[aur-requests] [PRQ#22119] Deletion Request for visual-studio-code-insiders

[Duru Can Celasun]

I wish this came in as a comment first and not a deletion request.

To address the complaint:

> pkgver uses external resources (curls vendor website)

The version of the insiders build changes dozens of times a day as it's automated upstream. I don't see anything in AUR guidelines against pkgver using external resources, but I'm open to suggestions here.

> possibly confusion around sources and pkgver

No idea what this means.

> missing -bin suffix for a binary package

Omitting the suffix is common and popular practice on AUR [1][2][3][4][5][6] when the source code is not available. Visual Studio Code is a closed source, proprietary product.

So I'm not sure a rename is warranted here but I'd be happy to change it if a TU says so.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dropbox/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spotify/
[3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/google-chrome/
[4] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/teamviewer/
[5] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jdk/
[6] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/google-earth-pro/

On Tue, 3 Nov 2020, at 12:29, notify at aur.archlinux.org wrote:
> daurnimator [1] filed a deletion request for visual-studio-code-
> insiders [2]:
> 
> Does not follow PKGBUILD guidelines
>   - pkgver uses external resources (curls vendor website)
>   - possibly confusion around sources and pkgver
>   - missing -bin suffix for a binary package
> 
> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/daurnimator/
> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/visual-studio-code-insiders/