On 12.08.15 at 23:54, Mark Laws wrote:
Hi,
In light of the mass deletion of many orphaned as well as not-really-orphaned packages, it would be nice if there were a way to get a log of AUR activity so that users other than just a package's maintainers can see that a package disappeared at some given point.
It was also mentioned that deleted packages aren't really deleted, merely hidden--in that case, why not allow users to view these packages if some flag is set in the API request? This way, users can pick up maintenance of a once-extant package without having to recreate it from scratch.
Thanks, Mark Laws
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Let me add that this would be great for the maintenance of links to the AUR packages from the wiki -- when broken links are automatically marked with a {{Broken package link}} template by a bot, it would be possible to provide something better than "package not found" as a hint. For example differentiating between merging and deletions of packages would be a notable improvement. -- jlk