On 2021-12-28 12:08, Doug Newgard via aur-general wrote:
On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:21:01 -0800 Brett Cornwall via aur-general <aur-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote:Feel free to post an RFC. In the meantime, I'll continue to follow the rules that have been established.Established where? Upstream builds as -bin packages were fine in the AUR for years, it's only recently that a couple of TUs have decided to disallow it.
Established in the AUR submission guidelines [1], which has been quoted thrice now:
The submitted PKGBUILDs must not build applications already in any of the official binary repositories under any circumstances. Check the official package database for the package. If any version of it exists, do not submit the package. If the official package is out-of-date, flag it as such. If the official package is broken or is lacking a feature, then please file a bug report.
I don't care about what we do, so long as it's consistent with our rules. Saying "it's always been this way" is an appeal to tradition and is not helpful as an argument.
So yes, an RFC/change in how our *rules* say we should behave would be the correct way forward instead of having three different interpretations of what we currently have.
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines#Rules_of_submission
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