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It is not a lot, it is dirty, but I now use the following alias:

paco() {
    pacolog "$1"
    echo -e "\033[0;35mhttps://lists.archlinux.org/archives/search?q=$1&page=1&mlist=aur-requests%40lists.archlinux.org&sort=date-desc\033[0m"
    w3m -dump "https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/search?q=$1&page=1&mlist=aur-requests%40lists.archlinux.org&sort=date-desc" | grep " $1 " | grep -i "deletion" | grep -i "accepted"
}

It confirms that a package was deleted (without date information... which is only indicated in PRQ#Number which is not accessible by a direct link) and provide a link to aur-requests mailing list

@Sausad unfortunately the history doesn't seem to have this kind of information. pacolog literally just pulls from the AUR commit history.

Thanks a lot for replying. Yes, the git history is still here, but so, it indicates that stellarium-bin was updated in 2025. And so, why is this package not anymore in aur? Malicious (it was what I was looking for), deprecated, integrated in extra? But it would certainly be better to indicate in Git history the date on which the package was removed.

@Sausad for packages that have been integrated into official repositories (e.g. extra), pacolog will show commit information from that new source directly. If a package has been removed from AUR, pacolog still queries the git history. The AUR still retains the git history, so pacolog stellarium-bin still shows output. This seems consistent with the primary function of pacolog, i.e. "List recent commits for Arch Linux packages".

In terms of searching the mailing list, I'm not even really sure how that would work. Would it show search results for the mailing list? All entries for all matching threads? This feels like a bit out of the scope of the project.

Following the incident involving infected packages in the AUR, I checked my own (as I imagine everyone else did). Some were no longer in the AUR such as Stellarium-bin: but there’s no information explaining why I had a ‘stellarium-bin’ package and why it was no longer in the AUR.

I found some information on https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/search?mlist=aur-requests%40lists.archlinux.org&q=stellarium-bin, but it would have been nice to find it in pacolog. Now it states that last update was in 2025, but gives no explanation about why the package had disappeared from AUR.

Sometimes it is (re)integrated in extra, sometimes just removed. Informations are in the mailing lists but it could be nice do list (and point) to deletion requests.

@Sausad I'm not really sure what you mean. pacolog does check for official repositories first though (including extra) before searching AUR.

It would be great to add a check on https://lists.archlinux.org/archives to see when a package has been removed from the AUR (merged into ‘extra’ or marked as obsolete).

Ugh. Stupid me. I should have checked before pushing. Thanks again for letting me know! I've pushed a fix.

Somehow I didnt notice it previously. You've got a spelling mistake. You have,

19   install -Dm644 completion/bash "${pkgdir}/usr/share/bash-completion/completion/pacolog"

It is not "completion/pacolog", it should be "completions/pacolog" with "s".

So it is still creating and installing to the wrong folder. And it is not doing any completion at all.

Correct should be,

19   install -Dm644 completion/bash "${pkgdir}/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pacolog"

The first word, "bash-completion" , with no "s" is correct.

Thanks again @m040601! I definitely appreciate your comments. Constructive feedback is always welcome!