[aur-general] Clarification for Deletion request #30701

[Caleb Maclennan]

On 2022-01-01 14:48, Doug Newgard via aur-general wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 05:33:08 +0100
>> * All packages built from pre-compiled sources in the AUR should 
>> retain the
>>   "-bin" suffix to indicate this, without exception.
> 
> Packages that cannot be built from source have always been an exception 
> here,
> are you proposing to eliminate that? It makes little sense to have a 
> -bin
> package when there cannot be a non-bin version.

Doug is right that there has always been an exception here. The rule to 
date as I've understood it is that the package must be suffixed with 
-bin if the source is available whether a package exists or not, but 
many closed source packages have been exceptions.

That being said I would fully support a proposition to make this a 
requirement for *all* binary packages whether source is available or 
not.

We should probably make that issue it's own thread because it really 
isn't the same issue as whether -bin packages should be deleted if repo 
builds are available.

Caleb