On 20 November 2024 21:24:34 GMT+01:00, not...@aur.archlinux.org wrote:
>Rush [1] filed a deletion request for zandronum-bin [2]:
>
>Hasn't been updated in ages, and it's reason for existing, being a
>binary version of zandronum, has been replaced by the regular
>`zandronum` package. Which now uses the binary package.
>
>[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Rush/
>[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/zandronum-bin/
-1 for deletion. See my reasoning as follows.

Zandronum is free open source software [a][b] and not compiled into Java/JVM 
bytecode.

Therefore the prebuilt binary package must retain the '-bin' pkgname suffix. [c]

See also the source based VCS build AUR/zandronum-hg. [d]

[a]: https://foss.heptapod.net/zandronum
[b]: https://zandronum.com
[c]: 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines#Rules_of_submission
[d]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zandronum-hg

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