[aur-general] Why deletion reasons go to the mailing list (Was: Deletion request)

Martti Kühne mysatyre at gmail.com
Tue Jun 21 08:19:45 EDT 2011


On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:
> Well, I for one can read the reasons in this mail which he has
> linked to. And the first two packages are already removed.
>
> Heiko

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:
> I don't know if this is such a good idea, because there's a delete
> button at every comment which was written by the current user. There's
> usually a reason why a user deletes his comments (fixing some typos/no
> edit function in AUR, comment/bug report is invalid, etc.). And there's
> pretty much nonsense in the comments which would better be deleted
> anyway ("Version XY is out.", OT, etc.). So such comments shouldn't be
> kept, neither in AUR nor in a separate archive.
>
> Heiko

...there's sort of my point in that. That's why the reasons should be
at least summarized on the mailing list.
Let's hope no one will ask what happened to those packages, ever.
Because we can't currently find that out any more. :-)

mar77i


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