>autopsy-bin is a better package name for a package built from
>binaries.

In that case, please kindly revise the AUR submission guidelines, because 
currently it explicitly mentions Java as an exception to the '-bin' name suffix 
requirement. [a]

"
* Packages that use prebuilt deliverables, when the sources are available, must 
use the -bin suffix. An exception to this is with Java.
"

[a]: 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines#Rules_of_submission

On 30 July 2023 15:26:43 GMT+02:00, Chih-Hsuan Yen <yan12...@archlinux.org> 
wrote:
>Marcell Meszaros <marcell.mesza...@runbox.eu> 於 2023年7月30日 週日 下午6:20寫道:
>>
>> @yan12125, why did you reject the deletion request for this duplicate?
>>
>> AUR/autopsy also uses the precompiled Java bytecode as source.
>>
>> So the two packages are truly duplicates, the only difference is that 
>> autopsy-bin is 1 year older and flagged OOD for that period.
>>
>> On 30 July 2023 11:05:20 GMT+02:00, not...@aur.archlinux.org wrote:
>> >Request #42786 has been Rejected by yan12125 [1]:
>> >
>> >> This is a java application so the
>> >suffix '-bin' is not necessary anyway.
>> >
>> >Java packages can be either built from sources or binaries as well.
>> >
>> >[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/yan12125/
>
>autopsy-bin is a better package name for a package built from
>binaries. Therefore, orphaning and updating autospy-bin is better than
>deleting autospy-bin. After that, autospy can be merged into
>autospy-bin in case it is not changed to be built from sources.
>
>Best,
>
>Chih-Hsuan Yen (yan12125)

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