On 2022-01-01 14:48, Doug Newgard via aur-general wrote:
On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 05:33:08 +0100
* All packages built from pre-compiled sources in the AUR should retain the "-bin" suffix to indicate this, without exception.
Packages that cannot be built from source have always been an exception here, are you proposing to eliminate that? It makes little sense to have a -bin package when there cannot be a non-bin version.
Doug is right that there has always been an exception here. The rule to date as I've understood it is that the package must be suffixed with -bin if the source is available whether a package exists or not, but many closed source packages have been exceptions. That being said I would fully support a proposition to make this a requirement for *all* binary packages whether source is available or not. We should probably make that issue it's own thread because it really isn't the same issue as whether -bin packages should be deleted if repo builds are available. Caleb