Am 29.08.2011 20:15, schrieb Axilleas P:

The prerelease should be deleted in favor of beta, as stated by its maintainer. See comments in flashplugin-beta.

Comment by: anish on Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:57:37 +0000

@renan_freitas None, but this package will eventually be deleted in favour of flashplugin-beta

Comment by: renan_freitas on Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:56:23 +0000

What is the difference between this, and http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47230 (flashplugin-beta )

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Antonio Lucas<antonioluccas@gmail.com> wrote:

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I was looking for some plugin that works in my machine and found these identical packages

These two have basically the same PKGBUILD except for one line (a license file that is installed) flashplugin-prerelease http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32072 flashplugin-beta http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47230

I do not contacted any of maintainers. Both packages have lots of votes.

abracos (cheers) Antonio Lucas

removed flashplugin-prerelease, thanks to both of you.

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...

Sadly they weren't merged in this case :( Infact, I didn't even know there was support for such a thing. While I would have loved merged votes & comments, I'm more concerned about the users left in the dark. Would implementing a "replaces" functionality for aur similar to the repos be a big hassle ? Perhaps a dummy package¸ say "delete-package" that automatically replaces every package that is actually deleted instead of being replaced ? On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Lukas Fleischer <archlinux@cryptocrack.de>wrote:

On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 08:01:31PM -0700, Anish Bhatt wrote:

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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...