MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for balena-etcher-appimage [2]:

This is not needed.

Pkgname is wrong: the application's name itself is Etcher: no need to
include vendor's name in package name. [a]
There is no unrelated project package(s) named Etcher in Arch/AUR
repos.

This package is on a prelelease version (v1.18.8) currently, but it
should not be. A separate package should be created for unstable
releases.

AUR already has the latest pre-built stable release of this
application (v1.18.4 atm):

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/etcher-bin

Also the latter package integrates better with the system, without
duplicating libraries.

The latter package has been much longer on AUR, since 2018, and has
150 votes.
This one was uploaded in Jan 2023 and has only 6 votes.

If an AppImage based package is really desired, one should be created
with the name 'etcher-appimage' for latest stable version and/or an
adequately suffixed other package for unstable releases.

[a]: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher#readme

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/balena-etcher-appimage/

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