On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 08:01:31PM -0700, Anish Bhatt wrote:
Can I request that some sort of system be put in place for informing maintainers that their package is being deleted ? I was afk for a week or so and I come back to a deleted package. While that was the eventual idea, I had a close to a thousand votes for flashplugin-prerelease, and now that package is gone with no way of informing the users that the package is deleted. Most aur helpers I've seen do not inform users about deleted packages.
I usually drop a comment before removing a package, so that at least all users on the notification list get informed. In case of doubt, you can almost always check aur-general. I would always say that comments and votes should probably have been merged in this case...