Am 10.02.2010 01:03, schrieb Christian Scharkus:

Hi.

I informed the maintainer of the dpkg package yesterday via mail that his package is outdated and he should update it. I flagged the package itself as outdated, too. I haven't received an answer yet but someone removed the flag from the package. The package itself is a depency of another outdated package (debhelper). The packages can't be build because the sauce isn't on the servers anymore and the maintainer of debhelper is unable to update his PKGBUILD because of dpkg as missing dep. So I request to orphan the dpkg package in order to enable myself to update it.

Thanks and Greetings

Christian Scharkus

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 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 But seriously why should anyone but the maintainer unflag an outdated package? And after all I don't stick on it if he wants it back but he was notified by comment some time ago that the package was out of date :/ 2010/2/10 Lukáš Jirkovský :

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I think anyone can unflag package out-of-date.

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.

On 11 February 2010 05:16, 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 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 Anyway there are some users which flag package out of date for no reason (it happened to me that someone flagged my package but no new version was out, it happened especially with svn packages) so I can understand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

Sorry, I wasn't watching this tread as closely as I was this onehttp://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=90779. I'm thankful to Lukas for being able to empathise with my position. Users do have a habit of mistakenly flagging AUR packages as outdated; I thought this was the case here, after Firefox still maintained that v1.4.25 was the latest stable release. I'm going to blame the matter on Firefox, for not invalidating my cache fast enough. If I do several 'soft' refreshes, over a period of weeks, a quality web browser should get the message that I want to see the latest version of the webpage. Since that's obviously too much to ask for, I'll just do 'hard' refreshes from now on.