Hello people,
I'm Kimiblock, the maintainer of wechat-uos-bwrap, writing to request
Package Maintainer's action to solve the intentionally duplicated
package on AUR. WeChat is a closed-source software developed by Tencent
which is used by almost all people in China. In March 5, people in
#archlinux-cn discovered that there is a testing version available and
shortly after, it became a installable package for China's UOS.
I've packaged wechat-uos-bwrap in 2024-03-05 23:37 (CST). 2 days after
in 2024-03-07 09:18 (CST), AUR account leaeasy submitted
wechat-beta-bwrap. If you look at the initial commit
<https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=wechat-beta-bwrap&id=76c45b93c40583b635cf9f3d5f02a04d0caad495>
of wechat-beta-bwrap, it was almost completely copied from
wechat-uos-bwrap (other than a different way to extract the .deb), even
the .desktop file. The only major thing they changed is wechat.sh,
which sanbox function is removed. But wechat-uos-bwrap can read a
environment variable "trashAppUnsafe=1" and disable its sandbox
function. So I filed a merge request (#PRQ57379) to merge
wechat-beta-bwrap
<https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wechat-beta-bwrap/> into
wechat-uos-bwrap <https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wechat-uos-bwrap/>.
After that, one of the wechat-beta-bwrap
<https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wechat-beta-bwrap/> maintainer 7Ji
<https://aur.archlinux.org/account/7Ji> submitted a new package called
wechat-universal-bwrap
<https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wechat-universal-bwrap>, which is
also a duplicate package of wechat-uos-bwrap.
So, I'm thinking to merge all that duplicate packages and my
wechat-uos-bwrap <https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wechat-uos-bwrap/>
into wechat-uos. Sadly, the original Maintainer DuckSoft disappeared
(the last message he sent in #archlinux-cn is over 3 years ago).
Therefore, I'm requesting Package Maintainers to merge
wechat-beta-bwrap
<https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wechat-beta-bwrap/> and
wechat-universal-bwrap
<https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wechat-universal-bwrap> and give
Maintainer role to previous wechat-uos maintainer, sukanka
<https://aur.archlinux.org/account/sukanka> so that this package can be
updated. I'll merge wechat-uos-bwrap
<https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wechat-uos-bwrap/> into wechat-uos
once sukanka finish updating this package and add the sandbox function.
I've contacted sukanka via Matrix and he/she is willing to maintain
this package.
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Sincerely,
Kimiblock
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