homebrew: replace deprecated and orphaned packages

10 Aug, 2026 • 245 words • 2 min

Problem statement: brew doctor found one deprecated cask and one installed keg whose formula had disappeared.

tflint #

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Warning: Some installed casks are deprecated or disabled.
You should find replacements for the following casks:
flameshot

Warning: Some installed kegs have no formulae!
You should find replacements for the following formulae:
  tflint

Homebrew/core removed TFLint after its executable became subject to both MPL 2.0 and BUSL 1.1. Upstream now maintains terraform-linters/tap as a cask, so migrate the old formula instead of merely reinstalling it:

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% brew uninstall tflint
Uninstalling /opt/homebrew/Cellar/tflint/0.61.0... (8 files, 51.8MB)

% brew install terraform-linters/tap/tflint
==> Tapping terraform-linters/tap
Tapped 1 cask (15 files, 14.7KB).
==> Installing Cask tflint
==> Linking Binary 'tflint' to '/opt/homebrew/bin/tflint'
🍺  tflint was successfully installed!

% tflint --version
TFLint version 0.64.0
+ ruleset.terraform (0.15.0-bundled)

Flameshot → Shottr #

The Flameshot cask was deprecated because it does not pass macOS Gatekeeper checks. I replaced it with Shottr:

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% brew uninstall --cask flameshot
==> Uninstalling Cask flameshot
==> Removing App '/Applications/flameshot.app'
==> Purging files for version 14.0.0,14.0 of Cask flameshot

% brew install --cask shottr
==> Installing Cask shottr
==> Moving App 'Shottr.app' to '/Applications/Shottr.app'
🍺  shottr was successfully installed!

The corresponding Brewfile change keeps the migration reproducible:

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+tap "terraform-linters/tap"

-brew "tflint"

-cask "flameshot"
+cask "shottr"
+cask "tflint"

Both offending entries are now gone:

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% brew doctor 2>&1 | grep -E 'flameshot|tflint|deprecated|no formulae'

% brew list --cask | grep -E '^(flameshot|shottr|tflint)$'
shottr
tflint

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