[aur-general] Clarification for Deletion request #30701

[Bjoern Bidar]

> 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_subm
> > > ission
> > > 
> > > 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.
They package name indicates that both are the same but the other one is the 
prebulid by aur conventions.
IMHO the prebuild made by upstream should have a packagename that indicates 
this.

Br,

Björn