[aur-general] Deletion request

jwbirdsong jwbirdsong at jwbirdsong.homelinux.com
Thu Jun 16 14:19:00 EDT 2011


On 06/16/2011 12:11 PM, rafael ff1 wrote:
> 2011/6/16 cantabile <cantabile.desu at gmail.com>:
>> On 06/16/2011 05:27 AM, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
>>>
>>> On 16 June 2011 05:19, Seven seven<forauronly at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Please delete libhupnp-svn
>>>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44352and
>>>> libtorrent-rasterbar-dev
>>>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33523. Thanks.
>>>
>>> Done.
>>
>> Err, why? Is it too much work to mention the reasons why those should be
>> deleted?
>>
>> --
>> cantabile
>>
>> "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
>>
> 
> May I give a suggestion?
> I notice that TUs normally want the following to be present in a
> "deletion request": package name, link for the package in AUR and
> reason to be deleted. This requirements could be documented in AUR
> page at ArchWiki [1]. So, new users trying to know things works in AUR
> will learn once for all, while those who did not see will be informed
> "foobar is a required, as mentioned in AUR wiki page".
> 
> [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Rafael
> 
I would sugguest that whether in the wiki or not (and it should be
IMHO); TU require/need this info before responding to a delete request.
In other words just a verbose +1 to Rafael  from me. (not that MY
opinion matters much of a damn) :)


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