kbipinkumar [1] filed a request to merge ncbi-vdb [2] into sra-tools [3]: sra-tools now provides ncbi-vdb as part of package
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/kbipinkumar/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ncbi-vdb/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/sra-tools/
