MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for ping-bin [2]: Problematic orphan binary package from 2020:
- Downloads the release DEB through insecure HTTP even though HTTPS server source is available. - Does not use install command in package(), it just extracts the 'data.tar.xz' from the DEB and keeps all privileges from the archive. - Package is broken as there are several direct dependencies that are undeclared and not satisfied by existing ones. - Also this is a desktop application but there is no desktop integration, no .desktop file, no icons, nada. - On top of it all, the pkgname could have been better, as /usr/bin/ping is in Arch repo's iputils package, part of the 'base' metapackage, so this is confusing. Upstream's last release is from 2019 and no development happened since 2020. [a] As this is a graphical REST HTTP API testing client, there are several well-maintained alternatives so there is no loss in deleting this misleading and wrongly put together PKGBUILD. [a]: https://github.com/jeremyvaartjes/ping [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ping-bin/
