Arch Linux’s AUR Will Be Migrated to a Git-Based Platform Starting June 8

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Marius Nestor
Jun 2, 2015

The migration process will take approximately one month, until July 8, during which, all package maintainers are urged to resubmit the packages they still want to maintain to the aur4.archlinux.org website (currently under maintenance). This is a crucial announcement for all AUR (Arch User Repository) package maintainers, so there are a few things you should know if you want to have all of your packages safely moved to the new Git-based platform.

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Marius Nestor

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