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Just FYI I wasn’t the maintainer. I put in the orphan request. If nobody else picks this up I’ll try to make a PKGBUILD when time allows.

@PlasticSoup this package was orphaned as you didn't updated it to use the available sources, making it then duplicate of proton-pass-bin

This package is available for anyone wanting to build from sources or else it will be deleted

it looks like the sources are available

@Musikolo There is a link to the source in a comment from 2024-6-9. The source is kept in a monorepo along with code from other Proton projects.

@Muflone, although I don't disagree with your observation, this looks to me the same description as the one used on the proton-pass-bin package. So, if the only available format is binary currently, shouldn't the 'opensource' word be removed from both packages alike?

@Everyone, also, per the AUR submission guidelines, one of the submission rules states the following:

"Packages that use prebuilt deliverables, when the sources are available, must use the -bin suffix. ...etc."

Since no sources are available, I don't think that rule applies yet. Once sources are released, then this rule will come into effect, but I believe we aren't there just yet. So, my understanding is that it's up to the packager to decide how to name their packages.

Finally, I'm not looking to open a discussion here, I just thought it was beneficial share these thoughts.

Regards.

@Paragoumba this package description contains:

Open-source password manager for effortless protection.

How's this package open source but to be built from binary because the sources are not available? Please switch to a source based build or this package will be deleted, as proton-pass-bin is already available in binary form

I would say the code for Proton Pass Desktop isn't open sourced yet. At least, that's my understanding from the following 2 links:

• https://proton.me/blog/pass-open-source-security-audit
• https://proton.me/community/open-source

That's aligned with what I see published at https://github.com/orgs/protonpass/repositories where you see the IOS and Android repos, but Desktop isn't anywhere there.

I'm not sure the code in the monorepo at https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients contains the official open sourced code for Proton Pass Desktop app. I find all this a bit confusing, especially because I didn't see any announcement that confirms such a thing.

As previously commented this PKGBUILD installs a pre-built binary for Proton Pass. Since Proton Pass has source code available an AUR PKGBUILD with this name should use that code to build a binary. As it is, this is just a duplicate of 'proton-pass-bin'. On top of that there are multiple issues with the PKGBUILD (license missing, using 'groups'/'replaces' on the AUR, dependencies are wrong). https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines is a good place to start reading about how to properly create an AUR PKGBUILD.

Can this package be compiled from source and use an Electron package from the official repos? Right now there are 2 packages doing the same thing (which can be confusing)

The code for Proton Pass seems to be found here: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients