Op zondag 15 juli 2012 21:46:08 schreef D. Can Celasun:
Wow, Déjà vu! In the past another TU asked me the exact same question and it was decided that if the maintainer didn't update any of his packages for a long time (e.g a year) the wait-2-weeks-for-response wasn't necessary. That particular discussion is here [1]. So I'd be glad if you could go ahead and orphan the packages.
Thanks!
[1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2011-October/016307.ht ml
Now, I don't know what official rules we have, but I don't think this is right. Sometimes, a package may be stable without being updated upstream for a long time, and suddenly it's updated a year or so later, and the maintainer may be active but unaware of this. A friendly email reminder should be the first step, and only if the maintainer doesn't respond then a TU should orphan. Am I wrong? Allen Li