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apple/container: Alive

No archive, rename, move or deprecation signal found.

Repository	apple/container
Last push	2026-10-28 (0 days ago)

Based on live GitHub data from 2026-10-29 07:34 UTC and our weekly dead/moved check of 2026-10-26.

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How do you decide a package is dead?

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