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The Wire · Showcase

ARCHINSTALL KILLS DEAD DESKTOP, GLIB2 GRADUATES TO STABLE

By RepoJournal · Filed · About Arch Linux

Archinstall shipped a cleanup that removes a profile that's been breaking installations since day one, while core libraries move out of testing into production.

The Cutefish desktop profile is gone [1]. It was never in the official repos—only in the AUR—and the upstream project is dead. Selecting it in the installer would always fail with a pacman "target not found" error. This fix stops wasting user time on broken installs. Meanwhile, glib2 [2] and lib32-glib2 [3] both graduated from testing to stable, a standard promotion cycle that clears the way for dependent packages. The infrastructure team hardened matrix-to-IRC bridging [4] to handle bot join failures more gracefully, reducing silent gaps in cross-protocol chat synchronization. Minor package updates landed across extra and multilib—tt-rss [5], tex-gyre-fonts [6], and lib32-renderdoc [7]—all routine maintenance.

Action items

References

  1. [1] Remove dead Cutefish desktop profile (#4514) archlinux/archinstall
  2. [2] move glib2 from core-testing-x86_64 to core-x86_64 archlinux/state
  3. [3] move lib32-glib2 from multilib-testing-x86_64 to multilib-x86_64 archlinux/state
  4. [4] matrix: Try to make IRC joining more robust archlinux/infrastructure
  5. [5] update tt-rss to 2:r12842.f88091ccc-1 in extra-testing-any archlinux/state
  6. [6] update tex-gyre-fonts to 2.609-1 in extra-any archlinux/state
  7. [7] update lib32-renderdoc to 1.44-1 in multilib-testing-x86_64 archlinux/state

FAQ

What changed in Arch Linux on May 3, 2026?
Archinstall shipped a cleanup that removes a profile that's been breaking installations since day one, while core libraries move out of testing into production.
What should Arch Linux teams do about it?
Pull latest archinstall if you test desktop profiles in CI • If you have Cutefish in your deployment scripts, remove it
Which Arch Linux repositories shipped on May 3, 2026?
archlinux/archinstall, archlinux/state, archlinux/infrastructure

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