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

[Michael Düll (akurei)]

Am Donnerstag 15 Juli 2010, 00:54:56 schrieb 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:
> >> 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 ;)
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Allan
> 
> +1 for this idea

I like this idea, too.
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