[aur-general] Should I request deletion for packages in this transition period?

Lukas Fleischer lfleischer at archlinux.org
Tue Jun 9 06:30:30 UTC 2015


On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 at 06:25:43, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
> I'm only now looking at the AUR4 migration guidelines, and I only have
> a few packages so I've been uploading to AUR4 manually.
> 
> However, in the process I've found old packages which I no longer use
> or wish to maintain. Some of which should may be deletion candidates.
> 
> Of course, those all belong to me and hence aren't (yet) in AUR4. The
> announcement email I got stated that after August 8th all packages in
> the AUR will remain archived for reference. Should I request a
> deletion before that (for those packages which it really does not make
> sense to keep around) to reduce clutter, or will it really not make a
> difference?
> 

No, the package request feature on aur.archlinux.org is disabled. Just
don't submit those packages to aur4.archlinux.org.

Regards,
Lukas


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