Paru package in the aur is out of date ?

[MrDisguised]

Hi !! I want to use paru. I want to change my AUR helper from yay to paru . The paru package in the aur says that it is out of date so I wanted to know which package should I install. (paru , paru-bin or paru-git ?)

[parkerlreed]

paru-bin is officially supported and is up to date.

[batot1]

With is it difference between peru and paru-bin? Can you explain?

[batot1]

And the second question, why are you releasing 2 versions of a few "paru" and "paru-bin" in parallel?

[parkerlreed]

paru is for compiling the release build

paru-bin is for the precompiled build from releases (as rust can take a long time to build on lower powered hardware)

paru-git is compiling from master

[somebody1234]

@batot1 note that the x + x-bin + x-git is an AUR-wide naming convention

[somebody1234]

@Morganamilo the paru package is flagged as out of date, might want to bump anyway, or unflag?

[eclairevoyant]

It's not out of date, but people lose their minds when the version number doesn't match the latest release, so I assume that's why she left the flag on.

[codewiz]

Could someone please explain why both paru and paru-bin exist in AUR?

Both these packages are owned by the upstream maintainer, their descriptions are identical, but the versions differ. This is why so many users are confused and keep asking for clarification.

[eclairevoyant]

@codewiz read the arch wiki

[codewiz]

Sorry @eclairevoyant, which wiki page should I read?

This one links to paru: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_helpers
I was unable to find a single reference to paru-bin in the Arch Wiki.

[somebody1234]

@codewiz https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/543013/whats-the-difference-between-pkg-pkg-bin-and-pkg-git-on-the-aur

also here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines#Rules_of_submission
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