[aur-requests] [PRQ#36335] Merge Request for scratch-desktop

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Mon Jul 11 05:59:11 UTC 2022


MarsSeed [1] filed a request to merge scratch-desktop [2] into
scratch3-bin [3]:

Duplicates target package and does not have a '-bin' suffix, even
though it extracts the Electron application from a prebuilt binary
Windows installer pack.

The scratch2 and scratch3 packages have been on AUR for much longer.
So even though the name 'scratch-desktop' sounds nicer, it is
confusing on AUR to have a scratch2/3 package as well as a scratch-
desktop one.

Additionally, Scratch Desktop is not the name of the application. It
is referred to by upstream only as "the Scratch app" (app with
lowercase). [a]

The scratch3 AUR package builds the Electron-based application
straight from sources, so it is feasible to have a -bin and non-bin
package of this.
But as I've said, 'scratch-desktop' is a '-bin' build, so it's better
to remove this name and keep only 'scratch3-bin' for the same.

[a] https://scratch.mit.edu/download

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/scratch-desktop/
[3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/scratch3-bin/


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