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Please update the package to 2020.3.3, it fixes two really annoying issues recently introduced: * Fix text inputs not persisting on paste * Fix autocompletion of variables resolving to wrong value

2020.3.3 is out (md5sum bda77e0d0d905700debd571759ae6313 )

What I AM wondering, is why we have

/usr/bin/insomnia -> symlink to /opt/Insomnia/insomnia
/opt/Insomnia/insomnia -> script that runs /opt/Insomnia/insomnia.bin
/opt/Insomnia/insomnia.bin -> the actual binary.

Can we flatten this down to this?:

/usr/bin/insomnia -> symlink to /opt/Insomnia/insomnia.bin

[EDIT] Here's the diff for that, works fine:
[EDIT2]: Removed some unnecesary install lines that don't do anything:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index ff1e2ca..32eb8d6 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -3,22 +3,16 @@

 pkgname=insomnia
 pkgver=2020.2.1
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="HTTP and GraphQL client for developers"
 arch=('x86_64')
 url="http://insomnia.rest/"
 options=('!strip')
 depends=()

-source=(
-    "https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/releases/download/core%40${pkgver}/Insomnia.Core-${pkgver}.deb"
-    "insomnia.sh"
-)
+source=("https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/releases/download/core%40${pkgver}/Insomnia.Core-${pkgver}.deb")

 package() {
-    # Define some helpers
-    SCRIPT_PATH=${pkgdir}/opt/Insomnia/insomnia
-
     # Extract the core package
     tar -xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"

@@ -26,18 +20,9 @@ package() {
     chmod -R go-w ${pkgdir}/usr
     mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/bin

-    # Setup the start script and permissions
-    mv ${pkgdir}/opt/Insomnia/insomnia ${pkgdir}/opt/Insomnia/insomnia.bin
-    cp ${srcdir}/insomnia.sh ${SCRIPT_PATH}
-    chmod 755 ${SCRIPT_PATH}
+    # Add application to PATH
     ln -s /opt/Insomnia/insomnia ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/insomnia
-
-    # Install the necessary parts
-    install -d ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications
-    install -d ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons
-    install -d ${pkgdir}/opt/Insomnia
 }

 # Generated by `$ makepkg -g >> PKGBUILD`
-md5sums=('ac0289e88bb0a32f77d6fd47b78d7c31'
-         'dfe139daf29b508bdb83bc735681a381')
+md5sums=('ac0289e88bb0a32f77d6fd47b78d7c31')

/opt is for packages that don't follow the usual separation seen in linux (e.g.: data files in /usr, and just the binaries in /bin).

Since Insomnia expects all its files to be dumped into a single directory, that's the only place where it makes sense (actually, that's EXACTLY what /opt is for).

There's nothing that can be done to improve this on the packaging side -- this needs to be addresses by upstream.

hi thank you for the package! why does it install to /opt? I've not seen a package install to there yet

Could you add the libxss library as a dependency? It doesn't open without that.

Message from author:

"I think we should stick with insomnia for the Core REST Client and insomnia-designer for the new Insomnia Designer app, as that's the path we're taking with Homebrew and other package managers as well."

So this package keep "insomnia" name.

@RoestVrijStaal Good idea.

But in About, the name is "Insomnia Rest Client", neither "Insomnia" nor "Insomnia Core".

I'll ask the author the name he prefers.

@marmotz Why don't you rename this page to insomnia-core then?

Hi everybody, please stop flag as Out-of-date this package.

Insomnia has been renamed Insomnia Core and the author has released a new tool named Insomnia Designer.

The latest release displayed in https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/releases is the latest release of Insomnia Designer.

The latest release of Insomnia (Core) is still the 7.1.1.