[aur-general] Orphaning request

Stefan Husmann stefan-husmann at t-online.de
Tue Oct 5 13:49:32 EDT 2010


Am 05.10.2010 17:40, schrieb Adam Hani Schakaki:
> 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 please orphan go-openoffice-el [1] and go-openoffice-es [2] since those are outdated for a long time but don't get updated.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 Shouldn't they get an information if someone flags their package out of date?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
> 

Let's give him another week or so.

Regards Stefan


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