[aur-general] Orphaning request

Adam Hani Schakaki arch at krzd.net
Tue Oct 5 11:40:30 EDT 2010


On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:48:10 -0500
Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Adam Hani Schakaki <arch at krzd.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:28:16 -0500
> > Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Adam Hani Schakaki <arch at krzd.net> wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >> > please orphan go-openoffice-el [1] and go-openoffice-es [2] since those are outdated for a long time but don't get updated.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks in advance
> >> >
> >> > Adam Hani Schakaki
> >> >
> >> > [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27124
> >> > [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26321
> >> >
> >>
> >> Did you try contacting the maintainers?
> >
> > Shouldn't they get an information if someone flags their package out of date? If not, I will try to contact them.
> > I don't think that they didn't manage to update it since only the version number needs to be changed.
> >
> > Adam Hani Schakaki
> >
> 
> Usually I only orphan a package if the maintainer has been contacted
> by someone and they still haven't updated it.
> There could be many reasons as to why they didn't update (like
> forgetting), which is why I prefer friendly reminders first :)

Go-openoffice-el was already orphaned by Andrea Scarpino. I wrote an email on Sep 25, but got no answer until now. So I think go-openoffice-es can be orphaned, or not?

Adam Hani Schakaki


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