On 11/24/2015 06:56 PM, Johannes Löthberg wrote: > On 24/11, kaptoxic wrote: >> Is there a way to retrieve package metadata from aur3 (votes and >> comments) and migrate them to aur4? There was a question about merging >> comments during the aur3-to-aur4 migration period, but I am wondering if >> that is still possible. If data is still around, perhaps a script could >> be written that extracts the appropriate information and adjusts it for >> aur4. (It seems unfortunate that some of the packages that were migrated >> too late lost all of that metadata.) > > The data was removed when it was announced that it would be. > Maintainers had plenty of time and ample warning beforehand. > No, they did not. Anyway, thanks for the info. > As far as I know, all the metadata was deleted. (I'm not happy about this > either.) Well, happy or not, somebody decided that was the right thing to do and the data is now gone. > The PKGBUILDs, however, are archived. You can fetch a PKGBUILD from > the archive and push it to aur4 if you would like to maintain it. > > https://github.com/aur-archive > > --Kyle Thanks. Yes, I know, at least PKGBUILDs are archived. (They always were, even for deleted packages, if I am not mistaken.)
Ivan