[aur-general] Orphan request

D. Can Celasun dcelasun at gmail.com
Sun Jul 15 15:31:33 EDT 2012


On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Ike Devolder <ike.devolder at gmail.com> wrote:
> Op zondag 15 juli 2012 21:46:08 schreef D. Can Celasun:
>> Wow, Déjà vu! In the past another TU asked me the exact same question
>> and it was decided that if the maintainer didn't update any of his
>> packages for a long time (e.g a year) the wait-2-weeks-for-response
>> wasn't necessary. That particular discussion is here [1]. So I'd be
>> glad if you could go ahead and orphan the packages.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> [1]
>> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2011-October/016307.html
>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Ike Devolder <ike.devolder at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> > Op zondag 15 juli 2012 21:36:16 schreef D. Can Celasun:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Can someone please orphan rabbitvcs-thunar [1] and thunarx-python[2] ?
>> >> The maintainer hasn't updated any of his packages in over a year and
>> >> there are updated PKGBUILDs in the comments. I'd like to maintain
>> >> them.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
>> >>
>> >> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34590
>> >> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34589
>> >
>> > Did you email the current maintainer ?
>> > If he/she does not respond in two weeks we can orphan [1].
>> >
>> > [1]
>> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR#Q:_Foo_in_AUR_is_outdated.3B_what
>> > _do_I_do.3F
>> >
>> > thx
>> >
>> > --Ike
>
> This thing about the long not updated packages was never written down, so that
> is why you get this question again.
> now i have updated the wiki so this is known for more than you alone. i cant
> remember everything that ever happened in the mailinglist.
>
> so maybe you could also notify in the mail that we are talking about long
> marked packages this makes it easier for us to make a decision.
>
> and at last, orphaned both. thx
>
> --Ike

Thanks for orphaning.

Also, I'm sorry if my response seemed, well, aggressive. That was
certainly not my intention.

Cheers,
Can


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