7Ji [1] filed a deletion request for wechat-uos-bwrap [2]:

The upstream name is Wechat (Universal), and it's released onto both
the UOS app store and Kylin OS app store with such name. As its
official usage is not limited to UOS it shall not bear uos in its
name. As it also uses a mixed tech stack and -[GUI framework] suffix
is conventionally used for GUI split package (e.g. transmission-qt is
the GUI part of tranmission PKGBUILD) it shall also not bear qt in its
name.

There're already a lot of packging using wechat-universal as the name
base, examples on AUR include  -universal-privileged and -universal
(without suffix) by lihe07 and -appimage by yifwon; examles outside
AUR include -universal-flatpak ( https://github.com/web1n/wechat-
universal-flatpak ) by web1n.

For a complete history about official WeChat builds and why wechat-
universal was chosen, please check the previous reply I made to the
related aur-general thread:
https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-
[email protected]/message/CFBKZH23X2ZP4VWEXR5HU4FL3ADAIQNL/
.

About why deletion instead of merge: as the maintainer of -universal-
bwrap and the co-maintainer of -beta-bwrap, I don't want unrelated
comments in the history of -universal, neither its votes. While -beta-
bwrap was created by leaeasy initially as a fork of -uos-bwrap, the
packaging went a different way after I joined to help improving it and
it became its own thing, their history is completely different as they
had completely different user bases from day 1, and -universal-bwrap,
created as a workaround for the AUR limitation that PKGBUILD could not
be renamed (PRQ#57762 to merge -beta-bwrap to -universal-bwrap was
filed as soon as I pushed the PKGBUILD), would want no history from
-uos-bwrap.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/7Ji/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wechat-uos-bwrap/

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