[aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4

[Justin Dray]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 14:01 Sam S. <smls75 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Note that we do keep the Git repositories of deleted packages,
> > so if anybody wants to maintain the package later, he can always clone
> > the repository of the deleted package, fix the package and simply push
> > it afterwards
>
> Can you give some details on that?
>
> For example the libtiff4 package (which one of my packages depends on)
> was deleted, but when I do
>
>     git clone ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/libtiff4.git
>
> all I get is an empty repository.
>
I cloned one I had deleted and it was still there, I made a comment change,
committed and repushed, it lost the comments and votes but the package was
there. I'm not sure why yours might have failed.

- Justin