[aur-general] Orphaning request

[Thomas Dziedzic]

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 please orphan go-openoffice-el [1] and go-openoffice-es [2] since those are outdated for a long time but don't get updated.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 Shouldn't they get an information if someone flags their package out of date?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 :)