[aur-general] Why is there no option to delete your own package in AUR yourself?

[Thomas Dziedzic]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 15/07/10 08:49, Michael Düll (akurei) wrote:
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>> Am Donnerstag 15 Juli 2010, 00:41:13 schrieb Thomas Dziedzic:
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>>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Thomas Dziedzic<gostrc at gmail.com>
>>>  wrote:
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>>>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Michael Düll (akurei)<mail at akurei.org>
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>> wrote:
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>>>>> Am Mittwoch 14 Juli 2010, 23:10:07 schrieb Ionuț Bîru:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 07/14/2010 11:54 PM, Michael Düll (akurei) wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello fellow Archers!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I wonder why there's no option to delete your own package from AUR.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Some users pointed out, that there once was too much abusive
>>>>>>> behaviour. I can't think of a way how this could be abused, if you
>>>>>>> are only allowed to delete your _own_ uploaded packages, except one:
>>>>>>> If there's many users (and OTHER packages from AUR that rely on that
>>>>>>> perticular package [eg bin32-wine relies on lib32-libldap from
>>>>>>> AUR]), and you delete it, thus breaking dependencies.
>>>>>>> My proposal is: Allow people to delete their own AUR packages if a)
>>>>>>> No other AUR package depends on it and b) if there's less than 10
>>>>>>> people "using" it (aurvote). This way it would be easy to delete a
>>>>>>> faulty package without first asking on the list and it would
>>>>>>> hopefully encourage more people to try and put PKGBUILDS on AUR.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> akurei
>>>>>>
>>>>>> we had in the past a problem with an user who deleted a lot of
>>>>>> packages. he did that by adopting orphaned packages
>>>>>
>>>>> Okay, so let's introduce a "barrier": Let one delete packages like I
>>>>> said (he owns them, no other package relies on it, no more than 10
>>>>> aurvotes) _plus_ let one delete packages, that he owns for _more than
>>>>> three months_. This way there's less chance that someboy "goes amok".
>>>>> Additionally there could be an "Trusted-User-Only Undelete" feature for
>>>>> a few weeks.
>>>>>
>>>>> akurei
>>>>
>>>> I guess you could open this as a feature request if you really want
>>>> to, the problem I see is that you have to make sure the system can't
>>>> be abused. Also, someone has to code it up, and I haven't really seen
>>>> much interest in the aur website at all. Its just what I think atm.
>>>
>>> Also, this seems like more work then just asking for a tu to check out
>>> a package and delete it.
>>
>> I could take over this task. Somehow (if there's PHP and SQL). I am merely
>> asking if it would be accepted by the Archers ;)
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> I think it would be better to just have a "delete request" button which
> would require a note why the package needs deleted so that the TUs could
> have a list they can easily access and work through.
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> Allan
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+1 for this idea