2012/9/12 SanskritFritz <sanskritfritz@gmail.com>:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Alexander Rødseth <rodseth@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Disowned. Thanks.
I find this a bit interesting and alarming. The OP has not shared any details about any reason or about writing emails to the maintainer, nevetheless you disowned the package without asking. May we know the reason? This process is too open if you ask me, anyone can ask here to disown any package. Now there are packages in the AUR which I trust, because I trust the maintainer, hence I don't check the PKGBUILD before every update. A git package can be changed any time without version check, but it will be compiled every day when I makepkg. So to summarise: someone asks for a disown here, gives no reasons why. You orphan it, anyone can adopt it immediately and change the package as he wants. I update the package using cower, and trust that the maintainer has not changed (I know, my mistake), so I have an altered package without my knowledge. Am I missing something?
No need for such harsh email. I don't think TUs would disown before analising some evidences, like why it is out-of-date, whether the maintainer is active or not, dates, etc. Anyway, this maintainer had only one package sent more than a year ago and did not replied for a week. It doesn't look like he is actually maintaining something.