[Request] proton-vpn-gtk-app

[coxackie]

Package:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/proton-vpn-gtk-app

Purpose:

Protonvpn gui app

Benefits:

No response

Building:

No response

Copyright:

GPL3

Expected Interest:

Some

Already available?

No

Unique request?

Yes

Banned package?

No

More information:

No response

[dr460nf1r3]

I have a feeling that this contradicts this action here: cddcf8f

@Technetium1

[Technetium1]

Thanks for opening this request.

I'm not particularly comfortable adding this in due to the current state of the application. Arch is no longer an official target to be tested against or supported. They seem to have fired whoever was in charge of it before, and have posted (and pinned) a comment about a related job listing on the previously abandoned package, which I personally find distasteful. This has many dependencies, and quite frankly I don't trust it to be an acceptable VPN client implementation in the first place. This includes distrusting the actual abilities NECESSARY for clients to be secure, such as killswitch functionality. Not linking issues together; but I can even see an open issue for killswitch failure in https://github.com/ProtonVPN/proton-vpn-gtk-app/issues.

Even if they did a somewhat trustworthy implementation, then we still have the issue of Arch never being tested against officially (or even designed for). I don't trust the community to constantly independently verify that the application is working (or compiling) as it should be, and Proton sure isn't doing it either! Until there are major changes at Proton, this is denied.

[coxackie]

Understood - thanks for the consideration.