[aur-general] Packages disappearing
Hi, I just ran a update of the AUR packages I have installed and noticed that fprintd-clients, open-fprintd and python-validity just disappeared within a day or so. I already searched on through the aur-requests@ list but couldn't find anything about any of those three packages. Does somebody know what happened with them / why they where removed? Thanks j.r
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 01:23:12PM +0100, j.r via aur-general wrote:
Hi,
I just ran a update of the AUR packages I have installed and noticed that fprintd-clients, open-fprintd and python-validity just disappeared within a day or so. I already searched on through the aur-requests@ list but couldn't find anything about any of those three packages.
Does somebody know what happened with them / why they where removed?
Thanks
j.r
User deleted their account which deleted the packages. -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16
On 20/12/30 13:41, Morten Linderud via aur-general wrote:
User deleted their account which deleted the packages.
I would expect the packages to be orphaned, I didn't know they get deleted. Anyways one can bring them back to life by cloning and pushing even if a package doesn't exist in aurweb. Marcin Wieczorek
Yeah I would also expect that they would become orphaned. But anyway I brought them back by pushing to the repos. Thanks for your quick help (also thanks to Morten) j.r
On 20/12/30 13:41, Morten Linderud via aur-general wrote:
User deleted their account which deleted the packages.
I would expect the packages to be orphaned, I didn't know they get deleted. Anyways one can bring them back to life by cloning and pushing even if a package doesn't exist in aurweb.
Marcin Wieczorek
Yeah I would also expect that they would become orphaned.
I would even say, it is a bug and should be fixed. After all, a package is not your property, but your privilege (and and subsequent duty) to maintain. Maybe worth consideration. g
On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 at 07:41:02, Morten Linderud via aur-general wrote:
User deleted their account which deleted the packages.
Are you sure that that's what's happened? All foreign keys on the PackageBases table are "ON DELETE SET NULL". Additionally, we programmatically set these fields to NULL before deleting an account. If you have evidence that packages were deleted as a direct consequence of an account deletion, that's most likely unintended. Please open a bug in the aurweb bug tracker with some more details. Thanks! Lukas
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 10:32:26AM -0500, Lukas Fleischer via aur-general wrote:
On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 at 07:41:02, Morten Linderud via aur-general wrote:
User deleted their account which deleted the packages.
Are you sure that that's what's happened? All foreign keys on the PackageBases table are "ON DELETE SET NULL". Additionally, we programmatically set these fields to NULL before deleting an account.
If you have evidence that packages were deleted as a direct consequence of an account deletion, that's most likely unintended. Please open a bug in the aurweb bug tracker with some more details.
Thanks! Lukas
I'm actually a bit unsure, I only have surrounding incidents where the same happened. One of the r- package maintainers deleted their account and subsequently removed a bunch of r packages in AUR. My reaction to this was mostly "oh, probably intended!". I wonder if this only happens when the maintainer creates "fresh packages" and deleted their account? -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16
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Georg
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j.r
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Lukas Fleischer
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Marcin Wieczorek
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Morten Linderud