[aur-general] Clarification for Deletion request #30701

[Radislav Golubtsov]

>Sunday, January 2, 2022 5:24 AM +11:00 from Caleb Maclennan via aur-general <aur-general at lists.archlinux.org>:
> 
>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
 
Happy New Year guys!
 
+1 to Doug and Caleb replies in a row.
 
And solely from my side, apart of others, I’m interested in keeping skypeforlinux-stable-bin, besides other packages, in its current state. I’m not a maintainer, but simply an ordinary user of it.
 
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Kind regards,
Radislav (Radicchio) Golubtsov
Arch Linux and OpenBSD addict
http://rgolubtsov.github.io/