On Thu 07 Oct 2010 20:40 +0200, Xyne wrote:
Peter Simons wrote:
the package <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34179> has been out-of-date for a while, and the maintainers respond neither to e-mail nor to messages left on AUR. Could you please orphan the package?
I noticed your request to orphan haskell-numeric-prelude too. Have you contacted Arch Haskell (i.e. Don Stewart) about those packages?
I'm reluctant to orphan packages from the Arch Haskell group because it's an "official" group tasked with managing Haskell packages globally across the repos and the AUR.
At the same time, I know that Don is often too busy to deal with issues and that this causes problems for many users because they have to wait for him to get around to running global scripts, which he often postpones for months at a time. I fully understand how frustrating that must be.
But the AUR is unofficial. I suggest that if Arch Haskell's packages are out of date for an unreasonable amount of time, that we should orphan those packages like any others. Only then will Arch Haskell be forced to do something about their lag - or lose maintainership over those packages. I think it's a fair and reasonable solution.