On 2021-12-11 12:33 -0800 Kevin Morris via aur-dev wrote: >On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 03:42:17PM +0330, Amin Vakil via aur-dev wrote: >> >> I can recall many times NetSysFire talking about how hard maintaining wiki >> pages could be when there isn't a deletion request for an AUR package in >> #archlinux-aur. >> >> I'm not sure how they can handle this automatic deletion of packages without >> a request for it, maybe a list of automatically deleted packages suffice? >> >> Best Regards, >> Amin Vakil > >:) Thanks for keeping a look out. Indeed, this is already changed >in the "next-gen" aurweb. When released, __all__ package deletions >(and merges) will either accept and close pending requests about >them or autogenerate a request and send an accepted closure notification >to the aur-requests ML. We'll keep with this flow when deleting >packages permanently (hopefully). > >In addition, they are also logged out to the ASGI server now, so >even without requests, we have better tracking of what's going on. > >-- >Kevin Morris >Software Developer
For wiki maintenance, would it be possible to include hooks that flag pages that link to the deleted packages? If the deletions are listed via an API, then a timer on the wiki server could periodically scan for affected pages and notify the wiki maintainers. Just a thought. Regards, Xyne
