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

[Thomas Dziedzic]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Michael Düll (akurei) <mail at akurei.org> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 15 Juli 2010, 00:41:13 schrieb Thomas Dziedzic:
>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Michael Düll (akurei) <mail at akurei.org>
> wrote:
>> >> 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 ;)
>
> akurei
>

I just think that maintaining the aur should be left up to the TUs is
all. And Allan's just proposed idea seems a lot more appealing to me
:)