[aur-general] Clarification for Deletion request #30701

[Justin Kromlinger]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 01:05:19 +0200
silentnoodle via aur-general <aur-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

> hey all,
> 
> Today a package i co maintain (telegram-desktop-bin) was deleted because 
> "Package exists in official community repo", but since we used prebuilt 
> binary as source I did not think that would have applied.
> 
> So guess I'd just like a word on what the first point in the rules of 
> submission means: 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines#Rules_of_submission
> 
> Cheers, Ben a.k.a silentnoodle

So basically:
* telegram-desktop in community is git release 3.3.0 build by Arch Maintainers
* telegram-desktop-bin in AUR is git release 3.3.0 build by upstream

For the end user, those two are basically the same package. Therefore the AUR package is a
duplicate.

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