[aur-general] Clarification for Deletion request #30701

Filipe Laíns lains at archlinux.org
Fri Dec 17 09:54:56 UTC 2021


On Fri, 2021-12-17 at 00:17 +0100, Justin Kromlinger via aur-general wrote:
> 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.
> 

No, they aren't. I haven't looked into the request but if this is indeed the
case, the package was incorrectly deleted.

Cheers,
Filipe Laíns
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