Hi On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 8:22 AM, xantares 09 wrote:

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To: aur-requests@archlinux.org Subject: [PRQ#1089] Orphan Request for mingw-w64-readline CC: pingplug@foxmail.com; xantares09@hotmail.com From: notify@aur.archlinux.org Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:04:53 +0000

pingplug [1] filed a orphan request for mingw-w64-readline [2]:

readline has not been updated for a long time.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/pingplug/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/mingw-w64-readline/

@pingplug: you could have dropped me a mail, I tend to answer it

@tus, since when "has not been updated for a long time" is a valid reason for orphaning ?

Yes, long out-of-date package is a perfect reason for orphaning. There are of course valid reasons like newer version is completely broken and upstream did not provide fix, but in this case maintainer should tell it on AUR package page. Package maintenance is a responsibility not a privilege. The maintainer suppose to follow Arch packaging best practices. Some of these practices are react on reported issues, keep package file simple and clean, keep it up-to-date. If current maintainer fails to follow these practices then it is ok for others to file an orphan request.

ps: I know this one is not up to date, i did not update it because this one is rather sensitive and I prefered to get same version as mingw-readline from fedora.

Arch is not Fedora. Why would you want to keep there same version?