[aur-dev] Ghost repo?

[Eli Schwartz]

On 01/09/2017 10:13 AM, Xyne wrote:
> Doug Newgard wrote:
> 
>> This is normal. When packages are deleted, the repo remains; the author's name
>> and email are from their git config, not from the AUR.
> 
> I didn't think to check if there was a package in the official repos. I assume
> that is preventing the recreation of the package. If that were not the case,
> could the package be recreated via a push? Or is something else required to
> recreate a deleted package?

It can be recreated via a push, or via `ssh aur at aur.archlinux.org
restore pkgbase` (without needing a new commit).

Only TUs/Devs can force-push or (re)publish a blacklisted package (e.g.
something that already exists in the repos) but aside from that the same
logic applies everywhere in the backend AFAIK.

-- 
Eli Schwartz

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