.html) > for us to keep relying on it. > Consequently, official packages using > [dnsutils](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/dnsutils/) > were migrated to > [ldns](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/ldns/), > a much nicer library which provides a `drill` command > that replaces `dig`, `nslookup`, and `host`. > > We strongly suggest you migrate your own software to > [ldns](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/ldns/) > too, and replace > [bind](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/bind/); > with ldns-based alternatives: > > - the [unbound](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/unbound/) > resolving server (see [wiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unbound)); > - the [nsd](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/nsd/) > authoritative server (see [wiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nsd)). > > The deprecated packages > [dnsutils](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/dnsutils/) > and > [bind](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/bind/) > will soon be dropped to the AUR.
This will have add 4 soon-to-be-dead links to packages in a news item, which doesn't seem like a great idea. It also links exclusively to one architecture. I would not include a single link to anything under /packages/, whether these are new or old- you never know what the landscape will look like in 6 months. Instead, just use the standard `pkgname` or whatever syntax and people will be smart enough to search for it. Outside of that, the rest of the text looks good to me. -Dan
