[aur-requests] [PRQ#5999] Orphan Request for dpkg
bertptrs [1] filed a orphan request for dpkg [2]: Maintainer has not updated package in over half a year, after a breaking bug has been reported. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/bertptrs/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/dpkg/
Request #5999 has been accepted by bertptrs [1]: The package base has been flagged out-of-date since 2015-12-12. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/bertptrs/
Hi, I was the maintainer of dpkg up until a few hours ago when an orphan request was submitted and accepted within an hour of submission. There is supposed to be a 2 week period where the maintainer is contacted and a conversation can happen. This procedure was not followed here. The package was not out of date, it is supposed to track upstream stable, not unstable! bertptrs has updated it to the unstable version. If he wanted the unstable version he could have created a dpkg-unstable package or otherwise modified the PKGBUILD for himself. Thanks, Ido On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 5:45 AM, <notify@aur.archlinux.org> wrote:
bertptrs [1] filed a orphan request for dpkg [2]:
Maintainer has not updated package in over half a year, after a breaking bug has been reported.
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/bertptrs/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/dpkg/
On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 11:33:14 -0400 Ido Rosen <ido@kernel.org> wrote:
Hi, I was the maintainer of dpkg up until a few hours ago when an orphan request was submitted and accepted within an hour of submission. There is supposed to be a 2 week period where the maintainer is contacted and a conversation can happen. This procedure was not followed here.
That doesn't apply in cases where the package has been flagged as out of date for over 7 months. Looking at the git log and at the comments, it's pretty obvious you weren't maintaining it.
The package was not out of date, it is supposed to track upstream stable, not unstable! bertptrs has updated it to the unstable version. If he wanted the unstable version he could have created a dpkg-unstable package or otherwise modified the PKGBUILD for himself.
Thanks, Ido
On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 5:45 AM, <notify@aur.archlinux.org> wrote:
bertptrs [1] filed a orphan request for dpkg [2]:
Maintainer has not updated package in over half a year, after a breaking bug has been reported.
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/bertptrs/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/dpkg/
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