I think it is fine for package owner to submit their request. Maintainers' own requests show up as filter for PM's, and these get priority treatment. Otherwise there's a 4+ month long queue as of now to get the request processed. Also, typically there are additional PM's who get involved in addressing maintainers' requests. I guess it's a more straightforward type of submission and therefore it's a bit less mentally burdensome, so it's easier for them to take up even when they are busy with other matters. On 19 December 2023 21:25:17 GMT+01:00, Fabio Loli <fabio.loli@disroot.org> wrote:

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dreieck [1] filed a deletion request for icu74 [2]:

Now version 74 has made it to the Artix repositories. No need for this package right now; but might be useful as a legacy version later on when official version has moved on.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/dreieck/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/icu74/

A deletion request is already pending, please don't submit duplicate requests