Hi, TL;DR: the notification emails when AUR packages are adopted by TUs are indistinguishable from deletions, and communications norms around them makes it hard to discover otherwise. Please change either or both.
I recently was notified that three packages I was monitoring had been deleted from AUR, with no further detail beyond eg > grawlinson [1] deleted python-markdownify [2]. > > You will no longer receive notifications about this package. > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/grawlinson/ > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-markdownify/ Concerned, I checked whether I was still using them, and indeed I was -- python-markdownify is an optdepend of papis. I was just about to contact the previous maintainer about the abrupt deletion (instead of disownment) -- I'd checked the ML archives and couldn't find any mention of such plans -- when I realised grawlinson is actually a TU. On a hunch, since this isn't the first time this has happened, I checked > $ pacman -Si python-markdownify > Repository : extra > Name : python-markdownify > Version : 1.2.2-2 > Description : Convert HTML to Markdown > Architecture : any > URL : https://github.com/matthewwithanm/python-markdownify > Licenses : MIT > Groups : None > Provides : None > Depends On : python python-beautifulsoup4 > Optional Deps : None > Conflicts With : None > Replaces : None > Download Size : 30.74 KiB > Installed Size : 128.32 KiB > Packager : George Rawlinson <[email protected]> > Build Date : Thu 15 Jan 2026 03:48:32 > Validated By : SHA-256 Sum Signature Of course, once the package updates and pacman notices a newer version exists in extra, it *will* notify me of that. However, in the absence of that, I needed to luck into guessing what had happened. Instead, the following three possibilities suggest themselves to avoid this situation again: - Have moving from AUR to repos be a change warranting a pkgrel bump. - Change TU adoption policy to require a form announcment to aur-general. - Have TU adoption trigger a distinct automated email from aurweb to listeners. Any or all of these would've been enough to save me the detective work. Thanks, Gesh
