archlinux

I noticed this yesterday, too. I don't use the (old) official st package, but instead roll my own, but then pacaur started telling me:

:: st is not present in the AUR -- skipping

so that's how I noticed that st got removed from the Arch repos. In case anyone is interested, here is the old official PKGBUILD, which you can use to compile your own stable st (st-git from the AUR obviously uses the latest git version):

pkgname=st
pkgver=0.7
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='A simple virtual terminal emulator for X.'
arch=('x86_64')
license=('MIT')
depends=('libxft' 'libxext' 'xorg-fonts-misc')
makedepends=('ncurses')
url="http://st.suckless.org"
source=(http://dl.suckless.org/st/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('29b2a599cf1511c8062ed8f025c84c63')

prepare() {
  cd "$srcdir"/$pkgname-$pkgver
  # skip terminfo which conflicts with ncurses
  sed -i '/\@tic /d' Makefile
}

build() {
  cd "$srcdir"/$pkgname-$pkgver
  make X11INC=/usr/include/X11 X11LIB=/usr/lib/X11
}

package() {
  cd "$srcdir"/$pkgname-$pkgver
  make PREFIX=/usr DESTDIR="$pkgdir" TERMINFO="$pkgdir/usr/share/terminfo" install
  install -Dm644 LICENSE "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
  install -Dm644 README "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname/README"
}

To use your own config.h:

• Put your config.h in the root directory, where the PKGBUILD is. (I like to keep mine in ~/.config/st and then symlink to that, so that I can easily version-control it along with all my other dotfiles.)

• Add config.h to the sources() array.

• Add 'SKIP' to the md5sums() array (or use updpkgsums).

• Add this line to the end of the prepare() function:

    cp "$srcdir"/config.h config.h
  

I wrote a more detailed tutorial here for those interested. Happy suckingless.