[aur-general] Orphan request

[Dave Reisner]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 12:43:32AM +0300, D. Can Celasun wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:
> 
> > Am Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:22:10 +0300
> > schrieb "D. Can Celasun" <dcelasun at gmail.com>:
> >
> > > Uhm.. if there are no further objections, can someone please go ahead
> > > and orphan this?
> >
> > As Jelle already asked you to do this, you should first send the
> > maintainer an e-mail to his e-mail address(es) mentioned in the
> > PKGBUILD and in his AUR profile. If you won't get an answer or if he
> > won't update the package within two weeks you can send the orphan
> > request again.
> >
> > Heiko
> >
> 
> This is the first time I've come across such a thing. Usually (as in, every
> single time till now) when the maintainer hasn't cared for *any* of his
> packages for *10* months, it is assumed that he is no longer interested in
> said package(s). 

Agreed. Disowned.

d

> Furthermore, as it can be seen from the AUR page, previous attempts to
> contact the maintainer have failed.
> 
> If, after all that, I'm still expected to send an e-mail *and* wait for 2
> weeks for a reply, I could certainly care less about updating an
> insignificant package and do something useful for the community.
> 
> Cheers,
> Can