Add dedicated permission for toggling content published status

Thanks to @sidgrafix for pointing out the https://www.drupal.org/project/override_node_options → module adds additional permissions for a role to unpublish content without giving them permission to delete it.

Just ran into the same situation and couldn't believe this issue indeed still exists. So setting the priority to major and hope for active discussions.

Content editors are not able to unpublish content!

From #17:

A user with permission to view their own unpublished content and edit own content absolutely should be able to "UNPUBLISH" their own content.

I totally agree with this. Alternatively, we need a separate permission, if there's no good logical combination. The current situation is really unexpected for site builders. You should never need content moderation for such a simple thing.

So the question is: Which permission should this be tied to or should it be a separate permission?

I ran into this issue. I see another module that seems to help
https://www.drupal.org/project/publishcontent →
Works with Drupal: ^8.8 || ^9 || ^10
15,554 sites report using this module

Making this a feature request instead of a bug. I think we can make it move forward faster that way. To me it sounds more like this was just not yet considered and implemented in core. So, let's implement it now.

I also think that a dedicated toggle publish status permission is the way to go here, as with binding it to the delete permission we might run into the following paradoxon:

While "a user who can delete content should also be able to unpublish it" might sound right the following statement does not "a user who can delete content should also be able to publish it".

First thing to tackle: Let's find the place in code where the publishing option becomes available/unavailable in the form :)