Hello,

normally I would say that one day is too short to expect answers. But if the maintainer has the time to unflag his package, he should also have the time to drop a short remark why he did so or why he does not want to update.

So, orphaning.

I think anyone can unflag package out-of-date.

On 02/10/2010 09:52 PM, Christian Scharkus wrote:

I guess so. That's why I wrote someone. But seriously why should anyone but the maintainer unflag an outdated package? And after all I don't stick on it if he wants it back but he was notified by comment some time ago that the package was out of date :/

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=90779 the previous maintainer responded -- Ionut

On 11/02/10 14:16, Chris Giles wrote:

Thus far, I've provided two responses in a forum threadhttp://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=90779. Based on certain factors, I'm not happy about losing this package and I want to reclaim its ownership.

I looks like the source for the version 1.4.25, which you were holding it at, has not been available at the location in the PKGBUILD since 2010-01-12. The was a comment in the page on 2010-02-03 saying 1.4.28 was out. How many times was it flagged out of date and you just unflagged?

But several users stating there is a new version in stable and an Mail about it should get the maintainer in question start to think about it. Maybe it was just the cache especially if he's checking regular for new versions. As I wrote in the forum I have no problem with giving the package back. 2010/2/11 Lukáš Jirkovský :

On 11 February 2010 05:16, Chris Giles wrote:

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Thus far, I've provided two responses in a forum threadhttp://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=90779. Based on certain factors, I'm not happy about losing this package and I want to reclaim its ownership.

I guess that it was caused by web browser cache. Next time try reloading page several times (or in Firefox use Ctrl + F5).

Anyway there are some users which flag package out of date for no reason (it happened to me that someone flagged my package but no new version was out, it happened especially with svn packages) so I can understand original maintainer unflagged it if he didn't saw new version.

Lukas