Re: [aur-general] Why deletion reasons go to the mailing list (Was: Deletion request)
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Gary Wright
Well, if you requested deletion of one of my packages (dup, malformed pkgbuild, etc) I'd sure like to know why it was deleted. After the deletion, the package's page is deleted from the aur web interface, and the ML is the only record of why it was deleted and who did it.
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Heiko Baums
Well, I for one can read the reasons in this mail which he has linked to. And the first two packages are already removed.
Heiko
without wanting to be fractious ... is it possible to retreive the comments of a deleted aur package, maybe through rpc? As it looks, now that the packages are gone, reasons can't be obtained any more, if they were stored in comments. I'd like to improve the paragraph on the wiki, but I'm not clear about how these corner cases could be covered. mar77i
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On 6/19/11, Martti Kühne
without wanting to be fractious ... is it possible to retreive the comments of a deleted aur package, maybe through rpc? As it looks, now that the packages are gone, reasons can't be obtained any more, if they were stored in comments. I'd like to improve the paragraph on the wiki, but I'm not clear about how these corner cases could be covered.
mar77i
All the comments are archived on aur3.org. They are parsed into JSON too. The general form is http://aur3.org/mirror/$package/comments.gz And nothing is ever deleted from Aur3. (Yet. This is currently a bug/feature.) -Kyle http://kmkeen.com
Am Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:19:38 -0400
schrieb keenerd
All the comments are archived on aur3.org. They are parsed into JSON too. The general form is http://aur3.org/mirror/$package/comments.gz And nothing is ever deleted from Aur3. (Yet. This is currently a bug/feature.)
I don't know if this is such a good idea, because there's a delete button at every comment which was written by the current user. There's usually a reason why a user deletes his comments (fixing some typos/no edit function in AUR, comment/bug report is invalid, etc.). And there's pretty much nonsense in the comments which would better be deleted anyway ("Version XY is out.", OT, etc.). So such comments shouldn't be kept, neither in AUR nor in a separate archive. Heiko
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Heiko Baums
Well, I for one can read the reasons in this mail which he has linked to. And the first two packages are already removed.
Heiko
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Heiko Baums
I don't know if this is such a good idea, because there's a delete button at every comment which was written by the current user. There's usually a reason why a user deletes his comments (fixing some typos/no edit function in AUR, comment/bug report is invalid, etc.). And there's pretty much nonsense in the comments which would better be deleted anyway ("Version XY is out.", OT, etc.). So such comments shouldn't be kept, neither in AUR nor in a separate archive.
Heiko
...there's sort of my point in that. That's why the reasons should be at least summarized on the mailing list. Let's hope no one will ask what happened to those packages, ever. Because we can't currently find that out any more. :-) mar77i
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