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containrrr/watchtower: Dead or deprecated

Archived on GitHub (read-only, the owner stopped development).
README notice: “This project is no longer maintained”

Repository	containrrr/watchtower
Last push	2025-12-17 (315 days ago)
Successor	https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower/discussions/2135

Based on live GitHub data from 2026-10-29 07:42 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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