[aur-general] Clarification for Deletion request #30701

[Radislav Golubtsov]

> Sorry, I was in a rush. That should have been "statically linked", and "suffix".
Hi "white spirit" guys,
In those uncertain situations, like that one, I'm expectedly (personally) waiting for a clarification of one of our solid and stoick devvers — Xyne, Levente, Morten, ...
You guys, you may have to bring out a ray of light on those or similar kind of debating.
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Kind regards,
Radislav (Radicchio) Golubtsov
(Sent from myMail for Android) Saturday, 18 December 2021, 09:40PM +03:00 from Xyne via aur-general  aur-general at lists.archlinux.org :

> 
>The -bin prefix is used for packages that package upstream binaries but the
> assumption is typically that the resulting package is functionally equivalent
> to the one built on Arch from source. That is why our policy is to delete -bin
> package variants of binary packages in the official repos.
>
> In this case, the upstream binaries are not functionally equivalent because
> they are statically compiled and thus avoid a bug. They should be allowed on
> the AUR, but the prefix should be something to indicate that it is not just a
> -bin variant of the official package. Perhaps -static-bin would be appropriate.
>
> The real solution is though is to fix the packages in the repos.
>
>Sorry, I was in a rush. That should have been "statically linked", and "suffix".
>
>Regards,
>Xyne