Liquen [1] filed a orphan request for octave-communications [2]: Maintainer @wangjiezhe is MIA! Tried to contact him/her in the package comments and no response. I believe user @net147 is willing to become a maintainer/co-maintainer (see package comments). [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Liquen/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/octave-communications/