Hello! This is a reasonable and well-founded request. Thanks for taking the time to review this package.
Feel free to delete azure-cli-bin from AUR. Rod On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 9:51 AM <not...@aur.archlinux.org> wrote: > > MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for azure-cli-bin [2]: > > The azure-cli package has been added to Arch/extra repo in March 2024. > > I don't think it is very useful to keep this old-distro-targeting > (Debian Bookworm), Python 3.11 based upstream build, which btw > contains its own Python 3.11 runtimes (python3, pip, pbr, etc.) and > binary+Python-module ecosystem in the install, with up to two hundred > of its own Python modules. > > Also this PKGBUILD strips the upstream binaries, therefore the > installed package is useless for crash reporting purposes. > > Upstream's binaries are also less secure than the Arch build, as the > ELF files here lack full RELRO and PIE. > > The AUR package is also configured improperly: > - It defines 'python' as its dependency, but it is not true, as I > mentioned, this package installs its own /opt/az/bin/python3 symlink > to the /opt/az/bin/python3.11 runtime. > - Man viewing doesn't work in the AUR package, as the relevant files > are installed inside /opt/az and not to their proper places inside > '/usr/share'. > - Bash completions get installed in the wrong place, inside > /etc/bash_completon.d, instead of the expected '/usr/share/bash- > completion/completions'. > - It does not install the mandatory MIT license file. > > > I am observing that there is a discrepancy in AUR PM decisionmaking > regarding keeping or deleting upstream's binary releases from AUR when > a source-based build gets added to the official Arch repos. > > I typically saw Arch Developers like @arojas, and Package Maintainers > like @Antiz delete '-bin' counterparts of Arch repo packages from AUR, > citing the reason that the in such cases the '-bin' builds do not add > any meaningful benefit to users. > > I think this specific PKGBUILD has even stronger than typical reasons > to be dropped from AUR. > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/azure-cli-bin/
