Former maintainer disowned it, expressing no objection to the deletion. On 27 September 2023 11:52:53 GMT+02:00, notify@aur.archlinux.org wrote:

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for biicode [2]:

Broken, not just because of totally incompetent packaging, missing half a dozen undeclared Python2 dependencies, but also because this is an online-only package manager tool, like the pacman -S functionality, or pip install [modulename], without an available server.

If someone installs the required Python2 packages, biicode just makes a web call to a nonexistent Heroku PaaS container with a hardcoded URL:

https://biiserverproduction.herokuapp.com/

And then it does not do anything: all it responds every time is, even to the '--help' invocation:

ERROR: None or bad command. Type "bii --help" for available commands

The company that created biicode is defunct since 2015. This tool is dead without its online repository / metadata server.

By the way the package bundles not just the client but the server as well, which is totally bogus. And also defunct, relying on a long-EOL mongodb server.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/biicode/