Deleting a PolicyGroup does not delete its associated attachments about whitehall HOT 1 OPEN

Having just thought about this a bit more, I'm not sure the attachments should be marked as deleted when a policy group is deleted.

A policy group is immediately public when it is created. Similarly attachments on a policy group are immediately public when they are added to the policy group.

If we think of policy group creation as the equivalent of the publishing of an edition, and policy group destruction as the equivalent of the un-publishing of an edition, it could be argued that the attachments should stay visible when the policy group is destroyed. Or at least the attachment URLs should still do something sensible, e.g. redirect to some kind of "un-publishing page".

It looks as if policy groups are published via the Publishing API, so perhaps there is a mechanism to display some kind of "un-publishing page" when a policy group is destroyed.

Anyway, I'm not planning to look into this any further at this stage.

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