Some small additions: As Eli mentioned, nothing is deleted. The read-only git access for amavisd-new can be found here: git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/amavisd-new.git Also, these deleted AUR packages can be restored through SSH, i.e.: ssh aur@aur.archlinux.org restore <name> which will reverse the deletion, preserving the git history. Cheers, Thore On 05.06.17 - 13:54, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote:
On 06/05/2017 01:41 PM, Yardena Cohen via aur-general wrote:
So, I just noticed that you took over my two packages: amavisd-new and perl-convert-uulib. Which is fine. But I also noticed that instead of preserving their git repo histories, you just started a new repo with the first commit called "import from AUR":
https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/log/trunk?h=packages/amavis... https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/log/trunk?h=packages/perl-c...
I'm curious, other than my local backup, is this history now gone for good?
The AUR does not delete history, ever. You can still clone the repo, but deleting it from the AUR caused the https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/$pkgname listing to be unlinked, all comments to be purged from the database, and the package itself to be added to the list of repo packages (otherwise known as the AUR blacklist) which cannot be pushed to.
As for the svntogit history, repo packages are kept in SVN, and there is no practical way to import an AUR git repo even if you wanted to. :)
-- Eli Schwartz
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