[aur-general] Massive orphan request II

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Frank Vanderham <twelve.eighty at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Karol Blazewicz asked an excellent question. What's next, do you want to
>>> adopt them?
>>>
>> I may adopt a few but not all. I am hoping that by orphaning them, an
> active
>> maintainer may pick them up and fix/update them.
>
> That list is huge. I can certainly pick up a couple, but some of them look
> horribly outdated; is it an option to delete the ones that haven't been
> updated in - say - 12 months just to bring it down to a manageable number?
> It would be a waste of resources to spend time on a package that nobody is
> using anymore.

I'm afraid it's not possible to remove old and unmaintained packages,
unless e.g. the upstream is dead i.e. the source is missing:
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2013-June/023923.html