On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > At the moment anyone can delete a package they maintain from the AUR. This > seems to be being exploited by an evil minority to remove packages that have > been orphaned. e.g. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=373831 > > I thought that it may be better if we restricted the deleting to only > devs/TUs so this con no longer happen. (see bug > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10527). The question is, how often do > packages get deleted from the AUR and thus how much work would this > generate? I guess it would be in similar volume to what we already get from > orphan requests but this is just a guess. > > Anyway, pressh suggested I post this here so all TUs would see it. > > Allan
And for if it's agreed to disable users deleting packages, here's the patch. -- Callan Barrett
0005-Disable-user-package-deletion.patch
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