On 12.08.15 at 23:54, Mark Laws wrote: > Hi, > > In light of the mass deletion of many orphaned as well as > not-really-orphaned packages, it would be nice if there were a way to > get a log of AUR activity so that users other than just a package's > maintainers can see that a package disappeared at some given point. > > It was also mentioned that deleted packages aren't really deleted, > merely hidden--in that case, why not allow users to view these > packages if some flag is set in the API request? This way, users can > pick up maintenance of a once-extant package without having to > recreate it from scratch. > > Thanks, > Mark Laws > > -- > |v\ /\ |\ |< |_ /\ \^| //
Let me add that this would be great for the maintenance of links to the AUR
packages from the wiki -- when broken links are automatically marked with a
{{Broken package link}} template by a bot, it would be possible to provide
something better than "package not found" as a hint. For example differentiating
between merging and deletions of packages would be a notable improvement.
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