Tldr: Where did homebrew-tldr go?

[jasonkarns]

Error: Fetching /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/tldr-pages/homebrew-tldr failed!

[waldyrious]

@jasonkarns please refer to #1104, particularly https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/issues/1104#issuecomment-253641166.

@Leandros, can you provide some insight here?

[Leandros]

We've removed homebrew-tldr in favour of the distribution in the official homebrew repositories.

As far as I know, since tldr is now in the official repo, the old tap should've been overwritten. Since that doesn't seem to be the case, we need to take action.

You can easily fix it by untapping the old tap:

brew untap tldr-pages/tldr

In the meanwhile, I'll restore the repository.

[jasonkarns]

I don't know if restoring is necessarily helpful. As far as I can see, homebrew doesn't provide any facility for warning users ahead of time that a tap is being deprecated and will eventually be removed. I just wanted to verify that untapping was the correct step and that it wasn't accidental or anything.

[Leandros]

As per Mike's comment,

brew install tldr

should already favour the core instead of a non-existant tap.

[jasonkarns]

Right, the problem is that brew update fails with an error when attempting to pull/update the (nonexistent) tldr tap. Probably the ideal solution is to have some better tap deprecation in place (in homebrew itself) so that users can be notified prior to the tap going away; and breaking brew update

[Leandros]

Absolutely correct! For the time being I've restored the old tap, to not cause any issues for existing users.
The homebrew developers are notified and will look into the issue, hopefully providing a fix in the upcoming versions.

[agnivade]

Wow .. the homebrew devs are fast !