[aur-general] Please orphan uefivars-git

[Anatol Pomozov]

Hi

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Maxime Gauduin <alucryd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 06:45 -0700, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> uefivars-git https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/uefivars-git/ installs
>> packages into /usr/sbin that is not recommended with the new pacman
>> standard. I notified current maintainer 3 weeks ago and provided
>> fiexed/cleaned PKGBUILD file. The maintainer never responded.
>>
>> Please orphan it. I would like to become the package maintainer, fix
>> the issues and keep supporting the package.
>
> Did you send an email? People can have AUR notifications turned off.
> Protocol is to send an email and wait for 2 weeks before a package can
> be disowned.

No I did not send a personal email. I see that he has several packages
that are out-of-date for several months already and though that he is
inactive.

OK I just sent him email.

BTW his another package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/thinkalert/
is also broken (no package() function). There is solution in comments.